Clashfinder Pal
Festival digital companion
Free
Your pocket festival companion, and unofficial client for clashfinder.com, the “free, printable timetable for an event”.
• Downloads one of over 10,000 online event schedules and displays it as classic, itinerary or now/next schedule.
• Stores this on your phone so it’s always available, no matter how poor your signal in the field!
• Allows you to select your highlights, customise their labels and colours, and share these with friends.
• Lets you scroll across the stages/venues and through each day’s timeline, zooming in to suit…
• …or see the whole itinerary, searchable and filtered to you and/or your friends’ highlights.
• Notifies you before your desired acts start, with a notice period you choose, and lets you snooze alerts.
• Lets you zoom in to what’s on now or coming up soon.
• Shows details for acts, where available, including genre, location and description for music.
• Once the performance is over, rate it with a score and/or comment for future reference.
• Also add ratings ad hoc, then view, search, compare and edit all your historical ratings.
• Allows hiding of stages/venues that aren't of interest.
• Allows hiding of entire days that you aren't attending.
• Fully supports light/dark display modes and portrait/landscape, including automatic switching.
• Localised dates (language and USA format) and selectable 12/24-hour time.
• Includes ‘Palfinder’ – a customisable digital beacon to help find your friends!
• Brings fun to planning your highlights for any multi-venue event (not just festivals!).
more • Better handling and visibility of snoozed alerts
• Menu improvements for devices with text size set very high
• If you like this free app, you can now buy me a (virtual) coffee!
1.3.3 Oct 16
• Improved layout and legibility for devices with text size set very high
• Improved time and date pickers for ratings
• Several small user interface improvements
1.3.2 Sep 2
• You can now search from the timeline view.
• Highlights customisation is improved:
• A new setting makes your favourite labels and colours automatically load when you choose a new event. (NB if you've customised them on clashfinder.com for that event, this will override favourites in the app);
• The 'defaults' button rotates through Clashfinder default labels (1,2,3,4) and a suggested set.
• The bottom navigation bar highlights today's date if it's within the schedule.
• As with highlights, the app can be shared via messaging apps as well as QR code.
• The event picker now makes itself look more obviously scrollable.
• There's an improved About dialog.
• And a sprinkling of minor fixes and UI improvements.
1.3.1 Aug 26
• Completely revamped highlights sharing:
- share directly via QR code when your friend is nearby;
- share using messaging apps (email, WhatsApp, SMS, iMessage*) when they're not.
• Friendlier onboarding, especially if you don't have a Clashfinder account
• Faster scrolling and zooming in timeline view
• Acts now indicate when you've rated them
• Improvements to 'only now or soon' view
*receiving highlights in iMessage may require iOS 27
1.3 Aug 11
• Direct sharing of your highlights with friends (beta).
• New landscape itinerary view (larger screens only): rotate your device to see details alongside the listings.
• Long-press on the alert icon to choose a bespoke notice period for that act/performance.
• When choosing an event in Settings, long-press on any entry in the list to show the event’s details (helps when there are multiple Clashfinders for an event).
• Alerts now include start time of the act/performance.
• Better searching where acts include non-English characters and punctuation.
• Highlights refresh buttons now on the relevant rows in Settings.
• Links to App/Play Stores, and QR code to share the app with friends.
• Ability to clear specific previously viewed events (beta in v1.2.1).
• New landscape ratings view, showing comments (beta in v1.2.2).
• The usual fixes and subtle tweaks.
v1.2.3 Jul 10
• Direct sharing of your highlights with friends (beta).
• New landscape itinerary view (larger screens only): rotate your device to see details alongside the listings.
• Long-press on the alert icon to choose a bespoke notice period for that act/performance.
• When choosing an event in Settings, long-press on any entry in the list to show the event’s details (helps when there are multiple Clashfinders for an event).
• Alerts now include start time of the act/performance.
• Better searching where acts include non-English characters and punctuation.
• Highlights refresh buttons now on the relevant rows in Settings.
• Links to App/Play Stores, and QR code to share the app with friends.
• Ability to clear specific previously viewed events (beta in v1.2.1).
• New landscape ratings view, showing comments (beta in v1.2.2).
• The usual fixes and subtle tweaks.
v1.2.2 Jul 9
• Direct sharing of your highlights with friends (beta).
• New landscape itinerary view (larger screens only): rotate your device to see details alongside the listings.
• Long-press on the alert icon to choose a bespoke notice period for that act/performance.
• When choosing an event in Settings, long-press on any entry in the list to show the event’s details (helps when there are multiple Clashfinders for an event).
• Alerts now include start time of the act/performance.
• Better searching where acts include non-English characters and punctuation.
• Highlights refresh buttons now on the relevant rows in Settings.
• Links to App/Play Stores (hint 5* hint).
• Ability to clear specific previously viewed events (v1.2.1).
• The usual fixes and subtle tweaks.
v1.2.1 Jul 5
* Direct sharing of your highlights with friends (beta).
* New landscape itinerary view (larger screens only): rotate your device to see details alongside the listings.
* Long-press on the alert icon to choose a bespoke notice period for that act/performance.
* When selecting an event, long-press on any entry in the list to show the event’s details (helps when there are multiple Clashfinders for an event).
* Alerts now include start time of the act/performance.
* Better searching where acts include non-English characters and punctuation.
* Highlights refresh buttons now on the relevant rows in Settings.
* Links to App/Play Stores.
* The usual fixes and subtle tweaks.
v1.2 is the 'Primavera Porto' release, with lots of ideas gathered in the field!
1.2.0 Jun 27
• Support for 12-hour time format, through Settings; by default using the device's system setting.
