Looking for an alternative to Tickaroo? Tickaroo is the established live blog of many large German-language newsrooms, with plans sized for them. Livetickr is a lean live ticker for publishers who run a few live events a month.
Tickaroo is the big-newsroom tool. Sports data, apps, CMS integrations and a customer list to prove it.
Priced for scale. Tickaroo starts at €79 per live blog; subscriptions start at €499 a month.
Livetickr is the lean option. One script tag, a focused editor, no cookies in the embed. From €69 per event or €199 a month, free during the closed beta.
Tickaroo is a strong product built for large newsrooms. An alternative is worth a look when its plans are sized bigger than your desk.
Tickaroo sells single live blogs at €79 each for 30 days, or subscriptions from €499 a month with unlimited live blogs.
Every Tickaroo plan includes a pageview allowance. Beyond it, Tickaroo charges €48 for every additional 100,000 pageviews.
AMP and schema.org come with the Professional plan. Live sports data, the API and SSO are part of Enterprise.
Tickaroo has a lot that Livetickr does not have yet. If your desk depends on one of these, Tickaroo is the better choice today.
The differences that decide it, side by side, checked against public sources on September 29, 2026. For every tool in one table, see our comparison of live blog tools.
| Topic | Tickaroo | Livetickr |
|---|---|---|
| Embed | TickarooScript tag and a <tickaroo-liveblog> web component. AMP via iframe. | LivetickrOne script tag. The feed renders into your page, no iframe. |
| Company | TickarooTickaroo GmbH, Regensburg, Germany. | Livetickrfdmedia GmbH, Walldorf, Germany. |
| Entry price | TickarooOn Demand: €79 per live blog for 30 days, 100,000 pageviews, 1 admin and 1 user. | LivetickrEvent: €69 per ticker for 30 days, 100,000 pageviews, 5 team members. One-time payment. |
| Subscriptions | TickarooAdvanced €499 a month (500,000 pageviews). Professional €1,149 (1,000,000). Enterprise on request. Prices excl. VAT, 10% off yearly. | LivetickrPublisher €199 a month (500,000 pageviews). Network €499 (1,000,000). Launch price €149 and €399. Enterprise on request. Prices excl. VAT, two months free yearly. |
| Extra pageviews | Tickaroo€48 for every additional 100,000, on every plan. | Livetickr+250,000 for €49 a month, on Publisher and Network. |
| Sports data | TickarooLive sports data and widgets on Enterprise. Partners include Opta and SID. | LivetickrNo sports data feed. Match tickers are written by your editors. |
| Apps | TickarooiOS and Android. | LivetickriOS and Android. |
| Availability | Tickaroo14-day trial, no automatic conversion. | LivetickrClosed beta, access through the waitlist. |
A table flattens things. Here is what each row means for a newsroom on the night it counts.
Tickaroo names Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the FAZ and dpa among its customers, and integrates with newsroom systems such as Arc XP, Livingdocs and CUE. If that is your world, Tickaroo is built for it.
Livetickr is built for a tech blog covering the keynote, a regional title on election night, a football site on deadline day. One script tag, one dashboard, and no integration project before the first update goes out.
Tickaroo’s On Demand plan costs €79 per published live blog for 30 days. The next step is Advanced at €499 a month, with unlimited live blogs and 500,000 pageviews. Every plan charges €48 for each additional 100,000 pageviews.
For a desk with two or three live events a month, that means €158 to €237 in single live blogs, or the €499 subscription. At Livetickr, the same events cost €138 to €207 as Event tickers, or €199 a month on Publisher with unlimited tickers and 500,000 pageviews (€149 at the launch price). All prices excl. VAT. During the closed beta, Livetickr is free.
Tickaroo has what a large sports or news desk needs: live sports data, apps for iOS and Android, an importer, SSO, AI writing assistance, reader comments and a long list of CMS integrations. Its embed is a web component, not an iframe, and it has built-in consent switches for third-party content.
