Deadsound vs LiveVault
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.
LiveVault
Explore thousands of historic live Grateful Dead performances with this mobile streaming player. Discover new shows, browse by era, and curate your personal library of legendary concerts with gapless playback.
- Thousands of historic live Grateful Dead shows
- Explore shows by era and year
- Gapless audio playback
- Robust song catalog
- Personal library for favorite shows
- On This Day discovery feature
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LiveVault is the ultimate mobile streaming player for live Grateful Dead shows. Tap into thousands of historic, legendary live performances directly from your device. Designed with modern aesthetics and seamless iOS integration, LiveVault makes it easier than ever to explore the rich history of live Dead. Discover new shows every day, dive deep into exhaustive song repertoires, and curate your own personal library of legendary shows. Features include: → "On This Day" discovery to explore historic shows performed on today's date → A deep-dive browser sorting thousands of shows by era and year → Gapless audio playback designed specifically for continuous live sets → A robust song catalog to discover new versions of top tracks → Personal library to save and organize your favorite shows Please note: LiveVault is an unofficial, third-party streaming client. It utilizes the public, open-source audio catalog hosted by the Internet Archive (archive.org). We are not officially affiliated with any artists, and the app uses the Internet Archive API in accordance with their terms of service.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Deadsound at 15.1 against LiveVault's 18.0. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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 Deadsound against 5.0 for LiveVault. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 14 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and July 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Deadsound | LiveVault |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | James Barnes | BEN Roach |
Customer experience
Deadsound
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In-app purchases
Deadsound
No in-app purchases
LiveVault
No in-app purchases