• Improvements to legibility in the day timeline (reduced breaking of names).
• Still more enhancements to ratings, especially linking between them.
1.1.2 Jun 9
• New ratings view and improved list interface:
– tap on the act/artist/performance, venue or event/festival to see other acts there/then;
– filter a search to just these too;
– jump to this view from an act's details view in the schedule, to see your previous ratings.
• Refreshing your highlights from clashfinder.com merges these with local ones.
• Settings page i button 'throbs' when schedule has been updated.
• Musicbrainz data enrichment is more reliable.
• Long act names scroll (once, continuously, or not at all: configured in Settings).
• You've had big screens, really big screens and small screens; now better layout on medium-small screens!
• Better handling of poor mobile/cellular data signal (from 'in the field' testing)
• Bug fixes, UI improvements (especially in dark mode)… and the red 'now' line shows up after midnight!
• Specific bug fix for highlights not merging reliably
v1.1 is the 'Bearded Theory' release; thanks for all the feedback I received.
1.1.1 Jun 4
• New ratings view and improved list interface:
– tap on the act/artist/performance, venue or event/festival to see other acts there/then;
– filter a search to just these too;
– jump to this view from an act's details view in the schedule, to see your previous ratings.
• Refreshing your highlights from clashfinder.com merges these with local ones.
• Settings page i button 'throbs' when schedule has been updated.
• Musicbrainz data enrichment is more reliable.
• Long act names scroll (once, continuously, or not at all: configured in Settings).
• You've had big screens, really big screens and small screens; now better layout on medium-small screens!
• Better handling of poor mobile/cellular data signal (from 'in the field' testing)
• Bug fixes, UI improvements (especially in dark mode)… and the red 'now' line shows up after midnight!
v1.1 is the 'Bearded Theory' release; thanks for all the feedback I received.
1.1 Jun 3
• Alongside keeping track of recently viewed events, the app now stores those with locally added highlights, so you can switch between events without losing what you've flagged.
• A much improved event picker shows a list of what's on over the next week by default.
• Enhancements to readability, including making better use of larger and medium-small screens.
• Better handling of permissions for event alerts.
• User guide is now viewable at large device font sizes.
• Lots of minor tweaks and even fixes for a couple of reported bugs! Please do report them, as well as suggestions.
1.0.1 May 18
• Alongside keeping track of recently viewed events, the app now stores those with locally added highlights, so you can switch between events without losing what you've flagged.
• A much improved event picker shows a list of what's on over the next week by default.
• Enhancements to readability, including making better use of larger and medium-small screens.
• Better handling of permissions for event alerts.
• Lots of minor tweaks and even fixes for a couple of reported bugs! Please do report them, as well as suggestions.
1.0 May 14
Alerts! Finally, a much-requested feature. Choose a preferred notice period, then tap the alarm clock icon to be notified before your unmissable acts are due to start. When the alert comes through (even when you're not using the app), you can snooze it or tap it to see details of the act. This is the first release of alerts, so please give feedback if it's useful or you'd like it to work differently. Also, if you have problems, try re-selecting the event from Settings.
Plus lots of other smaller improvements, as usual. If you like this *free* app, please feel free (!) to give it a 5-star rating!
0.9 Apr 21
- Truly full-screen landscape schedule view (the 'now or soon' button floats above this when the day being shown is today).
- Better handling of landscape orientation in other pages.
- Better first guess of initial timeline scaling when a new event is selected.
- Minor bug fixes and internal library upgrades.
0.8.1 Apr 7
- Ratings. Comment and score a performance after it's underway; add ad hoc ratings for any historical performance; then see, compare and edit these from Ratings in the app menu.
- Choosing an event is easier: recent ones are listed first, then sections for current, future and recent past events after searching.
- Having previously optimised for small screens, now some love for larger screen device owners: more efficient and legible use of the extra space.
- Hiding stages/venues and days is clearer and more responsive.
- Pinch-scaling the timeline is more responsive (uses 'ghost scaling').
- New icons, fixes and more!
0.8.0 Apr 2
- ‘Palfinder’ – a customisable digital beacon to help you find and message your friends (especially when there's no mobile signal!)
- Localised dates (language and USA format)
- Lots of tweaks, minor enhancements, performance improvements, and even the odd bug fix
0.7.0 Mar 16
- Fixed bug where app would not launch properly if an event hadn't been chosen on first launch
0.6.1 Mar 8
- Easier navigation in schedule view: jump to previous and next days, and the timeline view for each.
- View 'now or soon' in day timeline views, to focus on what to do next.
- 'Share sheets' from the act/artist details pop-up: let your friends know what you'll be watching later (or watched), where and when.
- More resilience for clashfinder.com being inaccessible.
- Big improvements to the app on small screens.
- Clearer view of which stages/venues and days have been hidden from view.
- New settings page.
- Many, many fixes and little improvements.
0.6.0 Mar 5
- Share from the act/artist Details pop-up: let your friends know (via text, email, WhatsApp etc) what you'll be watching later (or watched), where and when
- Easier to find your event: only shows current/future events (unless you enter the specific code from a Clashfinder URL
- Improvements to stage/venue headings, plus tap on an abbreviated one to show its full title
- Better onboarding process and user guide
- Long duration events are better handled: the dates in the bottom navigation bar can scroll
- Better handling of no, or poor, mobile signal. (The aim is for this not to affect the app at all.)
- Lots of minor tweaks and fixes
0.5.1 Feb 23
• Better handling and visibility of snoozed alerts
• Menu improvements for devices with text size set very high
• If you like this free app, you can now buy me a (virtual) coffee!
more Version 1.3.3 Oct 16
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