Pocketival
Festival app in your pocket
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Pocketival is the app for festival-goers who want their weekend sorted.
No more clumsy PDF schedules or sluggish festival websites: all line-ups,
stages, and venue maps in one fast, mobile app.
What can you do with it?
- Browse the complete line-up per festival, filter by genre, discover
new artists via Spotify and Deezer previews.
- Mark favorites with a tap. They appear instantly in your personal
block schedule and calendar.
- Add private notes per artist ("stage 3, don't forget the earplugs").
- Live position on the festival map with GPS, plus pins for all stages,
bars, and facilities.
- Share your location with friends. See each other move on the map,
even when the app is in the background.
- Save the entire festival offline: when network is bad on site,
everything keeps working, including all photos and venue maps.
- Sync your favorites to your Apple or Google calendar so they sit
alongside your other appointments.
- Categories to mark shows ("must-see", "maybe", "with X").
- Conflict detection: see immediately when two favorite acts overlap.
Which festivals?
A growing list of Dutch festivals: Sniester, Pinkpop, Zwarte Cross,
Castlefest, Nibirii, and more. Missing one? Submit a request from
inside the app.
Privacy
No ads, no tracking, no data sales. Only functional storage of your
login, favorites, and (optionally) your location so friends can find
you. See pocketival.com/privacy for details.
Who is it for?
For anyone going to a festival who wants to get the most out of the
weekend. From planners who mark everything in advance to people who
make last-minute decisions on the ground.
Suggestions or bugs? Via pocketival.com/support.
more New
- The stage page now shows who is playing right now, with the time left. Useful for stages with dozens of performances a day.
- Ticket shop, FAQ and merchandise now appear as buttons on the festival page, where the festival offers them.
- A b2b set now shows every artist taking part. Tap through to each one to see
where else they are playing.
Improved
- Small offline updates now happen without asking. If an update is small the app applies it quietly; only larger ones still ask for confirmation.
- The storage estimate is now correct. Where the app used to report 23 MB, the real size is 8.
- If saving goes wrong, you can now send a diagnostic report straight away instead of only seeing a technical message.
Fixed
- Ratings, favourites and notes sometimes stopped being saved. After a long break with the app in the background, iOS closes the local database. The app did not notice and kept failing until you restarted it.
- A performance could show an absurd remaining time because the source supplied the wrong end date. Those errors are now corrected.
- The app could get stuck on the loading screen at startup. That can no longer
happen: the loading screen always clears, and if startup really does fail you
get an explanation and can send a diagnostic report right away.
- An artist appearing only in a collaboration showed "no times yet" even
though they were on the line-up.
- Leaving the map could produce an error message. The map pans along when it
follows your position, and that movement kept running after the map had already
been torn down.
1.6.4 Aug 31
Quite a bit has been cleaned up since the previous App Store version (1.6.2).
Offline
- Festival logos vanished right after the app started. An offline pack could point to images that were no longer there, and the app preferred that broken copy over the normal one. Fixed at the source; the app now falls back to the network on its own.
- The prompt to update your offline packs came back at every launch, even right after updating.
- A failed offline install no longer costs you the pack you already had.
- The "Save for offline" button sometimes claimed a festival was not saved when it was.
Sharing your location with friends
- The app now asks for permission the moment you turn it on, instead of when you open the map.
- Sharing starts right away rather than at the next check.
- Turning sharing off now also clears the per-friend switches.
- New: share outside festival hours and off-site too, handy while travelling or at a campsite nearby.
- Without location permission, the map explains what is not working and where to turn it on.
Also
- The festival list can be sorted, and "All festivals" jumps to today.
- The timetable block view now fills the full width.
- Artists with an accent or umlaut in their name got no resized photo.
- Devices not set to Dutch now get English.
1.6.3 Aug 28
New:
- Waterpop 2026 (Wateringen, 7 and 8 August) is in the app: full timetable with set times, bios and photos from the festival site itself, its own look and the stages on the Hofpark map.
- Fully offline: every artist page (bio, photo, set times, preview tracks), the festival list, info blocks and announcements now work without internet.
- Offline packs update smartly: on startup the app asks whether to update your saved festivals, then downloads only the changed data.
- If a festival starts within a week, the app suggests saving it offline.
