Comparison

Live Shuffle vs DeadGraph

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

DeadGraph

Explore over 2,250 Grateful Dead shows with detailed soundboard, audience, and matrix recordings. Ask natural language questions to find specific songs, guest appearances, or show details, and then play the selected performance. Enjoy visualizers and seamless playback across devices.

Highlights
  • Access 2,250+ Grateful Dead shows
  • Natural language AI querying
  • Detailed recording information
  • Interactive show vault map
  • Eight built-in visualizers
  • CarPlay and AirPlay support
  • Offline downloads (Pro)
Features
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The shows. The songs. 1965-1995. 2,250+ Grateful Dead shows, with their soundboards, audience tapes and matrixes, straight from the Internet Archive. DeadGraph is a player for them, and a way to ask questions about them in plain language. ASK, DO NOT SEARCH "Longest Dark Star in 1972." "Shows where Branford sat in." "What did they open with at Cornell." Type it the way you would say it to a friend who knows, or just ask Siri: "Play Cornell 77 on DeadGraph." DeadGraph reads setlists, transitions, guest sit-ins and run histories, and answers with the show, then plays it. RECORDINGS, HONESTLY LABELED Many nights survive in several versions. DeadGraph lists the ones it has for each night with the source, the taper or transferer credit and the community rating, so you can pick the Miller transfer or the Betty board on purpose rather than by accident. THE VAULT, AT A GLANCE Thirty one rings, one per year, each show in DeadGraph a mark on its ring. Touch a year to go there. It is a map of the thing rather than a list of it. A LIGHT SHOW Eight visualizers built to be watched, not to fill space: liquid light, mandalas, prism folds, wormholes. Build your own color palettes, let it cycle through them on a timer, or leave it running on its own with no music at all, as a decoration. Works on the TV through AirPlay. BUILT FOR HOW PEOPLE ACTUALLY LISTEN CarPlay. AirPlay and Bluetooth output switching without leaving the app. Playlists. Background playback. Lock screen and Now Playing controls. iPhone, iPad and Mac, including landscape on the couch. FREE, AND MEANT TO STAY WORTH USING Browsing, listening, playlists and the whole light show are free. Free accounts get five AI questions a day. Pro raises that to five hundred and adds offline downloads, plus more playlists and chat threads, at 7.99 a month or 79.99 a year. Recordings are streamed from archive.org, where the taping community has kept them for decades. DeadGraph is not affiliated with the Grateful Dead or Rhino Entertainment. Terms of Use: https://deadgraph.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://deadgraph.com/privacy

Screenshots

Live Shuffle4 screens
DeadGraph4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Live Shuffle at free against DeadGraph's freemium. Live Shuffle also leads on ratings volume (26 vs 1). DeadGraph's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

DeadGraph holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Live Shuffle has 26 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Live Shuffle ships an update weekly, DeadGraph every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Live Shuffle versus DeadGraph: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLive ShuffleDeadGraph
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (26 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings26 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB54 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperAustin ByronMyron Koch

Customer experience

Live Shuffle

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

DeadGraph

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Live Shuffle

No in-app purchases

None

DeadGraph

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Live Shuffle free?
Live Shuffle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DeadGraph free?
DeadGraph is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Live Shuffle or DeadGraph?
DeadGraph is rated higher. Live Shuffle averages 4.8 out of 5 from 26 ratings, while DeadGraph averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Live Shuffle or DeadGraph have ads?
Neither Live Shuffle nor DeadGraph shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Live Shuffle or DeadGraph?
Live Shuffle ships an update weekly, and DeadGraph every 2 days. Most recently, Live Shuffle was updated on October 8, 2026 and DeadGraph on October 7, 2026.

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