5 Apps To Help You Survive Festival Season

Building up to your festival trip, you’ll need a checklist of essentials. Clothes, food, tent, apps? Here’s a list of free apps you should download to help you survive your next weekender!

Accuweather – Free – iOS and Android
This free weather app is essential to your weekend. Accuweather provides crucial information that everyone needs so they can avoid being wet and cold from the rain all day. The app’s key feature is a timer that tells you how long it’ll rain for, which is perfect to help you find cover if you have a large gap between acts! Accuweather will also send notification alerts to your phone if a change in weather is scheduled.

Maps.me – Free – iOS, Android, Amazon Fire and Blackberry
Nothing is worse than using a route planner and walk into a dead spot, losing 3G and losing track of where you are. With maps.me, as well as planning your route from point A to B, the app still works offline! The app shows locations that other travel apps don’t, so you wont find yourself at a destination that completely mismatches the details you type in. If you’ve lost your friends at the end of the night after having a few drinks, maps.me will take you back to your campsite quickly and safely.

clashfinder.com
Although this technically isn’t an app, Clashfinder is the perfect necessity to help plan your weekend. After typing in your selected festival, it provides a day-to-day layout of the festival’s schedule, showing which act is playing where. Click away at all the acts you want to see most with colour number one, select artists that you’re not as desperate to see for number two then so on and so forth. At the end of the process, a fabulously colour coded guide will help you select the perfect plan for your weekend!

Shazam – Free – iOS and Android
If you’ve tagged along with some friends to see a band that you’ve never listened to before and suddenly fall in love with a song, make a brief recording with this app and you’ll be given an instant download link of the track. With a vast library of genres and discographies, it’s almost impossible to miss that new favourite song. You can also make your own library on the app, creating playlists which you can share with everyone at the end of the night.

First Aid by British Cross – Free – iOS and Android
At larger festivals, there’s always going to be at least one casualty. Whether it’s someone passing out after having a few too many drinks or more extreme cases, someone should be on hand to help. This app gives life-saving instructions that are crucial in these situations. You can be taught how to put someone in the recovery position, safely practice CPR as well as controlling more serious injuries that would require medical attention. Consider this app as your portable first aid booklet!