Helping Friendly App vs ShowFlow
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.
ShowFlow
Log your concert history, including artists, venues, and setlists. Earn badges for milestones and create shareable poster-style cards from your memories. Connect with friends to see shared concert experiences and anniversaries.
- Concert history logging
- Setlist tracking
- Venue and artist history
- Milestone badges
- Customizable share cards
- Friend following and shared history
- Concert anniversary reminders
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Search an artist, narrow to the night and log it. ShowFlow logs the setlist & venue, counts the show, and turns years of scattered memories into a history you can sit back and interact with. Visualize your Concert History: • Shows, artists, venues and setlist • Badges for milestones, genres, venues and artists • Share cards: Poster styles built from your own history, plus a card for a single night with its setlist and a photo you add • Most seen artists, most-heard songs, most visited venues Upcoming Tour Dates and Tickets: • Upcoming Show Dates for Every artist you've logged, in a venue near you • Upcoming Shows for artists you've never seen before, based on the genres you like • "Try Someone New" captures artists visiting your town/city that you've never seen before Share with Friends: • Follow friends and see the shows they log • Click "I was there too" on a friend's show to add that same night to your own history • Together View: Easily see every artist you and a friend have both seen live together • Show anniversaries: Share who you've seen previously on this day Privacy: No ads, analytics, tracking, location, contacts or other advertising identifiers. Your profile can be public, followers-only or fully private. Other: Setlists and show data come from Setlist.fm and MusicBrainz. Setlists are a record of what those sources say was played, not a guarantee. Artist information comes from MusicBrainz and Deezer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ShowFlow at 5.0 against Helping Friendly App's 3.9. ShowFlow also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). Helping Friendly App's advantage is ratings volume (61 vs 5). 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.
ShowFlow 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 5, 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 ShowFlow's.
Helping Friendly App ships an update every 3 weeks, ShowFlow every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Helping Friendly App | ShowFlow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (61 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 61 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 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 | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Richard Wollack | Curtain Call Worldwide LLC |
Customer experience
Helping Friendly App
ShowFlow
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
ShowFlow
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Helping Friendly App
No in-app purchases
ShowFlow
No in-app purchases
Questions
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