# Magic Sound Box — Bring Your Show to Life > Bring Your Show to Life (iPhone/iPad app by JAMES BUCHANAN COWAN.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/magic-sound-box/id6795528935 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [JAMES BUCHANAN COWAN](https://appshunter.io/developer/1790681566) - Category: Entertainment - Price: $4.99 - Age rating: 17+ - Requires: iOS 18.6 · 41 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-08-05 - Data updated: 2026-09-09 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/magic-sound-box/id6795528935/reviews.md ## What is Magic Sound Box? Magic Sound Box is a full soundboard and show control system, built specifically for performers and can be operated entirely by gesture, from your iPhone and from your Apple Watch. Load your own music, ambience and sound effects, organise it exactly how your show runs, and trigger every cue with a swish of your hand. No fumbling for cues, no assistant needed, no phone screen to fumble at mid routine. A soundboard and a live Sound FX system. This is the tool a working performer actually needs. Build up to three complete set lists, each holding ten cues in exactly the order your show runs. Mix your own music, ambience and sound effects freely within a set. Delay a cue by up to ten seconds and feel a countdown on your wrist, so it lands exactly on your line. Fade one track into the next rather than cutting hard. Set your own volume per cue. Open a set on your phone and your Apple Watch becomes that show and nothing else, ready to run from your wrist. Your own music and ambience Five music slots let you load your own tracks. Walk on music, ambience under a routine, a stinger for a big reveal, whatever your show needs. Name each one, trigger it with a gesture, and control play, pause and stop with precision. A full sound effects library included On top of everything you bring yourself, Magic Sound Box comes with a built in library of over 20 professional sound effects, ready from the moment you open the app. Magic stings like Zap, Vanish and Reveal. Performer staples like Drum Roll, Fanfare and Applause. A few just for fun. No extra download, no separate pack to buy, it's simply part of the soundboard. Add your own sound effects too Not every sound you need lives in a built in library. My Sounds lets you import any audio file of your own and add it as a sound effect, with a name and an emoji you choose, right alongside the built in ones. Add as many as you like, and remove them just as easily. They sync to your Apple Watch automatically, so a sound you've just added is ready to trigger from your wrist within moments. Sounds that know what comes next Some routines need one sound to lead straight into another. A coin drop followed by a rattle. A reveal followed by applause. Links chain two or three sounds together so the same gesture or tap always fires the next one in the sequence. Set each step to fire on a gesture, a tap, automatically, or after a countdown you feel through a haptic tap on your wrist, never a sound. Once the sequence finishes, it resets itself, ready to go again. Runs exactly how your show needs it to Use your iPhone alone, your Apple Watch alone, or both together. Route audio through your Watch for the intimacy of close up, or through your iPhone and a Bluetooth speaker for parlour and stage. Five sensitivity levels, set independently for cues and music, mean the app only fires on the gesture you actually intend. Hold the screen to disarm gestures completely whenever you need to move freely. No subscriptions. No ads. No account needed. Just a real soundboard, built for a real show. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.8 — 2026-09-05 New features My Sounds: unlimited custom sound effects, imported from Files, each with a name and an emoji, synced to the Watch automatically Links: chain 2 to 3 sounds together, each step configurable to start on gesture-or-tap, tap only, automatically, or a timer with a silent countdown Links reset to step 1 on their own after the last step, and the Watch returns to Settings so nothing can misfire afterward Resync to Watch button, for manually re-pushing custom sounds if one doesn't arrive on its own Watch page order changed: Settings, Links, Music, Sound Effects, My Sounds ### 1.7 — 2026-08-31 Improvements to Set Lists. Fixed an issue where opening an already-configured Set List slot to adjust one setting, like a fade or a delay, could clear your selected sound or music track, forcing you to choose it again before you could save. Your existing selection now stays exactly as you left it. Also refined how music behaves inside a Set List: the felt countdown now applies only when starting a track. Stopping one, by triggering it again, is always immediate, with any fade out you've set still applied. ### 1.6 — 2026-08-30 More reliable gesture and sound performance. Fixed several issues where triggering a sound after resting your wrist, or after the Watch screen dimmed, could fail silently or stop responding until the app was reopened. Sound effects, music, and gesture detection now recover reliably every time you return to the app, with no relaunch needed. ### 1.4 — 2026-08-21 More reliable gesture detection. If you set your Watch down or lowered your wrist for a while, gesture detection could stop responding until you reopened the app. That's fixed. Detection now picks back up automatically the moment you raise your wrist again, no need to relaunch, no interruption to your show. ### 1.3 — 2026-08-14 Addressed issue with hold to pause gesture on IOS 10 for watch, changed it to remove the hold to pause to push gesture which in turn lets users swipe now across to sound effects. ## More apps by JAMES BUCHANAN COWAN - [AMC Paint](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/amc-paint/id6740916246) - [LWR-Freq](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lwr-freq/id6745188924) - [Digital Reveals](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/digital-reveals/id6754863925) - [Digital Companion](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/digital-companion/id6758997204) - [D20-2-1](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/d20-2-1/id6759326491) - [Sketchy Pro](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sketchy-pro/id6759830318) All apps by JAMES BUCHANAN COWAN: https://appshunter.io/developer/1790681566 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-09.*