Comparison

Glyphs Pro vs Onyx Magic

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

Head to head
About

Glyphs Pro

This app enables users to create seemingly impossible physical predictions, such as revealing a spectator's thoughts or pre-determined lottery numbers. It integrates with numerous other prediction-based applications to expand its capabilities.

Highlights
  • Create custom printed predictions
  • Generate crumpled receipt illusions
  • Design folded lottery paper predictions
  • Match drawings to spectator thoughts
  • Integrates with numerous prediction apps
Features
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Glyphs is the companion app for the Glyphs X and Glyphs Stage prediction printing systems, designed for professional magicians and mentalists. Create and print custom physical predictions with complete control over your performance. Whether you're performing close-up, parlor, or stage, Glyphs gives you the flexibility to produce realistic printed revelations that fit your routines. WHAT CAN YOU CREATE? • Words, names, numbers, and messages in any font—even your own handwriting. • Crumpled receipts with custom prices, dates, times, or purchase details. • Folded lottery tickets with your chosen numbers. • Drawings that match a spectator's thought. • Personalized predictions for close-up, parlor, and stage performances. • Custom designs, graphics, and layouts tailored to your routines. • And much more. POWERFUL INPUT MODES • Notes Mode Capture information in an interface inspired by the native Notes app. • Swami Mode A modern digital nail writer for secretly entering information and printing instantly. • Observing Mode Print images directly from your photo library. • Keyboard Mode Enter information discreetly using your device's keyboard or a connected Bluetooth keyboard. • Swipe Mode Input information invisibly using touch gestures or a compatible swipe remote. • Draw Mode Convert sketches and drawings into printed predictions. • Eyes Mode Use your device's front or rear camera to recognize printed or handwritten text using built-in OCR (Optical Character Recognition). • Voice Mode Control printing using voice input. • API Mode Receive information automatically from compatible applications in the background. • URL Scheme Mode Exchange information reliably with compatible apps using URL schemes, even without an internet connection. More input modes and integrations are continuously being added. MULTIPLE PRINTER SUPPORT • Connect multiple Glyphs printers simultaneously. • Assign specific templates to individual printers. • Manage every connected printer independently from one device. • Perfect for advanced routines requiring multiple outputs. PLAYLIST MODE • Organize routines into playlists. • Automatically switch between templates. • Trigger prints in sequence. • Run complete routines without manually navigating the app. CUSTOMIZE EVERYTHING • Create unlimited templates. • Use any font, including your own handwriting. • Add logos, graphics, images, and custom layouts. • Customize print settings, paper feed, darkness, and formatting. • Design predictions that perfectly match your performance. WORKS WITH YOUR FAVORITE MAGIC APPS Glyphs integrates with many leading magic applications, including: • Audience Wonderland (Impra/Lumen) • TAP (Architect of Predictions) • iThump / Toxic+ • The Stranger • RainMan Pro • Time Capture • Phonewords • Mindbuster • Master Miracles • ThoughtCast • NameForge • G-Sensor • Bridge AI • WikiTest • Earworm • Cognito • OMEGA • MOMO • Maxim • Nexus • SpeaQ • Flitch • Inject • VRTX • Elips • NOW • FTF New integrations are added regularly. IMPORTANT This download includes the Glyphs companion app only. A compatible Glyphs X or Glyphs Stage device is required to print physical predictions.

About

Onyx Magic

This utility uses AI to remotely alter captured photos in real-time. It allows for seamless modifications to images moments after they are taken, directly on a spectator's device. Create impossible effects like changing playing cards, revealing hidden messages, or altering clock times within photos.

