Toot Sweet, the app to get out in Paris: reviews and test

Review and test on Toot Sweet – The application that geolocalizes for you the best plans available now or in the coming hours in Paris!

“ What do we do tonight? This is the question that many were asking before discovering the Toot Sweet app, which lists all events available in time and geo-located near you in Paris.

Launched in 2015 on Android and IOS by Valéria Castelletto and Hatem Chelbi, the Toot Sweet app is often referred to as the “Tinder of Exit” and has continuously developed since its remarkable raising of €1.1 million in 2018. With its hundreds of thousands of Parisian users and its many guest establishments – bars, restaurants, cinemas, nightclubs, museums etc. – the app revolutionizes the market of the last minute cultural and eventual, gives a second chance to unsold places and breaks routines... And it's good!

But how does the application work? What are the pros and cons? The editor looked at Toot Sweet and gave you his opinion in this article.

What is Toot Sweet?

Toot Sweet is an application, available on IOS and Android, which allows you to find, thanks to geolocation, all concerts, cinemas, exhibitions, plays, etc. where there are still places available and whose starting time is in less than an hour.

On the one hand, it brings a little freshness and spontaneity in users’ outings and routines! On the other hand, professionals can hope to save their unsold tickets and places available while targeting a particular clientele.

Thanks to its machine learning, Toot Sweet also adapts its outputs and good plans to the tastes of its users: you get to cream more quickly, in a simple and playful way! For ever more spontaneity, the start-up also set up a system of instant and personalized notifications.

Next step? Develop the application to conquer other markets, including Toot Sweet Home, allowing us to see what we can do at home, for example.

Toot Sweet, how does it work?

The first reflection that is done after downloading the application is that the interface is similar to that of the encounter application Tinder . No wonder we compare Toot Sweet to the latter.

Here are events and ideas of outings that you will see scrolling before you. Depending on your desires, you can then like or dislike the event available now or in the next few hours around you, which appears thanks to geolocation, or see what happens in the bars open that night in Paris For example.

The advantage is that the more you use the application, the better the suggestions offered, thanks to its machine learning. After choosing the activity that best suits you, you can book it and then enjoy it. Just no?

Free, the app allows you to enjoy the wealth of the capital at best! You can also enjoy unique benefits and information to save you time and money: cut-file tickets, free events up to a certain hour only...

Good to know: Toot Sweet rewards your fidelity and spontaneity. How? Refunding your addition if you have consumed in a restaurant or bar participating in the offer. To find partner establishments, go to the app and discover them with the "dice game" icon.

Benefits and disadvantages of Toot Sweet

Benefits

• Free access to offers
• A wide offer of good plans and events
• Great diversity of themes (exhibitions, concerts, restaurants, bar, evenings, cinema etc.)
• Easy to use
• Access to benefits (sleeve, free limited...)
• Large price range
• Events close with geolocation
• Custom offers thanks to machine learning
• You can save your favorite addresses

Disadvantages

• The interface deserves some improvements for visually impaired people (more contrasts, larger writing, less vivid colors or help with reading and booking)
• The application is not always up-to-date on the course of events or the opening of certain sites
• Available only on Paris, for the moment
• It is not yet possible to define the budget that the user has to go out, and thus adapt the search
• Like any application, bugs are sometimes to be identified (Application that closes, events that disappear, bugs after some updates...)

Toot Sweet: Editor’s Opinion

With its concept for the least innovative, Toot Sweet is distinguished from night-time booking applications and is widely known to the general public.

The application brings a wind of freshness and spontaneity in the routine of many Parisians, the writing approves! Having access only to the events that will have in the coming hours allows us to plan nothing at all, and this is the whole interest of Toot Sweet. A little unexpected from time to time, doesn't it hurt?

For less adventurous people, the backup function of our favorite places is a big plus. The application interface is modern, dynamic and easy to use. No need to leave Toot Sweet to find information about our activity or our unusual evening in Paris . Hours, by the address, the map, and even photos or videos presenting the place: absolutely everything is informed. You can also share the right plan to your friends so that they will accompany you in your madness!

After testing and approval we have only one thing to say... Long since Toot Sweet arrives in other cities in France!