A festival field at dusk with a hand holding a phone showing Festival Buddy and no signal

For fans and festival organisers

All your festival information at your fans’ fingertips

No signal required! Fans get all your festival information at their fingertips and you get real-time insights into their preferences

  • Fully offline
  • Send real-time notifications
  • Push listing changes out instantly
  • See what acts are hot and what are not

Fans scored the app 4.8 out of 5

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Tested in the fields

  • 37,186app opens
  • 11,976set listings added
  • 1,471fans tested it
  • 23 daysfans spent in app

*Stats above gathered from test users attending a UK festival in 2026

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“Really useful app, I loved being able to rate the acts after seeing them, preferred that to doing before. Really helpful way to check who was on and loved the clashes pop up when you added something to your lineup”

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The app

Packed with features

Why fans love it

Built from the ground up by a festival fan

A hand holding a phone showing the festival grid with no signal

Works with no signal

Everything works offline. On site nothing needs a connection: the lineup, the map or their plan.

The schedule grid in landscape: stages down the side, times across the top

The grid schedule

Manage clashes with ease. Every stage and every artist on one screen, so a fan can see what overlaps and plan the weekend in minutes.

An artist page with a write-up and a listen link

Artist write-ups

A bio write-up, a link to the artist’s website, and Spotify and Apple Music links give a fan everything they need to decide who they want to see.

Your own lineup, with clash warnings

Fans can build their own personal set list and share their lineup choices with their friends, great for knowing where the crew are going next.

Rate what you saw

Fans can rate acts they have seen. The ratings work across years, so you can remember if you loved the artist the year before.

Backstage

It all happens backstage!

Control everything and see full pre and post festival stats

The power behind the app. Your team loads the lineup, publishes changes to every phone in seconds, sends push notifications, and watches how the artists are landing during the festival.

Backstage Insights: the booking quadrant plotting every act by set rating and how many would watch again
The Backstage leaderboard: acts ranked by lineup adds and reach
Demand and reception. Who fans planned to see and how each set was rated, in a season report to aid future planning.
Push notifications
Push notifications. Build hype before the festival starts. During: set-time changes, weather, welfare, pop-up performances to everyone at your festival*
The festival editing screen: stages, days and performances
Festival editor. Build your festival listings, FAQs, maps, Spotify and Apple Music links and more. Push to a test group prior to release.
Lineup changes instantly update the app*
Clash analysis: where the bill fought itself, by stage pairing and hour
Before-and-after ratings: book again, rising stars, overhyped
Export all your data into Excel as a CSV for further manipulation

Screenshots show demonstration data.
*Requires a mobile signal

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Deployment options

Two ways to put your festival in people’s pockets.

Standard

Via the Festival Buddy app

Your lineup, stages, map and FAQ inside the Festival Buddy app. Full control of your festival information via the backstage admin portal.

Live in days
Backstage access for your team with full control
Full stats package and insights
Festival Buddy app shared with other festivals

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White label

Your own branded app

Everything the Festival Buddy app offers but uniquely branded for your festival

Your name and icon on the App Store and Google Play
Your colours and artwork throughout
We handle build, stores, hosting and support

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In their words

“Found the app very useful, particularly in the wet weather when trying to get the paper one out was impossible. It’s so easy to use and could see straight away who was on when/where”

“Didn’t use the official guide given out, and me and the family used this to plan our whole festival and what we wanted to see or do…”

“…great that you didn’t need to be online and as I had the app everyone kept asking me when things were on”

“I liked the description of the artists, I used these to explain to my husband any new artists.”

“Really useful. Particularly as paper map disintegrated.”

“I hope every festival I go to gets it xx”

Built by a festival fan committed to deliver the best festival app on the market.

See it with your lineup in it.

Drop us a message and a sample spreadsheet of your listings and let us build a demo for you.

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