Chateau Archive Player vs DeadGraph
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chateau Archive Player
Access and stream thousands of live concert recordings from various artists. Enjoy offline listening, CarPlay, and AirPlay support. This open-source application is completely free and respects user privacy.
- Stream and download full concert shows
- Browse by band, year, and date
- CarPlay support
- AirPlay support
- Open-source and ad-free
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Chateau Archive is a free, open-source concert player for live music fans. Browse and stream thousands of performances from the Grateful Dead, Phish, and dozens of other artists on the Internet Archive and Phish.in. - Stream or download full shows for offline listening - Browse by band, year, and date - CarPlay support for listening on the road - AirPlay support - Completely free with no ads, no accounts, and no tracking
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.
- 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)
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: DeadGraph at every 2 days against Chateau Archive Player's fortnightly. DeadGraph also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Chateau Archive Player's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). 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
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 — 5.0 for Chateau Archive Player against 5.0 for DeadGraph. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chateau Archive Player has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Chateau Archive Player ships an update fortnightly, DeadGraph every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chateau Archive Player | DeadGraph |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Joseph Hardy | Myron Koch |
Customer experience
Chateau Archive Player
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In-app purchases
Chateau Archive Player
No in-app purchases
DeadGraph
No in-app purchases
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