Helping Friendly App vs PhishTD
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.
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 rating: PhishTD at 5.0 against Helping Friendly App's 3.9. PhishTD also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%). Helping Friendly App's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (61 vs 6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Helping Friendly App has 61 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Helping Friendly App's written reviews are positive against 100% of PhishTD's.
Helping Friendly App ships an update every 3 weeks, PhishTD every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Helping Friendly App | PhishTD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (61 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 61 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Richard Wollack | Dylan Suhr |
Customer experience
Helping Friendly App
PhishTD
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
PhishTD
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Helping Friendly App
No in-app purchases
PhishTD
No in-app purchases
Questions
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