Comparison

DEADSHOWZ vs DeadGraph

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

DeadGraph

Explore over 2,250 Grateful Dead shows from 1965-1995, accessing soundboards, audience tapes, and matrices. Ask natural language questions to find specific songs, guest appearances, or show details, and then play the recordings. Features visualizers and extensive playback options for an immersive listening experience.

Highlights
  • Access 2,250+ Grateful Dead shows
  • Natural language AI search
  • Stream soundboards, audience tapes, matrixes
  • Detailed recording information
  • Interactive year-based vault map
  • Eight built-in visualizers
  • CarPlay and AirPlay support
Features
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The shows. The songs. 1965-1995. 2,250+ Grateful Dead shows, with their soundboards, audience tapes and matrixes, straight from the Internet Archive. DeadGraph is a player for them, and a way to ask questions about them in plain language. ASK, DO NOT SEARCH "Longest Dark Star in 1972." "Shows where Branford sat in." "What did they open with at Cornell." Type it the way you would say it to a friend who knows, or just ask Siri: "Play Cornell 77 on DeadGraph." DeadGraph reads setlists, transitions, guest sit-ins and run histories, and answers with the show, then plays it. RECORDINGS, HONESTLY LABELED Many nights survive in several versions. DeadGraph lists the ones it has for each night with the source, the taper or transferer credit and the community rating, so you can pick the Miller transfer or the Betty board on purpose rather than by accident. THE VAULT, AT A GLANCE Thirty one rings, one per year, each show in DeadGraph a mark on its ring. Touch a year to go there. It is a map of the thing rather than a list of it. A LIGHT SHOW Eight visualizers built to be watched, not to fill space: liquid light, mandalas, prism folds, wormholes. Build your own color palettes, let it cycle through them on a timer, or leave it running on its own with no music at all, as a decoration. Works on the TV through AirPlay. BUILT FOR HOW PEOPLE ACTUALLY LISTEN CarPlay. AirPlay and Bluetooth output switching without leaving the app. Playlists. Background playback. Lock screen and Now Playing controls. iPhone, iPad and Mac, including landscape on the couch. FREE, AND MEANT TO STAY WORTH USING Browsing, listening, playlists and the whole light show are free. Free accounts get five AI questions a day. Pro raises that to five hundred and adds offline downloads, plus more playlists and chat threads, at 7.99 a month or 79.99 a year. Recordings are streamed from archive.org, where the taping community has kept them for decades. DeadGraph is not affiliated with the Grateful Dead or Rhino Entertainment. Terms of Use: https://deadgraph.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://deadgraph.com/privacy

Screenshots

DEADSHOWZ4 screens
DeadGraph4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DeadGraph at Free against DEADSHOWZ's $2.99. DeadGraph also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 months). DEADSHOWZ's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (17 vs 1). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

DeadGraph is free to download; DEADSHOWZ costs $2.99 up front. DeadGraph sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. DEADSHOWZ asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DeadGraph 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DEADSHOWZ ships an update every 3 months, DeadGraph every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
DEADSHOWZ versus DeadGraph: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDEADSHOWZDeadGraph
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (17 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings17 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
Best chart rank#23 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB56 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSYKODELIC, LLCMyron Koch

Customer experience

DEADSHOWZ

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

DeadGraph

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

DEADSHOWZ

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

DeadGraph

Subscriptions2
  • DeadGraph Pro$7.991 Month
  • DeadGraph Pro$79.991 Year

Questions

Is DEADSHOWZ free?
DEADSHOWZ costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is DeadGraph free?
DeadGraph is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DEADSHOWZ or DeadGraph?
DeadGraph is rated higher. DEADSHOWZ averages 4.4 out of 5 from 17 ratings, while DeadGraph averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do DEADSHOWZ or DeadGraph have ads?
Neither DEADSHOWZ nor DeadGraph shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DEADSHOWZ or DeadGraph?
DEADSHOWZ ships an update every 3 months, and DeadGraph every 2 days. Most recently, DEADSHOWZ was updated on November 6, 2026 and DeadGraph on November 5, 2026.

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