- Timetable: new "where am I" button jumps to the nearest stage using GPS, and the performance happening right now is highlighted.
- Something stuck? Shake your phone to send a diagnostic report, optionally with a screenshot.
- Privacy: download a copy of all your data via Settings (GDPR access).
- New in Settings: "Repair local storage" clears the caches and reloads the app while you stay logged in.
Map and spot pins:
- Your tent and car pins can now optionally sync between devices, can be found via map search, and tapping one opens navigation in Google Maps or Apple Maps.
- Map search shows a straight line from your own position.
- Finer map filters, with water, stages and toilets as separate options; filtering no longer moves your view.
- Follow-me mode switches off neatly as soon as you pan the map yourself.
Faster and easier to read:
- The app feels noticeably faster thanks to background preloading and smarter caching; polished loading screens replace the "Loading..." text.
- The timetable block view now always uses the full width of your screen.
- Ten festival themes were made easier to read; new colour schemes are automatically checked for contrast.
- Zwarte Cross: hundreds of artist photos now load fast and reliably.
Fixed:
- The festival list is always available offline, including your starred festivals, with upcoming festivals on top and clean placeholders for logos that fail to load.
- Without internet you now see a clear message in your own language instead of "Network Error".
- Rating and category buttons could get stuck (for example on "Not for me") after a network hiccup or corrupted storage; the app now repairs this itself and shows errors.
- The login window always opens on top, and the Spotify help text no longer stays stuck on screen.
- Location sharing with friends works more reliably; friends' favourites count towards the timetable filter counter.
- Various smaller improvements and security updates.
1.6.2 Aug 3
Improved
- The timetable bar is much more compact: short day buttons (e.g. 'Fri 17'), view filters behind a filter button with a counter, and all buttons fit on one row again.
- Timetable rows now scale: at festivals with few stages the rows grow taller, making better use of the screen and keeping text readable.
- The map now fills the whole screen down to the menu, without empty space below it.
- Page titles that duplicated the bottom menu have been removed, freeing up space on every page.
- The Werfpop festival map now shows all facilities: food, bars, toilets, first aid, cup return, info, kids area, entrances, exits and emergency exits.
- Artist descriptions have been cleaned up: unclear texts about namesakes were replaced with a proper description or removed.
Fixed
- Swiping away the artist detail sheet now works on iPhone, and the page behind it no longer scrolls along.
- The settings page could occasionally end up blank; this has been fixed and is now covered by automated tests.
Other
- Various improvements under the hood: updated components, faster imports and an extensive automated test pipeline that checks every change.
1.6.1 Jul 12
New
- Ten new festivals, each with its own theme, logo and description: Awakenings Festival 2026, Solar Weekend 2026, Tomorrowland 2026 (weekend 1 and 2), Alcatraz Metal Fest 2026, Reggae Geel 2026, Wacken Open Air 2026, Paaspop 2026, Rock am Ring 2027, Rock im Park 2027 and Into The Grave 2027.
- High-resolution festival map for Awakenings, including all points of interest (food, drinks, toilets, first aid and more).
- Nearby map markers now collapse into a counter; tap it to zoom in. Stages always stay visible on their own.
- A fresh, consistent icon set throughout the app and map buttons in a uniform style.
- Favourites show a category icon, and features that require an account show a lock so you know what an account unlocks.
Improved
- Zooming and rotating the map is smooth again, even at festivals with hundreds of markers.
- The home screen has been rearranged: your personal playlist now sits next to the festival playlist and the weather forecast is back in its familiar form.
- The GPS status line is easier to read, with accuracy in plain language.
- Artist matching got sharper: every artist with a Spotify link has been verified with a confidence score, name variants such as [IVY] are recognised correctly, and artists can also be identified through their own tracks.
- Festival imports are faster and more robust, and source issues are detected earlier.
Fixed
- Logging in to Spotify for your personal playlist works again.
- Security tightened in several places.
- A major maintenance round under the hood, with automated checks on every change to keep the app stable.
1.6.0 Jul 10
What's new in 1.5.0
- Rotate the map with two fingers and tap the compass to snap back to north.
- New full-screen mode for both the map and the timetable.
