Comparison

Magic Sound Box vs Digital Visions

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

Head to head
About

Magic Sound Box

Features
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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.

About

Digital Visions

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Digital Visions is a performance tool for professional magicians. A spectator names a drawing. Your phone โ€” sitting untouched on the table since before the effect began โ€” shows a video message that already contains it. THE PERFORMANCE Press Go and put the phone down. The screen goes dark. Minutes later it pings with a message from a contact. You pick it up, open it, and play the video. Pause it before the reveal, ask for a drawing, and finish. WHAT YOU GET - A messages interface you can dress to look like your own phone โ€” contacts, avatars, conversation history, all editable - Notifications that arrive on your timing, from ten seconds to five minutes - Complete offline operation once installed. No signal, no wifi, no problem - A free version with three reveals so you can try it properly before buying THE FULL PACK Unlocks the complete set of reveals โ€” every drawing a spectator is likely to name, with alternative names mapped to each one so a "puppy" and a "dog" both land. Available as an in-app purchase, or with the code supplied in the boxed Visions release from your magic dealer. BUILT FOR WORKING PERFORMERS No connection required at performance time. Nothing to set up between shows. Designed by a working magician with over fifty releases through Murphy's Magic.

Screenshots

Magic Sound Box3 screens
Digital Visions3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Digital Visions at Free against Magic Sound Box's $4.99. Digital Visions also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 days). Magic Sound Box's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Digital Visions is free to download; Magic Sound Box costs $4.99 up front. Digital Visions sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Magic Sound Box asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Magic Sound Box ships an update every 4 days, Digital Visions every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Magic Sound Box versus Digital Visions: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMagic Sound BoxDigital Visions
Price$4.99Free โ€” better
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 2 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.617.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size41 MB21 MB
Age rating+1712+
DeveloperJAMES BUCHANAN COWANmatthew wright

In-app purchases

None

Magic Sound Box

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Digital Visions

One-time1
  • Full Visions Pack$29.99

Questions

Is Magic Sound Box free?
Magic Sound Box costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Digital Visions free?
Digital Visions is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Magic Sound Box or Digital Visions have ads?
Neither Magic Sound Box nor Digital Visions shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Magic Sound Box or Digital Visions?
Magic Sound Box ships an update every 4 days, and Digital Visions every 2 days. Most recently, Magic Sound Box was updated on October 13, 2026 and Digital Visions on October 16, 2026.

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