Attics vs Chateau Archive Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Attics
Access and stream thousands of live concert recordings from popular bands like the Grateful Dead, Billy Strings, and more. Easily find shows, enjoy gapless playback, and download your favorites for offline listening.
- Stream live concert recordings
- Download shows for offline listening
- Easy show navigation
- Gapless playback
- Share favorite shows
- Access 30+ bands and 20k+ shows
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Attics is a fast, simple, and reliable app that lets you stream and download thousands of live Grateful Dead, Billy Strings, Dead & Company, JRAD, Tedeschi Trucks Band, and many more concert recordings hosted on the Internet Archive's Live Music Archive. Features: - Easy to navigate: get right to the show you're looking for - 30+ bands, 20k+ shows, more being added regularly - Gapless playback - Share your favorite shows with your friends - Download and listen to your favorite shows offline
Chateau Archive Player
Access and stream thousands of live concert recordings from various artists. Enjoy offline listening, CarPlay, and AirPlay support. This open-source application is completely free and respects user privacy.
- Stream and download full concert shows
- Browse by band, year, and date
- CarPlay support
- AirPlay support
- Open-source and ad-free
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Chateau Archive is a free, open-source concert player for live music fans. Browse and stream thousands of performances from the Grateful Dead, Phish, and dozens of other artists on the Internet Archive and Phish.in. - Stream or download full shows for offline listening - Browse by band, year, and date - CarPlay support for listening on the road - AirPlay support - Completely free with no ads, no accounts, and no tracking
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Chateau Archive Player at fortnightly against Attics's every 3 months. Attics's advantage is ratings volume (521 vs 6) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Attics against 5.0 for Chateau Archive Player. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Attics has 521 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 98% of Attics's written reviews are positive against 100% of Chateau Archive Player's.
Attics ships an update every 3 months, Chateau Archive Player fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Attics | Chateau Archive Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (521 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 97.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 521 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zachary Wood | Joseph Hardy |
Customer experience
Attics
Chateau Archive Player
Bugs and requests
Attics
Reported bugs
2 issues- Network errors causing connectivity issues
- Inconsistent behavior between downloaded and streaming shows
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to create playlists or queue songs
- Implement offline listening/download option
- Add more artists beyond Grateful Dead
- Improve sorting/filtering options
Chateau Archive Player
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Attics
No in-app purchases
Chateau Archive Player
No in-app purchases
Questions
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