Comparison

AmpGate vs Sparse Neural FX Modeler

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Real-time amp simulation
  • Vast tone library access
  • Cabinet section with IR loader
  • Noise gate and gain controls
  • Low-latency processing
  • AUv3 plugin compatibility
Features
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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.

About

Sparse Neural FX Modeler

Features
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Plug in and play through real amplifiers, captured with neural networks and reproduced live on your iPhone. Amber Neural FX Modeler models the sound of tube amps sample by sample. Pick from 25 captures — chiming Vox, clean Fender, cranked Deluxe Reverb, vintage fuzz — and play them in real time with latency low enough to feel like the amp is in the room. THE PEDALBOARD Twenty blocks you arrange in any order: up to four neural amps in one chain, drive, tape echo with wow and flutter, shimmer reverb, compressor, gate, wah, phaser, flanger, chorus, tremolo, EQ, octave, delay, and a convolution reverb. Drag blocks to reorder the signal path. Save and load your rigs as presets. RECORD YOUR TAKES One tap records both a dry and a processed track straight into the Files app. BUILT ON RESEARCH The engine comes from a published paper on efficient real-time neural amp modeling — the same models, running entirely on your device. No ads. No accounts. No data collected. Plug in a guitar through any audio interface, or just use the mic. Capture names identify the amplifiers the models were measured from; no affiliation or endorsement is implied.

Screenshots

AmpGate3 screens
Sparse Neural FX Modeler2 screens

Verdict

The call

AmpGate and Sparse Neural FX Modeler 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
AmpGate versus Sparse Neural FX Modeler: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAmpGateSparse Neural FX Modeler
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMATTEO DEMETRIO ZANARDIEli Silverstein

In-app purchases

None

AmpGate

No in-app purchases

None

Sparse Neural FX Modeler

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AmpGate free?
AmpGate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sparse Neural FX Modeler free?
Sparse Neural FX Modeler is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do AmpGate or Sparse Neural FX Modeler have ads?
Neither AmpGate nor Sparse Neural FX Modeler shows ads.

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