PedalEditor vs Ghosts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PedalEditor
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A Brain for Brainless Pedals. PedalEditor is a curated MIDI editor and preset library for the guitar pedals and synths you already own. It runs on iPhone and iPad, connects over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or USB, and puts the full parameter map of every supported pedal on the screen — no laptop in the signal path, no proprietary editor for each brand. The pedal is the render target. Presets live in the app. —— SPEAKS FLUENT STRYMON BigSky, BigSky MX, blueSky V2, Brig, Cloudburst, Compadre, Deco V2, DIG V2, EC-1, El Capistan V2, Flint V2, Iridium, Lex V2, Mobius, NightSky, Riverside, Sunset, TimeLine, UltraViolet, Volante, Zelzah. 21 profiles. SPEAKS FLUENT WALRUS AUDIO ACS1, ACS1 MkII, D1, D1 MkII, M1, M1 MkII, R1, R1 MkII, Meraki, Qi. 10 profiles. SPEAKS FLUENT UAFX ANTI 1992, Dream '65, Enigmatic '82, Knuckles '92 Rev F, Lion '68, Ruby '63, Woodrow '55. 7 amp modelers. SPEAKS FLUENT CHASE BLISS Generation Loss MkII, Habit, Mood MkII. 3 profiles. ALSO: Hologram Microcosm. Meris LVX. Line 6 DL4 MkII. About 200 more profiles are built and releasing — 10 to 15 a week, brand by brand. —— THE EDITOR Every parameter on the pedal's faceplate is a control in the app — named the way the pedal prints it, laid out in the order the manual describes it. Knobs, toggle switches, algorithm selectors, multi-position physical switches, and dip banks all render as their hardware equivalents. Switching effect categories (BigSky's 12 reverb machines, TimeLine's 12 delay machines) updates the parameter layout to match. Three save actions, deliberately distinct: • Save — writes to the app library. Nothing goes to the pedal. • Send — pushes the current state to the pedal without writing hardware memory. • Save on Pedal — arms the pedal via Program Change, then writes the slot. On supported Strymon hardware, Read from Pedal pulls the current parameter state back into the app. Capture All Presets sweeps the hardware preset bank and imports it as a named Collection — useful for backing up a pedal before a firmware update. The MIDI Monitor shows every message in and out for the connected destination, with raw hex and human-readable descriptions. —— HOW YOU ORGANIZE Rig → Project → Pedal → Collection → Preset. A Rig is a physical board: specific pedals, specific MIDI channels. Multiple Rigs coexist — a studio rig, a fly rig, a rehearsal rig. A Project is a purpose within a Rig ("Worship Band," "Studio Sessions"). A Collection is a named, colored bank of presets for one pedal in one Project — multiple Collections per pedal, each with up to three independent A/B/C state slots. Presets have freeform names, notes, tags, and lineage tracking; they are not bound by hardware display character limits. Songs hold ordered sections, each with the presets that section needs. Setlists hold ordered songs. Build the setlist before the gig. —— LIVE Open the Live tab, tap a setlist, and step through it. Each advance sends the Program Change and CC values for that section to every pedal on the board. The screen stays awake. No tap-dancing through hardware menus in the dark. —— Custom MIDI (128 Knobs) is always free. It sends CCs 0–127 on any MIDI channel, so it drives any MIDI device you own, no profile required. No account. No cloud. No tracking. Restore Purchases lives in Settings, and it works. Presets, rigs, songs, and setlists sync automatically across your iPhone and iPad via iCloud — no setup, no logins, same Apple ID. —— PedalEditor runs on iPhone and iPad. Bluetooth LE MIDI, USB MIDI, and Network MIDI (RTP-MIDI) over Wi-Fi — same app, same presets, whichever cable you prefer. The pedal still doesn't know your name. The app remembers everything.
Ghosts
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Ghosts is a haunted radio: an instrument that plays the world's airwaves and lets you keep the moments worth keeping. Tune a live station. There are thousands of real broadcasters from every corner of the planet, and you can step through them, search for them, or land on one at random. The signal plate is always listening to the last 30 seconds of the air. When something good happens, press CATCH and it becomes a ghost: a loop that plays forever, layered under the radio, ready to be shaped. A phrase, a chord, a voice, a burst of static. If you heard it, you can keep it. WHY YOU'LL KEEP COMING BACK • A dial with thousands of stations: community radio, college radio, shortwave-style oddities, dead air and all. Step, search the directory, or hit RND and see where you land. • Catch with one press, or frame an exact slice of the air: anything from a single syllable to twenty seconds. • Up to 24 ghosts loop at once, each with its own strip on the mix console: fader, mute, solo. • Shape every ghost in the editor. Pitch it down to a moan, trim the loop to a single syllable, reverse it, wear it down with tape damage, crush, wow and flutter. • A master chain tuned for the aesthetic: space, warble, a valve limiter. The whole mix comes out sounding like a broadcast from somewhere that doesn't exist. • Record takes of your full mix and share them anywhere. Save sessions and return to a roster of ghosts exactly as you left it. • Lock-screen controls and background playback. It's a radio, so it behaves like one. NO STRINGS No account. No analytics. No ads. Nothing collected. Your ghosts, sessions, and recordings live on your device and nowhere else. The radio comes from the community-run radio-browser.info directory; recording requires your own material in the mix, because Ghosts is an instrument, not a stream ripper. Somewhere on the dial, right now, something is happening that will never happen again. Catch it.
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Verdict
PedalEditor and Ghosts are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
| Parameter | PedalEditor | Ghosts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Corey Cowan | Colton Harker |
In-app purchases
PedalEditor
No in-app purchases
Ghosts
No in-app purchases









