For Festival Organisers

Festival management software your crowd actually uses

Better for your crowd. Better for your team.

Most festival management tools stop at the production office. Setline runs on the phones in the crowd: publish your lineup once and every attendee gets a personal schedule, live changes, and your announcements the moment you send them. Free to start.

List your festival for free See Pro pricing

Already on Setline? Claim your festival and the listing is yours in about two minutes.

Free
to list your festival
5 min
setup through our portal
iOS + Android
reach every attendee
Getting Started

List your festival in minutes

No complicated onboarding. Tell us the basics and we do the heavy lifting.

1

Tell us about your festival

Use the form below. Festival name, dates, location and a link to your lineup is plenty.

2

We set it up

We import your lineup, set times and stages.

3

You're live and in control

Update set times, stages and messages any time in the portal.

Built for your crowd

Every attendee gets their own timetable

Attendees build their day from your lineup. They spot clashes early, pick favourites, and arrive at every stage on time, so your crowds move smoothly and you fill every tent.

  • Automatic clash detection
  • List view & full multi-stage grid
  • Updates sync instantly to every phone
  • Works offline, even with zero bars
Saturday
List Grid
Main
Park
Tent
6pm
Peggy Gou
7pm
Jamie xx
Fred again..
8pm
Four Tet
1 clash detected: Jamie xx vs Fred again.. at 7pm

Friend coordination

Friends compare schedules, spot overlapping sets, and find each other on site. Groups that stay together stay longer.

Live Activities

What's playing now and up next on every lock screen and Dynamic Island, no unlocking required.

Shared to every story

Attendees export beautiful schedule images to group chats and socials. Every share is your brand and your lineup.

Discovery & music matching

Attendees preview artists from your lineup and find their next favourite act before gates open.

Changes reach every phone

The moment a set moves, every schedule is already correct and affected attendees are notified automatically.

Every attendee, every ability

VoiceOver, TalkBack, Dynamic Type and Reduce Motion supported out of the box, so your lineup reaches everyone.

Setline Pro

Go further with Pro

Unlock the features that help you run a safer, smarter, more insight-driven festival. One flat price, half off your first festival.

Safety & welfare messaging

Push safety alerts, weather warnings and welfare info to every attendee. Every message is logged with an audit trail for your insurer and licensing team.

Push announcements

Set times shift, headliners change, gates open early. Tell your whole festival instantly, straight to the phone in their hand.

Interactive site map

Send us the map you already produce and it becomes a searchable, locate-me-aware guide with friend finder built in.

Audience analytics

See which artists pull attention, where clashes hurt your schedule, and how interest shifts once set times go live.

Post-festival surveys

Capture sentiment while it's fresh. NPS, stage-by-stage ratings and open feedback in one report for next year's planning.

On-brand images & shares

Customise your artist images and the schedule shares attendees post, so everything your crowd sees and shares is on brand for your festival.

Free for every festival

Showcase your lineup on your own website

Drop one line of code on your site and your live lineup and set times show up in your colours, and stay in sync as you update them in Setline. When the timetable lands, the grid appears on your site too. No Pro plan, no cost. Every festival on Setline gets it.

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Pricing

Pricing that pays for itself

Free to list. One flat price for Pro. No per-attendee fees, no lock-in.

Setline Free
$0 every festival

Everything your attendees need, free forever.

  • Full attendee app on iOS & Android
  • Lineup, set times & personal schedules
  • Live schedule updates, no reprints
  • Friend coordination & schedule sharing
  • Organiser portal for updates
  • Works offline, even with zero bars
List your festival
Setline Pro
$1,000 your first festival

50% off your first festival, then $2,000 per festival.

  • Everything in Free
  • Safety & welfare messaging with audit trail
  • Push announcements to your whole crowd
  • Interactive site map with friend finder
  • Audience analytics & clash analysis
  • Post-festival surveys
  • On-brand artist images & shares
Get Pro for your festival

Prices in USD. Australian festivals are billed in AUD, plus GST. UK and EU festivals are billed in USD. One festival means one edition of your event. Running multiple events or over 30,000 capacity? Talk to us about tailored tiers.

The maths

Pro usually costs less than your print run

Printed programmes cost thousands before gates open, then cost again every time set times move. Setline replaces the handout with a live schedule on every phone, so Pro tends to pay for itself before you've used a single Pro feature.

