The concert tracker app for every gig you've been to

If you're comparing apps to track concerts, the first question is simple: what does it actually save? A list of band names and dates is a start, but it won't tell you much in ten years. These are the details worth keeping for every show, and all of them have a place in StubStash.

• Headliner and support acts. Openers are often the bands you end up loving. A good log keeps the whole bill, not just the name on the poster.
• Tour title. Seeing a band on an album tour and seeing them on an anniversary run are different nights. The tour name tells them apart.
• Venue and date. The two facts that anchor a memory, and the ones that let you group your gigs later.
• Ticket price. Interesting now, fascinating later when you look back at what a gig used to cost.
• Your rating. A quick score made on the night is more honest than a memory softened by time.
• Photos and videos. The blurry shot from the pit belongs with the gig it came from, not loose in your gallery.
• The setlist. StubStash saves a direct Setlist.fm link on each concert, so the songs they played are one tap away.

As an example, a StubStash entry might read: Milk Teeth, Go Away Tour, The Deaf Institute (Music Hall), Manchester, 19 March 2018, with Fang Club and Nervus in support and a £18.00 ticket. That is the level of detail that makes a concert log app worth using.

Most of us already have scraps of our concert history scattered about. The trouble is that none of it was designed to be a record.

The camera roll

Gig photos sit between screenshots, receipts and holiday snaps. They carry a date, but not the band, the venue or who was in support. Change phones a couple of times and plenty of them quietly go missing.

Old ticket emails

Confirmation emails from ticket sellers show what you bought, not what you went to. They don't include the support acts or the setlist, and they're spread across different sellers and sometimes different email accounts.

Your memory

After a few dozen gigs the details blur. Was that the night at Albert Hall or Gorilla? Did you see them twice or three times? A dedicated place to track concerts you've been to answers those questions without the guesswork.

If you want help rebuilding the gigs you've already been to, our guide on how to remember every concert covers where to dig up the details.

The core concert tracker is free. If you want to see patterns in your gig-going, StubStash Pro is an optional in-app upgrade that turns your log into visual charts, shows your average ticket price and your most-seen artists, and brings back old shows with an "On This Day" feed. It also removes ads. Find out more on the concert stats page.

Prefer to think of it as a diary rather than a tracker? Have a look at the gig diary page, or head back to the StubStash homepage for the full tour of the app.