Comparison

DigiTech Stomp Shop vs 808 Overdrive Pro

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

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About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

808 Overdrive Pro

This audio plugin emulates a classic green overdrive pedal, offering versatile sound modification for guitarists. It's designed to produce breathtaking sounds and can be used standalone or with other audio apps.

Highlights
  • Classic overdrive pedal emulation
  • Drive, Tone, and Level controls
  • Standalone app functionality
  • AudioUnit v3 effect compatible
  • Inter-App Audio effect compatible
  • Responsive and versatile sound
Features
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Jazz, Rock, Metal, no matter what genre you play. NA 808 Overdrive Pro little magic box plugin will prove to be essential to your collection. It is very responsive and versatile, available for FREE. NA 808 Overdrive Pro is modeled on the Japanese green pedal with the same JRC4558D IC chip. The featured knobs on this classic “stomp-box” plugin indicate controls for Drive dial, Tone and Level, so you can modify your sound to your liking. NA 808 Overdrive Pro classic overdrive pedal is everything that made its original release fantastic, and more. Regularly remarked as the “Holy Grail” of overdrive pedals, it should be an integral part of every guitarists’ plugins arsenal. This pedal plugin produces amazing, breathtaking sounds, justifying its tradition and quality. If you’d like the push the boundaries of this brilliant “stomp-box” to its maximum potential, you can attach it to an amp plugin distortion setting, for producing that slick valve tune. Works as a standalone app, AudioUnit v3 effect, or Inter-App Audio effect

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: 808 Overdrive Pro at 100% against DigiTech Stomp Shop's 45%. 808 Overdrive Pro also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.2) and in-app purchases (none vs 13). DigiTech Stomp Shop's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. DigiTech Stomp Shop sells 13 one-off in-app purchases. 808 Overdrive Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

808 Overdrive Pro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 71 and 31 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of DigiTech Stomp Shop's written reviews are positive against 100% of 808 Overdrive Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DigiTech Stomp Shop ships an update every 5 weeks, 808 Overdrive Pro every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
DigiTech Stomp Shop versus 808 Overdrive Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDigiTech Stomp Shop808 Overdrive Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.2 (71 ratings)5.0 (31 ratings) — better
Positive reviews45.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings71 — better31
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB32 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperHarman Professional, Inc.Nembrini Audio

Customer experience

DigiTech Stomp Shop

All ratings70 ratings
Positive45.7%
Neutral12.9%
Negative41.4%
Written reviews132 reviews
Positive45.5%
Neutral13.6%
Negative40.9%

808 Overdrive Pro

All ratings31 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

808 Overdrive Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

13 purchases

DigiTech Stomp Shop

One-time13
  • 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
None

808 Overdrive Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DigiTech Stomp Shop free?
DigiTech Stomp Shop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 808 Overdrive Pro free?
808 Overdrive Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, DigiTech Stomp Shop or 808 Overdrive Pro?
808 Overdrive Pro is rated higher. DigiTech Stomp Shop averages 3.2 out of 5 from 71 ratings, while 808 Overdrive Pro averages 5.0 from 31 ratings.
Do DigiTech Stomp Shop or 808 Overdrive Pro have ads?
Neither DigiTech Stomp Shop nor 808 Overdrive Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DigiTech Stomp Shop or 808 Overdrive Pro?
DigiTech Stomp Shop ships an update every 5 weeks, and 808 Overdrive Pro every 6 months. Most recently, DigiTech Stomp Shop was updated on October 23, 2026 and 808 Overdrive Pro on October 13, 2026.

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