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All of the four apps start at €0.79 per download direct to the reveller’s iPhone. With these, users can access daily Oktoberfest news and a 'Wiesn-barometre', to find out which tents they're most likely to find seats in. This app relies on other users to report on how full tents become, in a friendly gesture to those on their way to the Wiesn.

Another application helps users count how many drinks they’ve had and publish them straight to social networking site Facebook.

And with safety in mind, organisers have also created a blood-alcohol calculator to help visitors get home safe after a long day at the beer tent.

“Spending your day at the Oktoberfest, it can always happen that you lose count of how much you drank, and when you're close to being sober again,” the Oktoberfest site says.

Source: The Local