5 Apps To Learn Magic And Card Tricks
Admit it — you still get mindblown every time you come across a street magician performing yet another seemingly impossible trick. And honestly, who doesn’t? They always make you scratch your head and pull your hair out, thinking of how they inserted a phone into a bottle or pulled a spectator’s very randomly picked card out of their deck.
Just watching these magicians perform sometimes makes you want to become a magician yourself, perhaps as a career or just to impress family and friends. The good news is that you actually can and, for the most part, free of charge. There are tutorials on YouTube and TikTok you can turn to, but if you’re looking for an app dedicated solely to magic, you can find a couple of them on the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. To make it easier for you to get started, we’ve covered five of the bestfree apps for iPhoneand Android that you can download and start using now.
Learn Magic Tricks: Easy & Fun
With over a million downloads on the Google Play Store,Learn Magic Tricks: Easy & Funis easily one of the go-to magic tutorialapps for Android, and rightfully so. It supports three skill levels (Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced) to accommodate your current proficiency, all while giving you access to higher-level content once you’re ready for the challenge.
When it comes to tricks, Learn Magic Tricks features over 1,000 tutorials across four magic types (card, coin, hand, and illusion). That means you may find an array of tricks, from beginner ones like making a pen vanish and reappear to advanced tricks like drawing a spectator’s chosen card from a shuffled deck. You can also easily search for what you want to learn as the app neatly organizes the tutorials into categories like food, levitation, and matchbox tricks. If, however, you don’t want to sort through all the tutorials yourself, there’s a Course section that can walk you through different tricks lesson by lesson. Another cool feature of Learn Magic Tricks is streaks. Sort of like Duolingo, it encourages you to watch a video every day and gives you rewards as you complete more tutorials.
On top of educational content, 52Kards doubles as a shop, too. It offers specialty playing cards, magic kits, magicapps to spark your creative talents, and card accessories (e.g., deck wallet, display shelf, organizer). You can install 52Kards from theApp Storeat no cost at all, and it’s ad-free. A downside, though, is its limited number of tutorials.
Master Magic Tricks
Available on both thePlay StoreandApp Store, Master Magic Tricks is the ultimate resource for learning all sorts of magic acts. It features an impressive collection of at least 3,000 video tutorials led by expert magicians from across the globe, like actor and magician Larry Anderson, card-shark Simon Lovell, and master magician Ichiro Akari. Despite the huge library of videos, you won’t have a hard time navigating the app as it comes with dedicated sections for popular tricks and featured compilations. There are separate sections for cards, coins, and mentalism tricks and others for compilations like Royal Road to Card Magic: Volume 1 and The Amazing Series.
Marvin’s Magic
Marvin’s Magicis the companion app for the magic products offered by international brand Marvin’s Magic. It’s essentially a digital guide that provides video instructions on using and performing tricks with your Marvin’s Magic sets and individual props (e.g., coins, lights, cards, wands). All you have to do is scan the product’s QR code and select the trick you want to practice from the library of tutorials specific to that item. Aside from hosting full video instructions, the app also lets you add a dash of modern technology to your magic performances. There’s a section where you can access Augmented Reality tricks for your props, such as making a rabbit virtually appear out of your real-life magician’s hat. You can also find interactive magic tricks in the Marvin’s Magic app. One such act allows you to shake the app icons out of your phone and into your palm, while another involves burning a card virtually to reveal a new card and then pulling that card out of your phone.
If you don’t own any Marvin’s Magic products, the app can still come in handy as it features a Magic Academy. This collection of tutorials is taught by professional magicians at Marvin’s Magic and covers a range of educational content like card and money tricks, handy tips and secrets, and impromptu illusions. Although the entire Academy is only accessible via subscription, you may watch a free tutorial every week. Most of the lessons also use typical magic props, so you won’t necessarily have to buy Marvin’s Magic-specific items.
Card Magic Tricks And Tutorial
Getting access to hundreds of card tricks in a single app is great, but if you’re just dipping your toes into the world of card magic, it can also be pretty overwhelming. To lessen the burden of having to choose which lessons to begin and focus on, you may always start small withCard Magic Tricks And Tutorial. This app is designed to teach you only basic card tricks, no more, no less. It comes with just ten tutorials, including the Four Thieves, The Floating Card, and Deal a Royal Flush. This means you can get going with your learning journey immediately, with no unnecessary holdups from the get-go.
Unlike other magic apps, Card Magic Tricks And Tutorial doesn’t have video instructions. Instead, you get a written step-by-step guide with photos to help you understand the guide better. All the tutorials are designed with beginners in mind — they don’t go over ten steps each, making them pretty easy to follow. The best part about Card Magic Tricks and Tutorials is that it’s absolutely free, and you won’t have to deal with annoying ads. The only downside, apart from it being exclusive to Android devices, is that it doesn’t have any intermediate or advanced tricks. After mastering the basics, you’d have to look elsewhere to broaden your skillset.