Highlights
  • Real-time AI photo modification
  • Remote image alteration
  • Spectator's camera integration
  • Physical photo printing (Onyx Print)
  • Third-party app integrations
  • Variable delayed input
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Onyx is a revolutionary utility that allows you to modify a captured image in real-time using variable input data. Using cutting edge AI, Onyx lets you remotely create seamless alterations to photos moments after they've been taken - all with your spectator's camera. For example: — Make a playing card appear in your spectator's wallet. — Morph your spectator's shadow to look like their thought of animal. — Take a photo of your spectator holding a signed card. They name *any* other card. The signed card in the photo transforms to match their thought. — Supplement your Gypsy Queen routine with Onyx: zoom in on a photo of your spectator holding the Queen of Hearts for the reveal. — Reveal a thought-of word, name, or initials hidden naturally in the light reflections of a spectator's eye. — Change the time on a photo of a clock. — Remove your spectator's wristwatch in a photo, making it sbeem that it was removed earlier. ...and more! If you can describe it, Onyx can likely create it. Onyx is particularly great for revealing something ephemeral. Photograph a shadow, clouds, a TV screen or more, and Onyx will realistically insert their free choice. * Variable Delayed Input Inspired by the popular variable trigger system featured in DFB X, Onyx pauses and automatically waits for input, letting you remotely modify a photo *after* it's been taken. * Cutting Edge Technology Take a photo, then have your spectator make a free choice. Onyx's advanced technology seamlessly transforms the photo remotely. * Create Unlimited Effects Change signed playing cards, reveal initials and names, or modify writing. Reveal *anything you can imagine* within a genuine photo you just took. * Your Integrations. Their Camera The effect happens entirely with the spectator's camera. With Onyx's powerful integrations, your phone never needs to leave your pocket. * Invisible, Advanced Technology As only the spectator's device is in play, Onyx remains hidden and inconspicuous. * Third Party Integrations Use your favourite magic apps' input methods, including: — Earworm's covert typing Web Search & Notes input — Native voice input — Native clock swipe input — WebFX's Wrist Gestures — WikiTest — PeekSmith — Bridge ...and any compatible third-party app. # Introducing: Onyx Print Onyx Print brings Onyx’s digital effect into the real world. # Produce Physical Photographs Instead of revealing information only on a screen, Onyx Print can generate and automatically print images on a pocket printer, allowing you to produce a real photograph from your wallet, pocket, or envelope for a powerful ending. # Dynamic Prompting Onyx Print uses the same dynamic prompting and covert input system that powers Onyx. Use any of Onyx’s input methods, and Onyx Print will automatically generate and print an image to match. # Use Your Own Photos You can even modify existing photos. For example: have Onyx Print set up with a photo of yourself and have a spectator name any place in the world. Onyx Print will then create and automatically print a realistic photo of you in that exact location, ready to reveal. # Works With Other Apps Onyx Print can even monitor your photo library and automatically print images saved by other apps. When an app saves a photo, Onyx Print can print it. Onyx Print is an in-app purchase within Onyx, and currently supports the Instax mini Link+, with plans for additional printers in the future. Onyx is a tool specifically designed for entertainment purposes. It uses purchaseable in-app credits or a funded OpenRouter account for best-in-class automatic edits. Onyx supports: Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese simplified and traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Screenshots

Glyphs Pro4 screens
Onyx Magic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Onyx Magic at $64.99 against Glyphs Pro's $999.99. Onyx Magic also leads on ratings volume (13 vs 2). Glyphs Pro's advantage is chart position (#185 vs unranked). On rating, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Glyphs Pro costs $999.99 and Onyx Magic $64.99 up front. Glyphs Pro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Onyx Magic sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Glyphs Pro against 5.0 for Onyx Magic. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Onyx Magic has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Glyphs Pro ships an update every 11 days, Onyx Magic fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Glyphs Pro versus Onyx Magic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGlyphs ProOnyx Magic
Price$999.99$64.99 — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (13 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings213 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#185 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.2
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMoustapha BerjaouiMarc Kerstein

Customer experience

Glyphs Pro

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Onyx Magic

All ratings13 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Glyphs Pro

One-time1
  • Glyphs Watch Pro$99.99
2 purchases

Onyx Magic

One-time2
  • 100 Onyx Credits$19.99
  • Onyx Print$49.99

Questions

Is Glyphs Pro free?
Glyphs Pro costs $999.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Onyx Magic free?
Onyx Magic costs $64.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Glyphs Pro or Onyx Magic?
Glyphs Pro and Onyx Magic are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 13 ratings respectively.
Do Glyphs Pro or Onyx Magic have ads?
Neither Glyphs Pro nor Onyx Magic shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Glyphs Pro or Onyx Magic?
Glyphs Pro ships an update every 11 days, and Onyx Magic fortnightly. Most recently, Glyphs Pro was updated on October 27, 2026 and Onyx Magic on October 22, 2026.

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