Betterfest

Betterfest is for going to a festival with your friends.

The lineup, the map and your group's chat are on your phone before you
arrive, and they keep working when the network does not — which, in a
field with forty thousand other people, is most of the weekend.

RATE THE LINEUP BEFORE YOU GO
Go through the bill and mark what you want to see. Your group's ratings
sit beside yours on the schedule, so you can see at a glance where
everyone is heading, which sets are worth splitting up for, and which
clash nobody has noticed yet. Write notes on an artist while you still
remember why you cared.

FIND EACH OTHER
The festival map works with no signal at all. Drop a pin where you
parked, where you're meeting, or which food truck was actually good,
and share it with the group — it turns up in the chat as a card that
opens the map.

CHAT THAT WAITS
A message sent with no bars sits in a queue and goes the moment you
have one. Every message shows when it was sent, not when it finally
arrived, so you can tell the difference between being ignored and
being in a dead zone since four o'clock.

WHEN THERE IS NO SIGNAL AT ALL
At festivals where it is switched on, phones running Betterfest pass
messages to each other directly over Bluetooth, hop by hop, so a
message can cross the site without a tower involved. It needs other
people with the app in range, and the app tells you when it is on.
Messages to your group are sealed, so the phones carrying them along
cannot read them; the festival-wide room is public either way.

DON'T MISS THE SET
A reminder ten minutes before a set you marked, on time rather than
whenever the phone feels like it.

YOUR FESTIVAL PASSPORT
Every set you've seen, festival by festival, year after year.

HOW IT WORKS
Join a festival, then start a group or join one with a six-character
code someone reads out. Everything you do is yours until you share it
with a group. If your festival isn't listed yet, you can ask for it in
the app.

Betterfest doesn't sell tickets, doesn't stream music, and isn't an
official app of any festival. There are no ads.