Comparison

Plan My Fringe vs FringePal

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Plan My Fringe

This app helps you plan your Edinburgh Fringe Festival experience by scheduling shows based on your preferences and ratings. It considers your budget, walking speed, and allows for real-time schedule adjustments. Discover new shows, create optimized routes, and manage your festival itinerary seamlessly.

Highlights
  • Personalized show scheduling
  • AI-powered recommendations
  • Optimized Fringe Trails
  • Budget and walking speed considerations
  • Animated route schedules on Google Maps
  • Search and filter by venue
  • Wishlist management
Features
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This app is designed to maximize your Edinburgh Fringe Experience in the time that you are in Edinburgh. Simply enter the shows you would like to see, and give each one a rating for how much you would like to see it. This app will then schedule as many shows during your visit as it can, ensuring your highest-rated shows are included wherever possible! Your budget, walking speed and other preferences are taken into account during this, and your schedule can be re-calculated at any time if you discover other shows you would also like to see. You can Search for Shows, Browse for them or look for Nearby Shows without registering. But if you want to use the app to its fullest you can Register your basic details. This allows your choices to be remembered, and you can use the www.planmyfringe.co.uk website and this app interchangeably with the same Wishlist, Schedule and Preferences. We have a Recommendations section which will suggest the best shows for you personally using AI, AND a Fringe Trail which allows you to easily create a chain of shows you wish to see following on from one another, minimising walking and waiting time between shows! You can also - view your schedule for each day as an animated route schedule on Google Maps - view nearby shows and make sure they don't interfere with your schedule - add other shows you become aware of to your Wishlist and let these be slotted in - select to ignore certain performances - confirm shows you have booked tickets for, so that the app will not re-calculate these dates - add non-show calendar items for anything else of interest - search or filter by venues to see what else is on at any venue This is an unofficial Edinburgh Fringe application, created by Henson IT Solutions. It uses data provided courtesy of the Edinburgh Festivals Listings API. Although we do our utmost to ensure everything is up-to-date and works smoothly, we cannot accept any liability for any problems caused by use of our services. Have a Good Fringe!

About

FringePal

Features
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100% free. Built for one festival only: the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 6-31 August 2026. All 3,649 shows across 250+ Edinburgh venues, and you have a few days and two feet. FringePal is the fastest way from "what's on?" to a seat. FIND ME A SHOW RIGHT NOW Tell it where you are and what you fancy. It checks every show in the programme and offers only what you can actually walk to in time, with a live countdown to each curtain. Buy on the way there. PLAN MY FRINGE Coming for a weekend or the whole month? Answer a few questions and it builds your days show by show, with the gap between each show shown, so you can see at a glance where you’ve got room to breathe. YOUR SCHEDULE, ALIVE One schedule for everything. Flip shows to Booked, see your day as a timeline, and open the day map to watch your route thread across Edinburgh from where you are standing, with your free time marked between venues. FRINGE PALS Share your plan with one link. Your pals' schedules appear beside yours, day by day. See where everyone is, meet in the gaps, and suggest a show into a slot the whole group has free; everyone taps in or out and it lands on the schedules of whoever said yes. SEEN SOMETHING BRILLIANT? Your seen list keeps your Fringe record, 2026 and every year after. Recommend any show to a friend with one tap. 100% FREE, AND IMPARTIAL Free to download and free to use. Every feature, no paywall, no subscription, no ads, no in-app purchases. No show pays for placement and no venue gets a boost, so what you see is simply the best Fringe we can find you. By David William Bryan.

Screenshots

Plan My Fringe4 screens
FringePal4 screens

Verdict

The call

Plan My Fringe and FringePal are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Plan My Fringe versus FringePal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlan My FringeFringePal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews47.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB17 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperHenson IT Solutions LtdDavid Bryan

In-app purchases

None

Plan My Fringe

No in-app purchases

None

FringePal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Plan My Fringe free?
Plan My Fringe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FringePal free?
FringePal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Plan My Fringe or FringePal have ads?
Neither Plan My Fringe nor FringePal shows ads.

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