Attics vs Deadsound
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
Deadsound
Access and stream over 17,000 Grateful Dead live recordings. Search shows by date, venue, song, or source, and build a personal library of your favorite performances. Enjoy offline playback and daily historical discoveries.
- Search 17,000+ Grateful Dead recordings
- Filter by date, venue, song, or source
- Intelligent caching for offline playback
- Background playback with lock screen controls
- Gapless audio
- Favorite and track listened shows
- Daily historical discoveries
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Every Dead show. One app. We built Deadsound because finding the best tapes on should be easy. Now you can search 17,000+ Grateful Dead recordings by date, venue, song, or source, and start listening in seconds. FIND ANYTHING Search by setlist to find every "Dark Star," or every show where they played "Dark Star" plus "Estimated" and also "Blow Away." Filter by Charlie Miller transfers or Betty Boards, or by AUD/SBD/Matrix. Narrow by year, city, or venue. LISTEN ANYWHERE Intelligent caching means your music keeps playing even when your signal doesn't. Full background playback with lock screen controls, all with gapless audio. BUILD YOUR LIBRARY Favorite the shows that matter. Track what you've heard. Pick up where you left off. DISCOVER DAILY See what happened today in Dead history. A new discovery every day. Completely free. No ads. No subscription. The music belongs to everyone. Streams from Archive.org. Not affiliated with the Grateful Dead.
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Verdict
Attics and Deadsound both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 98% of Attics's written reviews are positive against 50% of Deadsound's. Attics also leads on ratings volume (521 vs 7). Deadsound's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Attics holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Attics has 521 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 98% of Attics's written reviews are positive against 50% of Deadsound's.
Attics ships an update every 3 months, Deadsound fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Attics | Deadsound |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (521 ratings) — better | 4.7 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 97.8% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 521 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Zachary Wood | James Barnes |
Customer experience
Attics
Deadsound
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
Deadsound
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Attics
No in-app purchases
Deadsound
No in-app purchases
