Attics vs TheDeadly
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
TheDeadly
Access and stream thousands of live concert recordings from the Internet Archive. Organize your favorite shows, explore curated collections, and enjoy background playback with lock screen and CarPlay controls.
- Stream live concert recordings
- Browse by year, venue, date
- Personal library of favorites
- Curated guest artist collections
- Background audio playback
- CarPlay support
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TheDeadly is a modern streaming client for the Internet Archive's vast collection of live concert recordings. Stream thousands of shows — free, with no ads or subscriptions. FEATURES • Browse shows by year, venue, or date • Stream directly from the Internet Archive • Build your personal library of favorite shows • Explore curated collections of guest artists and acoustic sets • Background audio playback • Lock screen and Control Center controls • CarPlay support BUILT FOR LIVE MUSIC FANS This app exists to make listening to live recordings as easy as possible. No money is made from streaming. The app is completely open source — anyone can inspect the code or contribute. All recordings are streamed directly from the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library. Recording availability is determined by the Archive and applicable rights holders.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: TheDeadly at weekly against Attics's every 3 months. Attics's advantage is ratings volume (522 vs 14) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.5). 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 4.9 for TheDeadly. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Attics has 522 ratings behind it against 14, 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 TheDeadly's.
Attics ships an update every 3 months, TheDeadly weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Attics | TheDeadly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (522 ratings) | 4.9 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 97.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 522 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zachary Wood | Damian Silbergleith |
Customer experience
Attics
TheDeadly
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
TheDeadly
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Attics
No in-app purchases
TheDeadly
No in-app purchases
