SXSW® GO - 2026 Event Guide

The app design is cool but crashes every 10-15 minutes of use. Should have a function to save filtered choices for future use as well. Please fix for next year.

Good app, very effective for navigating the festival. Incredibly tiny text with zero ability to accommodate accessibility needs.

This app could be so much better if they just add the ability to go add to calendar. It's super hard to actually schedule anything while navigating the conference. They also could just stop showing the events that have already passed

As stated, the app crashes every couple of minutes. It’s a pain to make a schedule on or look through events when you’re losing your place every two minutes. Maps are also useless, too many overlays. It would be more useful to redirect to Google Maps. Updated: Day 3, 2026. App crashes every 20 seconds and trying to remove anything from your schedule just reappears. Trying to stay organized during a chaotic sxsw is impossible with this app. For a tech driven conference, you expect much better.

No matter how many different ways I favorite, an artist through the app or the website or how many events I already favorite, if you add another one, you don’t automatically get it added to your schedule. Come on this has to be the absolute easiest thing for y’all to fix it. It’s been like seven years now.

Every year it glitches. A lot. Based on the badge prices and the majority of workers being volunteers, they need to do better.

No way to register for a new event and cancel another in a single transaction (aka swap) without risking losing the original only to find out the new event is full. Lacking basic functionality.

App was completely useless during the early platinum reservation window. I couldn’t make a single reservation and they never fixed the issue. Now all cool events are fully booked and SXSW hasn’t offered any resolution or compensation for this major issue.

The display is bad in iPads and the organization is not intuitive. You should be able to search by venue. The SXX passes aren’t easy to find.

Will try to list everything briefly... Unintuitive/repetitious menu structure, poor use of screen space for a small screen, red-yellow-green indicator doesn't work, constantly logs you out, search/filter function is terrible, constantly have to re-navigate to where you were before, doesn't retain changes or save events, I couldn't get contacts to work, lots of useless/superfluous data and lack of essential info. I missed a few events because of this app. Would give zero stars but it did sometimes display what I needed. This could have been such a useful resource.

App crashes constantly, ruining your experience and making you miss opportunities to attend events.

The app logs you out randomly (don’t forget your pwrd), and there are way too many ads. Aren’t we already being inundated just by being at SXSW?

Constantly logs me out, constantly lags and excessive adds. Would never ever use this!

App is very glitchy. Missed out on events because app glitched. Does not provide clear indication when you press button and select an event. Multiple times had spinner that slowed down selection and caused me to miss events. Filtering does not always work. Sometimes shows nothing when trying to filter even though events have been saved. This is for a premier tech event. You can do better.

The app doesn’t show stuff properly. The search doesn’t work many times. And the search nearby didn’t work and now it’s stuck in “link badge”. Had to go back to the old days of going to the website schedule and make a list by writing down where what is playing.

it crashes if open for too long, like while looking at the schedule. i cant even make it through a whole day of events without it crashing and closing. it also doesn't load quickly, even on wifi so i've resorted to just screenshotting events because i know itll either crash or not load.

It is shocking that a conference such as sxsw can have such a terrible and unreliable app such as this.

I’ve been starting my planning for this this year South by Southwest. But the schedule feature keeps force quitting on me in the middle of my research. it makes it quite difficult to look through the schedule. Look someone up online come back into the app and then continue if the schedule quits every time I look. I’m having is with the search in general. For example I was looking up Passion Pit as they were announced today to be performing. The results had anything that contains the word passion not passion pit. I know we’re still a week out and so things will still continue to change and

When you check on an item in the schedule and then go back to the schedule it goes to the beginning rather than the item you were looking at. This makes looking for additional items tedious.

There doesn’t seem to be any way to log into the app. How do I connect it with my ticket?

I attend SXSW every year as a badge holder. The local free paper is called the Austin Chronicle and every year for decades now they release the schedule by date and organized by venue. Last year on the app or the website there was no way to see the lineup in the classic format. I hit up support and they agreed this is odd. Well. Another year and the schedule is a mess of everything. Big plus on filtering by country of origin tho! I want the dev team to understand that geography is important in planning the experience. Grab a Chronicle.

Scheduled Gap Recommendations work really well. Great feature.

Should be an idea moving forward. The suggestions versus opening to your personal schedule is irritating. I’d rather see my favorites and SXSW recommendations. It does serve lots of value and integration with face recognition to open app would save time.

App hasn’t really changed in years and crashes a lot. Over 100,000 people at the conference, need a better infrastructure if you’re directing people to the app for things.

I’ve attended a couple of informative sessions but generally less impressed with SXSW then I expected, as a first timer. The popular sessions were impossible to get into, even for a platinum badge holder, or required waiting for a very long time. And even then, the presentations often did not correspond to the published descriptions. So far I would say it’s not worth the money.

slow and not sync with website.

This app is epic — once you know how to use it. Would be helpful to have a little starter video or something to swipe through so newbies can get acclimated and organized. Also, it’d be great to have it set to open to the last screen viewed rather than resetting and starting over every time.

Please let me see the last thing I was looking at

Seamless and easy to navigate ✨

All the information is here, but Search is missing some very obvious filters. I can’t look up musical acts by genre. I can’t filter results down to the ones available for the pass I bought. It’s very hard to narrow the hundreds of options down to plan my week. Also, there are workers scanning people’s badges and wristbands when we enter the venues. But every show is showing green (low capacity) … they’re collecting the attendance data but the app isn’t using it. It’s basically a decent app, I can work with it, but it’s inconvenient in some pretty obvious ways.