SXSW® GO - 2025 Event Guide

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I attend SXSW every year as a badge holder. The local free paper is called the Austin Chronicle and every year for decades now they release the schedule by date and organized by venue. Last year on the app or the website there was no way to see the lineup in the classic format. I hit up support and they agreed this is odd. Well. Another year and the schedule is a mess of everything. Big plus on filtering by country of origin tho! I want the dev team to understand that geography is important in planning the experience. Grab a Chronicle.

This app is trash and you always ignore the feedback, but it was at least somewhat manageable. If I’ve favorited a band, then any added showcases should show up for that band in my schedule. Instead I have to find out the shows been added and then go locate the artist, find the new show, and manually add it. You removed the ability to reach a venue through an artists show time that allowed you to see who else was also playing there. Please just bring this back. You took it out and put in a “get directions” button. Just add them both please you’re making it harder every year to see the music and talks we want to see. It honestly blows my mind that a festival based on technology can’t seem to hire a company or a set of professionals to build a functional app. But don’t worry everyone - the new paramount adds work every time!

Scheduled Gap Recommendations work really well. Great feature.

Should be an idea moving forward. The suggestions versus opening to your personal schedule is irritating. I’d rather see my favorites and SXSW recommendations. It does serve lots of value and integration with face recognition to open app would save time.

App hasn’t really changed in years and crashes a lot. Over 100,000 people at the conference, need a better infrastructure if you’re directing people to the app for things.

I’ve attended a couple of informative sessions but generally less impressed with SXSW then I expected, as a first timer. The popular sessions were impossible to get into, even for a platinum badge holder, or required waiting for a very long time. And even then, the presentations often did not correspond to the published descriptions. So far I would say it’s not worth the money.

slow and not sync with website.

This app is epic — once you know how to use it. Would be helpful to have a little starter video or something to swipe through so newbies can get acclimated and organized. Also, it’d be great to have it set to open to the last screen viewed rather than resetting and starting over every time.

Please let me see the last thing I was looking at