Live Shuffle vs DeadSpread
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Live Shuffle
Discover and play random live music and digitized recordings from a vast library of artists. Enjoy full shows or continuous jams with a massive selection of songs. Explore over 200 artists and millions of tracks.
- Shuffle live music and digitized recordings
- Queue favorite artists' tracks
- Play full shows
- Enable continuous jam mode
- Access over 200 artists
- Explore over 1,000,000 songs
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Live Shuffle is a music shuffling app that allows you to queue up a list of your favorite artists' live music and digitized recordings hosted on sites like Archive.org and Phish.in and start playing random songs right away! You can also play full shows at a time, while still shuffling between however many artists you select, or you can enable Continue Jams > mode and make sure the jams don't cut off between connected songs! There are over 200 different artists to choose from and over 1,000,000 songs you might shuffle between! Follow @liveshuffle_app and @AustinByron on Twitter for updates about the app! Now features the artists from the Great 78 Shuffle app, so you can shuffle between artists like the Grateful Dead, Widespread Panic, Chuck Berry, Willie Mae Thornton, Woody Guthrie, and many more!
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 monetization model: Live Shuffle at free against DeadSpread's ad-supported. DeadSpread's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and ratings volume (102 vs 26). 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 — 4.8 for Live Shuffle against 4.8 for DeadSpread. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 102 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Live Shuffle's written reviews are positive against 90% of DeadSpread's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Live Shuffle | DeadSpread |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (26 ratings) | 4.8 (102 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 | 102 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Austin Byron | Walter Sanders |
Customer experience
Live Shuffle
DeadSpread
In-app purchases
Live Shuffle
No in-app purchases
DeadSpread
No in-app purchases
