Comparison

Stack Trainer vs Shining Glasses

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

Head to head
About

Stack Trainer

This app provides a realistic card deck experience for close-up magicians to train their memory of card stacks. It offers various challenge modes and filters to aid learning and practice, with a focus on a clean, distraction-free interface.

Highlights
  • Realistic card deck simulation
  • Multiple mnemonic training approaches
  • Customizable stack filters
  • Lorrayne's peg words integration
  • Interactive quick-touch analyzer
  • Display and whisper modes
Features
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Stack Trainer forms part of a comprehensive suite of apps that dedicate to technical learning tools for Close-up magicians. Stack Trainer addresses those who are familiar with the concepts related to Aronson, Tamariz, Nikolas. If you know what these names relate to, and you apply the according techniques, then this app will help you stay tuned and inspired.  Stack Trainer provides a most realistic card deck experience. It sets the golden standard for mnemonic deck training. A radical slim design. Cycle through the logical phases of the challenges at hand. Name it the "virtual spectator" concept. Approaches: - Next Card: Sequentially displayed, name the next card - Each Card: Name each card's position in a shuffled stack - Each Position: Name each position's card in a shuffled stack - Get Position: Name the position of a given card - Get Card: Name the card at a given position - Next Suit: Name the distance to the next of the same suit - Wrong Card: Identify the one card that is displaced in the face-up spread stack - Missing Card: Find the missing card in the face-up spread stack - Spot: Spot a specific card in the face-up spread stack - Highest Card: Identify the high and low cards of a random sub-stack - Four of a Kind: Name the distance to the next of the same kind Filters: Filters can be set to reduce the actual stack to a substack of lower size addressing and supporting the gradual progress during the early learning phase of a stack. Filters also provide different perspectives onto a stack to inspire and engage expert users. These filters, applied to the chosen approach, can be set: - ranges 1-13, 14-26, 27-39, 40-52, and a custom range - pair and impair positions - red and black cards - any of the four suits - court and number cards Some Features: - Aronson, Tamariz and user defined stacks - Lorrayne's peg words for the 52 cards and 52 positions, plus 3 user defined sets - display and whisper modes - includes the quick-touch interactive analyser visualising the solution path and allowing for self imposed problem statements with 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, the one downwards (or upwards), maybe its mates, maybe the next one of the same suit. Either on random walk, or deliberate choices on the complete map. Touch swipe, swipe. Swipe and again. To experience the look and feel of 'Stack 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_PrivacyStack.htm

About

Shining Glasses

Control your LED full-color display screen with this app. Customize text, expressions, colors, and effects. Create unique patterns, music rhythms, and graffiti for a personalized device experience.

Highlights
  • Control LED full-color display
  • Change display text and expressions
  • Variety of color schemes
  • Display and pattern effects
  • Music rhythm effects
  • Custom graffiti and display effects
Features
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Shining glasses is a cool app that controls the LED full-color display screen. It can change the display text and expression in the app, provide a variety of color schemes and display effects, pattern effects, music rhythm effects, and customize graffiti and display effects as you like. With cool and diverse play methods, your device is unique. Shining Glasses是一款控制LED全彩显示屏的酷炫App,实现在app中更改显示文字和表情,提供多种配色方案以及显示效果,图案效果,音乐律动效果,可以随心所欲自定义涂鸦及显示效果,酷炫多样的玩法,让您的设备独一无二。

Screenshots

Stack Trainer4 screens
Shining Glasses4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Shining Glasses at Free against Stack Trainer's $3.99. Shining Glasses also leads on review sentiment (43% vs 0%) and rating (3.0 vs 1.0). On update cadence, 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

Shining Glasses is free to download; Stack Trainer costs $3.99 up front. Stack Trainer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 3 months. Shining Glasses asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Shining Glasses holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shining Glasses has 61 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Stack Trainer's written reviews are positive against 43% of Shining Glasses's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stack Trainer ships an update every 3 months, Shining Glasses every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 28, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Stack Trainer versus Shining Glasses: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStack TrainerShining Glasses
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)3.0 (61 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews42.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings161 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscriptionFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.69.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB141 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRalph CosShenzhen Heaton Technology Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

Stack Trainer

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Shining Glasses

All ratings61 ratings
Positive45.9%
Neutral16.4%
Negative37.7%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive42.9%
Neutral25.0%
Negative32.1%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Stack Trainer

Subscriptions2
  • 3 Months Subscription7 Days trial$1.993 Months
  • Annual Subscription$2.991 Year
None

Shining Glasses

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stack Trainer free?
Stack Trainer costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Shining Glasses free?
Shining Glasses is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Stack Trainer or Shining Glasses?
Shining Glasses is rated higher. Stack Trainer averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Shining Glasses averages 3.0 from 61 ratings.
Do Stack Trainer or Shining Glasses have ads?
Neither Stack Trainer nor Shining Glasses shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stack Trainer or Shining Glasses?
Stack Trainer ships an update every 3 months, and Shining Glasses every 2 months. Most recently, Stack Trainer was updated on August 28, 2026 and Shining Glasses on September 25, 2026.

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