- The map now opens zoomed in on the stages and remembers your last position, zoom, filters and rotation per festival.
- New grouped map filter to quickly find food, drinks, toilets, first aid and more.
- Back-to-back and featuring acts now list every artist separately, each with its own Spotify link.
- The timetable fits your screen, so only the schedule scrolls instead of the whole page.
- Not logged in? You can now see every account feature (greyed out) so you know what an account unlocks. Tap one to sign up or log in.
- More accurate artist matching, so Spotify links and festival playlists point to the right artists.
- Fixed an empty extra festival day that could appear after a late-night line-up.
- The "which days are you attending" question no longer keeps coming back once you dismiss it.
- Various smaller fixes and improvements.
1.5.0 Jul 7
New
- Notifications on this device. Turn on alerts in Settings and receive push messages about festival updates. Push now works in the iOS app too.
- Find your friends, made clear. One central "Share my live location" switch, with all GPS and sharing options (how often, also in the background, and with whom) gathered in one place.
- Cover-band artists optional in the festival playlist. Choose whether the original artists (for example AC/DC or Bruce Springsteen) are included.
Improved
- Descriptions for nearly all festivals and most stages, so you instantly see what to expect.
- Without signing in you now immediately see all current and upcoming festivals; only past editions sit behind "Show all festivals".
- Better Spotify festival playlists: fewer remixes and odd versions, refreshed automatically every week, and only verified artist matches.
- More complete line-ups and set times for more festivals, including Werfpop (now with schedule and kids' programme) and Appmiral.
- Act reminders now automatically switch your notifications on.
Fixed
- Push notifications now actually arrive on iOS.
- After logging out you are no longer sent back to your last viewed festival.
- Removed a duplicate "Festival playlist" button on the festival page.
- Various speed and reliability improvements under the hood.
1.4.2 Jul 2
New
- GPS festival map with all amenities. You now see every stage and amenity right on the map, together with your own location.
- Werchter Parklife added, including line-up, set times and map.
Improved
- More complete and up-to-date line-ups, set times and maps for more festivals, updated automatically.
- More practical festival info in the app.
- Map improvements: scaling amenity icons and tidier labels when zooming out.
Fixed
- Various speed and reliability improvements under the hood.
1.4.1 Jun 27
New
Lightning-fast and offline-first. Anything you've opened once now opens instantly from the app itself, even with no or spotty internet on site. The app starts straight from memory and only fetches new data in the background when something changed. No more loading screens.
Revamped festival map. Zoom into the floor plan to place and view amenities precisely.
Official festival floor plans in razor-sharp quality. Some festivals (like Defqon.1) now show their own official floor plan as a zoomable map background, sharp at every zoom level, with stages and amenities layered on top.
Many more amenities on the map, including merchandise, box office, phone charging, accessible access, record shop and supermarket, with per-category filters.
Pinkpop: the Thursday camping programme (including the silent disco) has been added.
Improved
More accurate map calibration (with "I'm here now") and a floor plan that's never mirrored.
Map icons now scale smoothly with zoom and show their name or type when you tap them; zooming out automatically declutters the map.
Smarter Spotify festival playlists: preference for the artist's own tracks, no duplicate titles or live versions, and more variety across albums.
Reliable "now" line in the schedule and correct times throughout.
Cleaner line-ups: duplicate performances removed.
Fixed
Sign in with Google works reliably again on the web.
Reminders show the act's start time again.
"Now playing" and "Your next favourites" on the home screen are correct again.
Various speed and reliability improvements under the hood.
1.4.0 Jun 24
New
- Amenities on the festival map: toilets, first aid, info, food, water and more, with filters to show the category you need.
Improved
- Close the artist screen with the close button or by swiping down.
- Cleaner line-ups: duplicate acts merged, with stable and correct names.
- Festival announcements can be scheduled in advance so you see them at the right time.
- More accurate festival map.
Fixed
- The festival map now displays correctly in the app again.
1.3.0 Jun 15
New in version 1.2.0
- Festival announcements: organizers post updates and you get notified
right away.
- Schedule-change alerts: if one of your favorite acts moves to a new
time, we let you know.
- Festival weather: check the forecast straight from the festival page.
- Practical info: opening hours, rules and handy tips all in one place.
