Comparison

ChalkWiz vs ClockWork Magic & Mindreading

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

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About

ChalkWiz

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ChalkWiz is your go-to app for creating interactive and captivating magic experiences. Perfect for magicians, mentalists, and anyone who loves to add a touch of magic to their performances, this app looks like a regular chalkboard but holds a hidden power. This innovative app allows a magician's accomplice to exert remote control over the contentthat is displayed on the chalkboard, enhancing the illusion of mystique and wonder. With an intuitive interface, ChalkWiz offers customizable backgrounds and chalk colors tailored for both iPhone and iPad devices, ensuring versatility in every performance. Features: Realistic Chalkboard: Select from a range of colored chalks to draw, doodle, or write just like you would on a real chalkboard. Remote Control: Enable the remote control feature to receive a unique code. Share this code with your accomplice, who can control the chalkboard from another device by entering the same code in their app or through our web portal. Seamless Synchronization: Whether from across the room or across the globe, your accomplice can update the board content, allowing for mind-blowing magic tricks and mentalism performances. User-Friendly Interface: Designed with simplicity and ease of use in mind, ChalkWiz is accessible for both tech-savvy users and those new to digital magic props. Magic Trick Ideas: Your app opens up a lot of fascinating possibilities for magic tricks, combining classic sleight of hand and mentalism with modern technology. Here are several ideas for magic tricks that could be quite entertaining and mystifying for your audience: 1. The Mind Reader Setup: Pretend to draw a prediction on the chalkboard app without revealing it to the audience. Hide the iPad under a cloth, keeping it in plain view. Your accomplice, who can see or hear the selected card, word, or number chosen by an audience member, will update the chalkboard remotely. Performance: Ask the audience member to think of a card, word, or number. After a moment of concentration, dramatically reveal the chosen item on the chalkboard, giving the impression that you have read their mind. 2. The Drawing Duplication Setup: Pretend to draw a prediction on the chalkboard app without revealing it to the audience. Have your accomplice ready to draw anything you describe. Performance: Ask an audience member to draw something simple on a piece of paper, When it is done ask them to descibe what they draw or even show it to the audience. your accomplice will duplicate the drawing and sends it to your chalkboard. Reveal the chalkboard to show the identical drawing. 3. The Ghost Writer Setup: Your accomplice is ready to write on the chalkboard using the remote control feature. Performance: Create a spooky atmosphere and tell a story about a ghost that can communicate through writing. Ask the audience to pose a question to the "ghost." After a dramatic pause, have your accomplice write the answer on the chalkboard. Reveal the message to the audience, enhancing the eerie effect. To maximize the impact of these tricks, it's important to build a narrative around each performance, engage your audience with compelling storytelling, and practice your timing and coordination with your assistant. The element of surprise, combined with the seamless integration of technology, will make these tricks unforgettable.

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ClockWork Magic & Mindreading

Secretly control a spectator's phone clock to perform mind-bending magic tricks. Force times, numbers, and reveal predictions with seamless integration on their device, even from your Apple Watch.

Highlights
  • Secretly control spectator's phone clock
  • Force any time or number
  • Spectator's phone displays magic
  • Control from Apple Watch
  • Real-time screen mirroring
  • Borrowed phone magic, no install needed
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From your own phone, your Apple Watch, or your PeekSmith, you secretly control the clock on your spectator's phone. They're holding what looks like an ordinary clock: stopwatch, timers, alarms, world clock. Every one of them is yours. ALTER TIME ITSELF A spectator starts a stopwatch on their own phone, in their own hands, and stops it whenever they like. It stops on your number. No sleights, no switches! The phone does the magic for you. BORROW ANY IPHONE, NO INSTALL Nothing to download, no account, no setup on their end. A tap, a QR code, or a link puts your clock on their phone in seconds, and it disappears on its own afterward. Borrowed-phone magic that actually feels organic. FORCE ANY TIME OR NUMBER Five force modes built for real routines: • Manual: land on the exact value you choose • Addition Total: the digits sum to your prediction • Full Time: force a complete minutes-seconds-hundredths reading • Multiple of 9: self-working number math • Lap Times: force the totals across multiple laps And not just the stopwatch: force which city appears in their world clock, the time an alarm is set for, and where a timer lands. REVEAL IT IN THEIR HANDS Turn a quiet force into a visible moment of impossibility. On your secret cue, or when the spectator shakes their phone, waves a hand over it, or touches the screen, the clock they're holding visibly animates to your forced value. Add a delay to time your line, plus a synced 3-2-1 countdown you feel buzz in your hand as it lands, so you can choreograph your magic wave to reveal the time, location, and more. Afterward, everything stays examinable. PEEK EVERYTHING THEY DO, LIVE Your phone quietly mirrors the spectator's screen in real time: every start, stop, lap, alarm, timer, and city they pick. Perfect ammunition for predictions, revelations, and readings, before they even know a trick has started. CONTROL IT ALL FROM YOUR WRIST Run the entire effect from your Apple Watch: arm forces, fire reveals, and peek live values with your phone still in your pocket — or let the watch run the show entirely on its own. MORE THAN A STOPWATCH • Practice Mode — rehearse the full routine offline, anywhere • Rock-solid connectivity: direct device-to-device link with automatic cloud fallback • PeekSmith display support for stage-ready peeks • Your settings and force lists follow you to any device ClockWork is built for working performers. The clock in their hands is yours. This app is for entertainment purposes only.

Screenshots

ChalkWiz4 screens
ClockWork Magic & Mindreading4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ClockWork Magic & Mindreading at Free against ChalkWiz's $0.99. ClockWork Magic & Mindreading also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 months). ChalkWiz's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.2). On 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

ClockWork Magic & Mindreading is free to download; ChalkWiz costs $0.99 up front. ClockWork Magic & Mindreading sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ChalkWiz asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ChalkWiz ships an update every 5 months, ClockWork Magic & Mindreading every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
ChalkWiz versus ClockWork Magic & Mindreading: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChalkWizClockWork Magic & Mindreading
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperErfan ReedAndEtc, Inc.

In-app purchases

None

ChalkWiz

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

ClockWork Magic & Mindreading

One-time1
  • ClockWork Full Unlock$1000.00

Questions

Is ChalkWiz free?
ChalkWiz costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ClockWork Magic & Mindreading free?
ClockWork Magic & Mindreading is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ChalkWiz or ClockWork Magic & Mindreading have ads?
Neither ChalkWiz nor ClockWork Magic & Mindreading shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ChalkWiz or ClockWork Magic & Mindreading?
ChalkWiz ships an update every 5 months, and ClockWork Magic & Mindreading every 9 days. Most recently, ChalkWiz was updated on October 8, 2026 and ClockWork Magic & Mindreading on October 15, 2026.

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