Festival guide

Plan your festival lineup

Forty acts, six stages, one weekend — and the headliner you came for is on at the same time as the act a mate keeps raving about. A festival lineup is a planning problem disguised as a poster. Here is how to turn it into a plan you can actually follow.

See the whole thing, one day at a time

Open the Lineup tab and you get the festival as a timetable grid: stages run across as columns, time runs down the side, and every set sits where it actually falls. Tap the day pills — Friday, Saturday — to move between days. If the day is happening right now, a lime NOW line cuts across the grid so you always know what is on. Headliners are marked with a ★ so the big moments are easy to spot.

Build your lineup: pick your sets

This is the part that matters. Tap any set to open it, then hit “☆ Add to my picks.” That set turns solid lime and stays highlighted across every day and stage — so your personal schedule is always one glance away, buried in among everything else. Changed your mind? Open it again and tap “★ In my picks · tap to remove.” Picks save instantly and sync to your other devices.

There is no separate “planner” to maintain — your picks are the plan. Add sets as you hear about them in the run-up, and by the gate you have a lineup that is just yours.

Spot your clashes before they happen

Pick two sets that overlap and Flock marks the overlapping minutes with an orange ⚠ CLASH band, right on the grid. No nasty surprise at the stage — you can see the conflict while you still have options. Catch the first half of one and the back half of the other, sacrifice the support act for the headliner, or just accept the clash with your eyes open.

See what your crew is going to

Tap the Crew toggle and the grid switches lenses. Now every set shows how many of your flock have picked it — a count, a row of avatars, and a glow on the sets your crew is piling into. Tap any set to see the full split: who is GOING and who is NOT GOING. It is how you rally everyone to the same headliner, find the act half the group is secretly excited about, and avoid the “where is everyone?” scramble before it starts.

Never miss a set you cared enough to pick

For every set in your picks, Flock sends a starting-soon nudge about 15 minutes before — artist, stage and time — so you can wrap up the food queue and walk over. Don’t want them? Lineup reminders are a single switch in Settings.

Getting started

The lineup lives inside your flock. Join (or start) a flock that is set to a festival and its lineup appears automatically — picks, crew and all. Once you’ve sorted what you’re seeing, the other half of a good festival is not losing the people you came with: here’s how to find your friends in the crowd when signal gives up.