Audio September 2026
5 apps for your next concert
A concert starts weeks before the doors open and ends long after the encore. These five cover the whole of it: knowing the artist is coming, knowing the words, holding up something the stage can read, knowing how loud it really is, and keeping a record of the night afterwards.
The apps for your next concert are Bandsintown Concerts, LiveMarquee, Genius: Song Lyrics Finder, NIOSH Sound Level Meter and Concert Archives. I built LiveMarquee; the other 4 are other developers’ apps.
MiaAppLog— an iOS developer who reviews other people’s apps
Published September 2026 · apps and prices last checked 13 October 2026
Bandsintown Concerts
★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Music · App Store 4.7 (61,813)
Follow the artists you listen to and get told when they play near you.
LiveMarquee Editor’s pick
★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · Free · Utilities · App Store 5.0 (8)
Type it and it scrolls across the screen as a bright LED sign, offline.
Genius: Song Lyrics Finder
★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Music · App Store 4.7 (76,440)
Learn the words first: the lyrics, and the story behind each line.
NIOSH Sound Level Meter
★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Utilities · App Store 4.7 (16,841)
Measures how loud it really is in dB(A), with your running noise dose.
Concert Archives
★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Music · App Store 4.8 (978)
Log every concert you've seen, with the setlist, venue and photos.
LiveMarquee is one of mine — everything else on this list is someone else’s app. How that works.
The video version
Questions
What are the apps for your next concert?
The apps for your next concert are Bandsintown Concerts, LiveMarquee, Genius: Song Lyrics Finder, NIOSH Sound Level Meter and Concert Archives. Each one had to do a different job in this particular moment — where two apps work the same way, only one of them makes the list.
Which of these apps is free?
All 5 are free to download on the App Store; some sell extras or a full version inside the app.
Which of these apps did the author build?
LiveMarquee — I built it. The other 4 are other developers’ apps, and none of them knew they were going to be on this list. There are no affiliate links and no paid placements anywhere on the site.