Getting Started

Install the Sway app and start discovering events.

Welcome to the Sway mobile application. Follow the steps below to get up and running.

1. Download the App

Sway is available on both major mobile platforms.

iOS – App Store

Download on iPhone (iOS 15+).

Android – Google Play

Download on Android (Android 9+).

2. Create an Account

You can sign up in three ways:

Email & Password

Enter your email address and choose a password.

One tap using your Google account.

One tap using your Apple ID.

3. Set Up Your Account

After signing in, six short screens introduce the app with real events, artists and venues from your country. Every one of them is skippable.

#	Screen	What it asks
1	Your nights, in one place	Nothing — it shows what is on near you.
2	Your mood	Pick the genres and artists you dance to. This shapes your feed from the start.
3	Never miss a set	Nothing — it previews the live timetables.
4	Go out together	Nothing — it previews group chats, the group calendar and the split bill.
5	Stay in the loop	Turn notifications on.
6	What's on around you	Allow location, so the map can centre on you.

Your username comes from the sign-up itself:

Email sign-up: required directly in the registration form.
Google / Apple sign-up: you are prompted to choose one on first launch.

Your profile picture, bio and links can be added at any time: on Explore, tap the avatar at the top right → the gear icon → Edit your account profile.

See Edit Your Profile for the detailed step-by-step guide, and Getting around the app for the full map of the interface.

4. Explore and Follow

Once your account is active:

Browse the Explore tab — For You and Discover — to find upcoming events, popular artists, new venues and promoters. The city pill at the top of Explore filters the feed; tap it to change city or switch to Worldwide.
Tap Follow on any artist, venue or promoter to receive notifications about their activity.
Mark yourself Interested on an event page to save it. The heart in Explore's top bar lists everything you saved.
Your tickets live in the Tickets tab. See Tickets.

If you are a promoter, artist or venue, you can create your own pages directly from the app. Tap the + at the top of Explore — or the floating + at the bottom right of Settings — then choose Create Venue, Create Promoter, Create Artist or Create Event.

See the Create section for detailed step-by-step guides.

Permissions & Roles

When you create an entity (artist, promoter, venue or event), you automatically become its Administrator. You can invite other users to manage the entity with different permission levels:

Role	Can view	Can edit	Can delete	Can manage team
Viewer	✅	❌	❌	❌
Editor	✅	✅	❌	❌
Manager	✅	✅	❌	❌
Admin	✅	✅	✅	✅

A Manager sees the member list but cannot change it — only an Admin adds, promotes or removes a member.

By default, permissions granted on a promoter are copied to the new events created under that promoter afterwards. Any team member you add to a promoter therefore also has access to those events. To turn this off, open the promoter's edit screen → tap the manage-access icon → tap the gear icon, disable “Share Promoter Permissions” and tap Save.

A page always keeps at least one Admin — the last one cannot be demoted or removed.

See Manage Permissions for the full guide on inviting and managing team members.

Web App

What the Sway web app does, how it differs from the mobile application, and a map of every guide in the section.