DigiTech Stomp Shop vs Overloud THU
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DigiTech Stomp Shop
This app allows guitar and bass players to transform a compatible stompbox into a wide variety of digital effects. Users can browse, demo, and load over 40 different e-pedals, customizing their sound and even their LED light color. It provides a convenient way to explore new sounds without visiting a store.
- Browse and demo over 40 e-pedals
- Load new sounds onto iStomp
- Manage downloaded e-pedals
- Customize LED light color
- Listen to audio demos
- Learn pedal history and artist associations
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DigiTech® Stomp Shop™ is your connection to all the e-pedals available for the iStomp™ stompbox. Using your iPod touch®, iPhone®, or iPad® you can turn the iStomp in to a completely different pedal with a completely new sound. In about the same time it takes to download a song you can change your iStomp from a distortion to a chorus, a flanger to an overdrive, a delay to a reverb, and more. There are more than 40 different e-pedals available in the Stomp Shop. ** Stomp Shop ** Stomp Shop allows guitar and bass players to load different e-pedals into the iStomp and try them with their own rig. You can load a new e-pedal whenever you want. Try it for up to 5 minutes before you download it to your library. The Stomp Shop app allows players to demo new sounds and new gear without having to make a trip to the store or borrow one from a friend. From the app you can listen to audio demos and learn more about the history of each e-pedal including which artists made the effects popular. ** My Pedals ** The iStomp includes 10 e-pedals. Stomp Shop remembers all the e-pedals you download. You can reload e-pedals you’ve downloaded to your library at any time. The Stomp Shop protects you from misplaced or forgotten pedals as well as from those friends who seem to permanently borrow your gear. ** Custom LED Color ** From the app you can pick a custom color for the 9-dot LED light to associate with any e-pedal loaded to the iStomp. It is a great way to differentiate your iStomp pedals when they’re on stage or in low light. ** Current Stomp Shop Pedal Selection ** -240 Plate Reverb -3Q Tone EQ -Angelic Choir -CE Chorus -DigiTech Amp Driver -DigiTech Blue Pearl Chorus (included) -DigiTech Compressor (included) -DigiTech Continuum Reverb (included) -DigiTech Death Metal (included) -DigiTech Double Cross (included) -DigiTech Jet Flanger (included) -DigiTech Phaser Beam -DigiTech Redline Overdrive (included) -DigiTech Rock It Distortion -DigiTech Total Recall Delay (1 Sec) (included) -DigiTech Vintage Tape Delay -Dirty Robot -DM Delay -DOD® FX13 Gonkulator Modulator -DOD® FX25B Envelope Filter (included) -DOD® Overdrive 250 -DOD® Grunge -Flanger Affair -Freeze Wah -Fuzzy -Glimmer Drive -Half-Pipe -Lexicon Large Hall Reverb -Magic Fingers Vibrato -Octaver (included) -Opto Tremolo -Red Compressor -Red Coral Dual Detune -Rodent Distortion -Rotator -Screamer Overdrive -Snake Charmer -Sound Off -Spring Tank -Stone Phase -Strato Boost -Swing Shift -Tone Boost -Unplugged -Vanishing Point ** iStomp Stompbox ** iStomp is a single effect stompbox for guitar and bass players. It looks and works like all other stompboxes. Kick the footswitch to turn the effect on and off. Turn the knobs to dial in the perfect sound. What makes the iStomp so incredible is the ability to turn it into any e-pedal from the DigiTech Stomp Shop. You do not have to have your iPod, iPhone, or iPad connected to the iStomp to use it. You only need to connect your device to the iStomp when you want to load a new e-pedal to it. All the effect processing is done inside the iStomp using DigiTech’s proprietary AudioDNA2 processor to ensure zero latency as well as provide studio-quality effect processing and sound quality. It uses the same signal processors found in many of the world’s best selling studio equipment and other effect pedals. Check digitech.com to find an authorized online retailer or retailer closest to you. For more information: www.digitech.com Follow DigiTech online: www.facebook.com/digitech www.twitter.com/digitech www.youtube.com/digitechfx
Overloud THU
Transform your iOS device into a powerful guitar and bass amplifier and effects simulator. Build custom rigs with a vast library of amps, cabinets, and pedals, and utilize advanced features for recording, live performance, and practice.
