magicplan vs Hard Truth
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
magicplan
Instantly create accurate floor plans and capture essential project details using your mobile device's camera. Streamline workflows for remodelers, restoration, and claims professionals with real-time data, photos, and integrated reporting. Get paid faster with efficient job management.
- Real-time floor plans
- Photo and notes capture
- Object and equipment catalog
- Customizable forms and checklists
- 360° panoramas
- Integrated reports and estimates
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GET IT RIGHT IN REAL TIME magicplan is the advanced floor plan app that enables remodelers, restoration, and claims professionals to capture what counts instantly. Top features: · Real-time Floor Plans · Photos · Notes · Objects & Equipment · Forms & Checklists · 360° Panoramas · Reports · Price Lists & Estimates No more waiting, no more wondering, no more wasted time and effort. Get more done and get paid faster. · Make floor plans quickly using just the camera of your mobile device (no extra hardware required) · Get all the details you need right away, like measurements and pictures · Customize it for your jobs · It’s accurate and helps you work faster · You don't have to wait or guess about anything We integrate with Xactimate® (direct integration, no ESX) and CoreLogic.
Hard Truth
This app helps you visualize the real-world cost of your daily screen time. It calculates how much time you spend on your phone and shows what you could achieve with that time instead, offering tools to set goals and track progress.
- Input daily screen time via typing or screenshot
- Projects future time spent and potential achievements
- Over 300 'truths' comparing time to skills, education, and more
- Visualizes life in weeks with phone time highlighted
- Set daily limits and assign time to specific goals
- Track streaks and progress towards goals
- Home and Lock Screen widgets for quick access
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Your phone keeps count. Hard Truth adds it up. Enter your daily screen time. Type it in, or pick a screenshot of your Screen Time week and the app reads it on your iPhone. Hard Truth projects it forward and shows you what those hours could have been instead. 4 hours a day for 20 years is 29,220 hours. That's 5 years of your waking life. It's 18 master's degrees, 13 languages as hard as Japanese, or 4,638 books. THE TRUTHS • 300 truths across education, languages, skills, fitness, reading, travel, career, people and the absurd • Every truth shows its math, the basis for the number, and a source • Numbers always round down, and estimates are labeled as estimates • Your life in weeks: one dot per week, with the weeks your phone takes shown in red THE PATH • Pick a daily limit and give the time a job: a language, a marathon, a degree • Check in each night in a few seconds • Watch your streak, the hours you've taken back, and the date you'll reach each goal • Optional nightly reminder, and Home and Lock Screen widgets SHARE IT • Story, feed and square cards for your hard truth, a single truth, your life grid, or your progress PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no server, no ads, no analytics, no tracking • Everything stays on your iPhone. Screenshots are read on the device and never stored • Erase everything with one tap
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hard Truth at none against magicplan's 12. Hard Truth also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). magicplan's advantage is ratings volume (41K vs 1) and chart position (#179 vs unranked). On price, 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
Both are free to download. magicplan sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Hard Truth asks for nothing beyond the download.
Hard Truth holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: magicplan has 41K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | magicplan | Hard Truth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (41K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 41K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #179 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 332 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Technologies magicplan Inc. | Greez Holdings LLC |
Customer experience
magicplan
Hard Truth
Bugs and requests
magicplan
Reported bugs
4 issues- Rooms not detected properly due to obstructions
- Crashes during posture calibration
- Dimensions changing unexpectedly when editing
- Inability to export or access previously created projects
Requested features
6 requests- Add support for curved walls and non-rectangular rooms
- Improve 3D rendering capabilities
- Provide desktop/web app version
- Allow more flexibility in unit of measurement
- Enhance exterior design options
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- Improve stair and ceiling modeling
Hard Truth
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
magicplan
- Standard Subscription$9.991 Month
- Sketch Plan (1 Month)$12.991 Month
- Business Subscription$19.991 Month
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- Monthly Business Subscription$19.991 Month
- Report Plan (1 Month)$39.991 Month
- Estimate Plan (1 Month)$89.991 Month
- Standard Subscription$99.991 Year
- Sketch Plan (1 Year)$129.991 Year
- Business Subscription$199.991 Year
- Yearly Business Subscription$199.991 Year
- Report Plan (1 Year)$399.991 Year
- Estimate Plan (1 Year)$899.991 Year
Hard Truth
No in-app purchases
