Getting around the app
The app was rebuilt around a floating interface: the bars no longer paint a solid block across the screen, each control sits on its own translucent island and the content scrolls underneath. This page is the map — what is on screen, and what each control does.
First launch
The opening animation
On a cold start the Sway logotype draws itself on a dark background and dissolves into the app. It plays once per app start, not on every screen, while the app loads underneath.
The six introduction screens
Right after you sign up, six screens introduce the app using real events, artists and venues from your country — not illustrations. A progress bar, a back button and Skip sit at the top of every one of them.
| # | Screen | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your nights, in one place | Shows the events, artists and organisers near you. |
| 2 | Your mood | Pick the genres and artists you dance to. Selecting at least one genre or one artist unlocks the next step — and it really follows them, so your feed is shaped from the first launch. |
| 3 | Never miss a set | Previews the live timetables, stage by stage. |
| 4 | Go out together | Previews communities, group chats, the group calendar and the split bill. |
| 5 | Stay in the loop | Offers to turn notifications on. |
| 6 | What's on around you | Offers to allow location, so the map can centre on you. |
The bottom bar
The bar floats above the content: a stadium-shaped glass pill holds three destinations, and Search sits in its own round bubble to the right of it.
| Position | Tab | What it opens |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Explore | The feed — For You and Discover. |
| 2 | Tickets | Your wallet: Upcoming and Past tickets. |
| 3 | Chat | Your conversations and group chats. |
| Bubble | Search | Events, artists, genres, promoters, venues and users. |
Two shortcuts worth knowing:
- Tapping the tab you are already on takes you back to that tab's first screen. On Explore it also glides the feed back to the top.
- Opening Search puts the cursor in the field and raises the keyboard, every time.
When you are offline, a strip says so just above the bar. When something is playing, the audio player sits there too.
The Explore header
Explore's top bar carries five controls, left to right:
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| City pill (the title) | Shows the city the feed is filtered to, with its flag, or Worldwide. Tap it to pick another city. |
| + | Opens the Create page sheet — venue, promoter, artist or event. |
| ♥ | Your saved events (Interested), as a vertical agenda. |
| 🔔 | Your notifications. |
| Avatar | Your profile. This is where the old "Me" tab went. |
Signed out, the +, ♥ and 🔔 open the sign-up sheet instead, and the avatar slot opens Settings.
Below the header, two tabs switch the feed between For You and Discover. The tab strip folds away as you scroll down and comes back when you scroll up.
Your profile, and Settings
- On Explore, tap the avatar at the top right → your profile opens.
- On your profile, tap the gear icon → Settings.
Settings is grouped into three blocks:
Account : Manage Entities · Your calendar · Notification Preferences · Privacy · Follow requests · Blocked Users · Scanner
Preferences : Language · Theme (light, dark or system) · Haptics
Support : About · Feedback / Roadmap
The row at the top of Settings is your account profile — tap Edit your account profile to change your username, e-mail, bio, avatar or password. See Edit Your Profile.
A Help button sits in the Settings app bar, and a floating + at the bottom right of Settings opens the same Create page sheet as Explore's.
Creating a page
There are two ways into the Create page sheet, and both open the same thing:
- Explore → the + in the top bar.
- Settings → the floating + at the bottom right.
The sheet lists four rows, in this order:
- Create Venue
- Create Promoter
- Create Artist
- Create Event
Full guides: Create.
Editing a page
The pencil that used to sit in the top-right corner of a page is gone. On any artist, promoter, venue or event page:
- Tap the ⋯ menu in the top bar.
- Choose Edit.
The menu also carries Report a mistake, which everyone sees. Edit only appears if you have edit rights on that page.
Full guides: Edit.
On an entity page
Artist, promoter, venue, genre and event pages all share the same frame: a floating back button, the page title, a share button and the ⋯ menu. Underneath, the content loads section by section from the top down, each section holding its own place while it loads so the page does not jump under your thumb.
An event page splits into up to four tabs — Overview, Timetable, Gallery and Community. Timetable and Gallery only appear when the event has one.
Community holds the event's topics. The organizers' messages carry the promoter's name and photo with an Organizer badge; one message can be pinned above a topic, some topics are read-only, and a removed message reads Message removed by the organizer. The event's team runs all of it from the web app, see Community Chat.
On Overview only, a bar sits at the bottom:
- Buy tickets on the left. Once sales are over it stays in place, greyed out and locked, and reads Sales closed. See Tickets.
- Your held-ticket count on the right. It is always there — signed in or not, Sway ticketing or not, zero or not — and it opens your wallet.
On a multi-day event, marking yourself as going asks which days you are coming.
Buying a ticket marks you going on its own — a sale, a free RSVP or a guestlist invitation. You never press the button twice, and the festival days you picked by hand stay as you set them. If you bought without an account, creating one later with the same email address catches you up on every event you already hold a ticket for.