The Official Glastonbury Festival App 2025 Shortlisted for “Standout App” at the UK Digital Excellence Awards

How the Official Glastonbury Festival App, built by 3 Sided Cube in partnership with Glastonbury Festival, Vodafone and Fuse, helped more than 250,000 fans plan their line-ups, navigate Worthy Farm and reconnect with friends across the festival weekend.

TL;DR

The Official Glastonbury Festival App 2025, built by 3 Sided Cube in partnership with Glastonbury Festival, Vodafone and Fuse, has been shortlisted for “Standout App” at the UK Digital Excellence Awards. With more than 250,000 downloads and over 450,000 hours spent in the app, it helped festival-goers plan their line-ups, navigate Worthy Farm and find their friends without missing the magic on stage.

About 3 Sided Cube

3 Sided Cube is a UK-based digital product agency specialising in building “tech for good”. The team partners with organisations that want to create meaningful positive impact through digital products, including charities, global brands and purpose-led businesses.

Over the past decade, 3 Sided Cube has developed apps and digital platforms used by millions of people worldwide. Their work has supported organisations such as the American Red Cross, WWF and Surfers Against Sewage, helping them mobilise communities, raise awareness and deliver services at scale through technology.

The Glastonbury Festival App is another example of this approach in action: using thoughtful digital design to make large real-world experiences easier and more accessible for people.

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Meet the Glastonbury Festival App: Your Digital Guide to Worthy Farm

Every year, Worthy Farm transforms into a temporary city.

Glastonbury Festival spans around 900 acres, hosts more than 3,000 performances across 100+ stages, and welcomes hundreds of thousands of music fans from around the world. Incredible? Absolutely. Easy to navigate? Not always.

That’s where the Official Glastonbury Festival App comes in.

Built by 3 Sided Cube alongside Glastonbury Festival, Vodafone and Fuse, the app was designed to help people experience the festival with less stress and more spontaneity. Instead of spending the weekend searching for information, fans could quickly find the answers they needed and get back to the music.

Think of it as a festival sidekick that quietly works in the background while the real show happens on stage.

Fields to Finalists: Glastonbury Festival App Is Award-Shortlisted

The “Standout App” award at the UK Digital Excellence Awards recognises digital products that deliver meaningful impact for real users – and your friendly neighbourhood Cubes have been shortlisted.

The Glastonbury Festival App 2025 stood out because it focused on something simple but powerful: making the festival experience easier.

Rather than packing the app with unnecessary complexity, the goal was to deliver fast, dependable tools that solved real problems for festival-goers. Whether that meant finding a stage, meeting friends, or discovering a new artist, the app provided quick answers without interrupting the moment.

It’s a small shift in philosophy that made a big difference. Instead of pulling people into their phones, the technology stepped back so the festival itself could stay front and centre.

Less Wandering, More Dancing: How the Glastonbury Festival App Helps Fans

At a festival as big as Glastonbury, the simplest questions can become surprisingly difficult to answer.

Where is the stage I’m heading to?
Who’s playing next?
Where are my friends?
Where can I get food without queueing for half an hour?

The Glastonbury Festival App was designed to answer those questions instantly.

With personalised schedules, real-time maps and friend-finding tools, the app helped festival-goers move around Worthy Farm with confidence.

Personalised festival line-ups

One of the most popular features of the app was the ability to build a personalised Glastonbury schedule.

Users could favourite artists and stages, creating their own customised festival line-up. The app would highlight timing clashes and help fans plan their weekend around the performances they didn’t want to miss.

Even better, line-ups could be shared with friends and automatically synced. If someone added a new artist or adjusted their schedule, everyone in the group saw the update instantly.

During the festival, more than 198,000 personalised line-ups were created.

No More “WYA?” Texts: Live Location Sharing

Meeting friends at festivals is a bit like trying to find someone in a small city with one intermittent bar of signal.

The live location sharing feature helped solve that problem.

Festival-goers could temporarily share their location with friends for one, three or twenty-four hours, meaning fewer frantic messages and far less wandering around trying to locate people.

More than 67,000 live location shares helped fans reconnect across Worthy Farm.

The Interactive Glastonbury Festival Map

When you’re navigating a 900-acre festival site, a good map becomes essential.

The Glastonbury app featured a live interactive map that allowed users to search for stages, food stalls, bars, toilets, accessibility points and other facilities across the site.

Users could also drop custom map pins to mark things like their tent location or favourite food spots.

Across the festival weekend, the map feature powered more than 3.8 million searches.

No Signal? No Problem: Offline Mode for the Glastonbury Festival App

Connectivity at large outdoor events can be unpredictable.

That’s why the Glastonbury Festival App was built with offline functionality at its core.

Even when signal dropped, users could still access essential information like maps, schedules and their personalised line-ups.

250,000 Downloads Later: The Impact

The numbers behind the app reveal just how widely it was used during the festival.

More than 250,000 people downloaded the app, with users collectively spending over 450,000 hours inside it across the event.

During that time:

198,000 personalised line-ups were created
115,000 friends connected through the app
67,000 live location shares helped people find each other
3.8 million map searches guided people around the festival
16,000 “Your Glastonbury Highlights” memories were generated

These figures show that the app wasn’t simply downloaded and forgotten. It became a practical part of how many people experienced the festival.

The Social Impact: Billions of Steps for Good

One feature that made the 2025 app particularly special was the festival-wide step challenge.

Delivered in partnership with Vodafone, the challenge tracked how much movement happened across Worthy Farm during the festival weekend.

The result was remarkable. Festival-goers collectively recorded more than 3 billion steps.

Those steps contributed to Vodafone’s everyone.connected initiative, which supports digital inclusion across the UK by helping people access connectivity, devices and digital skills.

What This Nomination Means to Us

Being shortlisted for “Standout App” at the UK Digital Excellence Awards is something the whole team at 3 Sided Cube is incredibly proud of.

Our goal with the Glastonbury Festival App was simple: build technology that helps people get more out of the festival without getting in the way of the experience itself.

Seeing the app used by hundreds of thousands of festival-goers across the weekend was hugely rewarding for our team, and the nomination is a great recognition of the collaboration between Glastonbury Festival, Vodafone, Fuse and the Cubes who worked on the project.

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