Traditions, not one-off events
A festa is a tradition that recurs. Jakadi stores the tradition once and tracks each year's occurrence separately, so last year's date becomes evidence for next year's.
Passed on, never forgotten
Your local festas, kept alive by word of mouth
Village festas rarely have a website, and almost never a fixed date. They live in people's heads: "the weekend after Santo António", "always the last Sunday of August". Jakadi is where that knowledge gets written down, checked by the people who actually go, and remembered for next year.
What Jakadi is
A shared memory for festivals that never had a calendar
Jakadi does not publish an official calendar, because for most local festas no such thing exists. Instead it collects what the community knows — and is honest about how sure that knowledge is.
Dates come from people
Anyone can add what they know, and say how they know it — they saw the poster, they are on the committee, they go every year. Claims are kept, never overwritten.
Uncertainty is shown, not hidden
Every date carries a confidence level and a plain-language reason for it. If nobody has confirmed this year yet, the app says so instead of guessing quietly.
How it works
Discover, follow, confirm
Discover
Browse festas near you as a list or on the map, filtered by region and by the kind of celebration — romaria, feira, wine harvest, village feast.
Follow
Follow the traditions you care about. Jakadi reminds you as the expected period approaches, and tells you when a date is confirmed, changed or cancelled.
Confirm
When you learn the real date — from a poster, the parish council, the organisers — add it, with evidence if you have it. That is what raises the confidence for everyone else.
The trust model
Nothing is invented
Jakadi separates two things most apps blur together: someone said it, and it was checked. A claim is input. A confirmation is a claim that has been corroborated. The app always shows you which one you are looking at.
- Predicted
- Community confirmed
- Officially confirmed
A prediction is labelled a prediction
When no one has confirmed this year's date, Jakadi may show the period the festa usually falls in, worked out from its own history and its recurrence pattern. It is marked Predicted, and a prediction is deliberately capped so it can never look as strong as a real confirmation.
Confidence is not a vote count
Confidence weighs where the evidence comes from, how reliable the contributor has been in the past, the quality of the evidence, whether the date fits the tradition's history, and how recent it is. Ten people citing the same Facebook post count as one source, not ten.
You can see why
Every confidence level can explain itself in plain language — "two independent sources, including the organiser's verified site; last confirmed three weeks ago; matches the historical pattern". No opaque score you are asked to trust.
Conflicts are not smoothed over
When two people claim different dates, both are kept and the confidence drops until it is resolved. Jakadi would rather tell you it does not know than show you a confident wrong date.
Machine-found entries
What our scouting finds still needs a human
Some organisers do publish their dates on a website. Where a tradition has such a source, Jakadi can watch that page and notice when it changes or when a date appears on it.
Anything found that way enters as a candidate, not as fact. It is flagged as machine-sourced, filed at low confidence, attributed to the page it came from, and it stays that way until a person confirms it. Automated extraction never writes a confirmed date, and never silently upgrades one.
- Found automatically — needs confirmation
Get the app
Jakadi is available now
Download Jakadi on the App Store or Google Play and start following the festas you care about.