Get ready to celebrate 20 years of Ultra Music Festival! Whether you’re a local or visiting Miami for the festival, here are useful apps to make the most of your experience.
- Ultra WorldWide App
Ultra Music Festival launched the updated version of their app on Monday. It features profiles on all the artist performing this year, a list of prohibited items, a FAQ section, and an interactive passport. The passport section awards you points, based on your attendance to Ultra Music Festival events. You can earn silver, gold or platinum status. Though it’s subject to availability, platinum status can land you access to special viewing platforms for select artist performances. Bonus points can be attained if you attend an Ultra event on a continent outside of your home area.
- Yelp App
Before and after your full days at Ultra, you may want to fuel up on food. Yelp lets you filter by what’s hot and new in Miami, price, delivery, offering a deal or whether the place is open. Whether you want to spend a little or a lot, you can choose to filter places from ($) one dollar sign to (4) four dollar signs. Guess how many dollars sign to eat at Salt Bae’s new place?
- Cash App
Keep your friends! Let’s face it, sometimes your friends want to pick up the first round of drinks. If they keep insisting to pay for your drinks, do them a solid and send them cash via the Cash App. You know, in case they’re the type of friend to keep tabs.
- Uber App
You probably already use this app. Now, Uber is offering an Express POOL option to save you money. It has you walk a little to a meeting point, but offers a more inexpensive fee for pool rides, fewer detours and a more direct route to your destination.
- Pay by Phone App
If you’re getting to the festival by car, make sure to have the PayByPhone app for mobile parking payment. Save time by adding your Vehicle Type, State, License Plate and a card on file for payment. If you’re lucky enough to find metered parking near the Bayfront Park mayhem, you’ll be able to quickly pay for your parking spot on the app and receive notifications to extend your parking time. Own a smart watch? You’ll be able to view notifications with a “flick of da wrist.” If you’re staying on Miami Beach, you’ll need the Park Mobile app to park in that area. Yes, a different app. Miami likes to be extra.
- Google Photos APP
Back up and sync your phone’s photos on the Google Photos app before attending the festival. If you party hard, do this as insurance that you will have your photos in the google cloud. You know… in case you accidentally jump too high on the Swedish House Mafia’s comeback set (not confirmed, just rumors) and your phone happens to fall out of your pocket. Thank us later.
- Sound Hound APP
At the festival, this app will help you identify a song you enjoyed from a set. You may currently have Shazam, but Sound Hound picks up sounds in loud areas. You can sing a song that you don’t know the lyrics to and it will deliver the results. Remember that most artist launch new music at Ultra, don’t expect it to pick up tracks that may not be online yet. It also has an integrated assistant, you can say “Okay Hound, play Let You Down by N.F.” and it will play a snippet of the song for you. If you connect your Spotify, it will play the whole song or music video.
- MDT Tracker APP
If you’ll be relying on public transportation, Miami-Dade County has the Miami-Dade Transit Tracker. This app is useful for planning your trips, estimating travel time, locating a bus route, viewing Metro Rail’s arrival/departure times and more.
Take a few minutes to set up these apps to enhance your Ultra experience. While at the festival, share your photos on social media using hashtags: #20YEARSOFULTRA and #MiamiCrowd
