The best Townscript alternatives in 2026
Townscript is a self-serve event ticketing and registration platform from Pune, India. Organizers create an event, sell tickets with custom registration forms and discounts, and track sales in reports. If it’s stopped fitting how you run, here are 5 alternatives worth a look — what each is best at, what it costs, and when staying on Townscript is the right call.
Checked October 2026 · By the Hiive team
The short answer
- Hiive — best for organizers, venues and communities in India, from gigs to run clubs, who want tickets in ₹, curated entry and venue schedules in one place.
- District by Zomato — ticketed events that want reach with a large Indian going-out audience.
- Eventbrite — one-off and recurring ticketed events that want marketplace reach.
- Luma — polished event pages and calendars for tech and startup communities.
- Meetup — interest groups that meet regularly and want to be found by strangers.
Why people look for a Townscript alternative
- Recurring communities need members, chat and repeat engagement between events.
- Venues and recurring organizers need bookable schedules alongside tickets.
- Organizers want their events surfaced to people nearby in a local consumer app.
- Teams want to see where buyers drop off before completing a booking.
The alternatives, one by one
01 · OUR PICK
Hiive
Hiive is an app for finding local events and the communities behind them — gigs, comedy nights, workshops, supper clubs, run clubs, games and meetups — with a business workspace for the venues, event IPs and organizers who run them. Ticketing, venue schedules, memberships, campaigns, analytics, a shop and payouts live in one place, and the same events surface to people nearby in the Hiive app.
Hiive vs Townscript, in detailPick it over Townscript if
- You run recurring sessions and want a community that lasts between them.
- You run recurring events of any kind, or a venue with bookable services.
- You want to control entry by request, invite or application.
- You want your events found by people nearby in a consumer app.
Worth knowing
- Hiive is newer than most tools it's compared with. Its event and community coverage is deepest in Mumbai, where it launched, and is growing city by city.
- Business pricing isn't a public rate card: the software is free for the first couple of months, then a fee is agreed with each partner based on the value delivered.
02
District by Zomato
Best for: Ticketed events that want reach with a large Indian going-out audience
District is the going-out app from Eternal (formerly Zomato Ltd) for movies, events, dining, comedy, activities and sports. It is built on the Paytm Insider ticketing business, which Zomato agreed to acquire in August 2024, and the app launched in November 2024.
Good at
- A large consumer audience already using the app to plan nights and weekends out.
- Events sit alongside movies, dining and comedy, so people find them while browsing.
- The District Creator app lets organizers sell tickets on the spot and send SMS payment links.
Watch out for
- Listing events goes through an application rather than instant self-serve setup.
- Organizer pricing isn't published, so fees are hard to compare up front.
- No community, chat or membership features.
Pricing: Organizer pricing is not published on District's site.
03
Eventbrite
Best for: One-off and recurring ticketed events that want marketplace reach
Eventbrite is a self-serve ticketing platform with its own event discovery marketplace. Organizers publish an event, sell tickets and check guests in, and free events can be listed without a fee.
Good at
- A large discovery marketplace where people browse for things to do.
- Quick self-serve setup: an event page and tickets can go live the same day.
- Check-in app, reports and attendee exports are included.
Watch out for
- Per-ticket service and processing fees apply to every paid ticket.
- INR is not a supported payout currency for Eventbrite Payment Processing.
- Built around single events: there is no community, member group or chat.
Pricing: Free events: no fee.
04
Luma
Best for: Polished event pages and calendars for tech and startup communities
Luma (formerly lu.ma) is a platform for event pages, registration and ticketing, with calendars that work as community hubs. It is especially popular with tech and startup communities.
Good at
- Clean, fast event pages that guests find easy to register on.
- Calendars give a community a home, with subscribers and memberships.
- Approvals, tickets, coupons and check-in are built in.
Watch out for
- Paid ticketing runs only through Stripe, and Stripe accounts based in India aren't supported.
- A 5% platform fee on paid tickets on the Free plan; removing it needs Luma Plus.
- API access is a Luma Plus feature.
Pricing: Free: a 5% platform fee on paid tickets, plus Stripe fees.
05
Meetup
Best for: Interest groups that meet regularly and want to be found by strangers
Meetup is a long-running platform for interest-based groups and the events they hold. Members join and RSVP free; organizers run their groups on a paid plan, with a limited free Starter tier.
Good at
- A large, established discovery network — people search Meetup specifically to find groups.
- Group-first structure: members, RSVPs, waitlists and attendance live under one group page.
- Works for almost any interest, from tech talks to hiking to language exchange.
Watch out for
- Organizers pay a subscription before they can charge for events; the free Starter tier caps events and attendees.
- Member email export and the API are limited to Meetup Pro.
- No venue or court scheduling, and no activity tracking.
Pricing: Starter: free — one group, up to 2 in-person events a month and 10 attendees, no online events, and no event fees.
Compared side by side
Yes Partly No? Not confirmed from official sources
Leaving Townscript? Take your people with you
Organizers can download an event's attendee list as a CSV, filtered by status, ticket type or time, including answers to custom questions. Multi-date events can be exported per session.
How to export attendees from TownscriptQuestions
It depends on why you're leaving. For event organizers, venues and communities in India that want ticketing with payouts in rupees, curated membership, venue schedules and booking analytics in one place, Hiive is the strongest fit. District by Zomato is best for ticketed events that want reach with a large Indian going-out audience. Eventbrite is best for one-off and recurring ticketed events that want marketplace reach. Luma is best for polished event pages and calendars for tech and startup communities.
Recurring communities need members, chat and repeat engagement between events. Venues and recurring organizers need bookable schedules alongside tickets. Organizers want their events surfaced to people nearby in a local consumer app. Teams want to see where buyers drop off before completing a booking.
Stay on Townscript if: you want to set up and sell tickets today, fully self-serve; you run standalone, multi-date or international events; you need detailed custom registration forms; you want a pure ticketing tool with nothing extra to manage.
For recurring events and the communities around them in India, Hiive adds member communities, chat, venue schedules, curated entry and booking analytics to ticketing with payouts in rupees. For standalone ticketed events, District by Zomato and Eventbrite are other options.
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Written by the Hiive team. We make a competing product, so every claim about another product here comes from its own website or help centre, checked in October 2026. Prices and features change — check the provider before you decide. Spotted something out of date? Email jai@hiive.club and we’ll fix it.