Fender Pro Control vs Ampero II Stage
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fender Pro Control
This app provides remote control for a multi-effects guitar workstation via Bluetooth. Users can create, edit, and share custom presets, organize them into songs and setlists, and access a community library of tones. It also offers backup and firmware update capabilities.
- Remote control via Bluetooth
- Create and edit user presets
- Organize presets into songs and setlists
- Access community-shared presets
- Backup and restore presets and settings
- Update device firmware
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Fender Pro Control is the ultimate companion app for the Tone Master Pro multi-effects guitar workstation. REQUIRES A TONE MASTER PRO. Fender Pro Control allows remote control of Tone Master Pro via Bluetooth for creating, editing and sharing your own presets or for auditioning and downloading thousands of tones created by Fender’s community of players and artists. MANAGE PRESETS, SONGS & SETLISTS Easily create and edit over 500 user presets with Pro Control’s intuitive user interface. Organize your presets into Songs. Organize Songs into performance ready Setlists. EASY EDITING Choose from over 100 amp and effect models to sculpt your sounds. Familiar, intuitive interface makes tone creation fast and inspiring. CLOUD PRESETS Share your custom presets directly to the cloud. Audition and download presets from the user community of players and Fender artists. BACKUP & RESTORE Backup and Restore your presets, settings and user IRs to your personal cloud space so you never lose your data. Update your device firmware to get the latest amp/effect/cab models, features and enhancements.
Ampero II Stage
Manage your amp modeler and effects processor with an intuitive interface. Access full effects chains, download and share patches from a growing community, and perform bulk operations on your presets.
- Full effects chain and parameter management
- Download and upload patches via Hotone Community
- Intuitive user interface
- Bulk import/export of preset files
- Batch categorization, annotation, and deletion of presets
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This app is designed to manage the Hotone Ampero II Stage Amp Modeler/Effects Processor. With the app you can get access to full effects chain/parameters, download/upload patches via Hotone Community, etc. • Intuitive Ul The Ampero II Stage app features a straight forward, intuitive user interface which makes tweaking parameters a breeze. • The growing community Sigh in with a Hotone account so you can launch Hotone Community to view Ampero II Stage's growing patch library, download the patches made by worldwide players/artists or just share your stellar patches. • Bulk operations You can not only import/export preset files in bulk through this app, but also batch categorize, annotate, delete, and so on your presets. For more Ampero II Stage information: www.hotoneaudio.com *Bluetooth® is a trademark owned by the Bluetooth SIG, Inc. This trademark was used merely to identify a functional characteristic of the product.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ampero II Stage at 3.6 against Fender Pro Control's 3.2. Ampero II Stage also leads on review sentiment (57% vs 45%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Fender Pro Control's advantage is ratings volume (59 vs 7). On price, update cadence, 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.
Ampero II Stage holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fender Pro Control has 59 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of Fender Pro Control's written reviews are positive against 57% of Ampero II Stage's.
Fender Pro Control ships an update every 2 months, Ampero II Stage every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fender Pro Control | Ampero II Stage |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (59 ratings) | 3.6 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.0% of reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 59 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 846 MB | 224 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Fender Digital | Hotone |
Customer experience
Fender Pro Control
Ampero II Stage
In-app purchases
Fender Pro Control
No in-app purchases
Ampero II Stage
No in-app purchases
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