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UK Festival Survivor

Everything you need before the signal dies.

  • Released
  • Mobile app
  • Festival & Travel
  • Works offline

An offline-first camping survival companion for major UK festivals: packing lists, prep guides, tent and car finders, and a legal-safe personal map.

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UK Festival Survivor home screen showing a grid of festival cards — Download, Reading, Leeds, Boomtown, Boardmasters, Bloodstock, Creamfields and Isle of Wight — each marked with its dates or a status such as Just Finished
Pick a festival. Each card shows its dates, or whether it has just finished.

Worth knowing

YahHeard is independent and not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any festival or festival organiser. Festival names are used to identify the events the guides describe.

Screenshots

Captured from the debug build running on an Android 14 emulator.

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  • Pick a festival. Each card shows its dates, or whether it has just finished.
  • A festival pack: every tool for one event in one place, rearranged with a long press.
  • The packing list, grouped by what you need and ticked off as you go.
  • Your own schedule: add acts and times, always checked against the official line-up.
  • Emergency Help keeps your details and saved locations on the phone, and works offline.

What Festival is

UK Festival Survivor is built for the moment your battery is at 40%, the field has no signal and it has started raining. Eight bundled festival packs — Download, Reading, Leeds, Boomtown, Boardmasters, Bloodstock, Creamfields and Isle of Wight — carry verified arrival roadmaps, campsite advice, weather survival and per-festival prep, all fully offline. Save a GPS pin for your tent or car and navigate back with an offline compass arrow. Build packing lists with modes for mud, heatwaves, low budgets and first-timers. No accounts, no tracking, no adverts — ever, enforced by a build guard that fails the build if an advertising SDK so much as appears.

What it does

  • Eight complete offline festival packs with verified, source-linked facts
  • Tent Finder and Car Finder with an offline GPS compass
  • Smart packing lists with rain, heatwave, budget and first-timer modes
  • Per-festival prep checklists and a travel-roadmap countdown
  • Legal-safe personal map with 22 pin types
  • Emergency information card: contacts, allergies and medication notes
  • Battery Saver (Ration Mode) and an Ultra Low Battery mode for day three
  • Update Centre for refreshing festival packs before you travel
  • Paid app: no adverts, no accounts, no tracking — enforced at build time

Plan like a veteran, even on your first time

Every festival has its folklore — the mud at Download, the ferry maths for Isle of Wight, the Thursday-night arrival trick. UK Festival Survivor bakes that knowledge into checkable, offline guides that work in the middle of a field.

Built for the field, not the marketing page

Everything important works with zero signal and a failing battery.

Offline packs

Guides, maps and checklists live on the device before you leave home.

Find your tent

One GPS pin and a landmark photo; an offline compass does the rest.

Packing modes

Mud, heat, low-budget, minimal-carry, family and first-timer variants.

No dark patterns

Paid once; the build itself rejects advertising SDKs.

Open a festival pack

Interactive demo — no install needed.

Explore a real bundled pack the way the app presents it, including Battery Saver.

Getting Festival

UK Festival Survivor 1.0.0 is finished and feature-complete, targeting Android 8.0 and newer. There is no store listing yet, so there is no download button here — one will appear by itself the moment a real link exists. This site never publishes a placeholder download.

At a glance

Status
Released
Version
1.0.0
Runs on
Android (Android 8.0+)
Offline use
Works offline
Package
com.ukfestivalsurvivor.app
Last updated

Privacy

Your location pins, lists and plans stay on the device. The only network feature is refreshing festival packs — there are no accounts, no analytics and a build-enforced ban on advertising SDKs.

Full privacy information for Festival →

Permissions

Location
Saves your tent or car position and points the offline compass back to it. GPS works with zero signal; positions stay on the device.
Internet
Used by the Update Centre to refresh festival packs before you travel. The festival guides themselves work fully offline.
Notifications
Optional prep reminders in the countdown to your festival.

Support

Questions, bugs or ideas for Festival?

Festival support →

Technical details

Built with

  • Kotlin
  • Jetpack Compose
  • Room
  • DataStore
  • WorkManager
  • OkHttp
  • kotlinx.serialization
  • Coroutines

How it is put together

  • Eight festival packs ship inside the APK as structured data, so the app is useful with no signal at all.
  • A build guard fails the build outright if any advertising SDK or the AD_ID permission is introduced.
  • Tent and car locations are stored locally and surfaced through an offline compass.

Development workflow

Built through Claude Code.

Timeline

  1. Version 1.0.0

    Feature-complete paid build with eight bundled festival packs.

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