LiveVault vs Jamendar
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
Jamendar
Discover local live music events and manage your concert schedule. Follow your favorite bands and venues, sync shows with your phone's calendar, and coordinate plans with friends for tickets and rides. Currently focused on the Philadelphia/New Jersey area, with options to add custom events and submit new artists.
- Social concert calendar
- Follow bands and venues
- Sync with phone calendar
- Connect with friends
- Coordinate tickets and rides
- Add custom events
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Your social concert calendar. Jamendar is a directory of local live music where you can follow bands/venues, add your personal show calendar to your phone's calendar, connect with friends, and coordinate extra tickets and rides to the show. We are currently focused on the Philadelphia/New Jersey area, but you can add your own events and submit bands/venues for us to automatically bring in!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: LiveVault at 26 against Jamendar's 2. On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for LiveVault against 5.0 for Jamendar. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LiveVault has 26 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | LiveVault | Jamendar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (26 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | 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 | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | LiveVault App, LLC | Crow Services LLC |
Customer experience
LiveVault
Jamendar
In-app purchases
LiveVault
No in-app purchases
Jamendar
No in-app purchases