Livetickr does not have these enterprise pieces yet. It has a block editor, apps for iOS and Android, scheduled and pinned updates, labels readers can filter by, author cards and anonymous statistics. That is the trade today: fewer features, and less to set up and learn.
Both tools are run by German companies, and both can hold third-party content back until the reader consents.
The Livetickr embed sets no cookies and stores no IP addresses, and readers are counted with a hash that changes every day. By default, third-party posts load only after the reader opts in. The application, database and media storage are hosted in Frankfurt.
For many large newsrooms, Tickaroo is the right answer. This is where the line runs.
There is no importer. Your past Tickaroo live blogs stay where they are, and the next event starts in Livetickr.
Livetickr is in closed beta. Join the list and you get access before the public launch. Subscribe within three months of launch to keep the launch price.
Create a ticker, pick a design and set your brand color. Invite your editors so several people can post at once.
Register your domain in the workspace settings, then replace the Tickaroo script and web component with the Livetickr script tag.
What publishers ask before they move their live coverage.
It depends on your newsroom. 24liveblog has a free plan and sports templates, embedded as an iframe and with sponsored ads on the free plan. Livetickr is a lean live ticker for a few live events a month, with no cookies in the embed. For live sports data at scale, Tickaroo remains the stronger choice.
For a smaller desk, yes. A single event costs €69 at Livetickr and €79 at Tickaroo. Subscriptions with unlimited tickers start at €199 a month at Livetickr (€149 at the launch price) and €499 at Tickaroo, both with 500,000 pageviews. All prices excl. VAT. During the closed beta, Livetickr is free.
No. Livetickr has no sports data feed. Match tickers are written by your editors. If you need automatic scores and statistics, Tickaroo is the better fit.
No. The Livetickr embed sets no cookies and stores no IP addresses. Readers are counted with a hash that changes every day.
Not today. There is no importer. Past live blogs can stay where they are, and the next event starts in Livetickr.
If you are still comparing, these are the four things Livetickr is built around. Each one shows up on the night your live coverage brings in the most readers.
The feed renders into your page, not into a frame. It takes the width of your column and follows your layout, so readers stay in your article.
No cookies and no stored IP addresses, so the ticker needs no consent banner of its own. Readers see your coverage without clicking accept first.
There are no ads in the feed. Your coverage carries your brand color and design, and author cards credit the editor who wrote each update.
Operated by fdmedia GmbH in Walldorf, hosted in Frankfurt. When your data protection officer asks where reader data goes, the answer is one sentence.
The essentials for live coverage, plus the extras that make it nicer to work with.
WordPress, Next.js, a static page, a landing page for a single event. If it renders HTML, your ticker works there, with the same one-line tag. Paste it yourself in a minute, no developer or rebuild needed.
<script defer
src="https://cdn.livetickr.io/embed.js"
id="livetickr-feed"
data-ticker-id="tkr_9f3ab2"></script>Publish an update and it shows up in every embedded ticker within seconds. Readers keep reading.
The embed sets no cookies and stores no IP addresses, so live coverage doesn’t drag a consent banner along.
Text, quotes, images, social and video embeds: structured, not one long text field.
Choose a timeline, markers or an editorial list, then set it all in your own brand color.
Avatar, bio and social links on every post, so the byline credit lands where it belongs.
Prepare updates in advance and they publish themselves at the exact minute you set.
Three steps from a blank editor to a live blog on your own page.
A clean block editor for text, quotes, images and embeds. Publish now, or schedule it to go live the moment it starts.
One <script> tag on any page, any CMS. No plugin, no theme surgery, no developer needed. Paste it once, the embed does the rest.
New posts appear in the embedded ticker on their own, within seconds. Readers stay on the page: no reload, no missed moment.
app.livetickr.io
The Livetickr composer, writing a live update in the block editor.
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