Oblivious vs Magic Sound Box
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Oblivious
Connect up to four devices to your iOS device and monitor all inputs live from a single screen. Explore various specialized modes for enhanced functionality and more features are planned for future updates.
- Connect up to 4 devices
- Live input monitoring
- Single screen display
- C.U.P.P mode
- U.T.P Mode
- Search mode
- Comms Mode
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Finally the Oblivious app is here! Now you can connect unto 4 Oblivious Boards to your iOS device and watch all the inputs live from one screen. Other modes included are C.U.P.P mode, U.T.P Mode, C.D.P mode, Search mode, Comms Mode, Prevision Mode and many more functions available and much more to come.
Magic Sound Box
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Magic Sound Box is a full soundboard and show control system, built specifically for performers and can be operated entirely by gesture, from your iPhone and from your Apple Watch. Load your own music, ambience and sound effects, organise it exactly how your show runs, and trigger every cue with a swish of your hand. No fumbling for cues, no assistant needed, no phone screen to fumble at mid routine. A soundboard and a live Sound FX system. This is the tool a working performer actually needs. Build up to three complete set lists, each holding ten cues in exactly the order your show runs. Mix your own music, ambience and sound effects freely within a set. Delay a cue by up to ten seconds and feel a countdown on your wrist, so it lands exactly on your line. Fade one track into the next rather than cutting hard. Set your own volume per cue. Open a set on your phone and your Apple Watch becomes that show and nothing else, ready to run from your wrist. Your own music and ambience Five music slots let you load your own tracks. Walk on music, ambience under a routine, a stinger for a big reveal, whatever your show needs. Name each one, trigger it with a gesture, and control play, pause and stop with precision. A full sound effects library included On top of everything you bring yourself, Magic Sound Box comes with a built in library of over 20 professional sound effects, ready from the moment you open the app. Magic stings like Zap, Vanish and Reveal. Performer staples like Drum Roll, Fanfare and Applause. A few just for fun. No extra download, no separate pack to buy, it's simply part of the soundboard. Add your own sound effects too Not every sound you need lives in a built in library. My Sounds lets you import any audio file of your own and add it as a sound effect, with a name and an emoji you choose, right alongside the built in ones. Add as many as you like, and remove them just as easily. They sync to your Apple Watch automatically, so a sound you've just added is ready to trigger from your wrist within moments. Sounds that know what comes next Some routines need one sound to lead straight into another. A coin drop followed by a rattle. A reveal followed by applause. Links chain two or three sounds together so the same gesture or tap always fires the next one in the sequence. Set each step to fire on a gesture, a tap, automatically, or after a countdown you feel through a haptic tap on your wrist, never a sound. Once the sequence finishes, it resets itself, ready to go again. Runs exactly how your show needs it to Use your iPhone alone, your Apple Watch alone, or both together. Route audio through your Watch for the intimacy of close up, or through your iPhone and a Bluetooth speaker for parlour and stage. Five sensitivity levels, set independently for cues and music, mean the app only fires on the gesture you actually intend. Hold the screen to disarm gestures completely whenever you need to move freely. No subscriptions. No ads. No account needed. Just a real soundboard, built for a real show.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Magic Sound Box at $4.99 against Oblivious's $149.99. Magic Sound Box also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months) and chart position (#189 vs unranked). Oblivious's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.6). On ads and in-app purchases 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
Oblivious costs $149.99 and Magic Sound Box $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Oblivious ships an update every 3 months, Magic Sound Box every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Oblivious | Magic Sound Box |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $149.99 | $4.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | — | #189 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 145 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +17 |
| Developer | Mark Hill | JAMES BUCHANAN COWAN |
In-app purchases
Oblivious
No in-app purchases
Magic Sound Box
No in-app purchases








