Plan your festival day on a stage-by-hour grid and spot set clashes
This app turns a crowded festival line-up into a day you can actually walk. Instead of juggling a folded paper timetable and a mental list of maybes, you lay every act's set time onto a stage-by-hour grid and see, at a glance, exactly where your choices collide.
Start by naming your stages — as many as the site has, in whatever order makes sense to you. Then set the shape of the day: the gates, the curfew, and the walking time you realistically need to get from one stage to the next. That walking figure matters more than people expect, and once it's in, the planner keeps it in mind for the rest of the day.
Booking an act is a tap. Find the stage, find the hour, tap the cell, and a slide-up detail card asks for the two things worth knowing: how long the set runs, and how badly you want to be there. That must-see priority is what separates the band you'd cross the site for from the one you'd happily catch half of, and it's what makes the hard decisions later much easier to make.
As your grid fills, clashes light up in red. No hunting through columns, no realising at the gate that your two favourite acts share a slot — the overlap simply shows itself the moment you create it, and you can move, shorten or drop a pick until the colour goes away. A live counter keeps a running total of planned music minutes, so you can see whether you've built a comfortable day or an ambitious one.
When the grid looks right, the running order screen prints the whole thing out as a sequence: every act in the order you'll see it, the walk gaps between stages, any clashes you've chosen to live with, and a minute breakdown of where the day actually goes. It reads like a plan rather than a timetable, which is the point — it's your day, in your order, on your stages.
It works just as well for a single-stage gig night as for a multi-stage weekend. Set up the stages you care about, block out the sets, and let the grid handle the arithmetic of overlapping times and the distance between them. By the time you arrive, the deciding is already done.