Vibo owns the party planning. We get you the party.
Easiest comparison on this site: there's almost zero overlap. Vibo starts working after the couple books you. Bright Ears exists to make sure they book you.
What Vibo is great at
We'll say it plainly: if music planning with clients is your bottleneck, buy Vibo. It leads its category for a reason.
The client music experience
Song requests, must-plays and don't-plays, timelines, guest input — couples genuinely enjoy it, and it makes you look professional.
An app DJs are proud to send
Sending a Vibo invite signals you run a real operation. It's a closing asset as much as a planning tool.
Worth its price for the right business
$149–179/mo (verified June 11, 2026 — the old $99 tier is gone) is premium, but it's priced against the client experience it delivers, and steady-volume businesses get their money's worth.
Side by side
Honest marks both ways — including the rows where Vibo wins outright.
| Feature | Vibo | Bright Ears |
|---|---|---|
| Finds gigs for you (the Hunt) | No Event-experience app for booked gigs; no lead generation. | Yes Scans your cities for venues that book entertainment, scores the fit, drafts the pitch in your voice — you approve. |
| Answers new inquiries for you | No Vibo starts after the contract is signed. | Yes Drafted in your voice from your rate card and real availability. |
| Speed to first reply | No Not its job. | Yes In minutes once you tap Approve. |
| Reads The Knot / WeddingWire / Bark / GigSalad lead emails | No Vibo never touches your inbox. | Yes One forwarding rule catches forms, plain email and directory notifications. |
| Follow-up until booked or dead | No It reminds clients about music planning, not leads about booking you. | Yes Sequences until booked or dead, hard-stop on reply, one-tap opt-out. |
| Spam & scam filtering | No Not its job either. | Yes Junk filtered before you see it. |
| Works from your phone | Partly Great mobile apps — for planning the music. | Yes Approve, edit or decline replies in two taps. |
| Client music planning | Yes Best-in-class: requests, must-plays, timelines, guest input. | No We hand off the moment it's booked. Vibo takes it from there. |
| Event-day experience | Yes The polish couples remember. | No Not our lane. |
| Setup | A client-facing app you invite couples into. | An email forwarding rule couples never see. |
| Verified pricing (June 11, 2026) | $149–179/mo | $25–149/mo · subscribe to activate |
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Where Bright Ears fits
Vibo's product begins at the contract. Everything before that — the inquiry from The Knot at 11pm, the spam, the price-shoppers, the follow-up nobody has time to send — is exactly the part Bright Ears does. Replies drafted in your voice from your rate card and real availability, approved from your phone, designed to reply in under 5 minutes, then follow-ups until the lead is booked or dead.
Run both and the handoff is clean: we chase the lead until it books; you send the Vibo invite the moment it does. More signed contracts in, more great parties out.
“If there were two of me, I would double my business.”
Range across published tiers on the vendor's public pricing page.
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Frequently asked
Do Vibo and Bright Ears compete?
No. Vibo is client music planning after the booking; Bright Ears is lead response before it. Plenty of businesses should run both: Bright Ears gets the contract signed, Vibo makes the event great.
Does Vibo help me win more leads?
Indirectly — a slick planning experience helps referrals, and DJs use the Vibo invite as a selling point in proposals. But Vibo doesn't watch your inbox, filter spam, or reply to The Knot leads. The couple who never hears back never gets to see your Vibo.
Why is Vibo so much more expensive than most DJ software?
It's priced as a client-experience product ($149–179/mo, verified June 11, 2026 — the old $99 tier is gone), and for businesses with steady bookings it earns it. Bright Ears prices on inquiries answered instead: $25/mo for up to 15, $79/mo for up to 60 with auto-send autopilot, $149/mo for up to 150 with the hunt on all your cities — and every tier includes the full follow-up engine and weekly report.
If I can only afford one, which should I buy?
Depends where gigs die for you. If inquiries get answered fast but events feel chaotic, buy Vibo. If you're a great performer whose leads go quiet before you can reply — 'get an inquiry, immediately respond, and then nothing' — fix that first. It's the cheaper fix and one saved booking pays for it many times over.
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