Mentalism Helper Apps by Bart Nijs

Keyword Progressive Anagram Generator

This generator builds a list of words, based on a keyword, that you can then use for a progressive anagram. So in this case you decide which letters you want to pump for and the app gives you the words to go with it.
Available in English, Dutch, French, Swedish, Italian, German and Spanish.

I discovered this principle when learning the Zoom book test Verbatim by Mark Elsdon. Explained by Colin McLeod. This was based on Mark Elsdon's Bookless Booktest Know-How that appeared in Conversation as Mentalism vol 2 (p31).

Progressive Anagram Generator

This little app creates a classical progressive anagram based on the words you want to find. Use it for astrological signs, planets, brands or any other words list with limited words.

Almost Real Prediction Generator

Use this method to force any (larger) number in a seemingly very free way to your audience. Based on Jack London idea.
Simply enter your target number (often today's date or a birth date) and this app will give you plenty of options to choose from to get to that number.

Based a Jack London idea. He was able to perform this with a borrowed bill! Today I believe, Marc Paul's effect, Summing Up, is the primary source through which people come into contact with this principle. Also Lior Manor explains a nice effect using this principle in his lectures based on Meir Yedid's Predict-Perfect

Forcing Matrix Generator

Another nice way to force any number on your audience. Now you can create your own forcing matrix quickly without needing to do any maths yourself.

I first came in contact with this priciple from watching Midway Dream on Lee Earle's Syzygy where it's cleverly used as a force in a Mental Epic type of effect. It was only years later that I came to understand how to create my own from this post by Doug Dyment.

Phill Smith Stegosaurus Generator

"Stegosaurus" is a mind-reading effect by Phill Smith that allows the performer to discern a word merely thought of by a spectator, without any written cues or verbal confirmations. The trick is designed to be straightforward to learn and perform, making it accessible to magicians of varying skill levels. Now you can easily create the needed props yourself and use your own words.
Available in English, Dutch and French.

I learnt about this in Phill's tome Mythology Codex and wanted an easy way to create the props myself..

Chroma Calculator

This is something completely different. It is a web app that you can use to perform Mark Lemon's Chroma. There isn't an app available for Android, only for iPhone. So I decided to make one myself.
Available in English, Dutch, French, German and Italian
I think it has a couple of nice and unique features.

Mental Logs Generator

The "Mental Logs" magic trick is a captivating mentalism effect that showcases the performer's seemingly extraordinary ability to rapidly compute the sum of multiple numbers faster than an audience member using a calculator. This illusion is achieved using four rods, or "logs," each with different numbers inscribed on their sides.

This generator is based on the work done in this thread on the café. This method removes a couple of things that may tip the method as used in the classical logs.

Age Cards Generator

The "Age Cards" magic trick, also known as "Calculator Cards," is a classic mentalism effect that enables the performer to discern a number—commonly the spectator's age—that the spectator has merely thought of.Today these are used with different themes. Movie titles, receipts, fortune cookies, horse races, dating, ...
Use the app to create 'regular' cards where you know the chosen item by the values of the cards they keep, or create an inverse version where you know the value of the chosen item from the cards that are discarded.

Almost Real Prediction using all digits from 1 to 9

This is simply a PDF of over 2,500 pages listing all possible 3x3 sums you can make using each of the digits from 1 to 9 exactly once.

Got more ideas?

Do you think there is other stuff that is programmable? Get in touch and I'll look into it.