What's New

Bugfixes and stability improvements.

App Description

MagicFriends Xmas enables children to have real conversations with Santa and his friends on an iPad or iPhone, where Santa is actually voiced and animated by a parent or family member as the Puppeteer on a second iPhone or iPad connected via Wi-Fi over the internet.

Once the call is made the child chats with a fun, animated Santa, Sam the Snowman, Candy the Elf or Prancer on their screen, in a world of make believe.

Children can laugh, joke and hear stories straight from Santa and his friends. They can also tell Santa exactly what they would like for Christmas -- and know he heard every word.

MagicFriends is built on three simple ideas:
• Children live in a world of fantasy and imagination
• Children love to talk
• Parents know their child best of all

MagicFriends is built on the latest VoIP platform, which allows the puppeteer and the child to be in the same house or miles apart.

The app’s voice changer allows the Puppeteer to morph their voice to match each different character. This morphed voice syncs with the mouth movement of the character on the child’s screen.

The Puppeteer controls the animations and with a simple swipe or tap can make Santa and his friends jump, wave, wink, dance and twirl on the child’s device. Welcome to the world of digital puppets.


MagicFriends Xmas encourages children to actively use their imagination by asking and answering questions, laughing, joking, and learning. Developing a child’s imagination promotes learning and creativity. Through conversation and interaction, a child picks up language skills and absorbs the basics of social interaction, which is essential to a child’s growth and healthy development.

See MagicFriends in action at www.magicfriends.com.

Features:
• Classic Santa, and three seasonal characters especially created for MagicFriends Xmas, Sam the Snowman, Candy the Elf and Prancer the Reindeer.
• Free to download and try using the free character Sam
• Conversation and animation controlled by the adult puppeteer: characters can jump, wave, wink, twirl and more with a simple swipe or tap on the screen.
• Voice changer adjusts the adult’s voice to match each character
• Each character’s mouth movement syncs with the Puppeteer’s voice
• Users can connect from two different Wi-Fi-enabled spots anywhere in the world
• Starter packs containing stories, scripts and jokes are available for download at www.magicfriends.com

MagicFriends Xmas Subscription Details:
- Non-subscribers can download the app and have unlimited calls via the character Sam the Snowman
- Subscribers must purchase an annual subscription and have unlimited calls via Santa, Candy and Prancer
- The length of the subscription period is 12 month
- The annual subscription is $3.99
- Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase
- Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period
- Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal
- Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase
- No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period
- Privacy Policy - http://www.magicfriends.com/privacy-policy/
- Terms of Use - http://www.magicfriends.com/terms-conditions-for-website-and-mobile-app/
- Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication.

Follow us:
Web: www.magicfriends.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/mymagicfriends
Facebook: www.facebook.com/mymagicfriends
Twitter: @mymagicfriends

iPhone Screenshots

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App Changes

  • November 26, 2014 Initial release
  • December 12, 2014 New version 1.1
  • December 31, 2014 New version 1.2