Fiddler Magazine vs LiveVault
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fiddler Magazine
This app provides a quarterly digital magazine for fiddle enthusiasts, featuring articles on various styles, tune histories, and transcriptions. It offers subscription options for ongoing access to its educational and entertaining content.
- Quarterly digital issues
- Articles on various fiddle styles
- Fiddle tune history
- Improvisation techniques
- CD, book, and DVD reviews
- Tune transcriptions
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Founded in 1994, Fiddler Magazine is an informative, educational, and entertaining resource for fiddlers, accompanists, and appreciative listeners. Each quarterly issue (now approx. 60 pages each) features a variety of different styles of fiddling, as well as plenty of other articles and columns. Regular columns include: Bluegrass Fiddling, “The Practicing Fiddler,” Fiddle Tune History, On Improvisation, Irish Fiddling, Cross-Tuning Workshop, Cross-Canada Fiddle Tour, and reviews of CDs, books, and DVDs. Each issue also includes transcriptions of several tunes. Magazine Subscriptions are available for purchase inside this app. Three months subscription - $6.99 (automatically renewed until canceled) Six months subscription - $12.99 (automatically renewed until canceled) One year subscription - $24.99 (automatically renewed until canceled) Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your iTunes account will automatically be charged at the same price for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period unless you change your subscription preferences in your account settings. You can manage your subscriptions through your account settings after purchase on your device. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. Please visit http://www.magzter.com/ns/privacy-policy.html for our Privacy Policy and http://www.magzter.com/ns/terms_condition.html for our Terms & Conditions
LiveVault
Explore thousands of historic live Grateful Dead performances with this mobile streaming player. Discover new shows, browse by era, and curate your personal library of legendary concerts with gapless playback.
- Thousands of historic live Grateful Dead shows
- Explore shows by era and year
- Gapless audio playback
- Robust song catalog
- Personal library for favorite shows
- On This Day discovery feature
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LiveVault is the ultimate mobile streaming player for live Grateful Dead shows. Tap into thousands of historic, legendary live performances directly from your device. Designed with modern aesthetics and seamless iOS integration, LiveVault makes it easier than ever to explore the rich history of live Dead. Discover new shows every day, dive deep into exhaustive song repertoires, and curate your own personal library of legendary shows. Features include: → "On This Day" discovery to explore historic shows performed on today's date → A deep-dive browser sorting thousands of shows by era and year → Gapless audio playback designed specifically for continuous live sets → A robust song catalog to discover new versions of top tracks → Personal library to save and organize your favorite shows Please note: LiveVault is an unofficial, third-party streaming client. It utilizes the public, open-source audio catalog hosted by the Internet Archive (archive.org). We are not officially affiliated with any artists, and the app uses the Internet Archive API in accordance with their terms of service.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LiveVault at none against Fiddler Magazine's 11. LiveVault also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (14 vs 2). Fiddler Magazine's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Fiddler Magazine sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. LiveVault asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fiddler Magazine against 5.0 for LiveVault. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LiveVault has 14 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Fiddler Magazine ships an update every 8 months, LiveVault fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and July 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fiddler Magazine | LiveVault |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Magzter Inc. | BEN Roach |
Customer experience
Fiddler Magazine
LiveVault
In-app purchases
Fiddler Magazine
- Summer 2019$6.99
- Fiddler Magazine - Fall 2015$6.99
- Fiddler Magazine - Spring 2016$6.99
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- Fiddler Magazine - summer 2016$6.99
- Fiddler Magazine - Fall 2016$6.99
- Fiddler Magazine Fall 2017$6.99
- Fiddler Fall 2021$6.99
- Fiddler Winter 2021$6.99
- Fiddler Magazine Spring 2022$6.99
- Fiddler Magazine Summer 2022$6.99
- Fiddler Magazine Fall 2022$6.99
LiveVault
No in-app purchases





