Comparison

DEADSHOWZ vs LiveVault

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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Explore live Grateful Dead performances with LiveVault. Browse shows by date and era, discover performances of your favorite songs, and stream recordings hosted by the Internet Archive. LiveVault is free. Browse and play music without an account. Sign in to use Live Guide and My Trip, with no payment card or subscription required. FIND THE SHOW See shows performed on today's month and day, browse by year and era, and explore a curated catalog of 166 songs with their live performances. CHOOSE THE TAPE Inspect up to ten same-date recordings with SBD, AUD, or MTX labels, ratings, reviews, and download counts, then pick the one you want to hear. Choosing a source changes the recording and setlist. PRESS PLAY Full-show playback with background audio, lock-screen controls, queue and seek, and resume from your saved position. LIVE GUIDE Follow one shared daily episode built around the recordings. Narration alternates with selected Archive-hosted recordings in a visible timeline. Narration is AI-generated and may contain errors. Guide availability depends on the published episode catalog. Free with sign-in. MY TRIP Keep a personal listening trail across shows, songs, venues, years, and milestones, and revisit what you discover. You can turn listening-history collection off in settings. Free with sign-in. YOUR LIBRARY Save favorites, write notes, and build playlists. Previously saved shows remain playable on the device where you saved them. LiveVault is an unofficial, third-party streaming client. Music streams from the public catalog hosted by the Internet Archive (archive.org). LiveVault is not affiliated with the Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead Productions, Rhino, nugs.net, the Internet Archive, or any artist. Recording availability varies. AI-generated context may contain errors. Privacy Policy: https://www.livevaultapp.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.livevaultapp.com/terms

Screenshots

DEADSHOWZ4 screens
LiveVault4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: LiveVault at Free against DEADSHOWZ's $2.99. LiveVault also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (100% vs 86%). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

LiveVault is free to download; DEADSHOWZ costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

LiveVault holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 25 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of DEADSHOWZ's written reviews are positive against 100% of LiveVault's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DEADSHOWZ ships an update every 4 months, LiveVault every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
DEADSHOWZ versus LiveVault: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDEADSHOWZLiveVault
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (17 ratings)5.0 (25 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1725 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB59 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSYKODELIC, LLCLiveVault App, LLC

Customer experience

DEADSHOWZ

All ratings17 ratings
Positive82.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative17.6%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

LiveVault

All ratings20 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

DEADSHOWZ

No in-app purchases

None

LiveVault

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DEADSHOWZ free?
DEADSHOWZ costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is LiveVault free?
LiveVault is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, DEADSHOWZ or LiveVault?
LiveVault is rated higher. DEADSHOWZ averages 4.4 out of 5 from 17 ratings, while LiveVault averages 5.0 from 25 ratings.
Do DEADSHOWZ or LiveVault have ads?
Neither DEADSHOWZ nor LiveVault shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DEADSHOWZ or LiveVault?
DEADSHOWZ ships an update every 4 months, and LiveVault every 3 months. Most recently, DEADSHOWZ was updated on October 24, 2026 and LiveVault on October 23, 2026.

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