Your whole guitar rig, on the stage, on an iPad.
GEAR is a guitar effects and amp rack for iPad: neural amp captures, cabinet impulse responses, an effects grid with no block limit that you route yourself, sixteen Scenes per preset, and MIDI control deep enough to run an entire set from a foot controller. The iPhone runs the same rig as your backup.
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Amp captures and cabinets
Load neural amp captures (NAM v2) and your own IRs. Free-tier rigs get the same audio quality as the full version — nothing is watermarked or timed out.
A grid, not a chain
As many blocks as your rig needs, with real parallel paths, patch-bay splits and merges, per-path latency compensation, and per-block bypass you can put on a footswitch.
Scenes
Sixteen instant, gap-free sound changes inside every preset — verse, chorus, solo — with a level matcher that measures instead of guesses.
Built for the stage
Performance Mode shows what matters at a glance, mirrors your footswitches, and floats over other apps. Reserved MIDI CCs for tuner, tap tempo, Scenes, looper and more.
The iPhone as your backup
The same presets, Scenes, MIDI and Performance Mode on a phone, synced through iCloud — so an iPad that fails at a gig does not end the gig.
Buy once
Free to download. One in-app purchase unlocks everything, on every device you sign in with.
What you need
An iPad and a class-compliant USB audio interface with an instrument input. A MIDI foot controller — wired or Bluetooth — is optional but is where GEAR comes alive. The hardware page says what has been tested and what to avoid.
Made by a gigging player
Built by Helix Projects in the UK and played live throughout its development. It exists because the rig it replaced was three boxes and a cable.