Helping Friendly App vs OnStage
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.
OnStage
Follow concerts live, song by song, directly on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Discover upcoming shows, revisit past setlists, and listen to recordings. Organizes your concert history in one place.
- Live setlist tracking
- Lock Screen integration
- Dynamic Island updates
- Browse artists and tours
- My Shows organizer
- Access show recordings
- Searchable show history
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Follow a show. Watch the setlist happen. OnStage puts the concert you’re at, or the one you wish you were at, on your Lock Screen. Follow a show with live coverage and watch the setlist fill in song by song, right in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen. No refreshing, no forum tab open in your pocket. Before the show Browse artists, tours, and upcoming dates. Follow the shows you care about and find your next night out in My Shows. During the show Live Activities keep the current song and setlist progress on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with updates as they’re reported by available sources. After the show Revisit setlists, show notes, and details from the sources fans trust. Listen back through available community recordings and official live releases. Your shows, together My Shows organizes the shows you follow into Upcoming, Past, and Recordings, grouped by date. Search by artist, venue, city, month, year, or song title to find a favorite night. Recording badges make it easy to spot shows you can hear again. Artist coverage Live setlist coverage is deepest for artists like Phish and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. Other artists have varying coverage, including dedicated fan-run setlist sources, touring and show-history coverage, and fan-reported live updates when available. We’re adding sources over time. Sign in is optional. Recordings are available for select shows. Apple Music playback requires an Apple Music subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: OnStage at 5.0 against Helping Friendly App's 3.9. OnStage also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). Helping Friendly App's advantage is ratings volume (61 vs 2). 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.
OnStage 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 2, 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 OnStage's.
Helping Friendly App ships an update every 3 weeks, OnStage every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Helping Friendly App | OnStage |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (61 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 61 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Richard Wollack | DANIEL JAMES MILLER |
Customer experience
Helping Friendly App
OnStage
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
OnStage
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Helping Friendly App
No in-app purchases
OnStage
No in-app purchases
Questions
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