Earworm vs Actions
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Earworm
This app enables a magic trick where you can seemingly predict a song or video a friend is thinking of. It works with borrowed phones and can be performed in person or remotely, with no accomplices or memory work required.
- Song prediction effect
- Performable in person or remotely
- Works with borrowed phones
- No accomplice needed
- Any song can be named
- Works with multiple services
- Supports notifications
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Earworm is a music prediction effect for professional performers. Here's what happens: - You ask a friend to take out their phone, mute the volume and open YouTube. - You then take your friend's phone and play a song, giving the phone back with its screen facing downwards. - Now you apparently mentally transmit the thought-of song to your friend. - Your friend names *any* song, turns the volume up on their phone and looks at the screen to hear and see that your prediction was correct... that exact song is playing on their phone! The entire effect happens on their phone. Earworm is built for real-world performance. It gives you multiple advanced input methods, flexible reveal options, and powerful integrations so you can adapt the routine to your style, language, and audience. Everything can be inspected afterwards, with nothing suspicious to find. Features include: - Predict songs, music videos, trailers, or almost any searchable video - Multiple input methods, including voice and covert browser input - Performable in multiple languages - No accomplice required - No memory work - Integrations with many third-party magic apps - Notification support for additional confirmation And with Earworm Pro: - Supports Bluetooth peek devices, including the PeekSmith and Lumen Duo as part of Earworm Pro - Never touch their phone with Earworm Remote - Enhanced input methods Earworm Pro is an optional purchase that brings even more advanced performance tools, including: Enhanced Voice input - Automatically detect songs mentioned in conversation. - Uses your own funded AI account and API key for best-in-class recognition. - Black mode offers a covert input with vibration cues. Earworm Remote v2 - Perform Earworm without touching the spectator's phone. - A new, even more natural way to share your video link. - Auto Redirect and WikiTest integration for pairing and redirecting. Send To Earworm - Allow supported third-party apps to submit to Earworm, letting you reveal a freely chosen song via their input methods. Peek Device Support - New support for compatible peek devices. - Live Peek support for the Notes input (to make it seem that you really did predict the chosen song!) - Native PeekSmith and Lumen Duo support is built into Earworm Pro Earworm is designed for performers who want a practical, modern, impossible-looking prediction effect. Video and audio broadcasting of any description (including TV, radio and Internet) of this effect is prohibited without the written consent of its creator.
Actions
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ThoughtCast Actions is an app specifically designed to connect the ThoughtCast Suite of magic technologies with other magic apps and hardware devices, allowing you to expand the possibilities of your own magic and make revelations that are truly impossible! Actions connects to ThoughtCast Magic effects like: Calculon Notarized PhoneFabulation MentalSketch All Seeing Eye Plus Actions connects to hardware: Teleport e-ink screen (available in the ThoughtCast Magic online store) Legacy System from Joao Miranda Hacker from Le French Twins Reinkstone Cases (to send an image to your case screen) Actions also connects to AI Services like: Google Gemini (for generating images from a description and reference image) OpenAI's DALL-E (for generating images from a description) Plus, Actions connects to all your favorite magic apps: Glyphs Diverter DFB X Earworm Subliminal Inject Voila TimeSmith The Stranger Sigaba Prevision Hydra/Hydra Pro Bridge AI MystiPrint Cosmos LifeLike Sketcher VRTX and more! Plus, it can help you send your captured information to a Shortcut, to your own URL, or even to the Actions API to use in any other apps with API support! Customize your revelations with Pre and Post text, making it easy to perform confabulation type effects easily! Take your magic apps into HYPERDRIVE and reveal your information in a brand new way with Actions! You can find our EULA and terms at https://thoughtcastmagic.com/policies/terms-of-service
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Actions at Free against Earworm's $64.99. Actions also leads on iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.2). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Actions is free to download; Earworm costs $64.99 up front. Earworm sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Actions sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $114.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Earworm ships an update every 6 weeks, Actions every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Earworm | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $64.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (130 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 92.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 130 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marc Kerstein | AndEtc, Inc. |
In-app purchases
Earworm
- Earworm Pro$49.99
- Earworm Remote$49.99
Actions
- All Actions - 1 Year$114.991 Year







