Comparison

Electric Fetus vs Dead Format

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

Head to head
About

Electric Fetus

This app acts as a shopping companion for a music store. Use your camera to scan product barcodes for previews, listen to music samples, and receive news, events, and promotions. You can also order or add items to a wishlist.

Highlights
  • Barcode product lookup
  • In-store product previews
  • Listen to products
  • News and event updates
  • Order and wishlist products
Features
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An Electric Fetus store shopping companion that uses your camera to lookup products' barcode to preview them on your phone. Listen to products in the store and get news, events, offers and marketing promotions conveniently for you. Utilize the app to order or wishlist products from our store and website.

About

Dead Format

Organize your vinyl records, buy and sell them in a dedicated marketplace, and explore a comprehensive archive of pressing details. Connect with a community of fellow vinyl lovers.

Highlights
  • Vinyl collection cataloging
  • Vinyl marketplace for buying/selling
  • Pressing information archive
  • Connect with vinyl enthusiasts
  • Browse community profiles
Features
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Dead Format is a community for vinyl collectors to share what they're listening to, talk about records, connect with fellow collectors, and more! Post what you're spinning, show off your latest pickups or listening setup, take part in monthly Vinyl Challenges, join conversations in the forums, organize your collection, find record stores, and buy and sell vinyl. One of the main features of Dead Format is the Home feed, and it works more like old-school social media. There's no weird algorithm deciding what you should see. The Following feed shows you every post from everyone you follow, in order, so you can actually keep up with what they're sharing. You can also browse the Discover tab whenever you want to see more popular posts and highlights from what's being shared by the rest of the community. Every month, there's a new Vinyl Challenge with a different prompt each day. Join in whenever you want, share a record that fits the day's prompt, browse everyone else's choices, and discover some new records and collectors along the way. The forums are a place for longer conversations, questions, recommendations, polls, and anything else that doesn't really fit into a regular post. Keep track of your collection and Want List, filter your records by artist, format, and more, upload your own photos, and track how often you're playing each record. You can even scrobble your spins to Last.fm. You can also find record stores near you or browse stores in other cities, save your favorites, tag them when you post about a recent visit or pickup, and help contribute any stores that might be missing. There's a Marketplace too, built around listings with real photos of the records being sold. Buyers can make offers, see shipping costs before checkout, and pay directly through the app. Sellers can list individual records or bundles, manage offers, and purchase discounted USPS shipping labels.

Screenshots

Electric Fetus2 screens
Dead Format4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Dead Format at 5.0 against Electric Fetus's 4.3. Dead Format also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (112 vs 6). Electric Fetus's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dead Format holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dead Format has 112 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Electric Fetus ships an update every 2 months, Dead Format every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Electric Fetus versus Dead Format: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterElectric FetusDead Format
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (6 ratings)5.0 (112 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings6112 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB93 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperBroadtimeDead Format LLC

Customer experience

Electric Fetus

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Dead Format

All ratings112 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Electric Fetus

No in-app purchases

None

Dead Format

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Electric Fetus free?
Electric Fetus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dead Format free?
Dead Format is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Electric Fetus or Dead Format?
Dead Format is rated higher. Electric Fetus averages 4.3 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Dead Format averages 5.0 from 112 ratings.
Do Electric Fetus or Dead Format have ads?
Neither Electric Fetus nor Dead Format shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Electric Fetus or Dead Format?
Electric Fetus ships an update every 2 months, and Dead Format every 6 days. Most recently, Electric Fetus was updated on October 21, 2026 and Dead Format on October 24, 2026.

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