  • Fewer questions at the info point
  • An auditable safety channel your insurer will like
  • Fuller tents from clash-aware scheduling
  • A greener story for your sponsors
Your print spend $5,000
Setline Pro, first festival $1,000
That's $4,000 ahead before you've used a single Pro feature.

Example numbers. Put in your own.

Compare

More features, less cost

See how Setline stacks up against typical festival app competitors. Start free, upgrade only when you want to.

Feature Setline Free
Setline Pro
$1,000 first festival
 Competitors
Festival listing & setup ✓ ✓ $$$
Attendee app: schedules, friends, sharing, discovery ✓ ✓ $$$
Live schedule updates (replaces print) ✓ ✓ $$$
Organiser portal for updates ✓ ✓ $$$$
Safety & welfare messaging ✕ ✓ $$$$
Push announcements to attendees ✕ ✓ $$$$
Interactive site map (search, locate-me, friend finder) ✕ ✓ $$$$
Audience analytics & clash analysis ✕ ✓ ✕
Post-festival surveys ✕ ✓ $$$$

Weighing up a fully bespoke app instead? Read our honest take on custom app costs.

FAQ

Common questions

Setline tracks hundreds of festivals and tens of thousands of artists worldwide, and publishes the data openly. Organisers get the same engine pointed at their own event.

Does it cost anything to list my festival?
No. Listing on Setline is completely free. Pro features (safety messaging, direct communication, interactive site maps, audience analytics and post-festival surveys) are $2,000 per festival, with 50% off your first festival.
What does Setline Pro cost?
$2,000 per festival, and your first festival is half price at $1,000. Prices are in USD; Australian festivals are billed in AUD plus GST, and UK and EU festivals are billed in USD. Listing stays free either way.
How does the 50% discount work?
Your first festival with Pro is half price: $1,000 instead of $2,000. It applies once, no code needed. After that, Pro is $2,000 per festival.
What counts as one festival?
One edition of your event: one festival, one set of dates. If you run several events or a multi-city series, talk to us about tailored tiers.
Can we start free and upgrade later?
Yes. Most festivals list free first, then add Pro when they want safety messaging, announcements, the live map or analytics. Upgrading takes effect straight away and your listing is never interrupted.
Do my attendees have to pay to use Setline?
No. All the festival planning features are completely free for attendees: building schedules, set-time reminders, finding friends, exploring the lineup, the lot. We offer an optional Setline VIP subscription for attendees who want extra customisation and styles, which helps us keep Pro affordable for festivals.
How does the safety messaging work?
You send a message from the organiser portal and it lands as a push notification on every attendee's phone in seconds. You can target by stage, area or time of day, and every message is logged with a full audit trail, useful evidence for your insurer, licensing team and event safety plan.
Can Setline really replace printed set-time handouts?
Yes, and it's better for you and the attendee. The in-app schedule updates live, so the moment a set moves, every phone already has the correct version. No more wasted reprints, no more out-of-date paper circulating on site, and a cleaner sustainability story. Many organisers drastically cut print volume, going from handouts at the gate to a small stack available on request at the info tent.
Does Setline work with poor signal or no reception on site?
Yes. Setline is built offline first. Once an attendee has opened your festival, the lineup, set times, personal schedules and site info are stored on their phone and keep working with zero bars. Live changes and push announcements do need a connection to arrive, and they sync the moment a phone finds signal again, so an update sent from the portal reaches your crowd as they reconnect.
What information do you need from us?
At a minimum: festival name, dates, venue, and a link to your lineup or set times. Stage maps and extra details help. We can import most public lineup pages automatically.
Can we update set times after listing?
Yes, at any time. Log in to the portal or let us know and we'll push it. Attendees whose scheduled sets have moved get notified automatically.
Can you make our existing site map interactive?
Yes. Send us the map you already produce in PNG, PDF or vector form. We overlay search, category filters, locate-me and friend finder so attendees stop squinting at folded printouts and find what they need in two taps. You keep your design language, the app does the heavy lifting. Last-minute changes (closed gates, new food trucks, weather-driven re-routes) can be pinned on the live map in seconds.
What platforms is Setline available on?
Both iOS and Android. Your festival is accessible to every attendee, on every phone.
Can we brand the experience?
With Pro you can customise your artist images and social shares to be on brand for your festival.
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