Innovate Program: Showcase

iBurn is an unofficial offline map, compass, and guide for the Burning Man art festival, crafted with love as a gift for the community. We hope you like it!

Going to Burning Man or a regional burn? You’ll need to know what events are going on, what camps to visit and where to find the best art! Dust provides an offline experience make your burn awesome. Features: Find events by day, category, theme camp or search Find art by search or listing Find theme…

Black Rock Compass is a free Burning Man companion app for Black Rock City. Built by a Burner, for Burners. Browse thousands of events by day and vibe; music, workshops, parties, fire, food, art, and more. Find your crew with a real-time compass needle that points directly at your friends. Explore the BRC map with…

A web app that lets you export the full list of Burning Man events & art installations to an Excel spreadsheet for easy reading, sorting, printing, & pre-burn excitement. These are all the same events you'll find on the official Playa Events page, but with Excel, you can quickly skim through the list & create…

Every year since 2022, Queerburners has published a directory of as many awesome LGBTQIA+ events that we can find on playa. To make it easy to use without Internet access, we provide it in PDF format which you can print out and bring with you.

Last year 1,200 people brought their long-range radio (LORA) nodes to set-up a messaging service on the Playa. It works without Wifi/Internet. The mesh moved 28,000 messages on Tuesday. It even worked to the people stuck in line when the gate was closed for storms. This kind of messaging works with your mobile phone and…

I made a Burning Man lockscreen generator, because phones—like some Burners—tend to wander off and “find themselves.” Now, if your phone decides to take its own spiritual journey across the playa, at least it’ll be rocking a custom lockscreen with your camp info and contact deets. Think of it as a stylish “lost and found”…

Tracking down friends at Burning Man used to be harder than cleaning playa dust out of gold-sequined booty shorts. This free app lets you and your peeps easily share camp info with each other, generating a personalized, printable map. Just don’t forget to pack it along with your goggles, led fairy lights, and Grandma Glitter’s…

Naviguesser is an unofficial compass and planner for Burning Man, built to keep you off your phone. Before the burn, swipe through camps, art, and events one card at a time and build a plan in minutes — then invite your campmates to trade picks and plan together. On playa, open the app and follow…

Navigate to YES helps you find what’s good on playa right now — and actually get there. A live compass and radial Black Rock City map guide you to camps, art, and events matched to your vibe, proximity, and what’s happening now. Keep your crew together with private group codes and a night-time laser beacon,…

A planner that allows groups of people select events for shared schedule together.

Playa Camps is a free, offline-first web app for discovering new themed camps, events, food, and art. Private and secure with no account creation or signup and no analytics. Search by theme, browse tags, save favorites, build a schedule, and use the map and optional GPS to find what is happening now or nearby. “Ask…

Trying to get your placement camp map sorted? Governess getting you down? (She's awesome, by the way.) Maybe this little BRC camp-building tool I made will help — and hopefully the Placement team at the same time!! Navigate to Placement is a web app that turns your camp's details into a Placement-ready, to-scale layout map,…

Modern easy-to-use app for scheduling events, tracking DJs, artists, performers, collaborators and playa art. The ¡AXOLOTL! books 50+ artists each year, and managing all that with spreadsheets was wild. This should help anyone in a similar situation save tons of time! Sign up and add your camp! Get in touch if you want to import…

Decommodification doesn’t have to only be practiced on playa. Make the pursuit of decommodification a principle of your Burning Man prep with The Playa Provides. First burn? See what you can borrow before you buy. Not going this year? List what you’re not using; set your terms, choose who can see it, and let your…

Garmin GPS Map of Black Rock City

App for Garmin Watches/Devices. Display includes distance/direction to the man, nearest porto, and markers for bike, camp, and destination.

BRC Navi runs on a Garmin GPS watch (Fenix, Venu, and others) and can help you find your way in Black Rock City. The app includes: – Your current location, presented as the familiar clock and distance format on the playa, and with street letters within the city itself. – A simple map of nearby…

Interactive Map Viewer for Burning Man 2025 Theme Camps Works on desktop and mobile. (In 1086, William the Conqueror sent his agents to survey every shire in England, to list his holdings and dues owed to him. This became the Domesday book, a great survey of the land in most of England and Wales. I…

Black Rock City Life – Event Visualizer Last night I was thinking about how placement tries to place camps with the goal of creating balanced neighborhoods where there’s always something going on. I do remember as I hiked around black rock city having a sense that certain neighborhoods and time periods were much more active…

On playa volunteer management system. Allows volunteer checkins, schedule changes, additions, without internet connectivity. Census uses it to manage about 200 volunteers in 600 shifts throughout the burn.

Meet Dusty! The sassy AI guide who’s braved 25 years of Burning Man, here to help you find your way through this eccentric dust bowl without losing your mind—or your shoes. Don’t expect warm hugs, but do expect salty wisdom in the quest for art cars and existential revelations!

It’s a custom GPT trained on the Survival Guide, new burners guide and a couple of other sources to immediately and accurately answer questions for new burners, it provides references for external sources Includes a quiz to help test how it’s going – hit the ‘Am I burnier than thou’ button