Create A Riff vs Just Pedals
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Create A Riff
Transform text into guitar riffs with accompanying tab notation. Add chords and choose drum styles to create unique musical pieces. Explore a new way to visualize and play musical ideas.
- Text to guitar riff conversion
- Guitar neck and tab staff visualization
- Mute guitar for playback
- Add chords via strings or synth
- Rock or progressive drum styles
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'Create A Riff' is an app that lets you type in a name, word, phrase, etc... (max 16 letters), then watch it play as a riff on a guitar neck and tab staff, or you can mute the guitar and play along. You can also add chords via strings or a synth, and choose from rock or progressive drums. The app is the rock/guitar version of the app 'Play The Name'. App concept by Ron Jarzombek Graphics by Ron Jarzombek Programming by Gunpreet Singh Matharoo twitter/@itsmatharoo www.ronjarzombek.com www.ronjarzombek.com/rjapps.html Ron Jarzombek - - lead guitarist and composer of Blotted Science, Spastic Ink and WatchTower, as featured on the CDs… ‘Blotted Science – The Animation Of Entomology’, ‘Blotted Science – The Machinations Of Dementia’, ‘Spastic Ink – Ink Complete’, ‘Spastic Ink – Ink Compatible’, ‘Ron Jarzombek – Solitarily Speaking Of Theoretical Confinement’ 'Ron Jarzombek - PHHHP Plus!' ‘WatchTower – Control And Resistance’, 'WatchTower - 'Math Concepts: Book One' Digital singles... 'Frenetically Inconsistent Velocities Entwined' 'The Ink Panther' 'All Along The WatchTower' 'She Blotted Me With Science' Other apps: 'Play The Name' 'Beyond Life And Cosmic Kinetics' 'Razor Blade Babies' 'Kill The Digital Distortion' - featured in Joel McIver's '100 Top Metal Guitarists' book (#32)
Just Pedals
Transform your iPhone or iPad into a powerful multi-effect processor for guitar and bass. Experience high-quality, zero-latency sound processing with an intuitive interface that mimics real-world pedals. Ideal for both traditional setups and amp-less configurations.
- Multi-effect processor for guitar/bass
- Zero-latency sound processing
- Intuitive, uncluttered user interface
- 16 virtual effect pedals included
- Cab simulator
- High-resolution, responsive layout
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Did you know that you can use your iPhone or iPad as a multi-effect processor for your electric guitar and bass? You only need an iOS-compatible audio interface and Just Pedals! Just Pedals can sculpt your tone as part of a traditional effect chain, or otherwise spare you from bulky hardware and patching nightmares in fully amp-less setups with DI/headphone output, and anything in beetween. It delivers tremendous sound quality that easily rivals the best known and most expensive products on the market, both analog and digital. Furthermore, the sound processing engine is absolutely zero-latency and designed for a fully glitch-free experience, with interaction smoothing and fade in/out algorithms applied everywhere. We promise you'll be jamming immediately. The user interface is as uncluttered, focused, straightforward, intuitive and pleasant as it could possibly be. You'll just be faced with a bunch of pedals as you would in the real world. No settings or configurations, no distracting graphics and features, but rather a fully-repsonsive high-resolution layout that adapts to any screen and orientation. At the same time, you'll always have visual indications and instantaneous control over input and output volumes, bypass and mute, output mode, as well as an emergency reset button. Just Pedals comes with 16 essential virtual effect pedals, namely: - Noise Suppressor - Ring Modulator - Overdrive - Distortion - Fuzz - Bitcrusher - Compressor - 10-Band Equalizer - Chorus - Phaser - Flanger - Tremolo - Vibrato - Delay - Reverb - Cab simulator Learn more at https://clack.digital/just-pedals
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Just Pedals at 100% against Create A Riff's 60%. Just Pedals also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.6). Create A Riff's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 14.0). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Just Pedals holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Create A Riff's written reviews are positive against 100% of Just Pedals's.
| Parameter | Create A Riff | Just Pedals |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (14 ratings) | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Ron Jarzombek | Orastron Srl |
Customer experience
Create A Riff
Just Pedals
In-app purchases
Create A Riff
No in-app purchases
Just Pedals
No in-app purchases

