Core vs Magic Designer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Core
Streamline your business ordering process with this intuitive iOS application. Access your full catalog, track order history, and stay informed about promotions and new items. Improve accuracy and efficiency in managing your business operations.
- Full catalog visibility with costing
- 8-week order history tracking
- Promotional notifications and deals
- Reorder from past orders/invoices
- Barcode scanning via camera
- Access to promotional flyers
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Core-Mark’s revolutionary ordering application makes ordering easy and fun with any iOS device. Generate orders with greater accuracy and have access to important promotional information and tools to manage your business more efficiently. Key Features Include: • Full visibility to your entire ordering catalog along with costing information. • Access to 8-week order history, including average and last order quantities. • Notifications of pre-orders and deals. • Ability to create an order from a previous order or invoice. • Ability to use your camera to capture barcodes. • Promotional flyers and new item introductions. • Featuring Core-Mark PromoPowers and Smart Sets! Start ordering with Core-Mark for iOS today! Contact your Core-Mark representative for your unique log-in credentials.
Magic Designer
This business software simplifies sending display letters and managing screen parameters. It offers a variety of plug-ins for different scenarios and supports online upgrades for player devices.
- Easy display letter sending
- Rich plug-ins for various scenarios
- Command support
- Online screen parameter and player upgrades
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Easy-to-use business display letter sending software, simple and easy to use; Rich plug-ins can cover most application scenarios; Support various commands to be issued, and screen parameter files and players can be obtained online for upgrading;
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Magic Designer at 3.6 against Core's 3.1. Magic Designer also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Core's advantage is review sentiment (33% vs 0%) and ratings volume (59 vs 5). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Magic Designer holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Core has 59 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of Core's written reviews are positive against 0% of Magic Designer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Core ships an update every 2 months, Magic Designer every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Core | Magic Designer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (59 ratings) | 3.6 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 59 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 144 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tiva Software, LLC | Shenzhen Huidu Technology Co., Ltd |
Customer experience
Core
Magic Designer
In-app purchases
Core
No in-app purchases
Magic Designer
No in-app purchases
