Contactum Magic Trick vs Maxim magic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Contactum Magic Trick
Perform professional magic tricks using a spectator's phone to control their contact list. This app allows you to force, guess, or predict numbers without needing any special techniques or installing anything on their device.
- Control spectator's contact list
- Force, guess, or predict numbers
- No techniques required
- Works on spectator's phone
- Multilingual support
- Instructional videos included
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Contactum is not a simple trick, it's an amazing, and professional, MULTILANGUAGE magic app with which you will have total control of the contact list on any phone in seconds, you can force, guess or predict one or many numbers on the spectator's phone. Contactum is a paid app, 59.99 USD. Install it and go Instructions to get it!. Perform now amazing tricks with a borrowed phone! You do not even need your phone, you will do everything with the spectator´s phone, very easily and without techniques. With a little imagination, you can create powerful routines for close-up, parlor, or stage, involving one or many spectators. IMPORTANT POINTS • Multilanguage, 20 languages and growing constantly. • Set it up in seconds and have it ready to perform it always. • Very easy to perform, without techniques. • Instructional videos and performance inside the app. • Contactum automatically detects the spectator´s phone! • We constantly improve and expand the app. With the great idea that no spectator knows what another spectator's contacts list looks like, Contactum will take advantage of this and give you a contacts list on the spectator's phone, detecting whether it is, and giving you access to the corresponding contacts list. Without the need to install anything on their phones. You will be able to perform the winning routine for the best prize in mentalism, at CADI 2019 (ARGENTINE CONGRESS OF ILLUSIONISM), using a jury's phone and involving 4 spectators on the stage. You will know its explanation in the instructions. Contactum is an app created by Magic Pro Ideas, designed for professional magicians and beginners. You can always have the app configured to perform the effects at any time and anywhere, without the need to even have your phone with you, since everything will happen on the spectator´s phone. Contactum is created by professional magicians from Argentina, Javier Franco, Leandro Bas, and Abril Kan, who regularly use it in their professional routines, at social, corporate, and TV shows. Welcome to CONTACTUM by Magic Pro Ideas.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Contactum Magic Trick at 83% against Maxim magic's 33%. Contactum Magic Trick also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.6) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). Maxim magic's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (16 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Contactum Magic Trick 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.
Contactum Magic Trick holds the better App Store score, 5.0 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 point the same way: 83% of Contactum Magic Trick's written reviews are positive against 33% of Maxim magic's.
Contactum Magic Trick ships an update every 6 weeks, Maxim magic every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Contactum Magic Trick | Maxim magic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.6 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Javier Franco | Murphy's Magic |
Customer experience
Contactum Magic Trick
Maxim magic
In-app purchases
Contactum Magic Trick
- Contactum$59.99
Maxim magic
- Maxim App$24.99
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