Nexus Smart Remote vs WordPace

Full remote configuration, at your fingertips. For over a decade, the most trusted remote in magic. Now the setup that once had to be done by hand lives in your pocket. Configuring the remote has never been simpler — the app takes it further than manual configuration ever allowed, and when the show changes, you can reconfigure in seconds. Connect over Bluetooth and every setting on your remote is one tap away. No more configuring through memorized button-press sequences, and no guessing whether a setting is actually active — you see the remote's true state, right on screen. SWITCHBOARD — the breakthrough Build advanced macro action chains and orchestrate your own custom actions, hands-free, with your phone out of sight. Limited only by your imagination. PROFILES — 12+ built in Over a dozen ready-made button layouts, so one remote works across every magic app you perform with — or design your own. PEEK & WATCH Send your information to a discreet companion display like the PeekSmith, or connect the smartwatch that suits the occasion — SB Watch, Fossil, or many more through TimeSmith. Readable at a glance, phone nowhere in sight. SHORTCUTS Assign shortcuts to buttons so the remote powers on straight into a custom configuration. COMPLETE CONTROL, ONLY IN THE APP • Install the latest firmware straight from your phone • Build, edit and organize Switchboard action chains • Back up and restore your whole setup — even onto a second remote • Quick configuration from the dashboard • Manage peek devices and watch connections • Command every setting on the remote, in more detail than ever before • Interactive guide to the manual button configurations, step by step One remote, a magician's toolkit — now fully in your hands.

Nerves make you speak faster, and nobody in the audience is going to tell you. WordPace listens to your speaking pace while you present and shows a large, unmissable warning the moment you run away with it. MEASURES WHAT ACTUALLY MATTERS WordPace reports your articulation rate: words per minute of real speaking time. Pauses are left out, because otherwise every breath would tilt the numbers in your favor. The reading covers the last twenty seconds of speech, so it shows how you are speaking now, not how you started. A WARNING ONLY YOU SEE On iPhone, the warning fills the screen, and a haptic tap tells you without looking. You can add a sound as well. On Mac, a red banner covers your own display. It ignores clicks, so you keep advancing your slides, and with an extended display or a shared window your audience never sees it. A small floating readout shows the exact number if you want it. DOESN'T FLICKER, DOESN'T NAG The warning clears only once you are comfortably back under your limit, and disappears on its own when you stop speaking. Each language keeps its own limit, because words per minute cannot be compared between languages. PRESENT IN YOUR LANGUAGE WordPace recognizes English and many other languages and regional variants. The warning appears in the language you are speaking, whatever language your device is set to. LEARN FROM EVERY TALK After each session you see your average pace, your peak, how often you were warned, and your pace over time. EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE Speech recognition runs entirely on your device. No audio is recorded. No transcript is stored: the measurement only ever sees when each word starts and ends, never the words themselves. WordPace collects no data, and its only permission is the microphone. Requires iOS 26 or macOS 26. The first time you use a language, your device downloads Apple's on-device speech model for it.