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

For festival organisers

The festival lineup app that works when nothing else does.

A finished app, live on the App Store and Google Play today. Load your lineup and your audience gets the whole weekend in their pocket, with or without a signal.

4.8 out of 5 from 63 people who used it, in our post-festival survey

Going to a festival? Get the app
  • 1,471people used it
  • 36,425app opens
  • 4.8 / 5average rating
  • 92%want it official

One festival weekend in August 2026, found by word of mouth. Server telemetry and a 63-response survey. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any festival.

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“It was a god send with no signal, so glad I downloaded it. Much appreciated”

Post-festival survey, August 2026

The app

See it on your audience’s phones.

Why people actually use it

Built for a wet field, one bar of signal and 4% battery.

Works with no signal

Everything downloads before people leave home. On site nothing needs a connection: the lineup, the map, their plan. People told us so, unprompted.

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

The grid schedule

Every stage and every time on one screen, so a family can see who overlaps and plan the weekend in a minute. The survey’s most-picked feature.

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

Artist write-ups

A short read on every act, with a link to listen. Used to decide what to see and to introduce friends to new acts.

Your own lineup, with clash warnings

Add an act to My Lineup and the app says what it overlaps. Friends can share lineups. 11,957 acts were added in one weekend.

Rate what you saw

Stars on an artist beforehand say how much you want to see them. “How was this set?” afterwards says how it went. Both feed your season report.

Backstage

Where you run it. Where the real value is.

The web console behind the app. Your team loads the lineup, publishes changes to every phone in seconds, sends push notifications, and watches how the bill is 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 they planned to see and how each set landed, in a season report for your booker.
Push notifications
Push notifications. Set-time changes, weather, welfare, to everyone at your festival.
CSV import
A CSV is enough. Date, time, stage, artist. Images and listen links are filled in.
Lineup changes reach every phone without an app-store release
Clash analysis: where the bill fought itself, by stage pairing and hour
Before-and-after ratings: book again, rising stars, overhyped
A season report you can hand to your booker, exported as PDF and CSV

Screenshots show demonstration data.

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How it works with us

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

Standard

Your festival in the Festival Buddy app

Your lineup, stages, map and FAQ inside the Festival Buddy app, which people may already have. You send a CSV; we set it up and support your audience through the weekend.

Live in days, not months
Backstage access for your team
Season report after the festival

Contact us for prices

White label

Your own branded app

The same engine, on both stores under your festival’s name, icon and colours. Everything in Standard, plus your brand throughout.

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

Contact us for prices

No ads and no ad-tech in either. People asked for that in the survey; the privacy policy already promises it.

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”

Post-festival survey, August 2026

“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…”

Post-festival survey, August 2026

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

Post-festival survey, August 2026

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

Post-festival survey, August 2026

“Really useful. Particularly as paper map disintegrated.”

Post-festival survey, August 2026

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

Post-festival survey, August 2026

Built by someone who was at the festival too, and who fixes what you report. Not perfect: a few people saw last year’s lineup mid-weekend, and too few found the reminders. What’s next.

See it with your lineup in it.

Send a CSV of last year’s bill and we will load it into a demo before we talk.

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