Deadsound vs Hear Weir Here
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.
Hear Weir Here
Stream any Bob Weir performance, from early Grateful Dead concerts to recent Dead & Company shows, all sourced from Archive.org. The app offers an intuitive interface for searching and playing music.
- Stream Bob Weir performances
- Access Grateful Dead shows
- Search by date
- Intuitive interface
- Sourced from Archive.org
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A few years back I bought a Grateful Dead Time Machine, an Arduino music player that streams GD shows available on Archive.org. My only complaint about it was that I couldn't take it with me when I was out of the house. So after Bob Weir passed earlier this year, I decided to take matters into my own hands and build one on my own. This player will stream any Bob Weir show, from the earliest Grateful Dead shows to his last Dead & Co, run, if it is available on Archive.org. The use of the app is meant to be intuitive as the GDTM: Dial in a date, click on search. If you get confused, listen to the music play!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hear Weir Here at 5.0 against Deadsound's 4.7. Deadsound's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). On price, update cadence, 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.
Hear Weir Here holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Deadsound has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Deadsound ships an update fortnightly, Hear Weir Here every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Deadsound | Hear Weir Here |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | James Barnes | Charles Sona |
In-app purchases
Deadsound
No in-app purchases
Hear Weir Here
No in-app purchases






