Comparison

Stacked Deck vs ACAAN Trainer

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Learn stacked deck techniques
  • Maintain memorized decks
  • Test card skills
  • Specialized for magicians
  • Card trick utility
Features
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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.

About

ACAAN Trainer

This app is a technical learning tool for close-up magicians, focusing on the ACAAN plot. It offers interactive practice with various approaches and a streamlined interface for honing card magic skills.

Highlights
  • ACAAN plot training
  • Virtual spectator concept
  • Classic and custom approaches
  • Interactive analyser
  • Display and whisper modes
  • Streamlined interface
Features
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Acaan Trainer forms part of a comprehensive suite of apps that dedicate to technical learning tools for close-up magicians. Acaan Trainer addresses those who are familiar with the concepts related to Aronson, Tamariz, Nikolas in general, and the Acaan plot in specific. If you know what these names relate to, and you apply the according techniques, then this app will help you stay tuned and inspired. A radical slim design. Cycle through the logical phases of the challenges at hand. Name it the "virtual spectator" concept. Approaches: - the classic approach. For details, among others, refer to "Sinfonía en m mayor" by J. Tamariz, Editorial Frakson, 2000 - an approach according to Alain Nu's "Any Card". For details refer to Alain Nu, "Any Card", Alain Nu 2001 Some Features: - Aronson, Tamariz and three user defined ones - display and whisper modes - includes the quick-touch interactive analyser visualising the solution path and allowing for self imposed problem statements. Decadic and tridecadic layouts - feedback driven development - feels almost like a true deck of cards. Practicing card magic you don't want no complicated, overloaded and distracting user interface. Less is more. - probably the most complete, and straightforward solution available. A card, a number, think, act, check, and again. Swipe, swipe, think, verify. Swipe, and again. To experience the look and feel of 'ACAAN Trainer' load the free 'Random Input' app available by this developer. Additional information: - License agreement - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ - Privacy policy - https://yeahgic.com/pge_PrivacyAcaan.htm

Screenshots

Stacked Deck4 screens
ACAAN Trainer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Stacked Deck at none against ACAAN Trainer's 2. Stacked Deck also leads on review sentiment (64% vs 50%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). ACAAN Trainer's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months) and price ($3.99 vs $4.99). On rating, ratings volume, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Stacked Deck costs $4.99 and ACAAN Trainer $3.99 up front. ACAAN Trainer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 3 months. Stacked Deck asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.0 for Stacked Deck against 3.0 for ACAAN Trainer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 64% of Stacked Deck's written reviews are positive against 50% of ACAAN Trainer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stacked Deck ships an update every 6 months, ACAAN Trainer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Stacked Deck versus ACAAN Trainer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStacked DeckACAAN Trainer
Price$4.99$3.99 — better
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews63.6% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKelvin SherlockRalph Cos

Customer experience

Stacked Deck

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive63.6%
Neutral18.2%
Negative18.2%

ACAAN Trainer

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Stacked Deck

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

ACAAN Trainer

Subscriptions2
  • 3 Months Subscription3 Days trial$3.993 Months
  • Annual Subscription7 Days trial$4.991 Year

Questions

Is Stacked Deck free?
Stacked Deck costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ACAAN Trainer free?
ACAAN Trainer costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Stacked Deck or ACAAN Trainer?
Stacked Deck and ACAAN Trainer are both rated 3.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Stacked Deck or ACAAN Trainer have ads?
Neither Stacked Deck nor ACAAN Trainer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stacked Deck or ACAAN Trainer?
Stacked Deck ships an update every 6 months, and ACAAN Trainer every 2 months. Most recently, Stacked Deck was updated on October 15, 2026 and ACAAN Trainer on October 1, 2026.

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