Comparison

Impressed Magic vs Magic Sound Box

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

Head to head
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Impressed Magic

Features
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Discover Your Creativity with IMPRESSED Designed to unlock your creativity and add an interactive touch to your performances. With just a simple press of a button, you can perform a fun and engaging magic trick that will connect with your audience. Fully Customisable Magic The best part? Impressed is entirely customisable! Tailor every aspect of your performance by changing the image, background, reveal text, and more. Whether it’s for clients, birthdays, special occasions, the possibilities are endlessβ€”you’re only limited by your imagination. Routine Ideas Included: β€’ Ambitious Card Routine: Each time your spectator presses the button, their selected card rises to the top of the deck. After a few repetitions, the phone screen glitches and reveals, in real time, that the card has moved to an impossible location. β€’ Thought Revelation: Use Impressed to reveal a thought-of name or word. β€’ AI Card Reveal: Your spectator picks any card, and your phone’s AI determines their choice in an astonishing display of digital magic. Features You’ll Love: β€’ Super-fast playing card input β€’ Fully compatible with iPhone and iPad β€’ Can be completely customised in under 2 mins β€’ Easy to do β€’ No internet needed to perform

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Magic Sound Box

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Magic Sound Box is a full soundboard and show control system, built specifically for performers and can be operated entirely by gesture, from your iPhone and from your Apple Watch. Load your own music, ambience and sound effects, organise it exactly how your show runs, and trigger every cue with a swish of your hand. No fumbling for cues, no assistant needed, no phone screen to fumble at mid routine. A soundboard and a live Sound FX system. This is the tool a working performer actually needs. Build up to three complete set lists, each holding ten cues in exactly the order your show runs. Mix your own music, ambience and sound effects freely within a set. Delay a cue by up to ten seconds and feel a countdown on your wrist, so it lands exactly on your line. Fade one track into the next rather than cutting hard. Set your own volume per cue. Open a set on your phone and your Apple Watch becomes that show and nothing else, ready to run from your wrist. Your own music and ambience Five music slots let you load your own tracks. Walk on music, ambience under a routine, a stinger for a big reveal, whatever your show needs. Name each one, trigger it with a gesture, and control play, pause and stop with precision. A full sound effects library included On top of everything you bring yourself, Magic Sound Box comes with a built in library of over 20 professional sound effects, ready from the moment you open the app. Magic stings like Zap, Vanish and Reveal. Performer staples like Drum Roll, Fanfare and Applause. A few just for fun. No extra download, no separate pack to buy, it's simply part of the soundboard. Add your own sound effects too Not every sound you need lives in a built in library. My Sounds lets you import any audio file of your own and add it as a sound effect, with a name and an emoji you choose, right alongside the built in ones. Add as many as you like, and remove them just as easily. They sync to your Apple Watch automatically, so a sound you've just added is ready to trigger from your wrist within moments. Sounds that know what comes next Some routines need one sound to lead straight into another. A coin drop followed by a rattle. A reveal followed by applause. Links chain two or three sounds together so the same gesture or tap always fires the next one in the sequence. Set each step to fire on a gesture, a tap, automatically, or after a countdown you feel through a haptic tap on your wrist, never a sound. Once the sequence finishes, it resets itself, ready to go again. Runs exactly how your show needs it to Use your iPhone alone, your Apple Watch alone, or both together. Route audio through your Watch for the intimacy of close up, or through your iPhone and a Bluetooth speaker for parlour and stage. Five sensitivity levels, set independently for cues and music, mean the app only fires on the gesture you actually intend. Hold the screen to disarm gestures completely whenever you need to move freely. No subscriptions. No ads. No account needed. Just a real soundboard, built for a real show.

Screenshots

Impressed Magic4 screens
Magic Sound Box3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Magic Sound Box at $4.99 against Impressed Magic's $29.99. Magic Sound Box also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks) and chart position (#197 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Impressed Magic costs $29.99 and Magic Sound Box $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Impressed Magic ships an update every 3 weeks, Magic Sound Box every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 4 level
Impressed Magic versus Magic Sound Box: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterImpressed MagicMagic Sound Box
Price$29.99$4.99 β€” better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Best chart rankβ€”#197 β€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 β€” better18.6
Further details β€” not scored
Size9 MB41 MB
Age rating17++17
DeveloperPaul Fowler MagicJAMES BUCHANAN COWAN

In-app purchases

None

Impressed Magic

No in-app purchases

None

Magic Sound Box

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Impressed Magic free?
Impressed Magic costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Magic Sound Box free?
Magic Sound Box costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Impressed Magic or Magic Sound Box have ads?
Neither Impressed Magic nor Magic Sound Box shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Impressed Magic or Magic Sound Box?
Impressed Magic ships an update every 3 weeks, and Magic Sound Box every 4 days. Most recently, Impressed Magic was updated on October 10, 2026 and Magic Sound Box on September 27, 2026.

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