The Best Apps to Rate Concerts and Live Shows (2026)

Album ratings get all the attention. But concerts are music experiences too — often more intense, more immediate, and harder to forget. If you've stood in a crowd and watched a band you love play the exact songs you needed to hear that night, you already know the feeling is worth capturing.

The problem: almost no apps are built to rate concerts alongside albums. Here's a rundown of what exists and what actually works.

Songkick

Songkick is the go-to for tracking upcoming shows and setting artist alerts. It also has a basic "I was there" tracking feature where you can log concerts you've attended. The catalog is extensive — if a show happened, it's probably in Songkick's database.

The catch: Songkick doesn't have a rating system. You can mark that you attended a show, but there's nowhere to record how good it actually was. "Attended" and "life-changing" are treated the same way.

Setlist.fm

Setlist.fm is the definitive archive of concert setlists. If you want to know exactly what songs a band played on a specific night — including the tour they were supporting and the city they were in — Setlist.fm has it. The community maintains an extraordinary level of detail.

The catch: Like Songkick, there's no rating scale. It's a reference database, not a personal rating system. You can add a setlist as "attended," but that's the extent of the personal layer.

Last.fm

Last.fm scrobbles your listening activity from streaming platforms and builds a detailed history of what you play. Some users use this to approximate concert attendance — if you listen to a live recording of a show you attended, it scrobbles. But this is a workaround, not a feature. Last.fm has no concert-specific rating or logging system.

WAVE

WAVE is an album and concert rating app that lets you rate both studio records and live shows on the same 10-point scale. You can search for a tour, find the specific show you attended, and rate it — and that rating lives in your profile alongside your album collection.

This matters because album and concert ratings belong together. The same person who rates records obsessively is usually the same person who tracks every show they attend. WAVE is built on that assumption.

Your concert ratings appear in your friends' feeds alongside their album ratings, which means you can recommend a live show the same way you'd recommend an album. "This band's live set is a 9/10" is exactly the kind of thing worth sharing.

The catch: WAVE is newer and the community is still growing. If your friends aren't on it yet, the social discovery piece is limited — though you can invite them to follow you automatically.

The honest answer

If you want to track setlists in forensic detail, Setlist.fm is unmatched. If you want to track upcoming shows, Songkick. If you want to actually rate concerts alongside albums — treating live shows with the same critical attention you give records — WAVE is currently the only app designed for that.

The best concert is worth a rating. It's how you remember not just that you were there, but how it felt.