Heavenly Chord Performer vs AmpGate Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Heavenly Chord Performer
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Heavenly Chord Performer turns your iPad or iPhone into an expressive smart-guitar performance surface. Select chord shapes with a color-coded matrix, then strum playable chord notes from responsive string pads. Hold strings, build extended voicings, switch keys, transpose the playable root range, and shape velocity directly with touch position. Built-in Warm Synth, Electric Piano, Organ, and Warm Pad sounds let you play immediately. Route notes through Virtual MIDI Out or host compatible AUv3 instruments when Premium is unlocked. Compatible with ROLI Lightpad Block M over BLE MIDI or USB MIDI. Its optional touch surface can play chord tones and display a static LED string layout. Premium MIDI IN Control maps an external MIDI controller directly to the chord matrix and string buttons. Connect a compatible LiteJam guitar over Bluetooth to display the selected key's scale notes and the active chord notes directly on its fretboard. Enable the scale and chord layers independently and choose separate colors for each layer. On iPhone Duo, play chord and string pads below a camera-aligned control row on the outer display, then unfold for an expanded inner-screen layout. Phone and tablet layouts independently remember button directions, Surface options, fret counts, and button sizes. Key features: - Color-coded chord, slash-chord, and solo-note matrices - Extended multi-column string surface with velocity control - Hold Strings and Solo modes with configurable MIDI CC control - Built-in synth tones with sustain, Virtual MIDI Output, and AUv3 hosting - Compatible ROLI Lightpad Block M LED and touch support - Compatible LiteJam guitar fretboard scale and chord-note LED layers - Premium MIDI IN Control for external controllers - Configurable layout, tuning range, strings, frets, and performance presets Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://bwinnovationtw.github.io/apps/heavenly-chord-player/privacy.html
AmpGate Pro
This app offers a comprehensive neural rig for guitar and bass, featuring high-quality effects, creative routing options, and a full Live mode. It supports the latest Neural Amp Modeler standard and allows users to import their own audio unit plugins.
- Neural rig for guitar and bass
- High-quality effects suite
- Creative signal routing
- Full Live mode
- Supports Neural Amp Modeler A2
- Import custom IRs and AUv3 plugins
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AmpGate Pro is AmpGate reimagined: a complete neural rig for guitar and bass, with a suite of high quality effects, creative routing, a fully fledged Live mode and much more. Now supporting the latest Neural Amp Modeler A2 standard. Try it free for 48 hours. No card, no account, no subscription. TONE3000, BUILT IN - Sign in once and browse the whole catalog of amps, pedals, IRs and full rigs, with search, sorting and endless scrolling - Tap a tone to play through it immediately, tap the heart to keep it in your library - Download cabinet IRs the same way, or import your own .wav IRs from Files THE CHAIN - Up to 64 blocks per preset: drag to reorder, one tap to bypass - Amp, Pedal and Cab blocks that hold as many neural captures and IRs as your device can run, anywhere in the chain - Effects modeled after real hardware: LA, FET and OTA compressors, tube and tape saturation, graphic EQ with Tone Match, envelope filter, ring mod, lo-fi, stereo widener and doubler - 8 modulation modes: Chorus, Phaser, Flanger, Tremolo, Vibrato, Ensemble, Uni-Vibe, Rotary - 7 delay modes: Digital, Analog, Tape, Diffuse, Shimmer, Multi-tap and Reverse, with ducking and tempo sync - 5 reverbs: Plate, Room, Convolution, Cloud and Haze - High quality pitch shifting: three engines, up to 24 semitones either way, polyphonic and fast enough to play - A noise gate ahead of the whole chain and a transparent limiter after it - Load your own Audio Unit plug-ins as blocks in the chain ROUTING - Split your signal into up to 4 parallel lanes, each with its own level, pan and gain compensation - Or divide it by frequency band through 2, 3 and 4-way Linkwitz-Riley crossovers - Lane latency is aligned for you, so parallel paths stay in phase PRESETS AND SCENES - Store unlimited presets with search, tags and favourites, and keep 6 of them on the hotswitch bar - Up to 8 scenes per preset, recalled gaplessly, with no reload and no dropout - Full preset and scene tail spillover: delays and reverbs ring on across the change - Export and import presets as files to back them up or share them LIVE - Full screen Live mode with large scene tiles, transport, tuner and click always in reach - Setlist mode: build setlists where every song carries its preset, starting scene, tempo and backing track, and switches automatically - Playlist mode: import your own backing tracks and play them for practice and jamming - Chromatic tuner, metronome and tap tempo, with delays, modulations and reverbs locked to the tempo in note values CONTROL - MIDI learn: map any CC or Program Change to any knob, bypass, preset slot, scene or setlist step - Bluetooth MIDI pairing and MIDI 2.0 support - Siri Shortcuts to recall a scene, step through your setlist and jump straight into Live mode PLUG-IN - AUv3 effect for any host on your iPad or iPhone - Same engine, same library, same presets as the app SOUND AND SETUP - Input calibration, so captures see the level they were recorded at - Mono or stereo output, sample rate and buffer size, input channel and output pair selection on multi channel interfaces - Background audio and a live DSP load meter - Light and dark themes with nine accent colors, resizable blocks, tone curve on or off AmpGate Pro is a one time purchase. No subscription, ever. The 48 hour trial covers the app; the AUv3 plug-in comes with the unlock. Everything runs on your device. Your models, IRs and presets stay yours. Neural Amp Modeler and TONE3000 are trademarks of their respective owners.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: AmpGate Pro at every 2 days against Heavenly Chord Performer's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Heavenly Chord Performer sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and AmpGate Pro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Heavenly Chord Performer ships an update every 2 months, AmpGate Pro every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Heavenly Chord Performer | AmpGate Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.2 (5 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Better World Studio | MATTEO DEMETRIO ZANARDI |
In-app purchases
Heavenly Chord Performer
- Heavenly Premium Weekly3 Days trial$0.997 Days
- Heavenly Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
- Heavenly Premium Yearly$9.991 Year
- Heavenly Premium Forever$19.99
AmpGate Pro
- Lifetime Unlock$8.99
Questions
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