Comparison

Swift Alert vs BoomSched

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

Head to head
About

Swift Alert

Stay updated with all things related to a popular artist's tour and music. Get news, concert dates, real-time alerts for livestreams, track surprise songs, and test your knowledge with trivia.

Highlights
  • Fan newsfeed
  • Concert dates
  • Real-time livestream alerts
  • Surprise Song Tracker
  • Trivia quizzes
Features
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The ultimate app for Swifties! Swift Alert will keep you connected to the shows and the music with a newsfeed of key fan accounts, concert dates in your time zone, and real-time alerts so you can check out livestreams. The Surprise Song Tracker will ensure you always know the latest surprise songs, and trivia quizzes will give you a chance to test your knowledge and show off your Swiftie status to your friends. Swift Alert is THE go-to source for Swifties! Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

BoomSched

Features
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BoomSched is the unofficial crew companion for UK festivals. Star the sets you want, swap a QR code with your mates, and everything folds into one timeline: what you're all doing together, who's wandering off, and exactly where the crew is about to lose each other. TWO FESTIVALS, ONE APP • Boomtown Chapter Five: Radical Redesign — Matterley Estate, 12–16 August 2026. The full released timetable: 1,750 sets across 70 venues and all five days. • Reading Festival 2026 — Little John's Farm, 28–30 August. Main Stage, The Chevron, Festival Republic and Radio 1 Dance, with the Alternative and Aux stages listed as announced but not yet timetabled. • Switch festivals from the Lineup tab. Each one keeps its own stars, ratings, crews and day plans — nothing merges, nothing is lost, and a festival that's been and gone stays in the app as a souvenir. BUILT FOR A FIELD WITH NO SIGNAL A festival is the worst possible network environment, so the whole crew feature works with no account, no sign-up and no connection. Your picks ride inside a QR code or share link, and your mate's phone merges them locally. Nothing to go down at the worst moment. HONEST ABOUT THE TIMETABLE • Boomtown is the released timetable exactly as published — the headline stages, every district venue and soundsystem, and the talks, workshops and circus programming • Reading's set times are provisional, assembled from the announced line-up; the official stage times land in the app as soon as the festival publishes them • Where a finish time isn't published it's inferred and labelled "possible", never asserted • Venues a festival has announced but not timetabled are named as exactly that, rather than padded out with invented slots • Filter by day and stage, search by artist, stage or genre • Around 570 Boomtown artist bios ship inside the app and read offline; where a festival hasn't published a bio for an act, the app shows the set without inventing one YOUR SCHEDULE • Star sets, then rate them: could see, might see, must see • Clash detection between your picks — including "possible" clashes where a finish time is estimated • The gaps between sets, so you know when you can eat YOUR CREW • Together: what you're all doing — unanimous picks first • Everything: the full merged timeline, with who's going to each set • Splits: where the crew gets separated — overlapping sets, different stages, different people • Day plan: each morning, huddle round one phone, walk the day's picks, settle each split (everyone one way, split up, or first half of one set then the second half of the other), add the stops the lineup doesn't know about, and lock it in. The plan travels to every phone, and the newest lock-in wins. SHARING, YOUR WAY - A QR code across a table in a field - A link over any messaging app - A crew code — say "BOOM-4KX9" out loud and a mate at home can join from the website too - Crews belong to one festival, so a code only ever merges into the schedule it was made for - When there's signal, crews stay in sync automatically; when there isn't, the QR rails carry everything Your data stays yours: no account, no sign-up, and nothing leaves your phone unless you share a code or join a crew. BoomSched is a fan-made app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Boomtown Fair Ltd, Festival Republic Ltd or any other festival or organiser whose programme it lists. Set times and artist bios come from each festival's own public listings — Boomtown's as mirrored by the community Clashfinder, Reading's from its announced line-up until official times are published.

Screenshots

Swift Alert4 screens
BoomSched4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BoomSched at none against Swift Alert's 10. On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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. Swift Alert sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. BoomSched asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Swift Alert ships an update every 10 days, BoomSched every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Swift Alert versus BoomSched: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSwift AlertBoomSched
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (40K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings40K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size118 MB49 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSwift Alert LLCXFour

Bugs and requests

Swift Alert

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Mastermind scores not tracking correctly
  • Trivia questions not loading properly
  • Calendar events not clearing after shows

Requested features

4 requests
  • More interactive features (outfit history, song rankings, etc.)
  • Ability to edit Mastermind submissions
  • Merch/announcement notifications
  • Syncing progress across devices

BoomSched

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Swift Alert

Subscriptions8
  • Swift Alert Games Subscription$0.991 Month
  • Swift Alert Games Subscription$1.991 Month
  • Swift Alert Games Subscription$2.991 Month
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  • Swift Alert Games Subscription$3.991 Month
  • Swift Alert Games Subscription$9.991 Year
  • Swift Alert Games Subscription$12.991 Year
  • Swift Alert Games Subscription$14.991 Year
  • Swift Alert Games Subscription$17.991 Year
One-time2
  • Become a Swiftie$0.99
  • Become a Swiftie$1.99
None

BoomSched

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Swift Alert free?
Swift Alert is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BoomSched free?
BoomSched is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Swift Alert or BoomSched have ads?
Neither Swift Alert nor BoomSched shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Swift Alert or BoomSched?
Swift Alert ships an update every 10 days, and BoomSched every 9 days. Most recently, Swift Alert was updated on November 11, 2026 and BoomSched on November 6, 2026.

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