I built an app.

I realize it has narrow appeal. But I built it mostly for me — and it turns out other people want it too.

The Back Story

Whenever I have a concert coming up, I do the same thing: I go to setlist.fm, look at what the band has been playing recently, and manually build a playlist in Apple Music with the songs I’m likely to hear live.

I like to be familiar with what a band is going to play before I go. Deep cuts, new material, whatever they’ve been rotating in — I want to know it. The ritual of building that playlist is part of the anticipation. But it’s also tedious. Copying song titles one by one, searching for each track, hoping the versions match up.

I’ve wanted an app that does this for years. So I finally wrote one.

SetListr

SetListr pulls from setlist.fm and connects to Apple Music. The core idea is simple: see what a band plays, listen to it.

Here’s what it does:

Search any artist or venue. Browse their complete concert history — every show, every setlist, organized by tour and date.

Browse full setlists. See every song performed at a specific show, broken down by set. See what they opened with, what they encored, what they played in the middle.

Create Apple Music playlists with one tap. Found a setlist you want to listen to? Tap once and it becomes a playlist in your library. No more copying titles one at a time.

Prep for upcoming shows. This is the feature I built the whole app around. SetListr looks at an artist’s recent setlists and generates a “concert prep” playlist — the songs you’re most likely to hear live, based on what they’ve actually been playing.

Track your concert history. Mark shows you’ve attended. Build your personal concert log.

Share setlists. Generate shareable setlist images for social media or group chats.

Why I Built It

I go to a lot of concerts. The prep ritual — researching setlists, building playlists — is something I genuinely enjoy. But the workflow was always clunky. Open setlist.fm in a browser. Open Apple Music. Copy. Search. Add. Repeat. For a 20-song setlist, that’s 20 rounds of context switching.

SetListr collapses that into a single tap.

It also scratches the “what are they playing these days?” itch. When a tour gets announced, the first thing I want to know is: what’s the setlist looking like? SetListr makes that a quick check instead of a browsing session.

Try It

If this sounds like something you’d use, SetListr is in beta on TestFlight. You can sign up at setlistr.app.

It currently requires an Apple Music subscription. If you’re a Spotify user and interested, let me know — Spotify support is on the roadmap, but all my beta testers so far have been Apple Music users, so that’s where I’ve focused first.

I’d love feedback from other concert-goers. What works, what doesn’t, what features would make your concert prep better.

Are you the type who preps for concerts, or do you prefer to be surprised? Either way, I’d love to hear from you.