Personally, I don’t like using my cellphone for magic tricks. It’s too easy for an audience to say something is an app or AI. The other reason is that so many magic specific apps get abandoned by their creators, and they just stop working.
Here’s a little magic trick that I came up with that uses a cell phone:
The video above was the test of the trick, I’ve tightened it up and removed all the double lifts from it.
Honestly Evaluating The Magic Trick
What I like about this is that it doesn’t use any magic apps, so I’m not relying on some magician in their basement in Alabama to keep it updated!
What I don’t like about it, is that the effect is fairly slow. Removing the double lifts speeds it up a lot and takes out a lot of unnecessary process.
One last thing, I found the trick is stronger when it’s repeated a second time!
When creating magic tricks, I think it’s important to evaluate what’s going one. Figure out what you like and don’t like and what makes it hit harder for the audience. Try things, take risks. .
-Louie