LiveVault vs Gizz Tapes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LiveVault
Explore thousands of historic live Grateful Dead performances with this mobile streaming player. Discover new shows, browse by era, and curate your personal library of legendary concerts with gapless playback.
- Thousands of historic live Grateful Dead shows
- Explore shows by era and year
- Gapless audio playback
- Robust song catalog
- Personal library for favorite shows
- On This Day discovery feature
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Explore live Grateful Dead performances with LiveVault. Browse shows by date and era, discover performances of your favorite songs, and stream recordings hosted by the Internet Archive. LiveVault is free. Browse and play music without an account. Sign in to use Live Guide and My Trip, with no payment card or subscription required. FIND THE SHOW See shows performed on today's month and day, browse by year and era, and explore a curated catalog of 166 songs with their live performances. CHOOSE THE TAPE Inspect up to ten same-date recordings with SBD, AUD, or MTX labels, ratings, reviews, and download counts, then pick the one you want to hear. Choosing a source changes the recording and setlist. PRESS PLAY Full-show playback with background audio, lock-screen controls, queue and seek, and resume from your saved position. LIVE GUIDE Follow one shared daily episode built around the recordings. Narration alternates with selected Archive-hosted recordings in a visible timeline. Narration is AI-generated and may contain errors. Guide availability depends on the published episode catalog. Free with sign-in. MY TRIP Keep a personal listening trail across shows, songs, venues, years, and milestones, and revisit what you discover. You can turn listening-history collection off in settings. Free with sign-in. YOUR LIBRARY Save favorites, write notes, and build playlists. Previously saved shows remain playable on the device where you saved them. LiveVault is an unofficial, third-party streaming client. Music streams from the public catalog hosted by the Internet Archive (archive.org). LiveVault is not affiliated with the Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead Productions, Rhino, nugs.net, the Internet Archive, or any artist. Recording availability varies. AI-generated context may contain errors. Privacy Policy: https://www.livevaultapp.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.livevaultapp.com/terms
Gizz Tapes
Explore a vast collection of live concert streams from a popular rock band. Relive legendary performances and discover rare shows from extensive archives. Enjoy an ever-growing library of electrifying sets.
- Live concert streams
- Extensive archive access
- Curated performances
- Discover rare shows
- Relive legendary sets
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Dive into the electrifying world of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard with Gizz Tapes - your one-stop app for live concert streams! Curated from the vast archives of the Internet Archive, Gizz Tapes lets you relive the band's legendary performances at the tap of a button. Queue up a blistering set from 2019, explore a rare intimate show, or just let it run - there's always more Gizz to discover.
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Verdict
LiveVault and Gizz Tapes are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for LiveVault against 5.0 for Gizz Tapes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 26 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.
| Parameter | LiveVault | Gizz Tapes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (26 ratings) | 5.0 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 26 | 26 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | LiveVault App, LLC | Ghost Apps LLC |
Customer experience
LiveVault
Gizz Tapes
In-app purchases
LiveVault
No in-app purchases
Gizz Tapes
No in-app purchases
