Comparison

G.UITAR vs ANALOGySAW

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

Head to head
About

G.UITAR

Experience the charm of 80s digital guitars on your smartphone. This app offers customizable sounds, versatile playing modes, and smart chord recognition to help you create unique music.

Highlights
  • Six unique guitar sounds
  • Pluck and tap playing modes
  • Mute individual strings
  • Built-in transpose and auto-tuning
  • Smart chord recognition engine
  • Dynamic fretboard scaling
  • Adjustable fret count (3, 4, or 5)
Features
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G.UITAR – Your Retro Digital Guitar Companion G.UITAR brings the charm of 80s digital guitars straight to your smartphone, reimagined for modern creativity. Whether you're exploring new chord shapes or adding a vintage twist to your sound, G.UITAR offers an expressive, customizable experience for players and producers alike. Choose from six unique guitar sounds and switch effortlessly between pluck and tap modes to match your playing style. Mute individual strings for more percussive textures or open tunings—perfect for crafting original voicings. With built-in transpose and auto-tuning systems, switching keys or tunings takes just a tap. G.UITAR also includes a smart chord recognition engine to help you visualize and learn new shapes in real time—ideal for students, creators, or curious hands. Adjust the fretboard layout with dynamic scaling options to fit any screen or hand size, and select between 3, 4, or 5 frets for new chordal possibilities. Coming soon: MIDI out, theme customization, and AUv3 support—because your digital guitar should evolve with your music.

About

ANALOGySAW

This virtual instrument plugin emulates 90s-era 'super saw' synthesizers with a warm, virtual-analog sound. It offers variable unison oscillators, polyphony, and stereo spread for atmospheric pads and EDM textures.

Highlights
  • Variable unison saw oscillators (1-5 per voice)
  • 10-voice polyphony
  • Detune, drift, and stereo spread options
  • Virtual analog warmth
  • Full ADSR amp envelope
  • 24dB ladder filter
  • Dedicated modulation LFOs
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ANALOGySAW Super Saw Synth (AUv3) ANALOGySAW is a virtual instrument plugin that can run standalone, or in any AU compatible host such as Logic Pro or GarageBand. Please note that the standalone version does not include a built-in keyboard - you need to connect a suitable MIDI device to play the synth. Overview ANALOGySAW is a tribute to the "super saw" digital synths from the 90's, wrapped up in old-school virtual-analog warmth, with a few "ANALOGy" twists. Featuring up to five unison saw wave oscillators per voice, and ten voice polyphony (*) with detune, drift and stereo spread options, ANALOGySAW might be your new favourite mini synth for big STEREO atmospheric pads, or dreamy EDM textures. Breaking from the "super saw" tradition, the number of unison oscillators for a voice is continuously variable between one and five, allowing for some interesting "in-between" sounds not available on other synths. Spread is applied to the unison oscillators so every note you play can have a big stereo image, and ten note polyphony remains consistent regardless of the number of unison oscillators. The virtual analog vibe is also well represented with randomised drift for the voice oscillators and modulation LFOs. ANALOGySAW also breaks slightly from the "ANALOGy" family tradition by offering a full ADSR amp envelope, a 24dB "ladder" filter, and a separate modulation section with dedicated LFOs for pitch and filter modulation, plus filter envelope. (*) About Voices and Oscillators Sometimes these terms are interchanged in a confusing way, especially in the case of super-saw synths. For ANALOGySAW, a voice corresponds to a note that you play, and you can play up to ten notes before "voice stealing" occurs. Each voice has up to five oscillators each, so you can think of ANALOGySAW as a 50 oscillator synth! MIDI Implementation ANALOGySAW is a 10 voice polyphonic velocity-sensitive MIDI instrument and is playable over a keyboard range from A0 (21) to C7 (96) on any MIDI channel. ANALOGySAW also responds to mod wheel, expression / volume (CC#11), sustain (CC#64), all notes off (CC#123) and pitch-bend (+/- 2 semitones). About The UI Not everyone likes the UIs of my latest (2025) plugins - I get it. However, the simplistic and generic approach allows me to (a) 99% focus on the DSP, sound quality and CPU performance, and (b) significantly reduce the development (and potential maintenance) time, which is reflected in my pricing. For more info and support please visit: www.waverley-instruments.com/robjackson

Screenshots

G.UITAR3 screens
ANALOGySAW4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ANALOGySAW at 5.0 against G.UITAR's 4.0. ANALOGySAW also leads on price ($2.99 vs $4.99) and device support (4 vs 1). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

G.UITAR costs $4.99 and ANALOGySAW $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ANALOGySAW holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
G.UITAR versus ANALOGySAW: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterG.UITARANALOGySAW
Price$4.99$2.99 — better
Rating4.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequency—Every 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPaolo GiorgiRob Jackson

Customer experience

G.UITAR

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

ANALOGySAW

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

G.UITAR

No in-app purchases

None

ANALOGySAW

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is G.UITAR free?
G.UITAR costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ANALOGySAW free?
ANALOGySAW costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, G.UITAR or ANALOGySAW?
ANALOGySAW is rated higher. G.UITAR averages 4.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while ANALOGySAW averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do G.UITAR or ANALOGySAW have ads?
Neither G.UITAR nor ANALOGySAW shows ads.

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