Comparison

Live Shuffle vs PhishTD

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

About

PhishTD

Stay connected to the current Phish tour with a simple, one-page view of real-time tour information. Get insights into setlists, song trends, and show data after each performance. Receive automatic updates and optional notifications to keep you informed.

Highlights
  • Real-time tour information
  • One-page show overview
  • Setlist and song data
  • Automatic tour updates
  • Optional push notifications
  • Tour trend analysis
Features
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Phish Tour Dashboard is built for fans who want to stay closely connected to the current Phish tour. Instead of focusing on deep historical setlist archives, PhishTD offers a simple, one-page view of what’s happening on the road right now. Whether you’re on tour, couch touring, or listening to the boards night after night, PhishTD serves as a reliable tour companion—providing clear, data-driven insight after every show. After each show, the app surfaces the latest setlist, longest songs, song gaps, tour debuts, repeats, and overall tour trends, all presented in a clean, focused layout designed for quick understanding. PhishTD updates automatically after each night of tour and seamlessly transitions when a new tour begins, keeping everything current without requiring any action from you. You can also opt in to receive iOS notifications when new show data is added, so you’re always up to date as the tour unfolds. Setlist and tour data are provided with thanks to the teams behind Phish.net and Phish.in, whose work makes accurate, up-to-date tour information possible.

Screenshots

Live Shuffle4 screens
PhishTD4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Live Shuffle at weekly against PhishTD's every 2 months. Live Shuffle also leads on ratings volume (26 vs 6). PhishTD's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 83%). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PhishTD holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Live Shuffle's written reviews are positive against 100% of PhishTD's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Live Shuffle ships an update weekly, PhishTD every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Live Shuffle versus PhishTD: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLive ShufflePhishTD
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (26 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings26 — better6
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB7 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAustin ByronDylan Suhr

Customer experience

Live Shuffle

All ratings26 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

PhishTD

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Live Shuffle

No in-app purchases

None

PhishTD

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Live Shuffle free?
Live Shuffle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PhishTD free?
PhishTD is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Live Shuffle or PhishTD?
PhishTD is rated higher. Live Shuffle averages 4.8 out of 5 from 26 ratings, while PhishTD averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Live Shuffle or PhishTD have ads?
Neither Live Shuffle nor PhishTD shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Live Shuffle or PhishTD?
Live Shuffle ships an update weekly, and PhishTD every 2 months. Most recently, Live Shuffle was updated on October 24, 2026 and PhishTD on October 22, 2026.

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