What is a concert tracker app?

A concert tracker is a gig diary with dates, venues, and usually stats — not a ticket shop. Here is what good ones log, and how Radar fits.

What is a concert tracker app? — Radar gig diary
Explainer: What is a concert tracker app?

Tracker means diary, not radar gun

What is a concert tracker app? — Radar explainer screen
What is a concert tracker app? in the Radar app.

In live music, a concert tracker is an app that records shows you attend: artist, venue, date, sometimes setlist, photos, and friends. It is closer to a journal than to flight tracking.

Ticket marketplaces sometimes borrow the word. If you cannot log 2017, it is not a tracker. It is a store.

The fields that matter

The fields that matter in Radar — What is a concert tracker app?
The fields that matter in Radar.

Minimum viable tracker: artist, venue, date. Useful tracker: rating, notes, setlist, who you went with. Radar is in the second camp, with UK Find so new nights enter quickly.

Stats and Wrapped are outputs. If the inputs are wrong, the year-in-review is fan fiction.

Pick the job

Want onsale pings? Use an alert app. Want a Letterboxd for nights out? Use a gig diary. Radar is the diary, with enough Find to live in the UK without five tabs.

Start free, log the last show you went to, and see if you open it after the next one. That is the only test that matters.

FAQ

Common questions

What does a concert tracker app do?
It logs concerts you have been to (and often upcoming ones) with venue and date, then shows history and stats. Radar also searches UK listings and adds friends and setlists.
Is a gig diary the same as a concert tracker?
Yes — those terms are used interchangeably. Both mean a personal record of live shows, not a streaming scrobbler.

Start your gig diary

Free on iPhone and Android. Log your first ten gigs, then upgrade to Pro for unlimited history, the map, and Wrapped.

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