The end of a year in the music world usually means fights for the Christmas number one and people posting about their Spotify wrapped on social media, but this year a new app is taking over.
Instafest is an app that creates a festival line-up poster based on your most-listened to artists on Spotify, creating a graphic for an event made for you. They look so good that if you've seen any posted on Twitter or Instagram you might have thought they were for real festivals.
The app was created by Anshay Saboo, a student at the University of Southern California, who has also coded and created a number of other apps that are popular among students across the pond, including Epilog, The Grades App, and UniConnect.
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To get started, you can head over to the Instafest website, and click 'Sign in with Spotify'. That will prompt you to enter your Spotify account username and password, and once you're logged in Instafest will create your own personal festival line-up based on your most listened-to artists.
If you aren't totally happy with the results, there are some edit options. You can set the app to choose your top artists from the last four weeks to highlight all your current favourites, or the last six months if you want to include all your songs of the summer. There's also an option to use your most listened-to artists of all time to give an overview of your whole time on Spotify, and the choice you make impacts how long your dream festival will last.
You can also choose between three different styles if you want to switch up the aesthetic of your festival. The options include LA Twilight, for a late night city festival energy, Malibu Sunrise if you want to imagine you're at the best summer beach party ever, or Mojave Dusk for a desert festival vibe.
The app automatically includes your Spotify username as the name of the festival, but there's an option to hide that if you want to post your line-up on socials without publicising your username.
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