Tucson Festival of Books

This app has undergone noticeable improvements in the last few years: it is now functional, lacks glitches and lag, and has all the features one needs to ride the hype before the Festival.

App won’t let you add events to your calendar. Keeps telling me it’s because I haven’t given the app permission. Okay, but there’s no way to do that.

You can no longer sort authors by genre. Also I cannot find the daily schedule. I mean, maybe there’s a way to do it? But it’s no longer intuitive. This version of the app is trash.

Very disorganized app. Difficult to navigate.

Going just by this app, you would not even know that some of the events require ticketing.

Used to be a pretty good app. I mean, sure, it crashed a lot, but it was really useful. It let you compile a schedule of events for the weekend, categorized by author or genre. But then they chose to upgrade in he name of “improvement”. The problem was the update took away the only thing that was any good about it in the first place. With each year’s update it fails to bring back the one thing I truly want in it: the ability to make a convenient and searchable timeline of where and when the panels and signings are that I want to attend. I’ve gone back to paper and pen, which sadly is an upgrade over this frustrating app.

A map is there, you can find any location when picked from the list, but you can't find what's near. Dumb.

I have used this app in the past years to keep track of which events I am interested in seeing so I know where to go next. Suddenly the newest update no longer has a personal calendar? I can no longer flag what I might want to see and pull up my personalized list? That was the most important part of this app. I hope you will be adding that capability back into this new version!

I have been attending the festival Since 2009 and was excited to use the first app when it became available. I am sorry to say that each iteration has been a step backward in it's ability to make the festival available to the user. This year's app (2016) is almost useless in this respect unless you are interested in only one category of books. Two changes would dramatically impact the usefulness of the app: (1) the ability to view in landscape, as phones are much larger now, and (2) provision of a simple grid showing each day of the festival with the ability to touch a lecture to view detailed information.

Before this app was buggy, now it works well. I went down the author/venue lists and added events I was interested in. Then could easily see what was in each time slot and where the venues were for my final pick. Because the info was on my iPhone, I did not need internet access during the Festival. Now that the Festival is over, I still have the author info on my iPhone for reference.