Compared
Tourouter vs Daysheets
Daysheets and Tourouter both replace the spreadsheet with a proper day sheet on every phone. Daysheets is the stronger travel tool, with flight imports and offline editing. Tourouter is the stronger money tool, with expenses and settlement in the same place as the schedule, and it sends the day sheet by text to crew who never open an app.
Daysheets is a tour and travel management platform for artists, tour managers and production teams, on Mac, iOS and Android. It is fast, built around keyboard shortcuts, calculates drive times, flags overdrives, and can build separate feeds for different groups on a tour. Its free tier covers a tour of up to five people, which for a small band is the whole band.
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Pick Daysheets if
- Travel is the hard part of your tour: flights, ground transfers and a crew split across groups with different schedules.
- You want offline editing on a laptop as well as a phone.
- Your tour is five people or fewer and you only need the schedule. The free tier covers that.
- You manage a large crew and need private notes, personnel groups and visibility controls.
Pick Tourouter if
- You want the money in the same place as the day: guarantees, expenses, who paid, settlement.
- Some of your crew never install apps. Tourouter sends the day sheet by text every morning.
- You want the whole band to edit the plan. Band includes 3 editor seats; crew seats are free without a per-tour cap.
- You want one price for the tour rather than a monthly bill in the months you are home.
Side by side
What each one does, in plain words. Where we are not sure, we say so rather than guess.
| What matters | Daysheets | Tourouter |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Artists, tour managers and production teams. Marketed from vans to stadiums. | Bands who manage themselves and working tour managers first; the Roster plan carries managers and agencies with several acts. |
| Day sheets | Fast day sheets with calculated drive times, PDF exports and per-group feeds. | A day sheet for every date, sent to everyone by text and email each morning, plus the app and a tour book PDF. |
| Money | Not part of the product. Daysheets' plans list travel, day sheets, guest lists and schedules. | Expenses, revenue, guarantees and settlement per show, with a running picture of the whole tour. |
| Routing | Calculated drive times and overdrive warnings. | Dates on a map with drive times between cities. |
| Guest lists | Yes, from the Plus plan up. | Yes, on every plan. |
| Travel and flights | Strong. Travel profiles, ground transfers, flight and personnel imports, AI import of reservations on Pro. | Lodging per date. No flight imports. |
| Offline | Yes, offline editing. | Not yet. The app needs a connection. |
| Platforms | Mac app, iOS and Android. | Web app, iOS and Android. |
| Crew seats | Counted per tour: 5 on Free, 25 on Plus, 50 on Pro, 100 and up on Teams. | Free and unlimited crew and viewer seats on every plan. You pay for editors only. |
| Getting started | Free plan, no card. | Free to plan with no time limit. Pay when the tour goes live. |
What each one costs
Both in US dollars. Daysheets's prices are as published on ; check their site before you decide.
Daysheets
- Free, $0Up to 5 people per tour.
- Plus, $39 a month billed annuallyUp to 25 people per tour. Adds guest lists, ground transfers, PDF exports.
- Pro, $70 a month billed annuallyUp to 50 people per tour. Adds groups, visibility, calendar feeds, imports, AI.
- Teams, $249 a month per organisation, billed annually100 and up per tour, unlimited editors, priority support.
Tourouter
- Free to planNo time limit. Pay when the tour goes live.
- Tour Pass, $59 one timeOne tour, up to 45 days, 2 editor seats.
- Band, $49 a monthOr $490 a year. Unlimited tours, 3 editor seats.
- Roster, $149 a monthOr $1,490 a year. Unlimited teams, 10 editor seats.
- Crew and viewers, freeUnlimited, on every plan.
Common questions
The ones people ask when they are choosing between the two.
Daysheets has a free plan. Why pay for Tourouter?
If all you need is a schedule for a band of five, Daysheets' free plan is a fair choice and we would not argue. Tourouter's planning is also free with no time limit; you pay when the tour goes live, and what you are paying for is the money side and the text delivery, which Daysheets does not do.
Which one handles the money?
Tourouter. Guarantees, expenses, revenue and per-show settlement live next to the day sheet. Daysheets does not sell finance features on any plan.
Which one is better for travel?
Daysheets. Flight imports, ground transfers, travel profiles and per-group feeds are its strength. Tourouter tracks lodging per date and stops there.
Does Tourouter cap how many people are on a tour?
No. Crew and viewer seats are free and unlimited on every plan. Daysheets counts people per tour, from 5 on its free plan to 50 on Pro.
Can crew use either without an app?
With Tourouter, yes: the day sheet arrives by text and email every morning whether or not they installed anything. Daysheets is delivered through its apps.
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