AmpGate vs Ringo Beats
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AmpGate
This app provides a real-time amplifier simulator for mobile devices, featuring exact digital captures of real amplifiers and full rigs. It allows users to browse and audition a vast library of tones, load custom impulse responses, and import their own captures. It also functions as an AUv3 plugin for use in music production hosts.
- Real-time amp simulation
- Vast tone library access
- Cabinet section with IR loader
- Noise gate and gain controls
- Low-latency processing
- AUv3 plugin compatibility
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Every amp ever, in your pocket. AmpGate is a Neural Amp Modeler (NAM) player for iPhone and iPad: a real-time amp sim that plays exact digital captures of real amplifiers and full rigs, including the new Architecture 2 (A2) models, the most accurate generation of neural captures yet. BROWSE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF TONES Connect your free TONE3000 account and the world's largest tone library opens right inside the app. Search by amp, gear or genre, audition any capture through your own guitar before saving it, and build your collection with one tap. - NAM engine with A2 model support - Cabinet section with impulse response loader, browse TONE3000 IRs or import your own WAV files - Tone stack (bass / mid / treble), noise gate, input and output gain - Low-latency processing tuned for live playing - Import your own .nam captures from the Files app AUv3 PLUGIN INCLUDED Load AmpGate inside GarageBand, Logic Pro, AUM, Loopy Pro, Cubasis and any other AUv3 host. The app and the plugin share one library: save a tone and it's already in your session. Neural Amp Modeler is an open-source project by Steven Atkinson. TONE3000 is a free third-party service; an account is optional.
Ringo Beats
This app generates unique drum patterns using chaotic systems and a learning policy. It offers a variety of sampled and synthesized drum kits, deep control over parameters, and the ability to export MIDI or send MIDI to other apps. Every session provides a new, unpredictable beat.
- Chaotic system-driven beat generation
- AI policy learns and grooves
- 10 diverse drum kits
- Live policy grid for control
- Real-time chaos scope visualization
- MIDI export and inter-app MIDI sending
- AUv3 instrument and MIDI processor
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Ringo Beats writes its own drum parts. Three chaotic systems propose hits — a Lorenz attractor drives kick, snare and clap, a Hénon map flickers the hi-hats, a logistic map detonates fills. A per-voice Markov policy then decides what actually plays, learning from its own output and rewarding patterns that groove. Chaos proposes, the policy disposes. Slide BLEND to choose who wins. No pre-made patterns and nothing loops. Every run is new. WHAT YOU GET • 10 kits — two sampled, a vintage CR-78 and a real rock kit with velocity layers and round robins, and eight synthesised: Neon 808, Dust & Wood, Glitch Lab, Techno Bunker, Trap Haze, Boom Bap, Industrial, Bit Arcade • 8 voices: kick, snare, clap, closed hat, open hat, tom, ride and crash • Live policy grid — watch hit probability build across 16 steps, and tap any cell to lock it on or off • Chaos scope — the attractors driving your beat, drawn in real time • Deep control: tempo, swing, blend, heat, density, Lorenz rho, chaos R, fills, humanise, per-voice mixer • Record a take and export it as a standard MIDI file to the Files app • Sends MIDI to other apps on your device: pick Ringo Beats as a MIDI input in AUM, Cubasis or Drambo, no Audio Unit needed TWO AUDIO UNITS Ringo Beats ships as an instrument AUv3 and as a MIDI processor AUv3, so it can either play its own drums or sequence any other instrument in your host. Both follow your host's transport and tempo — hit play in AUM, GarageBand, Logic, Cubasis or Zenbeats and it locks to the grid. One install registers both. PRICING The app is free and complete: every kit, every control, unlimited MIDI export. Using the Audio Units inside other apps is a single one-time purchase. Try them first — each AUv3 session plays for two minutes before it asks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ringo Beats at 100% against AmpGate's 0%. Ringo Beats also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). AmpGate's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement 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. Ringo Beats sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. AmpGate asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ringo Beats holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ringo Beats has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of AmpGate's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ringo Beats's.
AmpGate ships an update every 3 weeks, Ringo Beats every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AmpGate | Ringo Beats |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MATTEO DEMETRIO ZANARDI | Soft Brew Mobile |
Customer experience
AmpGate
Ringo Beats
In-app purchases
AmpGate
No in-app purchases
Ringo Beats
- Unlock AUV3 Instrument & Midi$2.99









