iTour.phish vs Deadsound
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iTour.phish
This app is a comprehensive tour companion for fans, providing essential information for every show. Access directions, setlists, seating charts, showtimes, tickets, local weather, and videos. It integrates with navigation and ride-sharing apps, offers venue and band information, and includes an interactive tour map and calendar view.
- Tour event information
- Directions and navigation integration
- Setlist and seating chart access
- Ticket finding
- Interactive aerial tour map
- Calendar view with reminders
- Venue and band Wikipedia info
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The must-have app for fans on the road, or at home. This application helps you find all the information that you need for the current Phish tour. Access directions, setlists, seating charts, showtimes, tickets, local weather and videos for every show in the run. > Integrated with Maps, Uber, Lyft and Waze for additional ways to help you get to each venue > Wikipedia information about the band and every venue of the tour > Fly from show to show via the interactive aerial tour map > Plan your shows via the calendar view > Find tickets with CashorTrade.org > Review the setlists from phish.net > View where you're sitting with venue seating charts > Watch videos on YouTube NEW! - Settings screen to configure app settings (appearance, units, and map style) NEW! - Dark / Light mode support. Pick one and stick with it, or sync with your iOS Appearance setting NEW! - Event list shows grouped by tour NEW! - Add event information to your iOS calendar NEW! - Pick from 19 different map styles NEW! - Push notification reminders on the day of an event IMPROVED! - Event calendar display IMPROVED! - Weather information display IMPROVED! - Interactive aerial tour map IMPROVED! - Browsing experience IMPROVED! - Screens are more accessible for every user IMPROVED! - Directions to venue options UPDATED! - Loading screen and app icons ** Review ** "Perfect for both on-the-fly adventure and advance tour planning, iTour is the touring companion that has been begging to be made since Phish and iPhones collided." - Mr. Miner's Phish Thoughts Works on devices running iOS11.0+, optimized for devices running iOS14
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Deadsound at none against iTour.phish's 4. Deadsound also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). iTour.phish's advantage is review sentiment (83% vs 50%). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support 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. iTour.phish sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Deadsound asks for nothing beyond the download.
Deadsound holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 7 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 83% of iTour.phish's written reviews are positive against 50% of Deadsound's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
iTour.phish ships an update every 2 months, Deadsound fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iTour.phish | Deadsound |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (9 ratings) | 4.7 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Sugarloaf App Company | James Barnes |
Customer experience
iTour.phish
Deadsound
In-app purchases
iTour.phish
- WTF it's just a buck$0.99
- Unlock Premium Features$2.99
- Buy me a coffee$2.99
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- Buy me a beer$5.99
Deadsound
No in-app purchases









