The Event Compass crest, a compass rose in maroon and gold ringed by the words Event Compass
Offline-first event companions

For the places your
phone gives up on.

Festival grounds in the woods. A stadium concourse on game day. Move-in weekend with forty thousand phones on one tower. Event Compass builds companion apps that assume the network is gone. Every map, schedule, and list lives on your device and keeps working at zero bars.

First release

Event Compass: Realm

A patron's companion for Renaissance faires. Hand-drawn village maps with every shoppe and stage pinned, the day's show schedule with reminders that fire without signal, and a pouch for keeping track of the wares you mean to return for. Every chart is built to the best of our ability from the information each faire makes available. The maps are in beta, and we'll keep improving them through 2027.

On the drafting table

Event Compass: Campus

The same compass, pointed at college campuses: building-by-building maps for campus visits, move-in day, orientation week, and game days. Those are the four days a year when the campus network is at its worst and you need it most.

Charting in progress

Why we build offline-first

Most event apps are websites in a trench coat. They look great on your couch and go blank at the front gate. We build the other way around.

The map is on the device

Our maps are original illustrated artwork with every location pinned to the pixel, not map tiles streamed from a server. If your phone can show a photo, it can show your map.

Everything is cached first

Schedules and vendor directories sync to a local database when you have signal, and read from it when you don't. The app never makes you wait on a spinner at the front gate.

Your lists never leave

Your saved wares and reminders are stored only on your phone. There is nothing to sign up for and no account to create, and nothing is sold through the app but the app's own season pass, which is not a faire ticket or admission of any kind: every faire purchase happens at the faire.

Where we are today

Over 10 faires already charted

Original maps, real schedules, real booths, from Texas to New York, and more faires are coming quickly. See the full list on the Realm page.

Nearly 600 faires in the directory

A nationwide picker map of US Renaissance faires with dates, locations, and websites. Tap "notify me" on yours and we'll chart the ones people ask for.

Campus is on the drafting table

Campus is the next chart we draw. Join the waitlist if you want it for your school.