Live Music Archive vs DeadSpread
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Live Music Archive
Stream a vast collection of live concert recordings from the Internet Archive and Phish.in. Discover music by artist, venue, or date, and enjoy features like offline playback, cross-device syncing, and a visualizer.
- Massive live music library
- Search by artist, venue, date
- Offline playback
- Cross-device syncing
- CarPlay integration
- Concert visualizer
- Lossless audio support
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The world's live music, in your pocket. Stream the Internet Archive's massive collection of concert recordings, plus a huge archive of live Phish shows from Phish.in. Thousands of artists from the 1960s to today: Grateful Dead, Billy Strings, Goose, String Cheese Incident, and so many more. Discover. Search by artist, taper, venue, festival, date, or song. Browse recent shows or dive deep into decades of music. Listen your way. Let Infinite Shuffle keep the music going, queue up what's next with Play Next and Add to Queue, or hand off playback between your devices. Stream over Bluetooth and AirPlay, in lossless FLAC if you like. Set a sleep timer to drift off. Scrobble to Last.fm or Libre.fm. Take it on the road. CarPlay puts your shows right on the dash, and Siri starts them hands-free: just say "Play a show on Live Music Archive." See the music. The visualizer turns any concert into a live light show that reacts to every note. And the whole app comes in Light or Dark. Always have something to listen to. Download shows for offline play. Offline Refresh automatically swaps out finished shows for new ones, so your library stays fresh, even without a connection. Make it yours. Favorite artists, shows, tapers, and venues sync across your devices and your archive.org account. Track your listening history. Share concerts with friends. Terms and Conditions: https://livemusicarchive.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://livemusicarchive.app/privacy
DeadSpread
Access and stream a vast collection of live concert recordings from bands like the Grateful Dead and Widespread Panic. Download your favorite shows to enjoy offline. Discover music from various other jam bands.
- Stream live concert recordings
- Download shows for offline playback
- Access archive.org content
- Discover Widespread Panic shows
- Explore other jam band artists
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Stream & download archive.org Grateful Dead Shows and PanicStream.com Widespread Panic shows along with others like Bloodkin, Drivin N Cryin, Jupiter Coyote, Moonshine Still and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DeadSpread at none against Live Music Archive's 5. Live Music Archive's advantage is ratings volume (1.8K vs 103). 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. Live Music Archive sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. DeadSpread asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Live Music Archive against 4.8 for DeadSpread. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Live Music Archive has 1.8K ratings behind it against 103, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 95% of Live Music Archive's written reviews are positive against 90% of DeadSpread's.
Live Music Archive ships an update every 9 days, DeadSpread weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Live Music Archive | DeadSpread |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (1.8K ratings) — better | 4.8 (103 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 94.9% of reviews — better | 90.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.8K — better | 103 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 93 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Astral Engineering LLC | Walter Sanders |
Customer experience
Live Music Archive
DeadSpread
Bugs and requests
Live Music Archive
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes on launch for some users
- Buggy offline download feature
- Incompatibility with older devices
Requested features
4 requests- Add Carplay support
- Implement an equalizer
- Allow playlist creation
- Add login and review functionality
DeadSpread
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Live Music Archive
- Nice Tip$0.99
- Generous Tip$2.99
- Amazing Tip$4.99
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- Wonderful Tip$9.99
- Astronomical Tip$19.99
DeadSpread
No in-app purchases







