Comparison

MagicWare for Magicians vs Maxim magic

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

Head to head
About

MagicWare for Magicians

Organize your magic tricks, props, and supplies. Track details like purchase price, patter, and required sleights. Build routines, manage a want list, and use a practice timer. Generate quotes for shows and input data via voice-to-text.

Highlights
  • Organize tricks and supplies
  • Create and sequence routines
  • Manage a want list
  • Practice timer and log
  • Generate custom quotes
  • Voice-to-text data entry
  • Customizable performance venues
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MagicWare is a must have app for magicians of all levels or magic collectors who want or need to be able to organize, track and search all of their tricks, props, supplies and equipment. The MagicWare app will become your single repository for all of that information you have lying around on post-it notes and note pads that you can't seem to find when you need it. Tricks: MagicWare provides an interface for creating and organizing your tricks. Trick data includes the trick name, what you paid, when you bought the trick, patter used, sleights and moves required, load items and supplies needed, and more. Routines: MagicWare provides an interface for creating, building and organizing your routines. This includes the tricks that make up the routine displayed in a sequence you define. This can be done for venues such as stage, parlor, close-up or walk-around, etc. Of course these venue categories are customizable. Want List: MagicWare also includes a Want List so you can keep track of the props, tricks, supplies and equipment you're looking for. Practice Timer: MagicWare also has a practice timer and practice log that is organized by trick, routine, sleight or move. Quotes: A robust interface for generating semi-customizable quotes is provided, as well as, an up-sell area for organizing items or add-ons for your show. Once set up, these can then be linked to your routines and are automatically made available when building a quote during a phone conversation with your potential client. Don’t leave money on the table! Much of the data may be entered using voice to text. A huge time saver when entering large blocks of text for patter or notes about a particular trick or routine. MagicWare is almost totally customizable to your particular needs and performance venue.. The information can be out-put to your printer or emailed in pdf format. With an intuitive design that is easy to master and excellent built-in help, you can be up and running in no time at all.

About

Maxim magic

Instantly calculate and discreetly reveal any freely named card from a spectator-shuffled deck. Offers multiple reveal methods, including counting to specific dates or spelling card names, with zero memory work or math required. Perfect for magicians of all skill levels.

Highlights
  • Instant card reveal calculation
  • Spectator-shuffled deck support
  • Multiple customizable reveal methods
  • Zero memory work or math
  • Works with any card stack
  • Covert phone usage
Features
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"A lot of apps come and go with trends. Maxim lives on my homescreen. It's genius." - Christian Grace MAXIM is a covert app that instantly calculates and discreetly delivers to you the perfect hands-off reveal for any freely named card in a deck that's been mixed by the spectators. Effect: You hand the spectator a deck. (in any stack of your choice). They "shuffle" the deck under the table or behind their back whilst freely naming any card. Let's say the name the "King of Diamonds". They bring the deck out and immediately you know up to three different ways that they can reveal their own card. For example; They deal down to the exact date of the month and their card is exactly there! All without any brain work, math, no nothing. Allowing you to be fully engaged in your performance. Any random card at any arbitrary number is more impressive to magicians than laymen. But when the number has meaning, whether it's counting to their birthday, spelling the card's name or even counting to the exact date of the year, the boring old ACAAN takes on new life, feels more personal and more importantly more magical. The beauty of maxim, unlike most other apps, is that your phone is used in a covert way, and to the spectator has nothing to do with the trick. Easy to do. Perfect for beginners. You do not need to know any stack. There is zero memory work. No mental math at all. Works in any language and can be fully customized. Works with any stack in the world. Including a visual stack editor. Every reveal can be fully customized. Multiple input options. Multiple peek options including notifications. Customizable spectator profiles to take MAXIM to miracle status. MAXIM is an app that lives on your phone. With you everywhere you go. Ready to perform at a moment's notice anywhere, anytime. Never before has it been so easy, to perform such unexplainable miracles. With MAXIM, now you can.

Screenshots

MagicWare for Magicians4 screens
Maxim magic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Maxim magic at 33% against MagicWare for Magicians's 0%. Maxim magic also leads on ratings volume (16 vs 1) and update cadence (every 6 days vs fortnightly). MagicWare for Magicians's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.6). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. MagicWare for Magicians sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Maxim magic sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MagicWare for Magicians holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Maxim magic has 16 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of MagicWare for Magicians's written reviews are positive against 33% of Maxim magic's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MagicWare for Magicians ships an update fortnightly, Maxim magic every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
MagicWare for Magicians versus Maxim magic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMagicWare for MagiciansMaxim magic
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better3.6 (16 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews33.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings116 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size137 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTom JohnsonMurphy's Magic

Customer experience

MagicWare for Magicians

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Maxim magic

All ratings15 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

MagicWare for Magicians

One-time1
  • MagicWare BaseVersion$9.99
1 purchases

Maxim magic

One-time1
  • Maxim App$24.99

Questions

Is MagicWare for Magicians free?
MagicWare for Magicians is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Maxim magic free?
Maxim magic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MagicWare for Magicians or Maxim magic?
MagicWare for Magicians is rated higher. MagicWare for Magicians averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Maxim magic averages 3.6 from 16 ratings.
Do MagicWare for Magicians or Maxim magic have ads?
Neither MagicWare for Magicians nor Maxim magic shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MagicWare for Magicians or Maxim magic?
MagicWare for Magicians ships an update fortnightly, and Maxim magic every 6 days. Most recently, MagicWare for Magicians was updated on September 19, 2026 and Maxim magic on October 21, 2026.

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