Play Dead: Grateful Dead App

Name: Play Dead: Grateful Dead App
Rating: 4.4 (77 reviews)
Author: nugs.net enterprises, LLC

By: nugs.net enterprises, LLC App

Official Live Concerts & Music

Overview

Version:

1.1.1

Last updated: 2026-08-04

Ranking

#151,457 ▲ 641

Overall

Features & Capabilities

Play Dead is the official Grateful Dead streaming app, offering unprecedented hi-res access to the Grateful Dead Vault of live recordings.

For the first time, the band’s live legacy is brought together in a single official streaming service, with newly transferred and mastered recordings from the original sources.

Previously unreleased shows - called Dead Drops - will be available every Tuesday, augmenting the catalog of official live Grateful Dead releases, many of which have never been available on any streaming service.

The Vault Unlocked Exclusive Hi-Res Recordings Access new high resolution transfers, mastered for the first time and available exclusively on Play Dead.

Dead Drops Every Tuesday Previously unreleased recordings added, every Tuesday, curated by Grateful Dead archivist and legacy manager David Lemieux, mastered for the first time by David Glasser.

CD-Only Releases, Now Streaming Shows previously available only on CD from box sets and Dave’s Picks are now streaming for the first time -only on Play Dead- in higher-than-CD-quality.

The Vault by Year Live recordings are presented in order of performance date for the first time in the band’s history. Play Dead brings together three decades of live recordings into a single, evolving app designed for both longtime Dead Heads and those who just got on the bus.

Listen Anywhere Listen and resume listening across devices, including Apple CarPlay.

Subscription Subscriptions available starting at $9.99/month or $99.99/year.

Official Access to the Grateful Dead Vault Created for Grateful Dead Productions and Rhino Entertainment, longtime stewards of the Grateful Dead catalog. Built by nugs, the leading platform for live music.

For nugs Subscribers Play Dead is also available as an add-on to nugs.

PlayDead Payment and Auto-Renewal Terms: Play Dead offers auto-renewing monthly and annual subscriptions to stream music from the Play Dead catalog. Two subscription types are available, monthly (30 days) and annual (365 days). All subscriptions auto-renew. A Play Dead monthly subscription is $9.99 per month or $99.99 per year for new users. Plans auto-renew at $9.99 per month or $99.99 per year after the first year. Payment will be charged to the iTunes Account at the time of your purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Accounts will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the users Account Settings after purchase. Terms of Use at http://nugs.net/terms.aspx Privacy Policy at http://nugs.net/privacy.aspx

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

nugs.net enterprises, LLC

Rating:

4.40

(77) 1 new ratings

Version:

1.1.1 Last updated: 2026-08-04

Version code:

889120703

Creation date:

2026-04-15

Compatible devices:

Size:

85.08MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-09-03

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Ranking

# 151,457 ▲ 641

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Developed by:

nugs.net enterprises, LLC

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/play-dead-grateful-dead-app/id6747825801

Website:

https://playdead.app/

User Reviews

Users praise the app’s high-quality, remastered audio and sleek cassette UI, plus access to exclusive content and useful extras. However, they repeatedly call out a high subscription price, streaming-only content with no offline option, weak CarPlay support, and requests for missing features (ratings/mark-as-played) and UI improvements like larger artwork.

Pros

Superior audio quality with remastered soundboards that outperform other sources.
Polished cassette-tape UI and an overall great interface.
Access to remastered/box-set releases and content not easily available elsewhere.
Extra features beyond streaming (reviews, playlists, recording history).
Strong search/navigation across the catalog.

Cons

High price with a paid subscription model and little to no free access.
Content is streaming-only and can disappear; offline listening is not available.
Limited CarPlay support and readability issues in car interfaces.
Missing features requests seen across multiple reviews (rating/marking shows as played; shelves in the cassette UI).
Artwork/display could be improved (desire for larger artwork).

Recent reviews

People online will go on and on about how great the app is and especially how amazing the sound quality is. It’s not that great. Many shows sound exactly like they do on Relisten or archive. Slow show uploads and too many around the exact same time. I tried it for a month and it’s not worth it. The shows I listen to on Relisten or Nugs sound as good or better than most I checked out on the new app. I thought we were gonna get “Without A Net” kind of sound. It’s not like that.

by __*****, 2026-08-19

The content and quality are great. The app is very buggy. I’ve had it for five days and it has froze up six times. Need to restart phone to get it working. Now I get an error that says ‘Something went wrong’. Restarted phone and it just spins. Support is virtually non existent.