Attics vs Umphrey's McGee
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
Umphrey's McGee
This music app offers an immersive listening experience, allowing users to control individual instrument levels, solo, mute, and pan. Access lyrics and create a personalized mix, similar to being at a recording studio's mixing board.
- Adjust instrument levels
- Solo and mute instruments
- Pan audio
- Loop sections
- Access lyrics
- Immersive listening experience
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Umphrey's McGee - Asking For A Friend has been made available as a Myxstem app. Myxstem (pronounced "mix-stem") is a new format that empowers fans to completely control the listening experience by adjusting levels of each instrument (stem) to solo, mute, pan, loop and access lyrics in a fun and immersive way, similar to being at the mixing board of a recording studio.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Attics at Free against Umphrey's McGee's $14.99. Attics also leads on ratings volume (465 vs 4). Umphrey's McGee's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.4). On rating, 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
Attics is free to download; Umphrey's McGee costs $14.99 up front. 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 4.8 for Umphrey's McGee. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Attics has 465 ratings behind it against 4, 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 Umphrey's McGee's.
Attics ships an update every 3 months, Umphrey's McGee every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Attics | Umphrey's McGee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $14.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (465 ratings) — better | 4.8 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 97.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 465 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 412 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zachary Wood | Myxstem |
Customer experience
Attics
Umphrey's McGee
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
Umphrey's McGee
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Attics
No in-app purchases
Umphrey's McGee
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Attics free?
Is Umphrey's McGee free?
Which has better reviews, Attics or Umphrey's McGee?
Do Attics or Umphrey's McGee have ads?
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