Comparison

Pedal Garden vs Cloudtape

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

Head to head
About

Pedal Garden

Features
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Welcome to Pedal Garden! Pedal Garden is a next-generation virtual pedalboard simulator that lets you scan your real-world gear using AI and build your ultimate dream setup in a digital space. 【AI-Powered Gear Scanning】 Simply snap a photo of your favorite effects pedals or full pedalboard. The built-in AI instantly recognizes, crops, and isolates each individual pedal, saving them directly into your personal digital "Shelf." Instead of just picking generic pre-made gear from a list, you can place your actual, battle-scarred pedals with your specific knob settings right onto your screen. "I want to buy a new pedal, but will it fit on my current board?" "I want to experiment and visualize the perfect signal chain." "I want to archive and manage my prized rigs as beautiful digital data." Pedal Garden turns your passion for gear and true sense of ownership into a perfect digital reality. 【Key Features】 ● AI Board Scanning: Take a photo of your real rig, and the AI automatically detects and logs each pedal into your digital inventory. ● Realistic Canvas: Arrange your custom-scanned pedals with seamless, intuitive drag-and-drop controls. ● Size Measurement: Automatically measures the outer dimensions of your arranged pedals and displays the exact pedalboard size you need. ● Flexible Routing: Visually organize your signal chain and design your dream audio system. ● Multi-Device Sync: Effortlessly scan and sketch your ideas on your iPhone, then dive deep and edit on the big screen of your iPad or Mac. --- 【Free Tier】 Experience the innovation of AI scanning and board building completely free of charge. ・Create up to 3 pedalboards ・Place and stock up to 20 total pedals 【Pedal Garden Pro (Subscription)】 Upgrade to the Pro tier to completely unlock all limitations and experience professional, limitless gear management. ・Completely unlimited pedalboard creation ・Completely unlimited pedal placement and stocking on your Shelf ・Full system backup and restoration features Bring the real board from your floor straight into Pedal Garden in its most beautiful digital form today! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://gist.github.com/makanow/8a955055a54d57a37ee70af93e18ceaf

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Cloudtape

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Cloudtape turns the music folders in your Dropbox into a proper music library on your iPhone. Pick the folders, let it sync, and it all plays from the phone itself: on a plane, underground, anywhere. Nothing streams. Every track is downloaded before it plays, so there's no buffering and no data used while you listen. PLAYS FROM YOUR PHONE • Syncs only the folders you pick, and keeps them up to date in the background • Notices when you move or rename a folder in Dropbox, instead of downloading it all again • Plays MP3, AAC, M4A, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF and audiobooks (M4B) • Disconnect Dropbox or let the trial run out, and everything already on the phone keeps playing PLAYS PROPERLY • Browse by album, artist and song, the way the Music app does • Picks up where you left off in long DJ sets and audiobooks, per file • A scrubber drawn from the track's own waveform • Playlists, lyrics from your files, a sleep timer and volume levelling STAYS OUT OF YOUR WAY • Only reads your Dropbox. It never writes, moves or deletes anything there • Shows the music already on your iPhone in the same library • Scrobbles to Last.fm if you want it, including plays made offline • No account, no ads, no tracking PRICE Free for 14 days, counted from your first sync. After that, one payment keeps syncing on for good. There's no subscription, and Family Sharing is included.

Screenshots

Pedal Garden4 screens
Cloudtape4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Pedal Garden at 3 against Cloudtape's 1. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pedal Garden sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $7.99 per month and Cloudtape sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pedal Garden ships an update every 5 days, Cloudtape every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Pedal Garden versus Cloudtape: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPedal GardenCloudtape
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHiroaki NagaseBelieve Labs

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pedal Garden

Subscriptions1
  • Pedal Garden Unlocked$7.991 Month
1 purchases

Cloudtape

One-time1
  • Lifetime Unlock$2.99

Questions

Is Pedal Garden free?
Pedal Garden is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cloudtape free?
Cloudtape is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pedal Garden or Cloudtape have ads?
Neither Pedal Garden nor Cloudtape shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pedal Garden or Cloudtape?
Pedal Garden ships an update every 5 days, and Cloudtape every 4 days. Most recently, Pedal Garden was updated on October 31, 2026 and Cloudtape on November 6, 2026.

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