Edfringe

Edfringe is built for following a live festival programme, and that means quick browsing, show listings, and the kind of on-the-go planning people do when there are too many things happening at once. By our assessment, it is good at one hard job: turning a sprawling arts event into something a person can actually navigate without carrying a paper schedule. The trade-off is the usual one for event apps, because its value is tied to the festival calendar and the usefulness fades when the event is over. In practice it asks for attention before and during the outing, not after. It sits above generic entertainment apps and below a full ticketing or venue platform, since its world is the festival itself. Edfringe is most helpful when the user wants the programme, not a broader entertainment library.