LiveVault vs Dead Sets
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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LiveVault is the ultimate mobile streaming player for live Grateful Dead shows. Tap into thousands of historic, legendary live performances directly from your device. Designed with modern aesthetics and seamless iOS integration, LiveVault makes it easier than ever to explore the rich history of live Dead. Discover new shows every day, dive deep into exhaustive song repertoires, and curate your own personal library of legendary shows. Features include: → "On This Day" discovery to explore historic shows performed on today's date → A deep-dive browser sorting thousands of shows by era and year → Gapless audio playback designed specifically for continuous live sets → A robust song catalog to discover new versions of top tracks → Personal library to save and organize your favorite shows Please note: LiveVault is an unofficial, third-party streaming client. It utilizes the public, open-source audio catalog hosted by the Internet Archive (archive.org). We are not officially affiliated with any artists, and the app uses the Internet Archive API in accordance with their terms of service.
Dead Sets
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Every Grateful Dead setlist. And now, the music. Dead Sets is the fastest way to dive into the Dead's live catalog: 1,600+ shows from 1972 to 1995, every setlist searchable by song, venue, city, or year — entirely offline, no account, no ads. LISTEN — Almost every show links to its recordings in the archive.org Grateful Dead collection. Dead Sets auto-picks the best-rated soundboard and streams it right on the setlist page — or flip between every tape of the night, soundboards, audience recordings, and matrixes, even mid-song. The mini-player follows you through the app, and playback continues with the screen locked. SEARCH — Type "Scarlet Begonias" and see every performance. Filter by year, state, or country. Tap any song in a setlist to trace it across two decades. TODAY IN DEAD HISTORY — What did the band play on this date in '77? In '89? One tab, every year. SAVED — Heart your favorite shows, and mark the ones you attended with a ticket stub. Your whole trip, tallied, stored only on your device. CHAT WITH A DEAD HEAD (subscription) — A virtual dead head who's seen 300+ shows and followed the whole Europe '72 tour. Ask him anything — "best Dark Star of '73?", "what happened today in Dead history?" — and tap the shows he mentions to jump right to them. $1.99/month after a 7-day free trial, 30 messages a day, cancel anytime. Setlist data from the Grateful Dead Setlist Archive (cs.cmu.edu), cross-checked against archive.org and setlist.fm, with hundreds of hand-restored corrections. Recordings stream from the archive.org Grateful Dead collection, where the band has long blessed fan recordings. Not affiliated with Grateful Dead Productions. Just built by someone who gets it. Terms of Use: https://bowtiedjungle.dev/terms Privacy Policy: https://bowtiedjungle.dev/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LiveVault at none against Dead Sets's 1. Dead Sets's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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. Dead Sets sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. LiveVault asks for nothing beyond the download.
LiveVault ships an update fortnightly, Dead Sets every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on July 17, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LiveVault | Dead Sets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (14 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BEN Roach | Matt Selph |
In-app purchases
LiveVault
No in-app purchases
Dead Sets
- Dead Sets7 Days trial$1.991 Month





