# Giga — A fairer music industry

> A fairer music industry (iPhone/iPad app by giga app limited.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/giga/id6793790873 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [giga app limited](https://appshunter.io/developer/6793790875)
- Category: Music, Social Networking
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 23 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-07
- Data updated: 2026-09-09
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/giga/id6793790873/reviews.md

## What is Giga?

GIGA is a digital matchmaking and discovery platform engineered to democratize and revitalize the UK’s grassroots live music economy.
The traditional live music booking ecosystem is highly fragmented, relying heavily on manual networking, social media follower metrics, and third-party booking intermediaries. This creates significant administrative friction, restricts market access for diverse emerging talent, and increases operational costs for independent entertainment venues.
GIGA solves this industry challenge by introducing a merit-based marketplace that connects musical artists, live music venues, and event promoters based on genuine genre compatibility and geographic radius settings. To foster a safe, fair, and highly accountable industry ecosystem, platform visibility is driven entirely by a peer-to-peer review system rather than paid advertisements or artificial profile boosts.
By removing traditional booking bottlenecks, GIGA serves as a vital infrastructure utility that provides struggling grassroots venues with direct access to a rotating pipeline of high-quality, affordable talent. The platform streamlines event organization, protects local hospitality revenues, and levels the playing field to ensure that artistic talent and professional conduct dictate commercial success in the live music industry.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.1.0 — 2026-08-29

This build includes the no-auto-logout change, event applicants accept/decline, notification routing, and the shared-event signup fix.

### 1.0.9 — 2026-08-27

What's in this build: light/dark mode across all skins, event photo upload + repositioning, shareable event links with sign-up-to-apply flow, connections filtering and broadcast messaging, event group chats, email notification preferences, and the notification/RLS fixes.

### 1.0.8 — 2026-08-26

Swipe to like or pass on venues and events — just drag the card left or right
Fixed an issue where the upcoming events count was inflated (each booking was being counted separately)
Tapping a report notification now opens the correct profile instead of your own
Discovery cards are now a uniform size regardless of bio length
Only the heart you tapped now shows a loading animation (not every card)
Removed unexpected calendar locations that appeared from stale cached data
General stability improvements and bug fixes

### 1.0.5. — 2026-08-20

What's New

• Swipe to match on venues and events — drag cards left to pass or right to connect, just like profiles
• Smoother scrolling: swipe gestures no longer conflict with vertical scrolling
• Fixed chat bubbles cutting off long links and messages — everything wraps properly now
• More reliable messaging: conversations auto-retry on flaky connections instead of showing errors
• Fixed menus shifting when dragging on the profile edit screen
• Performance and stability improvements

### 1.0.2. — 2026-08-13

What's New

• Swipe to match on venues and events — drag cards left to pass or right to apply, just like profiles
• Smoother scrolling: swipes no longer conflict with vertical scrolling
• Fixed menus shifting when dragging on the profile edit screen
• Performance and stability improvements

## Related topics

[giga](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/giga) · [gigmor](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/gigmor)

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