Comparison

Vision vs Picasso Pro

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

Head to head
About

Vision

Enhance your magic performances with this app, designed to work with a card recognition tool. It allows magicians to manage card stacks, monitor data remotely, and even automate trick sequences for seamless shows. Expand your magical repertoire with a growing collection of routines.

Highlights
  • Stack Manager for custom card sequences
  • Remote data monitoring via webserver
  • Automated trick sequences
  • Peek device functionality
  • Accomplice mode for remote assistance
Features
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This app is intended to be used by magicians. It is the perfect addition to my Vision app (which does a optical character recognition of playing cards, which are layed out in a spread. With this new app a wide variety of new things will be possible. The collection will increase by time. This app can also be used by an accomplice, since the data can be received from a webserver. So the magician secretly analyses the spread and the accomplice has all the necessary information within seconds - whilst being far away. Features: Stack Manager: You can define and store any stacks, you use. These can be accessed from all different functions of the app. Monitor: Allows you to monitor the extracted data, which was sent to a webserver. Show missing card: Can be used as a peek-device Some Tricks Auto Pilot Lets you create a sequence of tricks, which you can perform automated one after the other! The collection will be updated and increased constantly in hope, that this will become a new era in card magic.

About

Picasso Pro

This app enables you to perform a magic trick where a spectator colors a drawing on their own phone. The app then reveals a matching prediction, requiring no special props. It's a customizable prediction tool for entertainment.

Highlights
  • Perform 'Color Match' magic trick
  • Uses spectator's phone
  • No special props needed
  • Fully customizable templates
  • Customizable color labels
  • Prediction tool
Features
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Perform ‘Color Match’ on a spectators phone. Picasso Pro allows you to perform the famous Picasso routine, know around the world as Color Match - with only your phone. No special props required. This app and the secrets within do all the work for you. Walk up to a spectator and have them color in a drawing on THEIR phone. When it’s completed you can show that it matches your prediction perfectly. Fully customizable, use your own templates (or choose one of the built in ones) and color labels, it’s the ultimate prediction tool. In collaboration with Promystic.com & Ellusionist.com, this is Picasso Pro. Download TODAY.

Screenshots

Vision2 screens
Picasso Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Vision at 100% against Picasso Pro's 44%. Vision also leads on price (Free vs $29.99) and device support (4 vs 2). Picasso Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). On 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

Vision is free to download; Picasso Pro costs $29.99 up front. Vision sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Picasso Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vision ships an update every 3 months, Picasso Pro every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Vision versus Picasso Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisionPicasso Pro
PriceFree — better$29.99
Rating—2.5 (28 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better43.6% of reviews
Number of ratings—28 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB8 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperMartin EiseleEllusionist.com INC

Customer experience

Vision

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Picasso Pro

All ratings28 ratings
Positive35.7%
Neutral3.6%
Negative60.7%
Written reviews39 reviews
Positive43.6%
Neutral7.7%
Negative48.7%

Bugs and requests

Vision

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Picasso Pro

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • Notifications not received when app is in background
  • App not opening after update
  • Black screen after setup/account creation
  • Safari can't find the server error
  • Instructions crashing
Show 7 more
  • Notifications not changing automatically
  • Random color vibrations
  • No push notifications
  • Aspect ratio not adjusted to screen size
  • Black screen after registering
  • App black screens totally after registration
  • Login doesn't work on site

Requested features

3 requests
  • Update warning video before ID creation
  • Add Apple Watch support
  • Part of the warning video within the app on first open

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Vision

One-time3
  • Shuffle Bored$13.99
  • Voice Control$13.99
  • Impromptu Stack$13.99
None

Picasso Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Vision free?
Vision is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Picasso Pro free?
Picasso Pro costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Vision or Picasso Pro have ads?
Neither Vision nor Picasso Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vision or Picasso Pro?
Vision ships an update every 3 months, and Picasso Pro every 2 weeks. Most recently, Vision was updated on October 24, 2026 and Picasso Pro on October 26, 2026.

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