Stacked Deck vs ACAAN Trainer
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.
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.
- ACAAN plot training
- Virtual spectator concept
- Classic and custom approaches
- Interactive analyser
- Display and whisper modes
- Streamlined interface
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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
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Stacked Deck | ACAAN Trainer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $3.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.6% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kelvin Sherlock | Ralph Cos |
Customer experience
Stacked Deck
ACAAN Trainer
In-app purchases
Stacked Deck
No in-app purchases
ACAAN Trainer
- 3 Months Subscription3 Days trial$3.993 Months
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$4.991 Year









