Is appic.events legit or a scam?
Appic is a long-standing Dutch event discovery platform with a verified business history and over 100,000 app downloads.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
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Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The website appears to be a legitimate event discovery and ticketing platform with professional design, clear branding, and standard functional elements.
What our vision model saw
6 signalsProfessional layout with consistent branding for 'Appic'
Functional navigation sidebar and search bar
Legitimate app store badges for Apple and Google Play
Detailed event listings with dates, locations, and category tags
Standard corporate links including Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
Social media integration and professional 'Work at Appic' buttons
MT Intelligence
The domain has been registered for over 2,600 days, which is a strong indicator of an established business rather than a temporary scam site. Our analysis confirmed that the platform is operated by 2xpr BV, a registered company in Utrecht, Netherlands, active since 2015. While some users on Reddit and app stores have reported technical issues with ticket giveaways, these appear to be standard customer service complaints rather than evidence of a fraudulent operation. The site uses valid Amazon-issued SSL encryption and is not flagged by any of our 92 antivirus engines. The professional layout and integration with official app stores further support its legitimacy.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for appic.events, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- appic.events is the official website for Appic, a festival and events discovery app focused on the Netherlands and Belgium, with features like personalized timetables, maps, tickets, and community.
- Operated by 2xpr BV (KvK 63141256), based at Europalaan 400-7, Utrecht, Netherlands; company history dates to 2014-2015 with rebrand from 2xpr to Appic in 2016 and acquisition of Partyflock.
- Available on Apple App Store and Google Play (100K+ downloads); developer contact includes +31 6 12035140 and ashraf@beappic.com.
- Some user complaints exist regarding ticket validity for giveaways/wingames and general app reliability (e.g., App Store review calling it a potential scam; Reddit discussion on non-working tickets).
- One automated scanner (Gridinsoft) assigns a low 20/100 trust score and flags as suspicious.
- No major scam reports, widespread fraud allegations, or regulatory actions found; appears to be a real operating business in the Dutch events sector with partnerships (e.g., festivals using its app).
- Domain age of ~7 years (registered ~2018) aligns with company growth timeline (500k+ users by 2022, 1M+ monthly claimed).
- Apple App Storeopen
"This is either a scam or an amateur app."
- Reddit r/hardstyleopen
"We won a couple tickets for Dream Village this Sunday on the appic app. Some people in the appstore mentioned that their tickets didn’t work."
- Gridinsoftopen
"Appic.events shows Suspicious Website warnings and a 20/100 trust score"
2xpr BV (operator of Appic), KvK 63141256, registered office at Europalaan 400-7, 3526 KS Utrecht, Netherlands. Established around 2015.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://appic.events/
- 2200https://appic.events/
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on appic.events and not a lookalike like a-ppic.events.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on appic.events. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- appic.events passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 85/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. appic.events presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04, expiring in 82 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- appic.events is 7.4 years old, registered on 2/9/2019 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report appic.events as clean.
- No. appic.events is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- appic.events resolves to an IP operated by A100 ROW GmbH in DE (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 24, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around appic.events have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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