- Map points of interest: find toilets, food, first aid and more.
- Find your tent and your car: drop two separate pins and navigate back
to them later.
- Native location: the map now uses your phone location service. Faster,
more reliable and easier on your battery.
- Adjustable location sharing: choose how often your location updates to
save battery.
- Cleaner without an account: when you are not signed in, we no longer
show features that require an account.
Plus various improvements and minor fixes.
1.2.0 Jun 13
What's new in 1.1.0
- Now works fully offline: no coverage at the festival grounds? Your saved festivals, timetable and favourites keep working, and you stay signed in. The app clearly shows when there is no connection.
- Reminders for your favourite acts: get a notification before a favourited act starts. You choose how far in advance (5 to 30 minutes). Works without internet, even with the app closed.
- Save battery while sharing your location: set how often the app shares your location with friends, from every 15 seconds to every 5 minutes.
- Improvements: the timetable now opens on the right day (during the festival: today, at the current time), Sign in with Apple works again, the app starts faster and more reliably, location permission is no longer re-requested unnecessarily, and no more duplicate notifications.
1.1.0 Jun 12
New in this version:
- Added Zeehelden Festival 2026, with its full music line-up.
- Familiar names: when you open a festival, you instantly see which acts you rated highly at other festivals - and they play here too.
- Sign in with Apple now also works on Android.
- Per-festival notifications: turn notifications on or off per festival.
- Compass mode on the festival map: the map rotates to the direction you're facing.
Improved:
- Line-ups, set times and your favourites/ratings now refresh automatically, so you see the latest info sooner.
- Richer artist info: more bios, photos and genres, plus Spotify/Deezer previews.
- Each festival now has its own colours and styling, including the timetable.
- Cleaner timetable: all-day and to-be-announced acts now sit in a separate list.
- Rate a show a 10 and enjoy a little confetti
- Saving a note now gives clear confirmation.
Plus various stability and privacy improvements.
1.03 Jun 7
• Works offline – view your festival, schedule and favourites without internet; your changes sync automatically once you're back online (with a manual offline mode).
• Plan your festival – mark acts as Must-see, Maybe or Got time, or skip them, and add your own notes and ratings.
• Your choices stick – favourites, ratings and notes are no longer lost when a festival updates its line-up.
• A smart schedule – hide stages you don't follow, reorder them, and filter out stages with no upcoming acts; the timeline adapts automatically.
• Correct times – late-night sets now land on the right festival day, and a timezone bug is fixed.
• Set the days you're attending – per festival.
• Content in your language – artist and festival descriptions in Dutch or English.
• A clearer line-up – music, comedy, theatre, talks, sport, cover bands and activities now have a clear label.
• Festival map on the map – shown as a clear overlay.
• A look per festival – including light themes for Pinkpop, Werfpop and more.
• Push notifications – configurable per device.
• Nicer visuals – cleaned-up artist photos (no photo? we show the name) and many schedule readability improvements.
1.02 May 25
Bugfixes and general improvements.
1.01 May 23
New
- The stage page now shows who is playing right now, with the time left. Useful for stages with dozens of performances a day.
- Ticket shop, FAQ and merchandise now appear as buttons on the festival page, where the festival offers them.
- A b2b set now shows every artist taking part. Tap through to each one to see
where else they are playing.
Improved
- Small offline updates now happen without asking. If an update is small the app applies it quietly; only larger ones still ask for confirmation.
- The storage estimate is now correct. Where the app used to report 23 MB, the real size is 8.
- If saving goes wrong, you can now send a diagnostic report straight away instead of only seeing a technical message.
Fixed
- Ratings, favourites and notes sometimes stopped being saved. After a long break with the app in the background, iOS closes the local database. The app did not notice and kept failing until you restarted it.
- A performance could show an absurd remaining time because the source supplied the wrong end date. Those errors are now corrected.
- The app could get stuck on the loading screen at startup. That can no longer
happen: the loading screen always clears, and if startup really does fail you
get an explanation and can send a diagnostic report right away.
- An artist appearing only in a collaboration showed "no times yet" even
though they were on the line-up.
- Leaving the map could produce an error message. The map pans along when it
follows your position, and that movement kept running after the map had already
been torn down.
more Version 1.6.4 Aug 31
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