How to Use Gigvault

Gigvault turns the concerts you've already been to into a record you can actually read: every show, every setlist, every festival set, with the stats that fall out of it. Most people are set up in under five minutes. Here is the whole path, from the first entry to the parts regular users get the most out of.

Step 1: Create Your Account

Sign up for free at gigvault.app/signup. No credit card required, and nothing about your history sits behind a paywall — logging shows is free forever, without ads.

One account covers everything. The iOS app, the Android app and the web version share the same data, so you can log a show on your phone in the queue and look at your stats on a laptop the next morning.

Step 2: Add Your First Concert

Search for a show you've attended, tap "I was there," and it's added to your diary. Add photos, ratings, and notes.

There are three faster routes for a night you don't want to type out. Upload a photo of the ticket and the details are read off it — artist, venue, date. Import your history from a setlist.fm profile in one step. Or upload a CSV or Excel file if you have kept your own list somewhere.

Support acts count. When a concert has an opener, it becomes its own entry in your artist history — the band you had never heard of before that night shows up in your top artists later, which is usually the first surprise people get from their stats.

Step 3: Build Your History

Keep logging shows. Backfill past concerts from your memory, photos, or ticket stubs. The more you add, the richer your stats become.

Old shows are worth the effort. You can log a concert from any year, even if all you remember is the band and roughly when — venue and setlist details fill in from the database where they exist. Concerts from decades ago count toward your totals exactly like last week's.

Festivals work band by band. Pick the edition, tick the sets you actually caught, and each one counts as its own show. A three-day festival where you saw fourteen bands is fourteen logged concerts, not one — which is the single biggest difference between your Gigvault numbers and any list you have kept by hand.

Step 4: Get Your Wrapped

Your Concert Wrapped generates automatically. View your yearly stats and share them with friends.

Unlike a streaming recap, it doesn't wait for December. Wrapped updates after every show and reflects real attendance: total concerts, most-seen artists, cities and venues, hours spent watching live music, your longest run of months with at least one gig. Everything is shareable as an image, and everything is exportable — it is your record.

Step 5: Connect with Friends

Find friends on gigvault, see what shows they attend, and plan concerts together with Concert Groups.

Connections are mutual: both sides agree, and that's it. There are no followers, no algorithmic feed and no public profile unless you switch one on. What you get instead is the thing that's actually useful — seeing at a glance which concerts you and someone else were both at, and being able to write to them about it.

Concert Groups handle the practical side of going together. Create a group for a trip, add what it costs — tickets, hotel, fuel, food — and the split per person is worked out for you, so nobody has to chase anybody afterwards.

Discover what's coming up

Explore is where the next show comes from: search by artist, city or venue, browse festival line-ups, and get recommendations based on the bands already in your history rather than on what happens to be promoted. Upcoming concerts you're interested in go on your wishlist and sit alongside the ones you've already logged.

Points and status

Activity earns points, and points move you through four levels: Newcomer (0–249), Fan (250–999), Hardcore Fan (1,000–2,499) and Legend (2,500+).

The awards are straightforward: your first ever concert is worth 25 points, each concert logged by hand 10, each imported concert 2, completing your profile 5, uploading a photo to a show 5, writing a review 5, inviting a friend 30 per referral, and upgrading to Pro 50.

Free vs Pro

Gigvault is free for core features: unlimited concert logging, your diary, stats, Concert Wrapped and the social side, with no advertising. Pro ($2.99/month) adds unlimited photo and video uploads, AI Music Identity, shared concert groups and advanced stats. Photographer Pro ($4.99/month) is built for people who shoot shows — high-resolution uploads, larger galleries and a photo credit on every concert page you contribute to. See the full comparison.

Your history is never locked. If you stop paying, you keep every show, every photo and every note.

Tips from people who use it daily

Log the show the same night — the details you'll want later are the ones you forget by the weekend. Rate as you go, because a rating is only useful next to other ratings. Add one photo per show rather than twenty; the diary reads better and you'll actually look at it. And when you're at a festival, tick the sets during the day instead of reconstructing them on the train home.

Privacy is per item, not per account: photos are private by default and you choose the visibility of each upload, your profile and your diary separately.

Start with the last show you went to. Create your free account →