Comparison

Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM vs AmpGate Pro

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

Head to head
About

Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM

This app provides a virtual guitar pedalboard with boutique effects for iPhone and iPad. Users can build custom pedalboards and use them standalone or as Audio Unit effects within DAWs like GarageBand and Logic Pro. Individual pedals or the entire collection can be purchased.

Highlights
  • Virtual boutique guitar pedalboard
  • Standalone app functionality
  • Audio Unit (AUv3) integration
  • Customizable pedalboard layouts
  • Low-latency processing
  • Individual pedal purchases
  • Unlockable full pedalboard
Features
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Elementi is a classic guitar pedalboard for iPhone and iPad, with a real amp at the end of the chain. Play it on its own, no DAW needed, or load any pedal as an AUv3 effect in GarageBand, Logic Pro, AUM and other hosts. WE BELIEVE OURS SIMPLY SOUND BETTER Any effect gets you from A to B; what separates them is the ride. Every pedal on this board is voiced by ear, not cloned from a preset, and we only release what we'd want to play ourselves. NO DAW NEEDED Plug in your audio interface, drop pedals on the board and play. Put on a backing track in Apple Music or YouTube Premium and play along; the board keeps running behind it. The board: • Spinta - Overdrive (free) • Bruto - Fuzz • Vortice - Phaser • Marea - Flanger • Velo - Chorus • Palpito - Tremolo • Eco - Delay • Aura - Reverb • Impronta - Amp captures A REAL AMP: IMPRONTA Impronta plays Neural Amp Modeler (NAM) and AIDA-X captures with cabinet IRs, wired like a real amp: the drives push its input and every other pedal runs in its effects loop. Search TONE3000 inside the app, or import your own captures. A TUNER IN THE INPUT JACK Tap the IN jack and tune, then play. Three knobs each, a big readable face, and low-latency processing that answers your picking dynamics. A written manual for the whole board, free at caesura-effects.com/support. START FREE Spinta, our overdrive, is included at no cost. Add the pedals you want one at a time, or unlock the whole board in a single purchase. One-time purchases, no subscription. Buy a pedal once and it unlocks in the app and in your AUv3 hosts. Restore Purchases is built in. No account needed: purchases live with your Apple ID. No tracking. Want to go further? Our Caesura Guitar Effects Pedals app adds the full Caesura line, a live stage with MIDI footswitches, and a second guitarist. Elementi is made by Caesura Effects, an audio effects company.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

Screenshots

Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM4 screens
AmpGate Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM at 5.0 against AmpGate Pro's 3.5. AmpGate Pro's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and AmpGate Pro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM versus AmpGate Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterElementi Guitar Effects & NAMAmpGate Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better3.5 (4 ratings)
Number of ratings24 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysEvery 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGuy NollezMATTEO DEMETRIO ZANARDI

Customer experience

Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

AmpGate Pro

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM

One-time9
  • Impronta: NAM Amp Player$1.99
  • Bruto Fuzz$1.99
  • Vortice Phaser$1.99
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  • Marea Flanger$1.99
  • Velo Chorus$1.99
  • Palpito Tremolo$1.99
  • Eco Delay$1.99
  • Aura Reverb$1.99
  • Whole Board$9.99
1 purchases

AmpGate Pro

One-time1
  • Lifetime Unlock$8.99

Questions

Is Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM free?
Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AmpGate Pro free?
AmpGate Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM or AmpGate Pro?
Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM is rated higher. Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while AmpGate Pro averages 3.5 from 4 ratings.
Do Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM or AmpGate Pro have ads?
Neither Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM nor AmpGate Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM or AmpGate Pro?
Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM ships an update every 2 days, and AmpGate Pro every 2 days. Most recently, Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM was updated on October 25, 2026 and AmpGate Pro on October 24, 2026.

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