Comparison

1981 Creative Era vs Chalkwing

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

Head to head
About

1981 Creative Era

Features
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Membership App for 1981 Creative Era Customers, Customers can register and login into the app that shows information for them.

About

Chalkwing

Learn and practice magic tricks with a structured beat-by-beat breakdown. Track your progress, identify practice needs, and build confidence with a unique reordering system. All your progress is saved locally on your device.

Highlights
  • Beat-by-beat trick breakdown
  • Audience vs. hand action columns
  • Progress tracking and logging
  • Tempo and cue sequence practice
  • Trick reordering and scheduling
  • On-device data storage
Features
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Every trick here is broken into an ordered run of beats: the setup, the moment of misdirection, the move itself, the reveal, and the reset. Beside each beat two columns sit apart, one for what the audience is looking at, one for what your hands are actually doing. Nothing counts as learned until you put the beats back in order yourself and point to the exact instant the attention is pulled away. There are 48 tricks across six families, covering cards, coins, rope, mentalism, stage pieces and pure misdirection. The second half of the app exists to stop all of that from fading. Tap along to a target tempo and read your drift in milliseconds, rebuild a cue sequence against a countdown, or drag two handles around a ring of seats to mark the arc where the move would be visible. Practice away from the phone, come back, and log the attempt honestly as clean, flashed or dropped. All three carry the same credit, because what gets counted is turning up again. Confidence in a trick cools on its own, so the call board keeps reordering itself around whatever has gone quiet longest. Once a handful of tricks hold up, pin six of them into a running order and the reading will flag a repeated prop, two neighbours from the same family, or a pair of angles that fight each other. Everything stays on the device. No account, no ads, no network.

Screenshots

1981 Creative Era4 screens
Chalkwing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: 1981 Creative Era at 11.0 against Chalkwing's 16.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
1981 Creative Era versus Chalkwing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter1981 Creative EraChalkwing
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS11.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB7 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperOnebox Creative LimitedChaim Stolovich

In-app purchases

None

1981 Creative Era

No in-app purchases

None

Chalkwing

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 1981 Creative Era free?
1981 Creative Era is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chalkwing free?
Chalkwing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do 1981 Creative Era or Chalkwing have ads?
Neither 1981 Creative Era nor Chalkwing shows ads.

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