Ballyhoo: Portland Events
Ryan Gurnick Entertainment iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Ballyhoo: Portland Events is a free Entertainment app for iPhone and iPad by Ryan Gurnick. Requires iOS 17.6. Updated October 24, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 11 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 24
- 2026 · v1.1
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About Ballyhoo: Portland Events
Everything happening in Portland, in one place. Ballyhoo gathers thousands of upcoming events from ten local sources — Willamette Week, DoPDX, Portland Parks, Oregon Ballet Theatre, neighborhood farmers markets, Oregon Metro, Calagator and more — so you can stop checking six calendars to find out what's on tonight. WHAT'S ON TONIGHT Open the app and see what's happening today. Filter by category, by date, or by price. FREE THINGS FIRST Over a thousand of the events Ballyhoo tracks cost nothing. They get their own shelf at the top of the feed, because the best night out in Portland is often the one that's free. FIND IT ON A MAP Every event with an address appears on a map, grouped by venue. Tap a place to see everything happening there, and get directions in a tap. SAVE WHAT CATCHES YOUR EYE Bookmark anything to come back to later. SEE WHERE IT CAME FROM Every listing links back to its original source. The Sources tab shows exactly which calendars Ballyhoo reads and when each last updated, so you always know how fresh the information is. NO ACCOUNT. NO TRACKING. NO ADS. There is no sign-up, no profile, and no advertising. Ballyhoo collects nothing about you and contains no analytics. The app downloads one public file of events, and that is the entirety of its network activity. Ballyhoo is free and open source. The app and the pipeline that assembles its data are public at github.com/ryangurn/ballyhoo. Covering Portland, Oregon and the surrounding metro area.
What’s new
Version 1.1 · Updated October 24, 2026
Ready for iPhone Duo • Unfold it and Discover and Saved spread out: the list on one side, the event you picked on the other. • Fold or unfold while you're reading an event, and it stays right where you left it. • Buttons sit along the side of the screen, where iPhone Duo keeps them, and the Map's controls stay clear of the fold. Also new • On iPad, the list and the event you picked now sit side by side too. • iPhone now works in landscape. • Event photos show more of the picture on bigger screens.
App privacy
The developer, Ryan Gurnick, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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