Comparison

Cortex Cloud vs Pedal Book

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Cortex Cloud

Manage your Nano Cortex and access cloud-based content with an elegant interface. Browse and download presets, neural captures, and more. Control your device's profile and privacy settings.

Highlights
  • Control Nano Cortex
  • Access Cortex Cloud
  • Browse users and presets
  • Download content
  • Manage profile and privacy
  • Share content
Features
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Control your Nano Cortex and access Cortex Cloud through an intuitive and elegant interface. Browse users, Presets, Neural Captures, and more. Download items to have them display instantly on your device. You can also manage your profile and change the privacy settings for any files you have uploaded to Cortex Cloud. Benefits: Access deeper customization options for your Nano Cortex. Seamlessly download Presets, Neural Captures, and other items to your Quad Cortex or Nano Cortex. Manage your profile and the items you have uploaded to Cortex Cloud. Discover and follow users. Share Presets and Neural Captures with your friends. Cortex Cloud requires a free Neural DSP account and a registered Quad Cortex or Nano Cortex. Cortex Cloud is not required to use the Quad Cortex or Nano Cortex but provides deeper customization options for the Nano Cortex.

About

Pedal Book

Features
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Your pedal settings, saved for good. Dial in a tone on an analog pedal and it's gone the moment you touch the knobs again - unless you write it down, or try to remember it. Pedal Book fixes that. Build a digital copy of your analog pedals, and dial in the settings to match your favourite sounds, then save for later! -- HOW IT WORKS -- BUILD YOUR OWN PEDALS - Replicate your analog pedals by taking a photo or building them from scratch - Place knobs, footswitches, toggles, sliders, and labels exactly where they appear on your pedals - Start from a classic stompbox preset with a working on/off LED - Unlock sparkle, metallic, and hand-painted finishes with Premium CAPTURE YOUR SETTINGS - Match knob, switch, and slider settings to your actual guitar pedals - Save the tone to your library to access whenever needed - Add what guitar, amp, and other gear you used - Organize tones into folders you'll actually use - Unlock unlimited tones with premium SAVE YOUR SIGNAL CHAIN - Lay out your pedals on a pedalboard to save entire signal chains - Create different pedalboards for different occasions (i.e. gig, home, studio, etc...) TRACK YOUR GEAR - Log every guitar, amp, and pedal you own - Tie your gear directly to the tones you save YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS - No account, no sign-up, no cloud - Everything stays on your device — nowhere else Free to use, with room to grow: Free tier - 3 Pedals, 5 Tones, 1 Pedalboard. Pro tier - 10 Pedals, 25 Tones, 3 pedalboards. Premium - Unlimited Pedals, Tones, and Pedalboards + NO ADS + Custom Pedal Finishes. Just want the ads gone? That's available on its own too.

Screenshots

Cortex Cloud4 screens
Pedal Book4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cortex Cloud at none against Pedal Book's 4. Cortex Cloud also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). Pedal Book's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 6 weeks). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pedal Book sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Cortex Cloud asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cortex Cloud ships an update every 6 weeks, Pedal Book daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Cortex Cloud versus Pedal Book: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCortex CloudPedal Book
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (73 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews28.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings73 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksDaily — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNeural DSPMalcolm Lowy

In-app purchases

None

Cortex Cloud

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Pedal Book

One-time4
  • Remove Ads$1.99
  • Premium Upgrade$3.00
  • Pro$6.99
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  • Premium$9.99

Questions

Is Cortex Cloud free?
Cortex Cloud is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pedal Book free?
Pedal Book is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cortex Cloud or Pedal Book have ads?
Pedal Book shows ads; Cortex Cloud does not.
Which is updated more often, Cortex Cloud or Pedal Book?
Cortex Cloud ships an update every 6 weeks, and Pedal Book daily. Most recently, Cortex Cloud was updated on October 24, 2026 and Pedal Book on October 18, 2026.

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