DigiTech Stomp Shop vs jAmp 8100
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
jAmp 8100
This app digitally emulates a classic 90s solid-state guitar amplifier, offering authentic tones favored by metal bands. It functions as a standalone app or a plugin within DAWs, featuring a noise gate, compressor, and various effects.
- Marshall Valvestate 8100 emulation
- Standalone and AUv3 plugin support
- Noise gate and compressor
- Ibanez Tube Screamer emulation
- Impulse response (IR) loader
- MIDI controller support
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jAmp 8100 represents a digital emulation of the Marshall Valvestate 8100 amplifier, which stood out as one of the most impressive-sounding amplifiers of the 90s. Numerous metal bands showcased this amplifier in their albums, with particularly notable appearances in the works of bands such as Death, Prong, and Static-X. Features: - Standalone, or as a AUv3 plugin in GarageBand, Logic Pro, or other DAW. - Marshall Valvestate 8100 emulation - Noise gate - Compressor - Ibanez Tube Screamer emulation - Pre amp chorus - Five band post amp equalizer - Post amp stereo chorus - Impulse response (IR) loader - MIDI controller support with MIDI learn - Stereo effect - Integrated IRs by forward-audio.com and Valhallir.at The free version allows you to test jAmp 8100 completely, but every minute the amplifier will be silent for 3 seconds. To remove these limits there is a one time in-app purchase. You need an audio interface to connect your instrument to your mobile device. Known audio interface brands are for instance Focusrite or iRig. For iPad you might want to consider using a USB-C hub with power delivery to avoid draining your battery during your jam session, but this is optional. For iPhone you will need to use an adapter that can 1. connect via lightning port to your iPhone 2. connect to your phone charger with USB 3. connect to your audio interface with USB If you have a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 or similar you can use the lighting to USB 3 camera adapter for this which is easily available in the market. Your iPhone cannot deliver enough power on its own to feed the audio interface, so this adapter with a connection to your phone charger is necessary. If you don't have an audio interface, you can still use the AUv3 plugin in a DAW such as GarageBand or Logic Pro. Any (guitar) sound you have recorded can be fed through the jAmp 8100 audio unit to add solid state distortion or any of the other included effects.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: jAmp 8100 at 5.0 against DigiTech Stomp Shop's 3.2. jAmp 8100 also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 45%). DigiTech Stomp Shop's advantage is ratings volume (71 vs 5) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 14.0). 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. DigiTech Stomp Shop sells 13 one-off in-app purchases and jAmp 8100 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
jAmp 8100 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DigiTech Stomp Shop has 71 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of DigiTech Stomp Shop's written reviews are positive against 67% of jAmp 8100's.
DigiTech Stomp Shop ships an update every 5 weeks, jAmp 8100 every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DigiTech Stomp Shop | jAmp 8100 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (71 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.5% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 71 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — 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, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Harman Professional, Inc. | Jan Maes |
Customer experience
DigiTech Stomp Shop
jAmp 8100
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
jAmp 8100
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
jAmp 8100
- jAmp 8100 Activation$11.99
Questions
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