Comparison

Loose Change Magic vs ThoughtCast Digital Mentalism

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

Head to head
About

Loose Change Magic

Perform a magic trick where you can predict a spectator's chosen number between 1 and 100 or the change in their pocket. This app provides entertainment with visual and auditory cues, making it easy to amaze others.

Highlights
  • Predicts spectator's number
  • Works with change in pocket
  • Easy to perform
  • Visual and auditory cues
  • No voice activation needed
Features
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With this amazing magic trick, written by professional comedy magician Carl Andrews, you will amaze people every time you perform! This app is intended for entertainment purposes only and does not provide true prediction functionality. Someone gives you "Any" number between 1 -100 or tells you the amount of change in their pocket. The "Loose Change" App comes up with that exact number. Amazing! No voice activation is used, any number can be named, and it is easy to do! Press the start button. You can see and hear coins appearing and numbers flashing on the screen. Finally the screen will show the exact number selected by the spectator!

About

ThoughtCast Digital Mentalism

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ThoughtCast, originally released in 2017, brought a multitude of improvements to the options magicians had to electronic impression pads prior. Multiple styles, multiple pen options (that were both normal/common and less than half the price of other impression pad pens), no pressure sensitivity, (almost) no paper limit, and some incredible features in an impression pad app, like touch to peek and camouflage mode, zone mode, and more. Now, the best impression pad (in our opinion) is getting even better with the brand new ThoughtCast v2.0 App! This app isn’t just an upgrade, it is a complete rewrite and overhaul of everything ThoughtCast, re-developed from the inside out. Effects with an impression pad that were never possible before are easy to do with ThoughtCast. Know the word someone is thinking of completely blinded with text to speech. Know the exact location of a word in a dictionary with Dictionary Lookup. Know the zodiac sign someone is thinking of, the drink they are thinking of, or their favorite cocktail without them ever telling anyone, or writing it down (yes, even with an impression pad) using our brand new Internal Logic system! Plus this is just the tip of the iceberg. ThoughtCast will automatically add together numbers, making it the perfect add a number pad for mentalists. It will even perform target number effects, letting you predict numbers that can add up to important values you control. The brand new detective system detects text in almost every language ever written, and it detects DRAWINGS! Your spectator can draw a picture and (depending on the quality), it will read to you the thing they drew or show it on a PeekSmith peek device! And, with the brand new Actions Toolkit, ThoughtCast now works with a wide array of other magic tricks you probably already own. Predict a thought of word on someone’s phone with the Inject Action. Know a thought of song on your spectators phone with the Earworm Action. Get a complete stranger to know your spectators thought of word with the Stranger Action. Show your spectators best friends name was written on a business card in your wallet the whole time with the Legacy Action. And several spectators thought of number can match a spectators random number they created (on their phone) with the Calculon Action. There are even more Actions available, so check out thoughtcastmagic.com/actions for all the Actions available now available now. Plus, it comes with all the features that make ThoughtCast the leading impression pad app. This system is simple enough for the casual performer, but powerful enough that professionals can let their imagination run wild. If you already own a ThoughtCast system, this app works with your hardware, no new hardware is needed! A See all the details at http://thoughtcastmagic.com)/thoughtcast-v2.

Screenshots

Loose Change Magic3 screens
ThoughtCast Digital Mentalism4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ThoughtCast Digital Mentalism at Free against Loose Change Magic's $2.99. ThoughtCast Digital Mentalism also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 90 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

ThoughtCast Digital Mentalism is free to download; Loose Change Magic costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Loose Change Magic ships an update every 90 months, ThoughtCast Digital Mentalism monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Loose Change Magic versus ThoughtCast Digital Mentalism: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLoose Change MagicThoughtCast Digital Mentalism
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 90 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.616.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCarl Andrews18795964936AndEtc, Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Loose Change Magic

No in-app purchases

None

ThoughtCast Digital Mentalism

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Loose Change Magic free?
Loose Change Magic costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ThoughtCast Digital Mentalism free?
ThoughtCast Digital Mentalism is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Loose Change Magic or ThoughtCast Digital Mentalism have ads?
Neither Loose Change Magic nor ThoughtCast Digital Mentalism shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Loose Change Magic or ThoughtCast Digital Mentalism?
Loose Change Magic ships an update every 90 months, and ThoughtCast Digital Mentalism monthly. Most recently, Loose Change Magic was updated on November 1, 2026 and ThoughtCast Digital Mentalism on November 3, 2026.

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