Edfringe vs FringePal

The official app for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026. Find Fringe shows using search. View show details, maps and venue information. Book and access e-tickets in the app. Be notified when your shows are about to start. ‘Nearby now’ helps you find shows near your location that are starting soon. Use ‘My planner’ to save your favourites and access your tickets. Feeling lucky? Shake your phone for a random show suggestion. Unleash your Fringe!

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.