Comparison

Gaslight Magic vs Bridge

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

Head to head
About

Gaslight Magic

Create a captivating light show directly on your phone without any external accessories. Explore various patterns and learn to perform a mesmerizing illusion with simple choreography and optional cloth props. This app offers a unique way to entertain with a magical visual effect.

Highlights
  • Self-contained light show
  • Multiple light show patterns
  • Learn illusion techniques
  • Customizable for any iPhone
  • Combine with LED accessories
  • Easy to perform daily
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Perform a mesmerizing light show on your phone. No complicated gimmicks or accessories that you have to clip onto your phone. This is a self-contained application that can turn heads. Multiple light show patterns available, such as dance, zig-zag, and ping-pong around the back of the phone. Make your audience question reality when you perform Gaslight by Seth Race & Chris Hanowell. Learn how to perform this magical fun show and dress it up with the use of a cloth, such as a handkerchief or a napkin. The app is fully customizable, so it can work with any iPhone model currently supported by Apple. A little choreography is all it takes to make this illusion look perfect. Additionally, Gaslight can be combined with some of your favorite LED magic products to make it appear as if you remove the light from the phone and put it back on. This incredible app allows you to perform wild visuals using an object everyone carries in their pocket: a cell phone. This trick is easy to do and will find its way onto your home screen to be something you perform every day. Give your iPhone magic a ghostly kick when you perform Gaslight by Seth Race and Chris Hanowell. Wow your audience like a moth to a flame in a gaslight, with Gaslight Magic! Cloth and other LED accessories not included.

About

Bridge

This tool connects your magic apps, allowing data to be sent, transformed, and received. It features AI-powered input transformations like converting text to emoji or finding celebrity birthdays, enabling creative reveals and background printing.

Highlights
  • Send, transform, and receive data between magic apps
  • AI-powered input transformations
  • Background printing integration
  • Works with iOS Shortcuts
  • Custom Shortcut actions
  • Accomplice mode
  • Input and output APIs
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Introducing Bridge: a reliable tool to send, transform and receive data between your favourite magic apps. Want to use an impression pad to generate video reveals? Or how about being able to send to your printer app in the background? Imagine - a spectator writes any celebrity on an impression pad. Behind the scenes, Bridge connects this with a printer app, allowing you to reveal the celebrity's name printed in your pocket. Furthermore, Bridge also includes the same cutting-edge AI first introduced in our award-winning apps DFB X and WikiTest to transform your inputs before passing it on to your reveal.  For example: - *Letters to number position in alphabet* - "marc" automatically becomes "13 1 18 3". - *Famous movie of celebrity* - gives the most famous movie starring the actor entered. - *Zip code lookup* - "10010" becomes "New York". - *Emojify* - turn text into emoji. - *Birthday of celebrity* - return the birthday of any famous person. ...or create your own and add any more you can think of! With Bridge AI, Bridge can take that celebrity input, find their most popular film, and pass that on to the printer app instead, printing the poster of that movie! Previously, if you wanted to share data between magic apps, other magic apps have been typically repurposed. But now, using the same, reliable technology that powers WikiTest, Bridge is the first app intentionally developed to share data between your favourite apps. Bridge uses other apps or Shortcuts to pass through data for inputs and reveals. As well as adding support into my own apps, developers of many third party apps either have or have said they will build in native support for Bridge, including PeekSmith, AWP Lumen, Glyphs, TAP - The Architect Of Predictions ...with many more to come. Bridge even includes its own custom Shortcut actions, accomplice mode, input and output APIs to link with other apps, a URL scheme, its own Peek Screen and more. Have one app send text to Bridge, and have another app poll Bridge to link them together. Simply copy your API URL into your favourite magic app to begin using Bridge. - Use Bridge with any existing or future magic app that supports sending or receiving text - Standardised input and output Web API for other apps - Works with iOS Shortcuts - send and push data to and from Bridge, and even change your Bridge AI prompt via Shortcuts - Integrated Peek Screen - Accomplice Web Control Mode - For most uses and integrations, the Bridge app doesn't even need to be open! Note that Bridge AI requires credits or you can use your own self-funded API key. Credits can be purchased in-app if desired. Note also that third party integration features are unlocked via the included one time in-app purchase.

Screenshots

Gaslight Magic3 screens
Bridge1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Bridge at $0.29 against Gaslight Magic's $19.99. Bridge also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). Gaslight Magic's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and chart position (#189 vs unranked). On ratings volume, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Gaslight Magic costs $19.99 and Bridge $0.29 up front. Bridge sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Gaslight Magic asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bridge holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Gaslight Magic's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bridge's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Gaslight Magic versus Bridge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGaslight MagicBridge
Price$19.99$0.29 — better
Rating4.0 (11 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11 — better7
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#189 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPenguin MagicMarc Kerstein

Customer experience

Gaslight Magic

All ratings11 ratings
Positive72.7%
Neutral9.1%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative16.7%

Bridge

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Gaslight Magic

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Bridge

One-time2
  • 100 Bridge AI Credits$6.99
  • Bridge Pro$29.99

Questions

Is Gaslight Magic free?
Gaslight Magic costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bridge free?
Bridge costs $0.29, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Gaslight Magic or Bridge?
Bridge is rated higher. Gaslight Magic averages 4.0 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Bridge averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do Gaslight Magic or Bridge have ads?
Neither Gaslight Magic nor Bridge shows ads.

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