Chalkwing vs CogAtelier
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chalkwing
Learn and practice magic tricks with a structured beat-by-beat breakdown. Track your progress, identify practice needs, and build confidence with a unique reordering system. All your progress is saved locally on your device.
- Beat-by-beat trick breakdown
- Audience vs. hand action columns
- Progress tracking and logging
- Tempo and cue sequence practice
- Trick reordering and scheduling
- On-device data storage
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Every trick here is broken into an ordered run of beats: the setup, the moment of misdirection, the move itself, the reveal, and the reset. Beside each beat two columns sit apart, one for what the audience is looking at, one for what your hands are actually doing. Nothing counts as learned until you put the beats back in order yourself and point to the exact instant the attention is pulled away. There are 48 tricks across six families, covering cards, coins, rope, mentalism, stage pieces and pure misdirection. The second half of the app exists to stop all of that from fading. Tap along to a target tempo and read your drift in milliseconds, rebuild a cue sequence against a countdown, or drag two handles around a ring of seats to mark the arc where the move would be visible. Practice away from the phone, come back, and log the attempt honestly as clean, flashed or dropped. All three carry the same credit, because what gets counted is turning up again. Confidence in a trick cools on its own, so the call board keeps reordering itself around whatever has gone quiet longest. Once a handful of tricks hold up, pin six of them into a running order and the reading will flag a repeated prop, two neighbours from the same family, or a pair of angles that fight each other. Everything stays on the device. No account, no ads, no network.
CogAtelier
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This is a standalone business management tool designed for restorers of antique automata and mechanical toys, as well as conservation institutions. It helps you digitize paper logs, blueprints, and handwritten notes. 【Restoration Workflow & Scheduling】 Create new restoration commissions and record details such as the client, automaton, labor hours, deposit, and delivery deadline. The app features ten built-in standard restoration steps; each step captures timestamps, damage details, and repair specifics, ensuring full traceability. The dashboard displays tasks by urgency, automatically flags overdue orders, and tracks active and completed jobs. 【Pickup SMS Notifications】 When a restoration is complete and ready for pickup, notify clients using customizable SMS templates that automatically populate details like names, automaton names, and addresses. Features include text preview and copying, integration with the system's SMS app for sending, notification archiving, and status updates to mark pickup completion. 【Client & Automaton "Mechanical Medical Records"】 Create client profiles with one-tap calling and automatic tracking of repair history. Automaton profiles store collection details such as era, origin, mechanism type, and materials; past restoration records generate an automatic timeline, creating a unique "mechanical medical record" for each piece. 【Local Data Security】 Data is stored entirely locally; no account registration is required. Supports one-tap JSON backups. Deletion of records is prevented if there are unfinished commissions, and the system automatically checks for duplicates when creating new records to avoid redundant entries. > Note: The app does not support automated background SMS sending; it relies on the device's native SMS application. If the device does not support direct integration, text can be copied and sent manually. All data is stored on the device; please export a backup before uninstalling the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Chalkwing at none against CogAtelier's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Chalkwing | CogAtelier |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chaim Stolovich | Ngoc Minh Hoang |
In-app purchases
Chalkwing
No in-app purchases
CogAtelier
No in-app purchases





