Deadsound vs PhishTD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Deadsound
Access and stream over 17,000 Grateful Dead live recordings. Search shows by date, venue, song, or source, and build a personal library of your favorite performances. Enjoy offline playback and daily historical discoveries.
- Search 17,000+ Grateful Dead recordings
- Filter by date, venue, song, or source
- Intelligent caching for offline playback
- Background playback with lock screen controls
- Gapless audio
- Favorite and track listened shows
- Daily historical discoveries
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Every Dead show. One app. We built Deadsound because finding the best tapes on should be easy. Now you can search 17,000+ Grateful Dead recordings by date, venue, song, or source, and start listening in seconds. FIND ANYTHING Search by setlist to find every "Dark Star," or every show where they played "Dark Star" plus "Estimated" and also "Blow Away." Filter by Charlie Miller transfers or Betty Boards, or by AUD/SBD/Matrix. Narrow by year, city, or venue. LISTEN ANYWHERE Intelligent caching means your music keeps playing even when your signal doesn't. Full background playback with lock screen controls, all with gapless audio. BUILD YOUR LIBRARY Favorite the shows that matter. Track what you've heard. Pick up where you left off. DISCOVER DAILY See what happened today in Dead history. A new discovery every day. Completely free. No ads. No subscription. The music belongs to everyone. Streams from Archive.org. Not affiliated with the Grateful Dead.
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.
- Real-time tour information
- One-page show overview
- Setlist and song data
- Automatic tour updates
- Optional push notifications
- Tour trend analysis
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PhishTD at 100% against Deadsound's 50%. PhishTD also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Deadsound's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, 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.
PhishTD holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Deadsound's written reviews are positive against 100% of PhishTD's.
Deadsound ships an update fortnightly, PhishTD every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Deadsound | PhishTD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | James Barnes | Dylan Suhr |
Customer experience
Deadsound
PhishTD
In-app purchases
Deadsound
No in-app purchases
PhishTD
No in-app purchases
