Card2Phone vs Vanishing Inc. Magic app
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Card2Phone
Perform stunning visual magic tricks directly from your phone. This app offers a vast library of currency and playing card designs, with additional everyday objects available for creative performances. Elevate your magic with realistic illusions anytime, anywhere.
- 62 different currencies
- 52 playing card faces
- 70+ playing card back designs
- Everyday objects for magic (Pro)
- Visual magic performances
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Card2Phone is the best magic app on the market and lets you do visual magic anywhere! "Amazing app for any magician" - David Blaine "Bought it the second I saw it!" - Chris Kenner, Magic Consultant for David Copperfield • 62 different currencies • 52 playing card faces • More than 70 playing card back designs • Everyday objects for creative minds (Pro only*) All questions can be sent to contact@halskov.com * Pro is available as an in-app purchase and includes more than 50 extra objects.
Vanishing Inc. Magic app
Access a library of magic tutorials and ebooks on your mobile device. Learn magic anytime, anywhere with hours of instruction available at your fingertips. Browse and purchase exclusive magic downloads directly through the app.
- Watch online magic tutorials
- Read magic ebooks
- Browse and purchase downloads
- Custom ebook reader
- Access content on mobile
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All the perks of Vanishing Inc...from your mobile device. Our app will let you watch all our online tutorials and read ebooks from the comfort of your pocket. Whether you’re in line at the post office or on break at work, you have hours of magic instruction at your fingertips. - Browse and purchase our exclusive range of downloads - Play all Vanishing Inc. downloads - Use our easy ebook reader to read our books Every single Vanishing Inc. download is now available direct from your iPad or iPhone. We've developed a custom, cutting-edge book viewer that is going to make you wish all magic books were published by Vanishing Inc. Magic.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Card2Phone at 73% against Vanishing Inc. Magic app's 25%. Card2Phone also leads on rating (3.8 vs 2.4). Vanishing Inc. Magic app's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.7). On ratings volume, 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
Vanishing Inc. Magic app is free to download; Card2Phone costs $4.99 up front. Card2Phone sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Vanishing Inc. Magic app sells 18 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Card2Phone holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 64 and 26 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Card2Phone's written reviews are positive against 25% of Vanishing Inc. Magic app's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Card2Phone | Vanishing Inc. Magic app |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (64 ratings) — better | 2.4 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.9% of reviews — better | 25.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 64 — better | 26 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.7 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 113 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Halskov | Vanishing Inc. Magic LLC |
Customer experience
Card2Phone
Vanishing Inc. Magic app
User reviews
Card2Phone
From 64 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Best card to phone app
- 👍 Loved for years, should never delete
- 💡 Modernizes magic, pulls items out of phone
- 🚀 Superb, amazing for any magician
- 👍 Great effect, flexible with many options
Room to improve
- 🐛 Won't open when choosing object to appear
- 🐛 No longer works after updating, iPhone 12 Pro Max
- 🐛 Time and date visible ruins the illusion
- 🐛 Can't select coins after updating, only shows cards
- 🐛 Home bar at bottom shows it's an app, iPad issues
Vanishing Inc. Magic app
From 26 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Convenient for on-the-go access
- 👍 Great for keeping track of downloads
- 👍 Useful for streaming videos
- 👍 Good catalog for browsing offerings
- 👍 Convenient to have everything in one place
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes
- 🐛 App vanishes when watching downloads
- 🐛 Downloads not showing up
- 🐛 PDFs cause crashes
- 🐛 App won't launch
Bugs and requests
Card2Phone
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes on launch after updates
- Doesn't work after multiple updates
- Can't restore pro version purchase
- Issues with iPhone 12 and iOS 14 compatibility
Requested features
8 requests- Ability to upload custom card images
- Add Australian currency
- Add Nepalese currency
- Add Iranian coins
- Add Egyptian currency
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- Add full card backs, not just folded
- Add more full card back designs
- Add ability to take photos of custom objects
Vanishing Inc. Magic app
Reported bugs
47 issues- Login button doesn't work
- Sign up button doesn't work
- App constantly crashes
- App vanishes when trying to watch downloads
- Small-sized PDFs still not working
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- Most recent purchases haven't been showing up in library
- Only about 1/3 of library is present after reinstalling
- File names disappear from Download Queue page
- App closes automatically after clicking performance
- Crashes every time trying to play or download purchases
- App has been neglected for a long time
- Unable to download or watch
- App won't launch, title screen appears and disappears
- PDFs still crash
- Downloads not available for purchase on the app, pages come up blank
- App crashes when opening certain PDFs
- App crashes when trying to open a download
- App crashes on opening
- Keyboard won't close on login screen, pressing 'Go' does nothing
- App will not open after purchase
- App errors out when clicking on a product for more info or to purchase
- App crashes when buying a trick
- Cannot download a single item
- App does not work
- Streaming hardly ever works
- Attempts to download usually fail
- Video needs to be reloaded every time to rewatch
- App crashes all the time
- App won't download items in library or free ebooks
- Videos do not play after download
- Previous downloaded videos will not play
- Dark screen with 'video loading' message, no videos load
- App is slow and clunky, stops frequently
- Trick does not download after purchase
- Cannot access storefront since last update
- Menu buttons cover screen, impossible to navigate products
- App does not work properly on iPhone 4s
- Videos do not play
- No stream/download option buttons on iPad
- Lost previously downloaded content
- Streaming audio only when selecting a video
- Last update totally broke the app
- No way to find, preview, or buy new releases
- In-app buttons block everything
- Huge menu on the middle of the screen, nothing else visible
- App looks great but will not download
- App is atrocious, worst performing app
Requested features
6 requests- Variable speed playback
- 10 second forward/backward option
- Chromecast support
- Search feature or sort option
- Ability to multi-task and download in background
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- Bookmark feature for books
In-app purchases
Card2Phone
- Card2Phone Pro$3.99
Vanishing Inc. Magic app
- Pure Imagination$9.99
- The Art of Equivoque$9.99
- Fingertip Muscle Pass$9.99
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- Favorites - Giobbi on Vernon$9.99
- Fantasy Triumph$9.99
- Retention$9.99
- In This Order$9.99
- ESPidus Novus$12.00
- Introduction to Watch Stealing$12.95
- Thompson Change$14.95
- David Williamson Live$14.99
- Dave's Magical Mysteries Revealed$14.99
- The Inevitable$14.99
- NY Coin Magic Volume 2 (Copper/Silver)$14.99
- The Memory Arts - Aronson Edition$24.99
- Experience: The Magic of Jon Allen$29.99
- Calabrese on Cards$29.99
- Nuova Magia$39.95
Questions
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