BookMyShow now available for the iOS devices

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We’ve long cribbed that movie booking was not easy from mobile devices.
BookMyShow answers our cries by releasing an iOS version of the application.

Here’s a quick look at what all the application provides.

The iOS application allows you to select from a list of movies only at the moment, but booking for plays, sport and other events is going to come soon – Well, this is a start.

It’s got a couple of interesting features. One can

• Select the movie to watch and can book across all cinemas in all the Indian cities.
• Seat selection – pretty useful if you’d not want to sitting in the front rows. I wonder when the Indian railways will ever implement this for their online reservation.
• Payment options are flexible Credit/Debit cards & Internet banking.

Here’re some screenshots.

I am a little worried here though, for the internet banking pages – like ICICI appears BookMyShow folks have built a custom UI around it to match the ‘black theme’ and it’s a little in-secure – We’d want them to show us the original ICICI’s website where we enter our user/password and not on their custom UI and then pass on to ICICI’s website.

Also we’d like to be able to see all the movies playing in a particular cinema (we’re too lazy to travel around to the other part of the city, no?). That’s missing for now.

Let us know if you like/hate it or you can also thank @BookMyShow team on twitter.

[Download BookMyShow application on iTunes]

Oh, in case you didn’t know – BigCinemas already has an iOS App.

Have a different mobile and want to use BookMyShow? Check the compatibility BookMyShow’s Mobile page.