ACL Music Festival Reviews

by App_reviewer_jdog

I was excited to download ACLMusicFestival for the 2021 festival. My hope was that, given the giant lineup, i could indicate which artists I was interested in seeing, then view a personalized schedule of the dates/times for ONLY those artists. This is really important for a festival because sometimes you have to make tough decisions about which artists to see, so having a view of where there are conflicts in your schedule is very helpful. Unfortunately, ACLMusicFestival does not have this feature. When you select your favorites, it just puts them in a list which is useless.

Also, it doesn’t seem like they’ve added photos for any of the artists so the main “lineup” tab is just a list of artists names’ with ACLMusicFestival ’s stock image repeated over and over. That is a small way that the developer could’ve added some polish. Overall, ACLMusicFestival feels half baked and does not do what I need.

by Random17388

It’s a shame that in a city as techy as Austin, ACLMusicFestival is so terrible. It’s useful before the festival starts but during, its as good as a print out schedule and map. It only sends push notifications to promote its sponsors. My suggestions for improvement: ability to only show the schedule for the days you’re going, ability to only show the schedule for the day, send you push notifications when an artist you hearted is 10 minutes to start and the stage, and tell you where specific restaurants are located on the map. I hated having to scroll past past dates every time I had to look at the day’s schedule.

by Jatxthatsaustintexas

My 16yo ACL Fest attendee cannot set up ACLMusicFestival. We downloaded it onto their phone and installed it, but during set up it gets hung up on settings, and they can never get past that to use ACLMusicFestival . Is it an age thing, since app is 17+? I think a 16yo should be able use ACLMusicFestival!

by Some Dude G

There’s no band info or song clips. What is the point? What can you use this for? A written list would be more useful, which is just sad. I hope ACL didn’t pay for ACLMusicFestival.

by Jenjencat

Hasn’t been updated with current schedule. Looks to be a week old. What’s the point?

by Little-King

When entering either the 'Eats' or 'Art Market' tabs, ACLMusicFestival encourages you to view the websites or offerings of the vendors selling goods there. Watch out if you do though, because there is no way to back out of the various tab and look at another's vendor's goods. You can go to a different tab all together, but when returning to the Art Market tab you will still be stuck on that one vendor's page. A similar thing happens with the 'Eats' where it loads the actual homepage of the ACL site into the tab with no way out.
ACLMusicFestival was rushed and was not properly tested. These are HUGE QA mistakes and App Design 101. Grade school app.

by Shootmene1

basically useless. $0 from the ACL revenue went into developing ACLMusicFestival

by Miss Charlie

App doesn’t work when there’s no service.

by Sean.bond

I've used ACLMusicFestival the past several years with a very positive experience. Good luck trying to use it now for the upcoming show.... You might think this is helpful for navigating the schedule, selecting the bands you wish to see (via MyFest), etc., but the first screen you'll see upon opening ACLMusicFestival is either Notifications or Social. But where's the schedule?!? Ok dive into the Social section... Hmmm, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter... I detect that you want to hook into my social network more than you want me to see the schedule.. Keep navigating down the Social page... About ACLMusicFestival... Oh! There it is: a submenu called ACL Festival!! Yay! Now we're talking. But.... Still no schedule.... Keep searching... There's another menu button.... Tickets, 2015 passes, 2015 VIP & Platinum, 2015 Travel Packages... Hey! I found a subsubsubmenu for the lineup! Yay! I'm finally able to see the stages and the bands and the times for each day..... BUT... MyFest won't keep you signed in, so you can't start building your schedule. What a waste. I'm sure this will get fixed, but come on: the first weekend is less than 4-weeks away. This isn't rocket science, people. Therefore, I give this 1 star. They ought to be better prepared to serve the building excitement of ACL Festival. Grrrrrr

by Thegouge

I was excited to use ACLMusicFestival BUT while i was setting up, opting in and out of notifications and such, it forces you to click “Allow” when asked to be tracked. Like it has to know where i am during the festival in order for me to use?? No thanks! I will do without ACLMusicFestival .

by Fs1034

What's the point of setting up a schedule with all your favorites online when it's not even connected with the favorites in ACLMusicFestival ? This is a feature I seem to recall existed last year, so I have no idea why it's not there now.

