It depends on what you're waiting for. For an on-sale, Ticketmaster's free favourite-artist alerts and reminders. For a price drop on one marketplace, SeatGeek's native alert. For a sold-out show getting tickets back at a price you can afford, across platforms, a tracker: a page monitor you configure, or a fan service. We are one of those, so the comparison is deliberately literal.
If you want the methods rather than the products, how to get notified when Ticketmaster releases tickets is that page; this one compares the tools.
The comparison
| Tool | Watches | Alerts on | Filters | Price | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ticketmaster favourites + reminders | Ticketmaster | New events, on-sales, low availability, 1-hour on-sale text | None | Free | No alert when a sold-out show gets tickets back; no price alert |
| SeatGeek price alerts | SeatGeek | Price drops (and rises) | Event | Free | SeatGeek listings only |
| StubHub price alerts | StubHub | Listing under your max | Quantity, zone, max price | Free | App only; StubHub listings only |
| Twickets alerts | Twickets | New face-value listings | Date | Free | Off for high-demand events; max 10 alerts |
| Distill.io / Visualping | Any page | Page changed | Whatever you build | Free tiers (Distill: 30 email alerts/mo; Visualping: hourly) | You configure it; can't read prices or fees; Ticketmaster rate-limits IPs |
| TicketRobin | Ticketmaster (~20 countries), AXS; more planned | Matching listing | Max price, quantity, seated/standing on higher tiers | Basic free (1 tracker, hourly); Fast £4.99, Instant £14.99 one-off; monthly from £9.99 | GBP only; no price history |
| Event Spy | Ticketmaster, StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats, Viagogo, TickPick | Price drops and availability | Price | Freemium | UK-registered; traction not published |
| TicketData | Major US sports and some concerts | None (it's data) | — | Free | Price history and forecasts, not alerts; sports-led |
| Broker Discord monitors | Ticketmaster and others | Restocks, presales | Varied | $50–375/month | Built for resellers; some auto-cart, which the BOTS Act targets |
| Found My Tickets (us) | Ticketmaster US and UK at launch | Matching listing at or under your fee-inclusive max | Quantity, max total per ticket, seated/standing where supported | One free seven-day hourly tracker per month; paid prices provisional | Not live until winter 2026 |
Sources for every row are linked in the sections below; prices and features are as published on 8 September 2026.
The platforms' own alerts
Free, and worth switching on whatever else you use.
Ticketmaster's favourites send new event announcements, on-sale alerts and last-minute low-availability warnings, plus a text an hour before an on-sale if you set a reminder. There is no alert for a sold-out show getting inventory back and no price alert; that gap is the reason every other tool on this page exists.
SeatGeek alerts you when prices drop, or even when they rise, by email or push, on web and app. It's the best native alert of the big US marketplaces. It only sees SeatGeek.
StubHub's alerts are app-only but let you set quantity, zone and a maximum price, which is a proper threshold alert.
Twickets, the face-value marketplace, offers free listing alerts, up to ten, for specific dates, and disables them for "high-demand events" until closer to the show. In practice that means the shows you most want alerts for don't get them.
Generic page monitors
Distill and Visualping watch any web page and message you when it changes. Fans have used them on Ticketmaster for years. Visualping's free plan checks hourly; Distill's free plan includes 30 email alerts a month.
They are flexible and free. They also make you do the work: choose the right page element, decide what counts as a change, and accept that they can't tell a $600 listing from a $60 one unless you build that. Distill's own Ticketmaster guide warns that the site limits requests from a single IP and suggests running checks from your own device or paying for proxies. Good for one event and a technical owner. Poor for a budget.
Fan-facing trackers
This is the category we're in. The premise is shared: you name an event, a quantity and a maximum, the service watches the listing on a schedule, and it messages you when a match appears. You buy on the listing site.
TicketRobin is the most established. It monitors Ticketmaster in around 20 countries plus AXS, with more sites listed as coming, and alerts by email or WhatsApp. Pricing is in pounds: a free Basic tracker checking hourly, Fast at £4.99 and Instant at £14.99 as one-off event trackers, and monthly plans from £9.99, with a 14-day money-back guarantee. It has a 4.5 rating on Trustpilot from 30 reviews at the time of writing. It doesn't publish price history. If you're in the UK and want WhatsApp, it's a sensible choice today.
Event Spy is a UK-registered freemium tracker covering Ticketmaster, StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats, Viagogo and TickPick, with SMS, email and WhatsApp alerts and historical price trends. It's the closest thing to us on paper. It doesn't publish user numbers or reviews we could find.
TicketData is different: it's free price history and forecasts, sports-led, with no alerts. Useful for deciding when to buy a Knicks ticket; not a tracker.
Smaller tools exist. ticket-alerts.live is a paid, email-only Twickets monitor. alertix is an open-source Ticketmaster resale alert you run yourself.
Broker monitors
There's a market of Discord-based monitors built for resellers, running $50 to $375 a month: restock alerts, presale codes, and in some cases auto-carting. They're fast. They're not for fans, and the auto-carting end of that market is what the BOTS Act targets. We mention them so you know what "instant" costs at the top of the market, and why a fan tool shouldn't try to be one.
Where Found My Tickets fits
We open in winter 2026, so today we're a waitlist and a set of guides; judge us on the product when it exists. What we're building differs from the list above in three ways.
We publish price history. Every event we watch gets a public chart of what the listing advertised over time, free, no account. Before you set a max, you can see whether $180 is high or normal for that show.
We compare your max against the fee-inclusive total, because that's the only number your card sees. On Ticketmaster US the advertised price has included fees since May 2025, so the comparison is direct there; on sites that still lead with a base price, a tracker set to "$120 max" correctly stays silent about a $112 sticker that becomes $141 at checkout. How to set a max price that catches tickets explains the setting.
We start with Ticketmaster in the US and the UK. Prices and tracker maximums use the event's own currency. You get one free hourly tracker per calendar month, running for seven days or until its first matching alert; paid prices remain provisional until the doors open.
What we share with every legitimate tool here: we never buy, reserve, cart or check out, and no alert guarantees you a ticket. Where that line sits, and why, is in is a ticket alert service allowed?