The last festival app you need.
Enhance your festival experience with Mela. Plan your lineup, engage with your community, discover new events, and share your memories.
Curate your perfect day
Mela's features allow you to seamlessly build your own schedule, compare with your friends, and receive alerts ahead of time, all without WiFi. No more sifting through hundreds of group chat messages sent trying to align schedules, simply friend them on Mela and everyone's schedules are at your fingertips.
Your festival community
See everyone's festival activities, all in one place. From upcoming festivals to day-of schedules to post-event recaps, Mela has it all. Festivals are better when everyone's on the same page (literally).
Discover upcoming festivals, all in one place
Browse hundreds of festivals. Filter by location, music genre, dates, and find the perfect one for you. Gone are the days of asking that one friend or discovering festivals randomly on Instagram. Get recommended festivals and events based on artists you follow and have gone to in the past.
Keep every set, forever
Build your personal festival archive and share with your friends. Scroll back through and remember exactly who you went with and how that sunrise set felt.
Why people switch to Mela
No service at Outside Lands and my schedule still worked all weekend.
Sam R.
@sammy_noservice
My next set shows up right on my lock screen. I don't even have to dig through an app.
Alex M.
@alex_festarchive
Set times dropped and they were in Mela before the festival's own app had them.
Maya K.
@maya_sidestage
My friends' schedules sit right next to mine, so we always know where most people want to go.
Jordan T.
@jordy.camp
I shared my schedule and we planned the whole weekend in ten minutes.
Carlos S.
@lostatmainstage
I can scroll back through every festival and every set I've seen. It's my festival diary.
River P.
@ravecave_river
ManifestoWhy we built Mela
Can you remember the first time you went to a festival?
We can. It was a magical experience, in every sense of the word. As a kid you go to concerts, shows, parties, but experiencing a festival is a wholly different experience. The music, the people, the energy, the moment when your favorite artist drops that track and thousands of strangers become your best friends. Maybe like you, we were hooked from the first beat drop.
Unfortunately, as stories so often go, the magic fades with the logistics. Festivals start to feel overwhelming. Set time conflicts strike seemingly out of nowhere, your favorite artist moved stages and nobody told you. You're frantically screenshotting Instagram posts, juggling five different apps, losing your friends in the crowd, and missing moments trying to figure out where to be next.
While the newcomers around you marvel at the magic of live music, you're scrambling through a dozen apps and screenshots to make sure you don't miss that one set you've been waiting all year for.
We're festival nerds at heart. We built Mela so that we, and all the festival-goers around the world, could fall in love with the experience all over again. So we could have smoother festivals where everything we need is in one place, our crew is always connected, and the music is never interrupted by app-switching chaos.
We obsess over the little things: real-time set time updates, perfectly synced schedules with your crew, and quality design that gets out of your way (we want you dancing, not staring at your phone).
We'll worry about the details. You just have an unforgettable festival.
Founder, Mela
Mela is built by Mela Labs LLC, an independent team in San Francisco. It's free for festival-goers; festivals partner with us to reach their fans.