A phone call that
reveals the impossible.
A live Stranger on the other end of the line names your spectator's chosen card. Anywhere. Anytime. From your pocket. The modern classic, built by performers for performers.
Wait for it.
The moment a Stranger names the card. Captured in the wild — no actors, no rehearsals, no edits. This is what your audience will feel.
A trick that doesn't feel like a trick.
A spectator chooses a card. Any card. No force, no setup, no influence — a truly free choice. They show it to the room, never to you. You hand them your phone and ask them to dial a number you don't know, in a country they choose.
A real person answers. A stranger. No confederate, no script, no hidden helper in your earpiece. To the spectator, no technology is happening at all. It's just a phone call.
They listen. They wait. And then, calmly and without theatrics, the Stranger names the card. The phone goes back into your pocket. Nothing to inspect, nothing to dispose of, nothing to explain.
The spectator will tell this story for the rest of their life.
I have to admit, I'm baffled. Truly baffled. And I don't get baffled easily.
One impossible moment, perfected.
The Stranger is built for the working performer. Every feature is the answer to a real-world failure mode — and every detail is tuned so the moment never breaks.
A real, vetted member of the global Stranger community on the other end of every call. Strangers across 47 regions — chances are one is awake right now, ready to perform.
A complete library covering every playing card. Record your own conversations directly in the app — for any reveal you can imagine. Or browse the community catalog where Strangers share their recordings with each other.
Every Stranger you've activated is alerted simultaneously. If one can't take the call, the system rolls to the next instantly — and falls through to a recording if needed. The reveal always happens.
The app adapts to wherever you're calling. Country-correct ringtones, locale-aware disconnect recordings, regional number formats. The illusion holds anywhere on the planet.
Phone screens, ringtones, voicemail prompts, system text — all rendered in the spectator's language. Hand them the phone in Tokyo, Paris, Madrid, or São Paulo. It just looks right.
Stack convincers before the reveal — voicemails, busy signals, ringer demos. After the call, the spectator can dial the Stranger back from the recent-calls list. Every detail of the lie is real.
When the Stranger meets Nexus. Or Nexus Now.
The Stranger is complete on its own. But pair it with Nexus — the platform that orchestrates the leading apps and devices in digital and electronic magic — and a new class of impossibility opens up.
- Perform the Stranger from a borrowed phone, with no app installed.
- Build cross-app routines: Stranger + Lumen and beyond, working as one.
- Layer live drawing duplications through a video call after the reveal.
- Trigger reveals invisibly through QR codes, NFC, gestures, or wearables — Nexus handles the choreography.
Three acts, one device.
A complete performance system, designed for the dim of a close-up table or the lights of a theatre stage.
Hand them your phone. They can call anyone.
Their own contact. A friend. A relative. Or — most often — another Stranger user across the world. With ~10,000 active members in 47 regions, the global community is who most performers reach for. The Stranger isn't a service. It's a Community. WhatsApp groups by region. A private Facebook group. The kind of network that only gets built when the people running it are performers themselves.
Built and supported by a working performer.
Jonathan Levit performs the Stranger himself — every week, on stages and in living rooms, professionally. When something needs to work in the moment, you'll find him on the other end of the message. Not a ticket queue. Not an offshore script. The performer who built it.
When you have a show in twenty minutes, time is the only currency.
Magicians live by their gear. The Stranger is built with that reality in mind — redundancy on top of redundancy, fallbacks behind fallbacks, and a human you can reach when none of it is enough. The app is the surface. The community and the support are the foundation.
Reach Jonathan"It f*%#ing crushed! One guy jumped out of his seat and ran out of the theater!"
From the magicians who carry it.
The Stranger lives in the pockets of the working performers, from close-up to stage, from beginner to professional. These are the voices of those who've made it part of how they create wonder.
"A perfect trick that I pull out when I want to send them over the edge."
"It's the ultimate."
"The ultimate in modern magic."
"This defies explanation."
"A roller coaster ride on my phone."
"Ingenious."
Watch it land.
The Stranger has been performed thousands of times in homes, theatres, on stages, and on camera. A small selection of moments captured along the way.
Before you download.
The questions performers ask before getting started.
Is it really a live person on the call?
Yes. Every Live Stranger call is answered by a real, vetted member of the global Stranger community — another magician, somewhere in the world, who's there specifically to help your performance. No bots. No AI voice. No prerecorded trickery on the live calls.
If you'd rather not rely on a live person — or if you're performing somewhere reception is uncertain — the app also includes a full library of pre-recorded conversations covering every playing card, plus the ability to upload your own.
What does it cost?
The app is free to download. From the moment you create an account, you have 7 days fully unlocked — every feature, every region. No credit card required to start.
After 7 days, you choose whether to keep it. If yes, you make a one-time purchase. If no, walk away. The work speaks for itself.
What happens if no Stranger picks up?
This is exactly what Auto Advance was built for. Every Stranger you've activated is alerted simultaneously. If one can't take the call, the system rolls instantly to the next — and falls all the way through to a recording if needed. The reveal always happens.
In practice, with ~10,000 magicians active across 47 regions, a live Stranger picks up almost every time.
Does it work in my country and language?
The Stranger ships with 30 languages and 47 regions. The phone screens, ringtones, voicemail prompts, disconnect tones, and number formats all adapt to whichever region you've selected — so when you hand the phone to a spectator in Tokyo, Madrid, or São Paulo, what they see and hear matches their world.
Can I use my own audio recordings?
Yes — three ways. The built-in library covers every playing card. You can record your own conversations directly in the app for any reveal you can imagine: zodiacs, names, words, colors, custom voicemails, celebrity impressions. And there's a growing community catalog where Strangers share their recordings with each other — grab someone else's brilliant zodiac script, or contribute yours for them to use.
Does it work without internet?
Live Stranger calls require an active connection. Recordings work fully offline once downloaded — so even on stage in a basement venue with no signal, you have a complete reveal system ready to go.
Best practice: download the recordings for your performance set before any gig where reception might be uncertain.
Who do I call to get help when something's wrong?
You email jonathan@jonathanlevit.com. You're not getting a ticket queue — you're reaching the developer who built the app, and who performs the Stranger himself every week.
For non-urgent questions, the WhatsApp group for your region and the private Facebook community are full of working performers who've usually seen your situation before.
What about Android?
The Stranger is currently iOS only. The depth of the integration with the iOS calling experience — the realistic phone UI, the regional ringtones, the voicemail behaviors — is what makes the illusion work. We chose to do one platform exceptionally well rather than two platforms compromised.
A modern classic.
Free to download. Seven days fully unlocked. Bring it on stage. Try it in the field. If it earns its place in your set, keep it. If not, walk away. We trust the work to speak.