PhishTD vs The Dead Archive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
The Dead Archive
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Every Grateful Dead concert from 1965 to 1995: setlists, community-ranked best versions, and streaming straight from Archive.org's live music collection. Browse by era, year, or venue. Read the setlist for any night, see where a song debuted and where it peaked, and play full shows with background audio, lock-screen controls, AirPlay, and Bluetooth in the car. On This Day surfaces the shows the band played on today's date. Heady Picks collects the versions the community voted best. Tributes adds Jerry Garcia Band and other related acts. Sign in to save shows and songs, keep listening history, and join the board: a shared feed of comments on shows, songs, and exact moments in a recording. Notifications are optional and off by default. Audio streams from Archive.org, home of the band's taper-friendly live collection. The app hosts no recordings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: The Dead Archive at every 2 days against PhishTD's every 2 months. The Dead Archive also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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 ships an update every 2 months, The Dead Archive every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PhishTD | The Dead Archive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dylan Suhr | John D'Attoma |
In-app purchases
PhishTD
No in-app purchases
The Dead Archive
No in-app purchases
