Attics vs LiveVault
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
LiveVault
Explore thousands of historic live Grateful Dead performances with this mobile streaming player. Discover new shows, browse by era, and curate your personal library of legendary concerts with gapless playback.
- Thousands of historic live Grateful Dead shows
- Explore shows by era and year
- Gapless audio playback
- Robust song catalog
- Personal library for favorite shows
- On This Day discovery feature
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Explore live Grateful Dead performances with LiveVault. Browse shows by date and era, discover performances of your favorite songs, and stream recordings hosted by the Internet Archive. LiveVault is free. Browse and play music without an account. Sign in to use Live Guide and My Trip, with no payment card or subscription required. FIND THE SHOW See shows performed on today's month and day, browse by year and era, and explore a curated catalog of 166 songs with their live performances. CHOOSE THE TAPE Inspect up to ten same-date recordings with SBD, AUD, or MTX labels, ratings, reviews, and download counts, then pick the one you want to hear. Choosing a source changes the recording and setlist. PRESS PLAY Full-show playback with background audio, lock-screen controls, queue and seek, and resume from your saved position. LIVE GUIDE Follow one shared daily episode built around the recordings. Narration alternates with selected Archive-hosted recordings in a visible timeline. Narration is AI-generated and may contain errors. Guide availability depends on the published episode catalog. Free with sign-in. MY TRIP Keep a personal listening trail across shows, songs, venues, years, and milestones, and revisit what you discover. You can turn listening-history collection off in settings. Free with sign-in. YOUR LIBRARY Save favorites, write notes, and build playlists. Previously saved shows remain playable on the device where you saved them. LiveVault is an unofficial, third-party streaming client. Music streams from the public catalog hosted by the Internet Archive (archive.org). LiveVault is not affiliated with the Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead Productions, Rhino, nugs.net, the Internet Archive, or any artist. Recording availability varies. AI-generated context may contain errors. Privacy Policy: https://www.livevaultapp.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.livevaultapp.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Attics at 465 against LiveVault's 20. On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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 LiveVault. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Attics has 465 ratings behind it against 20, 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 LiveVault's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Attics | LiveVault |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (465 ratings) | 5.0 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 97.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 465 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Zachary Wood | LiveVault App, LLC |
Customer experience
Attics
LiveVault
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
LiveVault
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Attics
No in-app purchases
LiveVault
No in-app purchases
