Gigvault vs Radar
Radar and Gigvault are both gig diary apps, and they make different bets. Radar leads with UK discovery on iPhone and Android. Gigvault leads with the diary, runs in the browser as well as on a phone, and never caps how many gigs you log. This page compares them on points you can check yourself — every Radar detail below comes from joinradar.co.uk, read on 9 September 2026.
What Radar is
Radar describes itself as "the free gig diary app and festival tracker for iPhone and Android". It searches UK listings from Ticketmaster, Skiddle and Setlist.fm, lets you tag friends, adds crew chats and DMs, shows the venues you have visited on a 3D globe, and finishes the year with a Wrapped. It is mobile-only — there is no browser version. Features are split between a free tier and Radar Pro, which its own site says "adds unlimited gigs, the venue globe, festivals, and Wrapped".
What Gigvault is
Gigvault is a gig diary first. Logging is unlimited and free: there is no cap on how many gigs you add, ever. It runs in any browser as well as on iOS and Android, so you can write up last night's gig on a laptop without installing anything. Setlists attach automatically from setlist.fm, upcoming shows come from Ticketmaster, and every festival set counts as its own entry rather than one line for a whole weekend. The interface is available in 13 languages.
The difference that decides it: the free tier
Both apps are free to start, but they draw the line in different places. Radar puts the number of gigs behind Pro. Gigvault never limits how many gigs you log; its free plan caps photos at three per gig, and Pro removes that and adds video uploads up to five minutes. If you are backfilling ten years of gigs, that is the difference between finishing and stopping halfway.
Festivals: one entry or fourteen
A weekend at Glastonbury, Download or Bloodstock is not one show. Gigvault holds 663 festival line-ups across 413 festivals, and you tick each band you actually watched — fourteen sets become fourteen entries in your history and your stats. Radar lists festivals under Pro. This is also why a Gigvault year-end count looks higher than a diary that logs a festival as a single line: it is counting what you actually saw.
Side by side
| Gigvault | Radar | |
|---|---|---|
| Free logging | Unlimited gigs | Limited; Pro "adds unlimited gigs" |
| Web app, no download | Yes | No — iOS and Android only |
| Photos on the free plan | Three per gig | Not stated |
| Festival sets counted individually | Yes | Festivals in Pro |
| Setlists | Attached automatically from setlist.fm | Setlist.fm search |
| Year in review | Updates after every show | Wrapped in Pro |
| Discovery sources | Ticketmaster | Ticketmaster, Skiddle, Setlist.fm |
| Languages | 13 | English |
| Ads | None | None |
When Radar is the better fit
If your main need is finding UK gigs to go to, Radar's discovery is broader: it searches Skiddle alongside Ticketmaster in one place, which picks up club nights and smaller promoters that Ticketmaster alone misses. It is also built around the UK market end to end, and if you only ever use your phone, a mobile-only app is not a drawback. Radar's crew chats sit inside the app rather than in a separate messenger.
When Gigvault is the better fit
If you want to record gigs you have already been to — especially a long backlog — unlimited free logging is the deciding feature. The web app matters for the same reason: typing up twenty old gigs is faster on a keyboard. And if you go to festivals, counting each set separately changes what your history actually says about you.
Gigvault is rated 5.0 on the App Store (19 ratings, as of 2026-09-09).
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