- Guitar and bass amp simulation
- Extensive cabinet and pedal effects library
- IR Loader
- Rig Player for captured tones
- AUv3 support for DAWs
- MIDI pedalboard control
- Amp Tweak customization
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Overloud TH-U turns your iOS device into a Guitar and Bass amp simulator, to let you play live, practice or record: standalone and AUv3, with IR Loader included. Build your own rig by using an unlimited number of amplifiers, cabinets, stompboxes and studio processors in your sound chain. You can connect your guitar to the iOS device using any digital audio interface. Overloud TH-U includes: • 86 guitar amplifiers and 4 bass amplifiers • Official Randall, THD, DVmark and Brunetti models • 47 guitar cabinets and 2 bass cabinets • 73 pedal and rack effects • 1000+ Presets • 5000+ Captured Rigs Overloud TH-U includes the Rig Player, the Overloud processor which allows to reproduce captured Amps, Cabs and Rigs. Several Rig producers already joined TH-U to provide their top quality captured tones, which are now available on iOS too. The FREE version includes 3 amplifiers, 3 cabinets, 4 stompbox effects, the Rig Player, a master effect section, 18 microphones and a looper. Sign up to the Overloud account to: - unlock 17 additional FREE models and Rigs - get the iOS license of all models and Rigs at a very competitive price if you already own TH-U and Rig Libraries for Desktop Overloud TH-U for iOS runs the same DSP full processing of the Desktop version for an unprecedented simulation quality. The AUv3 included format allows you to process your DAW guitar tracks with the full power of the TH-U audio engine. You can share presets with the Desktop version using the most common cloud services, like iCloud, Dropbox or Google Drive. Overloud TH-U is stage ready: you can fully control it using any MIDI pedalboard and play with no gaps thanks to the seamless preset change feature. Overloud TH-U can process your guitar sound while the device is playing a backing track through your preferred App (Music, Youtube, Anytune, …). Overloud TH-U has a flexible sound chain: you can add any number of effects, change their order with no limitations, and set up parallel chains of effects. With the Amp Tweak feature, you can customize the amplifiers by changing the preamp and power amp tubes, and simulate the action of a Variac. The ReSPiRe 2 technology allows you to choose between the real response of the cabinet and a processed version optimized to fit into a mix and avoid frequency overlap with other instruments.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Overloud THU at 4.1 against DigiTech Stomp Shop's 3.2. Overloud THU also leads on update cadence (every 11 days vs every 5 weeks) and review sentiment (60% vs 45%). DigiTech Stomp Shop's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 13.0). 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. DigiTech Stomp Shop sells 13 one-off in-app purchases and Overloud THU sells 35 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Overloud THU holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 71 and 97 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of DigiTech Stomp Shop's written reviews are positive against 60% of Overloud THU's.
