Comparison

ChalkWiz vs Sleight

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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Sleight

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Sleight is close-up magic for iPhone and Apple Watch: seven tricks that happen right in your spectator's hands. Sleight looks like an everyday app, so nobody suspects a thing, and the first time you open it, it shows you how to reach your tricks. SEVEN TRICKS • Doodle: scribble a "prediction" and ask them to name a number. Your scribble turns into their number, in handwriting, right in front of them. • Nine Cards: they touch one of nine cards while your back is turned. You name it anyway. Playing cards, ESP symbols, colours, emoji or words. • Calculator: everyone adds a number of their choice on an ordinary-looking calculator. The total is your prediction, even today's date. • Out of the Screen: photograph any object, and Sleight lifts it off the background, traces its outline and sizes it to the real thing. A coin, a playing card or your own keys slide across the screen, even over your own Home Screen, then leave the glass and land in your hand. • Mind Sketch: they draw anything, then wipe the page clean. You draw it too. • Telekinesis: a real compass on their phone finds north. Then the needle turns to follow your hand. • Lie Detector: a fingertip on the camera reads their live pulse, or they wear your Apple Watch. Ask your questions and watch the verdicts land. MADE FOR PERFORMING Every trick comes with an animated walkthrough and step-by-step instructions. Your tricks stay out of sight whenever you leave the app, and you can switch to a plain app icon. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking. Everything runs on your iPhone and Apple Watch, and nothing is sent to us. Camera, microphone and heart-rate readings are used live and never stored. On Apple Watch, the Lie Detector reads heart rate through HealthKit only while the trick runs, and nothing is saved to the Health app. WHAT YOU NEED iPhone with iOS 26. Doodle (numbers up to 32), Calculator, Out of the Screen and Nine Cards work on iPhone alone. Mind Sketch and Telekinesis need an Apple Watch with watchOS 26, the Lie Detector needs an Apple Watch or AirPods, and Doodle's numbers up to 99 need an Apple Watch. Doodle numbers 1–4 are free. Unlock tricks one at a time, or get All Tricks, which includes tricks added in future updates. Sleight is for entertainment. Its pulse readings and "lie detection" are part of a magic trick, not medical or scientific measurements.

Screenshots

ChalkWiz4 screens
Sleight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sleight at Free against ChalkWiz's $0.99. Sleight also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 5 months). ChalkWiz's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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

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

Sleight is free to download; ChalkWiz costs $0.99 up front. Sleight sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. ChalkWiz asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ChalkWiz ships an update every 5 months, Sleight daily. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences Ā· 2 level
ChalkWiz versus Sleight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChalkWizSleight
Price$0.99Free — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperErfan ReedTony Al Akik

In-app purchases

None

ChalkWiz

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

Sleight

One-time8
  • Telekinesis$1.99
  • Calculator$2.99
  • Doodle (Full)$3.99
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  • Nine Cards$4.99
  • Out of the Screen$4.99
  • Mind Sketch$4.99
  • Lie Detector$6.99
  • All Tricks$19.99

Questions

Is ChalkWiz free?
ChalkWiz costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sleight free?
Sleight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ChalkWiz or Sleight have ads?
Neither ChalkWiz nor Sleight shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ChalkWiz or Sleight?
ChalkWiz ships an update every 5 months, and Sleight daily. Most recently, ChalkWiz was updated on November 12, 2026 and Sleight on November 6, 2026.

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