Comparison

Deadsound vs DeadGraph

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

DeadGraph

Explore over 2,250 Grateful Dead shows from 1965-1995, accessing soundboards, audience tapes, and matrices. Ask natural language questions to find specific songs, guest appearances, or show details, and then play the recordings. Features visualizers and extensive playback options for an immersive listening experience.

Highlights
  • Access 2,250+ Grateful Dead shows
  • Natural language AI search
  • Stream soundboards, audience tapes, matrixes
  • Detailed recording information
  • Interactive year-based vault map
  • Eight built-in visualizers
  • CarPlay and AirPlay support
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

Deadsound4 screens
DeadGraph4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Deadsound at none against DeadGraph's 2. Deadsound also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 1). DeadGraph's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, device support 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. DeadGraph sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Deadsound asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DeadGraph 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Deadsound ships an update fortnightly, DeadGraph every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Deadsound versus DeadGraph: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDeadsoundDeadGraph
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (7 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB56 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperJames BarnesMyron Koch

Customer experience

Deadsound

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

DeadGraph

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

In-app purchases

None

Deadsound

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

DeadGraph

Subscriptions2
  • DeadGraph Pro$7.991 Month
  • DeadGraph Pro$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Deadsound free?
Deadsound is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DeadGraph free?
DeadGraph is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Deadsound or DeadGraph?
DeadGraph is rated higher. Deadsound averages 4.7 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while DeadGraph averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Deadsound or DeadGraph have ads?
Neither Deadsound nor DeadGraph shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Deadsound or DeadGraph?
Deadsound ships an update fortnightly, and DeadGraph every 2 days. Most recently, Deadsound was updated on November 3, 2026 and DeadGraph on November 5, 2026.

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