As that's pretty much the main reason I'd use ACLMusicFestival , I'll stick with one star till that's fixed.

Also pretty much every other issue pointed out by reviewers - like why not have a place to view and organize your schedule day by day, based on what bands overlap, where they are, etc? Make this useful to everyone who'd use it, and everyone will want to use it! (and then your big AT&T ad won't be useless)

by Lil_Peezy

They’re trying to do too much. The swipe interface on the schedule is terribly sensitive. I keep swiping to other days when I’m trying to swipe to later in the day (stop trying to make swipe happen). The fonts in the schedule are small and difficult to see. In some cases, some bands’ names don’t even appear in the schedule because their set is too short, and their name can’t be displayed. This is a really poorly executed version.

by ThisGuyIsShane

The new version of ACLMusicFestival has made the most basic things so much more complicated. There is no obvious way to logon to sync your schedule between the website. Just focus on the most basic things that people actually going to the festival want to use...schedule and band details.

For example, I just want to see a listing of bands by time to plan my schedule, but instead I have to search by stage. That's dumb.

I also don't want to see advertisements for AT&T constantly...especially since AT&T service is so horrible at the actual festival.

by Festivalbestie

It's great to have an app that can keep you on track with the schedule. All in all, that's pretty much just what it is: a schedule with a 2D map. The maps are not interactive enough however. Also there isn't much info available about each artist & what genre to expect. ACL prides itself at introducing you to lesser known artists but ACLMusicFestival doesn't engage you in that experience with added convenience. It would be great if you didn't have to play a trivia game to win stuff. What about an app where you can check in & win VIP tickets or something?

by Mandy3980

ACLMusicFestival is helpful before for planning you schedule before the festival and helps during the festival. Only issues I had aren't actually with ACLMusicFestival so much as the lack of good internet service at the festival. There's so many people at the festival your service suffers because of it. So things take longer which starts to run your battery down quickly. Having a dead cell phone at the end of ACL is not a comforting feeling. If you go to ACL I would download it if you haven't already. It's worth it.

by Shelley Ledford

ACLMusicFestival is pretty good for the lazy professional folks. I found the links to utube useful and I love that when you listen to an artist you can put in notes as to what you liked etc plus you can star the artist and it puts it on your schedule:). It is just exciting to be going to ACL and ACLMusicFestival makes you think about a lot of the great things that ACL offers. So instead of working on that report when you are off work-check out ACLMusicFestival!

by Elijah A. Thomas

Not only does ACLMusicFestival give you a simple, and concise way of planning your own personal schedule of artists you'd like to see, but it also shows you some awesome artists you might've overlooked.
A very easy to use app, with a lot of helpful tips, as well as information about the festival.
It has artist information, previews of songs, info about the food vendors, as well as the stages the artists will play on.
I'm beyond excited for Weekend 2!!

by Hur?

Year after year (since the application approach started), the Austin City Limits app has been organized and reliable. No complaints there.

However, this year's lineup is absolute garbage and I am selling my ticket. I never care for the headliners, and this year is no different, but I usually attend solely because the lineup is salvageable by the lower-tier bands. This year not even this is the case. With the exception of about 3, this lineup is by far the worst I've ever encountered, and this year will be the first in 9 years that I will not be attending.

C3, focus on quality, not quantity. We don't want this "ACL" edgy young spacebar music crowd ruining another great thing. Bring the old Austin City Limits back.

by Fun_flirty

10/10 very lovely

by Marebear1979

Loved ACLMusicFestival . Used it ALOT! Found it helpful but it truly needs "transportation" on how to get there. Theres alot of ways down there and getting bk but i would get a bit confused. Also on sundays apparently buses stop running, or thats what i was told. Just think thats all ACLMusicFestival needs. I will still use it regardless but that would be added bonus :)