Gigs Concert Tracker Uses Apple AI to Turn Old Tickets Into a Live Music Archive

Anyone who has spent years going to concerts will probably have evidence of those nights scattered everywhere. Old tickets sit in drawers, booking emails disappear into inboxes and screenshots become buried among thousands of photographs.

Gigs: Concert Tracker, launched in April 2026, is trying to bring those memories together with the help of artificial intelligence. Developed by Modum B.V., the company behind music discovery app NowPlaying, Gigs uses Apple’s Foundation Models to extract concert information from material users already have.

Give Gigs an old ticket and let AI read it

Rather than manually entering every concert, users can import a ticket, email, screenshot or website into Gigs. The app’s AI attempts to identify information including the date, venue, line-up and other event details before creating the concert record.

For someone rebuilding years of live music history, that could remove a considerable amount of repetitive work. A screenshot from an old arena show or a forgotten booking confirmation can become the starting point for an organised entry rather than something left buried on a phone.

Gigs also supports imports from Setlist.fm, while later updates added direct PDF importing. Once an event is saved, users can attach photographs and videos, rate performances and keep their tickets alongside the concert record.

Gigs comes from the team behind NowPlaying

The app is developed by Modum B.V., whose other music products include NowPlaying. Hidde van der Ploeg and Pol Piella are the team behind NowPlaying and are also identified through Gigs’ developer responses on the App Store.

That gives Gigs an existing connection to music-focused apps rather than being an unrelated company suddenly moving into concert tracking.

It is also entering an established area. Apps and services including Songkick and Concert Archives already help people discover or record live shows, while Setlist.fm has become a major resource for tracking past performances and setlists.

Gigs’ distinguishing feature is the way it combines a personal concert diary with Apple’s on-device AI to reduce the work involved in creating that archive.

The AI can work directly on the device

Gigs uses Apple’s Foundation Models framework, which gives developers access to the on-device model that powers Apple Intelligence.

In practical terms, the AI can process supported tasks directly on compatible Apple hardware instead of requiring every request to be sent to an external AI service. For Gigs, that technology is used to understand the information contained in concert material and turn it into structured event details.

There is a hardware requirement. Apple’s Foundation Models depend on Apple Intelligence-compatible devices and software, meaning the AI features will not necessarily work in the same way on older Apple hardware.

Gigs itself is currently available for both iPhone and iPad, with Apple listing iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1 or later among its compatibility requirements.

Your concert history becomes something you can explore

Once shows have been added, Gigs turns the archive into statistics about a user’s live music history. It can show their most-seen artists, favourite venues and cities, first-time and repeat performances, and other patterns across the concerts they have attended.

The app also looks forward as well as backwards. Ticketmaster integration helps enrich event information and surface upcoming shows, while users can keep track of concerts they want to attend.

That creates a different type of music history from the annual listening summaries produced by streaming platforms. Instead of telling someone which artist they played most often through headphones, Gigs can show which artists they actually went out to see.

A practical use of entertainment AI

Much of the conversation around artificial intelligence and music involves much bigger questions about AI-generated songs, synthetic voices and whether technology could replace human creative work. Gigs represents a quieter use of the technology.

The AI is not writing the music or attempting to replace the performer. It is carrying out an organisational task that would otherwise involve somebody manually reading old tickets and typing the information into an app.

That does not mean every import will necessarily be perfect. Incomplete screenshots, unusual ticket designs or incorrect event information could still require users to check and amend a record.

For regular concertgoers, however, that is a fairly straightforward trade-off. The value of the AI is not that it produces something spectacular, but that it can turn years of scattered concert memories into something much easier to keep, search and revisit.

As artificial intelligence becomes more common across entertainment technology, some of its most useful applications may be exactly this kind of background task. For somebody looking at a pile of old concert tickets and wondering when they last saw their favourite band, that could prove far more useful than the technology announcing itself as AI every time it does something.

For more on how artificial intelligence is changing music, film, television and live entertainment, visit the AI & Entertainment hub on SoapLandTV.co.uk.

Sources: Official information from the Apple App Store, Gigs and NowPlaying covering the April 2026 launch period, Modum B.V., Apple Foundation Models, device compatibility, AI importing, Ticketmaster integration and the team behind NowPlaying.