# Live Music Archive — user reviews > 128 indexed App Store user reviews of Live Music Archive by Astral Engineering LLC, rated 4.90/5 from 1,735 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/live-music-archive/id1453343128/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/live-music-archive/id1453343128.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,631 · 4★ 80 · 3★ 9 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 11 ## What do users think of Live Music Archive? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Great app - 👍 Fantastic library - 🚀 Easy to use - 👍 Awesome interface - 🚀 Smooth playback - 👍 Reliable and efficient - 🚀 Intuitive navigation - 👍 Excellent search capabilities - 🚀 Syncs across devices **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional crashes or unavailability - 🔋 Drains battery quickly - 🔍 Missing some newer shows - 🔍 Limited playlist functionality - 🔍 No login or review features **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes on launch for some users - Buggy offline download feature - Incompatibility with older devices **Most requested features** - Add Carplay support - Implement an equalizer - Allow playlist creation - Add login and review functionality ## Newest reviews (17 of 128) ### 5/5 — A Life Affirming Treasure *2026-01-03, version 1.10.6* So valuable, so communal, so enjoyable, so important to society ### 5/5 — Great. Just need a playlist function *2025-10-18, version 1.10.6* Perfect. I just wish we could make actual playlists with specific songs from shows and not only be able to add whole shows. ### 5/5 — Awesome. *2025-10-16, version 1.10.6* Ten thumbs up. RIP Phil. ### 5/5 — Perfection *2025-10-14, version 1.10.6* Absolutely love this app! ### 5/5 — Top notch *2025-09-28, version 1.10.6* Love this app and all the tapers that upload shows to it ### 5/5 — TTB *2025-09-19, version 1.10.6* Great ### 5/5 — Luv this interface *2025-09-07, version 1.10.6* Admittedly, I almost exclusively use it to dig through the Grateful Dead bootleg collection. I’m sure there is lots of other great stuff here. I just don’t get around to much else but my dead shows ### 5/5 — Dead *2025-08-30, version 1.10.6* Greatest every ### 5/5 — The best for live Dead! *2025-08-12, version 1.10.6* You won’t regret it ### 5/5 — Best *2025-05-26, version 1.10.6* best live music app right now ### 5/5 — What happened?!?! *2025-05-18, version 1.10.6* Used to think this gift of music was the most awesome thing ever. Now it hasn’t updated since march 13th and I can’t help but think” but they said the music never stopped!” HELP! ### 5/5 — Love this app *2025-04-29, version 1.10.6* Tied back to archive.org ### 5/5 — Love this app!! *2025-04-25, version 1.10.6* If you’re a Dead Head you need this app! ### 5/5 — Grateful Dead *2025-04-25, version 1.10.6* This app is the bomb !! I can back through the years and revisit all the shows I saw which is up around 100 or so which immediately brings me back to the best times of my life ### 5/5 — Favorite app of all! *2025-04-11, version 1.10.6* From search, to listening history that syncs across devices (including Macs with Apple silicon), it is quite simple the best app for accessing the internet archive’s vast music library. ### 4/5 — Great app! But one complaint… *2025-04-03, version 1.10.6* This app was an awesome discovery, I had been using the website before but it would tend to get tricky when I was on the go and had fluctuating levels of WiFi, but Since using the app I don’t have nearly as many issues with music not playing! My only complaint is that on the website (even when I pull it up on my phone) I’m able to see the waveform of the audio which is really nice when I’m trying to pin point somewhere I want to skip to in the song. It’s an especially useful tool for me when I have 15-30 minute long GD songs I’m trying to look for a specific part in haha. It would be so much better if the app also had that feature. ### 5/5 — Love music archive *2025-04-01, version 1.10.6* My daily occurrence. Two new shows a day. This app is most kind:) ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — This is just a tease *2024-11-01* Why bother have all the cool stuff on the browser and have an, I’d listen on the browser but barely works with web amp, pass ### 1/5 — Does not work with Apple Carplay *2023-12-18, version 1.10.4* Carplay compatibility was the reason I downloaded this app. The other major Internet Archive streaming app works with Carplay but crashes all the time. Unfortunately this app does not work with Carplay. ### 1/5 — Don’t waste your time *2022-06-02, version 1.10.4* I tried several different bands and none of them were found. Very disappointed in the app. ### 2/5 — No Jeff Beck *2024-10-10, version 1.10.5* That’s not good in my opinion 🤷‍♂️ ### 3/5 — Down 10/14 *2024-10-14, version 1.10.5* Shows have been unavailable for a few days. Downloaded music for offline is buggy. App is excellent when functional. ### 3/5 — Amazing *2023-06-05, version 1.10.4* King Gizz tapings!!! ### 3/5 — Live *2023-02-02, version 1.10.4* User interface is a bit cluttered. I wish I could download soundboard recordings like other apps. Can’t delete individual tracks like several minutes of crowd/tuning. ### 4/5 — Great app - I listen almost every day! *2026-05-02, version 1.16.0* This is a great app but there is one flaw - if you start in the middle of a song or at a point such as the middle of the show it takes a minute for the music to start playing. It's the only thing I don't like and is the reason for my 4 star rating. ### 4/5 — Best yet would be 5 out of 5 but there’s always room for improvement *2026-04-02, version 1.10.6* Not much more to say, if you know you know. Thanks for a dynamite product ya’ll ### 4/5 — Please make an Apple TV version *2025-06-19, version 1.10.6* Love it. Please make an Apple TV version ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Grateful! *2026-08-11, version 1.18.0* This app saves so much time! No more downloading shows, converting flac files, etc to hear live music! Listen easily & download what you want. ### 5/5 — Hit Record *2026-06-27, version 1.16.1* Always hit record, and post shows here…. ### 5/5 — Dank *2026-06-25, version 1.16.1* All my music in one spot, jame on ### 5/5 — Grateful *2026-06-05, version 1.16.1* Daily listener. So grateful for this platform!! ### 5/5 — CH *2026-05-31, version 1.16.1* Right on THANK YOU!!! ### 5/5 — God Bless *2026-05-27, version 1.16.1* My favorite place for live music archives ### 5/5 — All in one place *2026-04-22, version 1.15.4* Love all the music, and I do mean all, at my fingertips. This is hinting bliss! ### 5/5 — A must have *2026-03-19, version 1.10.6* Mandatory ### 5/5 — Grateful! *2026-03-07, version 1.10.6* This app saves so much time! No more downloading shows, converting flac files, etc to hear live music! Listen easily & download what you want. ### 5/5 — Perfect System *2026-01-22, version 1.10.6* The Live Music Archive is a reliable user-friendly app that offers the widest selection of music events with the best designed interface. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-01.*