iPuppet vs Focus by Joel Dickinson

iPuppet "Digital Ventriloquist Companion" Turn your iPhone into a living puppet. iPuppet puts an expressive, animated character right on your screen, one that blinks, looks around, reacts, and talks in perfect sync with your performance. No wires, no hand puppet, no rehearsed animatronics. Just you, your phone, and a character that feels alive. Built for real performance, not just for show! iPuppet was designed with working performers in mind: ventriloquists, magicians, and anyone who wants a genuinely interactive digital character. Every feature exists because it solves a real problem on stage. Faint, performer only touch zones. Trigger expressions with barely visible circles positioned exactly where you want them. You'll know where to tap. Your audience won't have a clue. Fully customisable button layout. Drag and drop every control exactly where you want it. Left-handed? Move everything to suit you. No fixed layouts, no compromises. Seven expressive character states. Normal, Happy, Angry, Love, Dizzy, Star Struck, and Crying, each with its own animated eyes, brows, and mouth. Fluffy Angry comes with blazing red eyes and a proper shake. Star-struck and dizzy get a mesmerising "ooooh" mouth. Crying has real falling teardrops. Finger-tracking eyes. Drag your finger across the screen and watch the character's eyes follow, adding another layer of lifelike presence to your act. Two characters in one app Choose the classic animated face, picking from expressive eye and mouth styles on a bold colour background, or unlock Fluffy Character mode, iPuppet's signature trick. Upload a photo of your own phone's home screen, and a soft, fluffy character appears to magically pop up right out of your app icons. Position it, resize it, recolour its fur to any shade you like, and place your control buttons anywhere on screen. It's a genuine "wait, what?" moment the first time someone sees it. Make it yours! Custom fur colours with quick presets or full custom sliders Drag-and-drop face layout, positioning the eyes and mouth exactly where you want them on the character Save multiple character presets and switch between them instantly Ten background colours for classic mode Adjustable talk speed and idle animation behaviour Why performers choose iPuppet This isn't a novelty filter or a one-trick gimmick. iPuppet was built from the ground up by a working performer who understands that on stage, timing and invisibility matter more than flashy menus. Every control is designed to be silent, precise, and completely under your command, because the moment the audience sees you operating something, the illusion breaks. Whether you're a professional ventriloquist looking for a genuinely responsive digital companion, a magician wanting a fresh piece of visual comedy, or a performer who just wants their phone to come alive with personality, iPuppet gives you a character that reacts instantly, looks great close up, and puts you fully in control. No internet connection required. No accounts, no subscriptions to use the core character. Your character, your control, your performance. Download iPuppet and bring your puppet to life

A participant thinks of an image. Seconds later, you reveal what they are thinking. Your participant can either think of any image entirely in their mind within a category… or freely focus on an image from your gallery. No writing. No typing. No awkward procedure. No AI and no internet required during performance. Focus is a performance system built for magicians and mentalists, designed to create impossible thought-reading demonstrations using a completely natural gallery. “This has become a go-to for me. The reactions I get are absolutely insane.” — Joe Bainbridge Unlike many digital effects, Focus feels casual, organic, and genuinely natural in performance. The interface mirrors a real photo gallery, allowing the experience to unfold without suspicious handling, strange processes, or awkward procedure. Whether your participant thinks of an image in their mind or freely focuses on one from your gallery, the thought remains completely hidden. Use your own photographs, create custom galleries, and reveal thoughts in the way that best suits your performance style. Comes ready to perform with a built-in “Who Is It?” gallery, allowing you to start performing straight away. Built for real-world performance with instant reset, flexible handling options, optional smart watch notifications, and complete offline capability. Perfect for close-up, walkaround, social media, casual performing, content creators, and professional magic and mentalism routines. FEATURES • Create custom image libraries for different routines • Use your own photos from your gallery, files, or folders • Perform using either a freely thought-of image or a target gallery • Comes ready to perform with a built-in “Who Is It?” gallery • No AI • No internet required during performance • Choose different reveal modes for each routine • Instant reset • Flexible handling options • Optional notification system for compatible smart watches • Familiar gallery interface that feels natural and unforced • Fast, reliable, practical, and performance tested REVEAL MODES Focus is designed to reveal your participant’s thought in any way you want. If you simply want to secretly discover what your participant is thinking and reveal it later in your own way, Focus allows you to do that in seconds. Focus also includes several powerful built-in systems... Live Peek Secretly obtain the thought-of information with invisible handling. Reveal it naturally away from the screen, or receive the information through an optional notification system on your phone or compatible watch. Blind Reveal The participant interacts with the gallery while the phone remains face down. Somehow they still arrive at the exact image they are thinking of, this revelation happens in their own hands. Date Reveal A participant thinks of any image and any date. Moments later they discover that exact image was predicted long before the performance began, on the very date they are thinking of. Force Mode Focus doesn’t just reveal thoughts. It can secretly create them. Guide a participant to any image you choose while everything appears completely fair and natural. Mosaic Zoom out from a single image and watch the entire gallery visually transform into a giant mosaic revealing the participant’s exact thought. Falling Tiles The gallery shatters apart, exposing the single image the participant is merely thinking of beneath it. Polarise Shake the device and the gallery visually morphs into one clear image, the image held in the participant’s mind. Recently Added Sometimes the strongest methods are the simplest. Quietly identify the participant’s image using a deceptively innocent reveal process that feels completely genuine and impossible to backtrack. Turnover Appear to arrive at the wrong conclusion before the image unexpectedly transforms, revealing that you knew the participant’s thought all along. Designed for performers who want mentalism that feels impossible, fast, and real.