Magic Display vs Mini LedShow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Magic Display
Transform your LED screen with custom text, designs, and effects via Bluetooth. This app offers built-in animations, collaborative playback, graffiti tools, and music synchronization for a unique visual experience.
- Bluetooth wireless connection
- Custom text and design effects
- Built-in display effects
- Collaborative playback
- Custom graffiti
- Music playback synchronization
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LED display via bluetooth wireless connection, realize the change in the APP screen text, design effect.A variety of built-in display effect, joining together play, custom graffiti, music playback, cool variety of gameplay, allowing you to LED screen is unique. LED显示屏通过蓝牙无线连接，实现在应用程序屏幕文字、设计效果上的改变。各种内置显示效果，联袂播放，自定义涂鸦、音乐播放，酷炫多样的游戏玩法，让您的LED显示屏独树一帜。
Mini LedShow
Control LED lights from your phone to display patterns, text, and dynamic graphics. Synchronize with music or microphone rhythms for animated effects. Offers a larger display area for more visual customization.
- Pattern display
- Text input
- Graffiti creation
- Music rhythm sync
- Microphone rhythm sync
- Dynamic pattern display
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Mini LedShow can control LED lights through the mobile phone APP to achieve patterns, text, graffiti, music rhythm, microphone rhythm function. It has a larger screen and even displays dynamic patterns.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Magic Display at 2.9 against Mini LedShow's 1.7. Magic Display also leads on review sentiment (34% vs 15%) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Magic Display holds the better App Store score, 2.9 against 1.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 159 and 75 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 34% of Magic Display's written reviews are positive against 15% of Mini LedShow's.
Magic Display ships an update every 5 weeks, Mini LedShow every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 28, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Magic Display | Mini LedShow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (159 ratings) — better | 1.7 (75 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.6% of reviews — better | 14.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 159 — better | 75 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tianlang innovation Technology (Shenzhen) Co.,Ltd. | Shenzhen I-ledshow Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Magic Display
Mini LedShow
User reviews
Magic Display
From 159 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use once connected
- 🎨 Custom text and drawing features work well
- 🚀 Fast live display updates
- ✨ Fun and visually appealing
- 🔄 Simple connection process when working
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bluetooth connection failures (most critical issue)
- ❌ Limited customization options
- 🎵 Music functionality severely limited
- 📝 Text character limit too restrictive
- 🎨 Limited color options (fixed quadrants)
Mini LedShow
From 75 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Works well (sometimes)
- 👍 Simple, easy interface
- 👍 Live update of badge
- 👍 Functional for basic use
- 👍 Works well, no issues (initial setup)
Room to improve
- 🐛 App broken before hardware
- 🐛 Product cheap and unreliable
- 🐛 Useless website
- 🐛 9-letter limit
- 🐛 Limited LED GIFs
Bugs and requests
Magic Display
Reported bugs
15 issues- Bluetooth connection not discovering device
- App crashes when entering text (iOS 17 compatibility issue)
- Display shows upside down
- Apostrophe adds extra space in text
- Music mode crashes when playing
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- Brightness slider non-functional
- Bold button non-functional
- Flashlight button non-functional
- App requires reinstall to work again
- Hat resets to default settings randomly
- Connection times out without timer set
- DIY delete and erase buttons too close together
- Pac-Man animation unavailable despite being shown
- Animations disappear when hat is connected
- Text inversion feature not working
Requested features
15 requests- Custom animation creation tool
- Ability to upload and play personal music
- Spotify/Apple Music integration
- Customizable color selection
- Larger drawing/DIY canvas area
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- Save text message presets
- Emoji and Unicode support
- Battery level indicator
- Microphone-triggered equalizer
- Import images/GIFs from device
- Real-time clock display
- Voice activation functionality
- More music options beyond lullabies
- Better DIY interface design
- Undo/redo functionality for drawings
Mini LedShow
Reported bugs
71 issues- App doesn’t work
- Bluetooth settings don’t work
- Choker stuck at last message
- App broken before hardware
- Website is useless
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- Product is cheap and unreliable
- 9 letter limit for text
- Limited amount of LED GIFs
- Does not connect to iOS 18
- Won’t connect to Bluetooth
- Bricked my badge
- Can no longer connect
- Bluetooth not pairing
- Impossible to connect
- App is completely broken
- No longer works
- Device locked since app updates
- Still not operational with old hardware
- Won’t connect after update
- Fix connection, banner is stuck
- New version does not work
- Newest update breaks connection
- Update no longer connects
- New update won’t connect
- Worked fine, now doesn’t
- Update made device unusable
- Can’t connect to new device
- Stopped working after latest update
- Disappointing update
- Update breaks the hat
- New version no longer works
- Latest update broke functionality
- Update broke the app
- No connection since last update
- Can’t connect my device after update!
- No longer sync with LED sign
- LED sign update issue
- No Connection
- Updated, still won’t connect
- No longer connecting
- Can no longer connect
- No longer works (recent update)
- No longer works?
- Developer abandoned?
- After updating, cannot connect
- Update broke the app
- No longer works?
- No longer works after update
- New version no longer works
- Latest update broke functionality
- Update broke the app
- No connection
- No connection since last update
- Can’t connect my device after update!
- Delete needed
- Rhythm issue
- App is garbage
- Doesn’t work all the time
- Sad mask, doesn't connect
- Missing functionality
- Not impressed, stuck with it
- No font size option
- Can’t figure out songs
- App is buggy
- Can’t mix graphics and text
- Display doesn’t offer delete
- Useless as it stands
- Can’t play own music
- In iPhone version color issue
- Can’t create moving animations
- Text stacks, jumbled mess
Requested features
19 requests- More animated designs
- More options for LED GIFs
- Ability to try own animations
- Create custom image animations
- Cycling through text lines with different animations
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- Options to create custom image animations
- Put eyes on them like the ad
- Let us make animations again
- Delete input that's no longer needed
- Add layering function for animations
- More patterns to choose from
- Figure out microphone function
- Add font size adjustment
- Add songs to the list
- Fix connection issues
- Revert to older app version
- Support for older hardware
- Ability to delete previous entries
- Add color changing option for iPhone
In-app purchases
Magic Display
No in-app purchases
Mini LedShow
No in-app purchases
