Stacked Deck vs Nothing / Ascetic Writer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stacked Deck
This utility app aids magicians in learning, maintaining, and testing stacked deck and memorized deck techniques. It's specifically designed for those who perform or wish to perform magic using these specialized card handling methods.
- Learn stacked deck techniques
- Maintain memorized decks
- Test card skills
- Specialized for magicians
- Card trick utility
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A utility to help you learn, maintain, and test stacked deck and memorized deck skills. If you're a magician that works (or would like to work) with a stacked deck or a memorized deck, this is the app for you. For anyone else, it's probably not appropriate.
Nothing / Ascetic Writer
A minimalist text editor designed for distraction-free writing. Focus on your words with a clean interface and essential tools. Ideal for authors and note-takers seeking simplicity.
- Distraction-free writing environment
- Simple text editor
- Minimalist interface
- Focus on content creation
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Nothing is an ascetic writer for Mac, iPhone and iPad. One page, a monospaced font and an orange caret. No toolbars full of buttons, no feeds, no streaks. Just the words. WHAT'S HERE • A quiet page that fills the screen, with lines kept to a readable length • Lists and tasks as you type: a dash starts a list, two brackets start a task • Links that look like the words around them; ⌘-click opens them on Mac • Sync through your own private iCloud. No account, nothing on our servers • Undo for everything, even deleting a note NOTHING PRO • Folders: group notes, name them right in the list, move a note with a right-click • Images: paste a photo or a screenshot. It fits the page and opens full size • Themes: Dark Sepia, Midnight and a paper-white Light. Dark is always free • Every Pro feature that comes next Pro is a one-time purchase, or a yearly subscription. One purchase unlocks Pro on all your devices. PRIVACY Nothing collects no data. No analytics, no trackers, no account. Terms of Use: https://nothing.yaosamo.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://nothing.yaosamo.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Nothing / Ascetic Writer at Free against Stacked Deck's $4.99. Nothing / Ascetic Writer also leads on rating (3.5 vs 3.0) and update cadence (daily vs every 6 months). Stacked Deck's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On review sentiment, ratings volume, 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
Nothing / Ascetic Writer is free to download; Stacked Deck costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Nothing / Ascetic Writer holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 64% of Stacked Deck's written reviews are positive against 62% of Nothing / Ascetic Writer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Stacked Deck ships an update every 6 months, Nothing / Ascetic Writer daily. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stacked Deck | Nothing / Ascetic Writer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.6% of reviews — better | 61.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kelvin Sherlock | Yaroslav Samoylov |
Customer experience
Stacked Deck
Nothing / Ascetic Writer
In-app purchases
Stacked Deck
No in-app purchases
Nothing / Ascetic Writer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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