GigXchange App Store: Download the iPhone AppThe UK's peer-to-peer live music marketplace is now a free download for iPhone and iPad. And with it, GigXchange goes full-stack: App Store, Google Play, web app, and browser.

GigXchange is now on the Apple App Store. If you have an iPhone or iPad, you can open the App Store listing, tap Get, and have the whole platform (profiles, bookings, real-time messaging, payments) on your home screen in under a minute. It runs on iOS 15 or later, it is free to download, and it is free to sign up.

Three weeks ago the Android app went live. Today the iPhone one joins it. That means GigXchange has quietly crossed a line I have been working toward since the first line of code: it is now on every screen a UK musician or venue actually uses. Apple App Store, Google Play, a web app you can pin to your home screen, and the full platform in any browser. Four front doors, one building.

One App, on Every Device You Own

A booking marketplace only works when both sides are actually on it. The artist and the venue. The promoter and the act. If half of them are locked out because the platform only lived in one place, the whole thing stalls. So from the start the goal was never “an app”. It was to be reachable on whatever you happen to be holding.

Yes, GigXchange is on the Apple App Store. As of 1 July 2026 it is a free iOS 15+ download for iPhone and iPad, and the same account also works on Google Play, as an add-to-home-screen web app, and in the full browser platform. Here are the 4 ways in, and they all lead to the same GigXchange:

1. Apple App Store: a free download for iPhone and iPad on iOS 15 or later. Get it here.
2. Google Play: the Android app, live since June. Get it here.
3. Add to home screen: open gigxchange.app/app in Safari or Chrome, then add it to your home screen for an app-like icon with no store needed.
4. Any browser: the full platform runs at gigxchange.app/app on any laptop, tablet, or phone. Nothing to install.

There is no separate “app account” and no second-class version. Log in on your iPhone, log in on a bandmate's Android, log in on a venue's laptop before soundcheck: your profile, your bookings, your chat, and your rates are the same everywhere. One account, one marketplace, on the device in your hand.

How to Download the GigXchange iOS App on iPhone and iPad

Installing takes under a minute. Open the App Store on your iPhone or iPad, search “GigXchange”, and tap Get, or use the direct link below. The app lands on your home screen with its own icon, ready to open.

1. Open the App Store: on your iPhone or iPad, open the App Store, or tap the GigXchange listing directly.
2. Search “GigXchange”: tap the official result. The seller is Eclipse Labs AI Ltd, the company behind GigXchange.
3. Tap Get: wait for the download to finish. The app appears on your home screen with its own icon.
4. Sign up or log in: open the app and create a free account as an artist, venue, agent, or promoter. Already have an account? Just log in, everything carries over.

Prefer not to install anything? You don't have to. The full app still runs in any browser at gigxchange.app/app, and your account is identical whichever way you open it. The free public tools (the Rate Calculator, Gig Directory, and Open Mic Finder) need no account at all.

What Being on the App Store Actually Means for You

This is the same app the Android and web crowd already use, now native on iPhone and iPad. That changes three practical things, and they all work in your favour.

It's easier to find and share. “Search GigXchange in the App Store” is a sentence any iPhone owner understands. When you tell a bandmate, a venue, or an agent about the platform, they install it in seconds instead of fiddling with browser menus. That lowers the barrier for the whole network.

It updates itself. The app refreshes through the App Store. When the next release ships, you get the new features automatically: no reinstall, no losing your place. You stay on the latest version without thinking about it.

It behaves like a real app. Its own icon on your home screen, full-screen with no browser bar, and a proper place on your device. It is the groundwork for push notifications, so a booking request or a message can reach your lock screen instead of waiting for you to open the app and check.

Under the hood, all four front doors are the same GigXchange Mainstage app (built in SvelteKit) running against one backend, one set of Stripe payments, and one database. The App Store version and the Android version are wrappers around that same core. It is one platform, one profile, everywhere.

What's Next

Being on both app stores is not the finish line. It is the delivery channel. From here, updates ship straight to your phone, automatically, on whichever platform you're on. These are the things I most want to land next:

1. Push notifications: booking requests, new messages, and payment confirmations delivered to your lock screen on iPhone and Android, so you never miss a gig because you forgot to open the app.
2. Smart Match: the matching engine that puts the right acts in front of the right venues. If a venue books your genre on the nights you're free, you should be in their inbox without either of you searching.
3. Deeper device integration: making the app feel even more at home on iOS and Android, building on the native foundation both stores give us.

Because the app auto-updates, you don't have to do anything to get these. Install once now, and the next release arrives on its own. If you want the full picture of what the app already does today, read the Mainstage launch post, and for the running monthly log of everything shipped, see the platform updates hub.

I started gigging in 2009, 17 years ago. Getting booked back then meant cold emails, messages into the void, and fees scribbled on the back of a setlist. GigXchange exists to replace that with one place where artists, venues, agents, and promoters find each other and book properly. Now it is one tap away on whatever you carry.

Annual refresh commitment

This guide was published on 1 July 2026 and is refreshed every July. App availability, store links, and feature roadmaps change as we ship, so we verify this post regularly, so annual verification matters. We re-verify every reference, recommendation, and data point once a year. Next scheduled refresh: July 2027. If any claim is outdated before then, email support@gigxchange.app and we will update it within 24 hours.