Encore: Concert Diary

Encore is an independent iPhone app that I have built and run since May 2025. I use Cursor as the editor.

The useful moment is the ride home after a show. You can log the artist, venue, date, photos, and videos while the details are still fresh. Encore turns those entries into a concert history instead of another camera roll folder.

The product

A feed for past concerts and the people who went with you.
Personal stats, venue history, and a passport for places you have seen music.
Upcoming dates and a year-end recap built from your entries.
Friends, shared memories, photos, and video attached to each show.

Building and running it

The app is written in Swift and SwiftUI. I own navigation, persistence, analytics, crash triage, App Store reviews, and each release.

Revenue from paying users has passed $2,000. That number is modest, but it changed how I work. A crash report or a confusing first screen now has a customer on the other side, not a hypothetical user.

Distribution

I have not used an ad budget. Installs come from short videos on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. The posts that work show the app inside a real concert memory, not a feature tour.