Helping Friendly App vs Phish Just Jams
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Helping Friendly App
Access a comprehensive database of Phish setlists dating back to 1983. Track your personal concert statistics and compare them with friends. This app is essential for dedicated fans of the band.
- Phish setlist database
- Personal stats tracking
- Friend comparison
- Comprehensive data since 1983
- Phish.net integration
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The Helping Friendly App (HFA) is the must-have app for every Phish Phan! It is a comprehensive database of every Phish setlist since 1983 and it helps you keep track of your personal stats, compare your stats to your friends and much more. All setlist data provided courtesy of The Mockingbird Foundation / Phish.net.
Phish Just Jams
This app provides a vast library of Phish music, focusing solely on instrumental jams by removing lyrics and composed sections. Explore over 4500 tracks from 1993 to the present, with advanced filters to customize your listening experience. Enjoy curated playlists or create your own mixes on the fly.
- Instrumental Phish jams
- 4500+ tracks (1993-present)
- Advanced track filtering
- Curated playlists
- On-the-fly mix creation
- Continuous playback
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The PhishJustJams website and app presents the music of Phish with the lyrics and composed sections removed, so you can get just to the jams. The complete track list has 4500+ tracks, from 1993 all the way up to the most recent tour, and could be played continuously for more than 3 straight weeks. In order to help tailor the music to your mood or taste, we offer a range of filters to refine the track list. These filters can all be combined to give you exactly what you're looking for. If you're only looking for Pipers from the Summer Tour of 1999 over 10 min long you can do that. We offer a variety of curated playlists, ranging from our Top Shelf series, which presents the top tracks of each year from 1993 to the present, to certain moods or styles of playing, like our Ambient, Dark-Evil, and Machine-Gun Trey playlists. You can choose to interact with the app as much or as little as you like. The beauty of Phish Just Jams is that you can have an enjoyable experience by digging into the filters and regularly updating your available playlist or you can simply hit Play and put the phone back in your pocket. You can create your own mix on the fly at any moment.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Phish Just Jams at 4.8 against Helping Friendly App's 3.9. Phish Just Jams also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 60%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
Phish Just Jams holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 61 and 89 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Helping Friendly App's written reviews are positive against 83% of Phish Just Jams's.
Helping Friendly App ships an update every 3 weeks, Phish Just Jams every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Helping Friendly App | Phish Just Jams |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (61 ratings) | 4.8 (89 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 61 | 89 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Richard Wollack | Brian Vernarsky |
Customer experience
Helping Friendly App
Phish Just Jams
Bugs and requests
Helping Friendly App
Reported bugs
41 issues- NYE 2025/6 incorrect setlist
- Cream & Sincere missing
- Me & Bobby McGee not played
- Import shows option fails
- Syncing issues with .net
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- App deleted all stats/shows
- Cannot resync
- Error message 'try again'
- Human Nature not showing on July 20 2024 show
- Encore missing for 5/28/22
- Oct 29th 2021 date missing
- 10/29/21 missing from Vegas '21 Halloween run
- Login not working
- Password not working on app but works on website
- Cannot refresh or update during tour to add new shows
- Contrast issues (black on black font)
- Not importing 2020 show stats from phish.net
- Bugs prevent login or registration
- App crashing
- Cannot register as a user
- Black font on black background in night mode
- Crashing issues
- Dark appearance setting makes text unreadable
- Horrible font and background color choices
- Dark mode not working
- Setlist updates are infrequent
- Latest shows not updated in a timely manner
- App won't open
- Baker's Dozen populated incorrectly
- August 6th show listed several times
- Last two Dicks shows never added
- App crashes when trying to look up shows
- Tabs in search feature crash the app
- Stats only works sometimes
- Stats deleted twice by updates
- No shows after 2017
- App not updated since 2017 tour
- Shows after 2010 not appearing without in-app update
- Crash last Halloween, developer fixed it
- App not updated regularly
- App not updated since 9/1
Requested features
8 requests- Count NYE shows as January
- Link out to Phish.net pages
- Integration with phish.in, Relisten, or LivePhish+
- Update for 2024 stats
- Manually enter shows
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- Add NYE 18 run and Mexico 19 to stats
- Ability to add friends and compare shows
- Tap on a song to see overall stats
Phish Just Jams
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Helping Friendly App
No in-app purchases
Phish Just Jams
No in-app purchases
Questions
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