DigiTech Stomp Shop ships an update every 5 weeks, Overloud THU every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DigiTech Stomp Shop | Overloud THU |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (71 ratings) | 4.1 (97 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.5% of reviews | 60.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 71 | 97 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 1.7 GB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Harman Professional, Inc. | Almateq SRL |
Customer experience
DigiTech Stomp Shop
Overloud THU
User reviews
DigiTech Stomp Shop
From 71 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎸 High-quality effect emulations and sound
- 💡 Innovative concept of downloadable pedals
- 💰 Affordable pedals at $0.99 each
- 🎯 Easy-to-use app interface
- 🔧 Flexible pedal customization and variety
Room to improve
- 🚫 Massive loss of pedal library (from 47 to 13 pedals)
- 💔 Paid pedals becoming unavailable
- 📱 Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
- 🔌 Requires proprietary Apple 30-pin to Lightning adapter
- ⚠️ Server-side errors causing permanent pedal loss
Overloud THU
From 97 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎸 Excellent amp and guitar tones
- 🔊 Great sound quality and feel
- 🎨 Impressive range of amps, cabs, and effects
- 🤖 Faithful desktop version port to iOS
- 🔍 Detailed and customizable presets
Room to improve
- 💰 Expensive in-app purchases
- 🤔 Unintuitive and cluttered user interface
- 🔇 Compatibility issues with certain audio interfaces
- 🔍 Lack of clear documentation and tutorials
- 🔀 Difficulty managing and navigating presets
Bugs and requests
DigiTech Stomp Shop
Reported bugs
12 issues- App crashes when loading pedals
- iStomp not recognized/connection errors
- Pedals disappearing from library after updates
- No audio playback on iPad 2 and iPad Air
- iOS 6+ compatibility issues
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- Lightning adapter connection failures
- App crashes when trying to demo pedals
- Graphical glitches and UI freezing
- Plate reverb causes app crashes
- Latency between playing note and hearing sound
- App update notifications stuck in loop
- Pedal library sync issues between devices
Requested features
11 requests- Restore all 47 pedals to the library
- New pedal releases and regular updates
- Amp models in addition to effects
- Wireless connectivity (Bluetooth)
- Computer/desktop app for pedal management
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- Ability to chain multiple effects together
- Bass-specific pedals
- Custom pedal ordering in library
- Audiobus and Inter-App Audio compatibility
- GitHub code sharing for third-party development
- More vintage pedal options
Overloud THU
Reported bugs
3 issues- MIDI issues and temporary locking up of the app
- Crashes and stability problems with recent updates
- Incompatibility with newer iPad Pro models
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for loading custom impulse responses
- Implement AUv3 support for better DAW integration
- Improve preset management with better organization
- Add more iconic amp models and effects
- Enhance the looper functionality and usability
In-app purchases
DigiTech Stomp Shop
- DigiTech Vintage Tape DelayFree
- Screamer OverdriveFree
- Lexicon® Large Hall ReverbFree
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- UnpluggedFree
- Freeze WahFree
- Angelic ChoirFree
- Vashing Point DelayFree
- Swing ShiftFree
- Red Coral Dual DetuneFree
- Dirty RobotFree
- DigiTech Xul End of the World FuzzFree
- Magic Fingers VibratoFree
- FuzzyFree
Overloud THU
- TH-U FREE PackFree
- 11201 pack$0.99
- 11210 pack$0.99
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- 11237 pack$0.99
- TH-U RockGuy for Desktop$0.99
- 11325 pack$0.99
- 11327 pack$0.99
- 11033 pack$0.99
- 11200 pack$0.99
- 11211 pack$0.99
- Made In Rock - PFL 100 Desktop$0.99
- Tumble ODS$4.99
- Randall T2$4.99
- Darkstar 40$4.99
- Stryverb$4.99
- British Classics Rig Library$12.99
- American Classics Rig Library$17.99
- Vintage Collection 1 Rig Lib$17.99
- Choptones Fend Twin65 Rig Lib$17.99
- Choptones Tone Impera Rig Lib$17.99
- BHS Sold Rig Library$19.99
- FX Pack$24.99
- TH-U Made In Rock - PFL 100$24.99
- TH-U All Metal Gear$24.99
- BHS Iconic 1 Hair Metal RigLib$26.99
- Bass Rigs Vol. 1 Rig Library$26.99
- Distortion Bundle$27.99
- TH-U Rock Collection$29.99
- TH-U Metal Collection$29.99
- TH-U RockGuy Collection$29.99
- TH-U 60's Pack$29.99
- TH-U Funk and R&B Collection$29.99
- Amps & Cabs Bundle$49.99
- TH-U Full for Desktop Owners$59.99
- TH-U Premium$119.99
Questions
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