DEADSHOWZ vs Heady Set
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DEADSHOWZ
Explore a comprehensive Grateful Dead concert database with advanced search capabilities. Find shows by venue, song, date, or guest artist, and create custom playlists. Stream concerts directly from the app.
- Searchable Grateful Dead concert database
- Multi-criteria search with AND/OR/NOT qualifiers
- Custom playlist creation
- Track attended shows
- Song, venue, and artist statistics
- Direct concert streaming
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DEADSHOWZ 2.0 is the most powerful Grateful Dead concert reference tool ever to fit in your pocket — more than 2,350 shows spanning 1965 to 1995, searchable from any angle! Stack any search criteria you want: song, venue, city, state or country, date or year, guest artist, setlist position, one song into another, bustouts, shows you attended, your favorites. Combine them with AND, OR and NOT. Every show at Madison Square Garden. Every one that featured Bertha. Every one on a Tuesday. Or all three at once — and the count updates as you build, before you ever run the search. Long-press any song, venue, city, state or guest artist to open its Deep Dive — total performances, first and last, peak year, most-played songs, segue partners, bustout gaps, and every song that debuted or was played for the last time there. Tap a count and you get the shows behind it, and Back brings you right back to where you were. Found something interesting? Send it into Search with its conditions already filled in and keep narrowing. Winterland in '77 becomes Winterland in '77 including Playing In The Band in two taps. Mark the shows you attended, tag your favorites, and build playlists in any order you like. Send a playlist, your Favorites, or your Attended list to a friend with one tap — no account, no server, straight from you to them. Make it yours: twelve backgrounds, six typefaces, your own text color and size, and alignment settings for nearly every list. And where a recording exists, you can stream the whole concert with a single tap — a handy bonus atop the deepest Grateful Dead reference tool in your pocket. Recordings come from public archives, are never stored on your device, and what's available varies from show to show. No subscription, no ads, no account required, nothing ever collected. Just good, clean, musical fun! Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow called DEADSHOWZ "a very worthy venture celebrating the music of our lives." We're sure you're gonna agree... ...Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile!
Heady Set
Track your concert experiences and share them with friends. Get personalized statistics about your favorite artists, songs, and venues. This app is free and ad-free, built for music lovers.
- Setlist tracking
- Show history
- Friend sharing
- Personalized stats
- Artist tracking
- Song tracking
- Venue tracking
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Heady Set is the setlist tracker built for the jam band and live music community. Log every show you attend, keep a running history of the songs and venues you've experienced, and unlock personalized stats about the artists you love — Grateful Dead, Phish, Billy Strings, or whoever's on your tour list this year! TRACK YOUR SHOWS Build a complete log of every concert you've been to - venue, date, setlist, and who you went with. Your show history becomes a permanent, personal archive of your live music journey. PERSONALIZED STATS See how many times you've seen your favorite songs live, which venues you frequent most, how your most-seen artists stack up against each other, and how your concert-going has evolved over time. SHARE WITH FRIENDS Compare notes with friends, see who was at the same shows as you, and relive tours together. FREE. NO ADS. NO CATCH. Heady Set is a passion project built by a fan, for fans. It's free today and will stay free and ad-free - always. No paywalls, just a tool for people who love music. Have a question, feature request, or bug to report? Reach out to me directly at aaron@headyset.net - I love hearing from users and will do my best to make your ideas come to life!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Heady Set at Free against DEADSHOWZ's $2.99. Heady Set also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4). DEADSHOWZ's advantage is ratings volume (17 vs 1) and chart position (#200 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
Heady Set is free to download; DEADSHOWZ costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Heady Set holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DEADSHOWZ has 17 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DEADSHOWZ | Heady Set |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (17 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #200 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SYKODELIC, LLC | AARON THEODORE KY-RIESENBACH |
Customer experience
DEADSHOWZ
Heady Set
In-app purchases
DEADSHOWZ
No in-app purchases
Heady Set
No in-app purchases









