Tableside

Tableside is a library of magic — a native home for the tricks, the people, and the lore of the craft, built for anyone who wants to actually learn to perform close-up magic instead of just watching it. Open it on a slow evening, pick a trick, and step through the method exactly as a working magician would explain it to you across the table. At its centre is a hand-curated catalog of magic tutorials spanning cards, coins, mentalism, close-up, stage, and cardistry — each one broken into numbered steps with the method explained plainly, a difficulty rating, an estimated learning time, and a linked reference video where one exists. Alongside the tutorials sits a library of magician biographies (with live biographical detail pulled from Wikipedia and a bundled fallback so a profile never comes up empty), famous historical performances, iconic venues like the Magic Castle and the Egyptian Hall, and a glossary of the terms of the trade — double lift, back palm, billet, and the rest. Every day the Home screen surfaces a fresh "Tonight's Trick," an "On This Day in Magic" anniversary, and a featured magician, so there is always somewhere new to start. KEY FEATURES ✓ Step-by-step tutorials — numbered methods across cards, coins, mentalism, close-up, stage, and cardistry, each with a difficulty and time estimate ✓ Track your practice — mark any trick as Learning or Performing and find it again instantly in your Vault ✓ Save anything — tutorials, magicians, performances, venues, and glossary terms all save to one place with a tap ✓ Write your own notes — keep private practice notes on any trick, magician, or performance, right where you'll see them again ✓ Magician biographies — curated profiles with live Wikipedia detail and a reliable offline fallback, plus their most famous feats ✓ Performance stories and historic venues — the real history behind the tricks, not just the moves ✓ A glossary of magic terms — look up the vocabulary of the craft, with related terms cross-linked ✓ Daily rotating content — a new featured trick, anniversary, and magician every day, plus an optional daily note and weekend long-read reminder HOW IT WORKS 1. Open the app and step into the parlor — Home surfaces tonight's trick, a piece of magic history, and a featured magician. 2. Browse Tutorials by category and difficulty, or search directly for a trick, and open one to read the full step-by-step method. 3. Mark tricks as Learning or Performing as you build your set, save the magicians and performances that interest you, and jot a note while it's fresh — everything lands in your Vault. WHY TABLESIDE Tableside is a native, ad-free reading and practice tool, not a video feed — the emphasis is the method itself, written out clearly enough to actually rehearse from. There is no account to create and no paywall: every tutorial, biography, and story is available from the first launch. PRIVACY Tableside works without an account. Saved tricks, practice status, and your notes stay on your device. The app makes outbound requests only to the public Wikipedia API, to fetch magician biographies and search results — no personal information is attached to those requests. Questions or ideas? Reach us at the support email below.