All Points East

All Points East is the app people reach for when they need the festival’s own music information in one place. By our assessment, its real strength is convenience around a single event: line-ups, practical details, and the kind of day-by-day information a festival app is supposed to hold. The trade-off is that it has no reason to be broader than the event itself, so outside that context it offers little. In practice these apps are useful but temporary, checked a lot before and during the festival and then mostly left alone. All Points East sits in the middle ground between a ticketing helper and a music guide, not as a replacement for a general music app. It is for people attending that event or keeping track of it, and not for someone looking for ongoing music content. The app is only as good as the event it serves.