Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM vs PadLoop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM
This app offers a classic guitar pedalboard experience for mobile devices, featuring a real amp and various effects. It can be used standalone or as an AUv3 plugin in other music hosts. Start with a free overdrive pedal and unlock additional effects individually or as a complete package.
- Classic guitar pedalboard
- Real amp simulation (NAM/AIDA-X)
- AUv3 plugin support
- Built-in tuner
- Low-latency processing
- Individual or full board unlock
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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. It is the full Impronta: two rigs, or a virtual second guitarist who plays your part with you, a little behind and a little loose. 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 and a live stage with MIDI footswitches. Elementi is made by Caesura Effects, an audio effects company.
PadLoop
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Sixteen pads, a track looper and a sampler: PadLoop turns your phone into a real instrument for making beats with your fingers - no musical training needed. Try everything free for 7 days. After that PadLoop stays free with 2 banks, 2 looper tracks and one project, or you unlock everything with a single one-time purchase. No subscription. NEW • Ready beats: 24 complete grooves (Trap soul, Afrobeats, Deep house, UK drill, Funk, Lo-fi...), each with its own bank, tempo and swing, drums and music already recorded. One tap and you play over them • Optional plugins: 6 sound kits (Reggaeton, Afro & Amapiano, Jungle & DnB, Phonk, Drum Machines, Percussion) and 4 instruments with real recorded notes (grand piano, marimba & vibraphone, strings, winds) • Split a song: the Stem split plugin separates a track into vocals, drums, bass and the rest, right on your phone, no internet needed. Then put the parts on your pads (needs 3 GB of RAM or more) • Pedals: MIDI pedals run the looper hands-free • More precise mic recording: the delay is stored separately for speaker, headphones and Bluetooth • On first launch, if you like, an example to listen to or a step-by-step guide PLAY • 8 sound banks (128 pads): drums, basses, synths, vocals - all replaceable • Touch dynamics: hard at the bottom, soft at the top, like real pads • Keyboard: play any sound in a scale with no wrong notes, chords included • Note repeat with Latch, an arpeggiator, 16 Levels (the same sound at sixteen velocities), hold-down effects (filter, echo, reverb, lo-fi...) • Shape every pad: pitch, reverse, envelope, filter, echo, lo-fi RECORD LOOPS • Hit REC and play: the loop records itself and keeps going, layer after layer • Up to 16 synced tracks: name them and drag them into your own order, without stopping the loop • Time-stretch: a loop follows the project BPM without changing pitch • Quantization with a selectable grid (8ths, 16ths, triplets, 1/32) or off - and you can change it afterwards • Step sequencer with per-cell hit strength: accents and ghost notes • Mute in time, per-layer undo, loop doubling, swing SAMPLE ANYTHING • Record from the mic, import audio files, take the sound from a video, or resample the app itself • Trim with handles, split on hits automatically or chop by hand; clean up steady background noise • Sound library with 558 ready-made sounds and 29 pre-built banks SING AND SHARE • Record your voice straight onto a track, in time with the beat • Save your own banks and share them with friends as a file • Record your live performance, effects and mistakes included • Export to MP3/WAV or as separate tracks, at the same full level you hear in the app BUILT FOR REAL PLAYING • A "?" on the main screens explains every button, with the full guide one tap away • Two calibrations, for taps and for the mic, so what you record lands where you played it • MIDI controllers and keyboards, USB and Bluetooth, with MIDI learn • Autosave and one-file project backup HONEST • No ads. Ever. For anyone. • No subscriptions: a 7-day trial with everything unlocked, plugins included, then playing stays free forever (2 banks full of sounds, 2 looper tracks with the microphone too, one project) • A single one-time purchase unlocks everything: the full sampler, all 8 banks, 16 tracks, 558 sounds, 29 ready-made banks, 24 Ready beats, all plugins, export, performance recording, unlimited projects • Everything you create stays yours and keeps playing, no matter what Make your first beat in thirty seconds. The rest follows.
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The clearest difference is update cadence: Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM at every 2 days against PadLoop's weekly. 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. Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and PadLoop sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM ships an update every 2 days, PadLoop weekly. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.
| Parameter | Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM | PadLoop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 138 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Guy Nollez | POSITIVE VIBRATION, SOCIEDAD LIMITADA. |
In-app purchases
Elementi Guitar Effects & NAM
- 14-day TrialFree
- 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
- Impronta: NAM Amp Player$4.99
- Whole Board$9.99
PadLoop
- 7-Day Free TrialFree
- Full Unlock$9.99
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