Practice Space vs Penn & Teller MAGIC LAB VR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Practice Space
This app helps students set and track practice goals with detailed notes and videos. Earn points and gems to unlock fun rewards like avatars and power-ups, fostering engagement through gamified progress and leaderboards.
- Create detailed practice goals
- Track goal completion
- Earn practice points and gems
- Unlock avatars and backgrounds
- In-app shop for rewards
- Practice point leaderboard
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Practice Space is the world's most engaging practice app, and it's free to use! Students can create detailed practice goals, track the completion of their goals and win fun awards along the way. Completing practice tasks and other goals, earns you practice points and gems, which can be used in the app's store to spice up your app with cool avatars, backgrounds, and in-app "power-ups". Some cool features: Create weekly practice goals with videos, and notes for each piece, technique or theory item you are working on. You can input these items as a "Lesson" on your own or with your teacher. Practicers can see their daily practice tasks, notes on each item and any videos of you or your teacher playing in the app. See how consistently you've reached your past practice goals, and join the practice point leaderboard. Earn gems, badges and other awards throughout your practice sessions. Our in-app shop allows you to use the gems you earn to reward yourself with a little fun after putting in the practice. Come join us in our Practice Space for FREE!
Penn & Teller MAGIC LAB VR
Learn and perform over 30 magic tricks with virtual reality guidance from Penn & Teller. This app requires a physical kit and book for full interactive functionality, offering an immersive learning experience.
- Over 30 magic tricks
- Interactive learning format
- 360 virtual reality experience
- Step-by-step trick guidance
- Companion app for physical kit
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Join Penn and Teller onstage in the Penn & Teller MAGIC LAB VR. This immersive magic experience features over 30 amazing tricks in an easy interactive learning format! Penn & Teller will help you gain confidence and give you a creative edge while exploring their curated selection of popular magic tricks – from rope tricks to card tricks. You’ll get to step on the Penn & Teller stage to see the tricks performed up close as each step comes alive in full 360 virtual reality. This is a companion app. Requires printed book found in physical kit for full functionality.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Practice Space at 3.9 against Penn & Teller MAGIC LAB VR's 2.8. Practice Space also leads on ratings volume (179 vs 5) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Penn & Teller MAGIC LAB VR's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). 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.
Practice Space holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Practice Space has 179 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of Practice Space's written reviews are positive against 33% of Penn & Teller MAGIC LAB VR's.
Practice Space ships an update every 3 weeks, Penn & Teller MAGIC LAB VR every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Practice Space | Penn & Teller MAGIC LAB VR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (179 ratings) — better | 2.8 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 48.9% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 179 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 3.4 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Practice Space, LLC | Abacus |
Customer experience
Practice Space
Penn & Teller MAGIC LAB VR
Bugs and requests
Practice Space
Reported bugs
18 issues- Streak freeze does not activate
- Forgot password email not sending
- App crashes immediately upon opening on iPad
- App takes forever to load and is glitchy
- Practice timer stops at goal when outside app
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- App crashes and loses practice sessions
- Practice times/dates cannot be edited
- App doesn't save practice if not manually stopped
- App doesn't recognize streak by practice date
- Practice days don't match streak days
- App cuts off practice at 5 mins with 'error'
- Practice session restarted
- App does not track practice days correctly
- Points reset after app version update
- App crashes after login on older iOS devices
- Cannot go back to press complete after finishing practice
- Practice timer stops when switching apps
- App crashes when saving practice session
Requested features
11 requests- Long-term practice graphs (bar/line)
- More instrument options (violin, flute)
- Download digital sheet music
- Spanish language option
- Ability for teachers to fix practice times
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- Ability for teachers to add missed practices
- Message system for teacher feedback
- Tap tempo feature for metronome
- Ability to type in specific BPM for metronome
- Option to disable practice timer pausing when leaving app
- Ability to group chat with a few people
Penn & Teller MAGIC LAB VR
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Practice Space
No in-app purchases
Penn & Teller MAGIC LAB VR
No in-app purchases
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