Presents effective methods for stimulating creativity and breaking out of mental loops; never ceases to impress.

The creative strategies continue to spark my thinking. It's easy to record my ideas and share with friends. I love this wise, fun, unorthodox, insightful tool. Great Wise Fool thinking! Thanks!

Really good app

Great for creative strategy. Still love it!

Great, great mind-stimulating product!

I really like the creativity strategies in this app. They're provocative, useful, & varied.

I like to consult the app at the beginning of my day to focus my thinking. Sometimes I'll do a quick workshop.

In the afternoon, I find that a few minutes with the Whack Pack is more productive than a half an hour staring at my computer screen!

They just updated this app! I just assumed it was going to be in the state that it has been for years. Content has always been top notch. I prefer the app over the physical cards.

I've been a fan of Roger's work for years, So, bias revealed!

Having said that, I will say that I like this app and use it more than I use any of the old card decks or bucks. Not only that, but I think I use it more than I ever use those even when this didn't exist.

Great prompts for creativity and inspiration. A powerful tool, especially if you include the workshops built into the app.

Obviously, if you don't use it it's not so great.

But if you do, you will experience the value.

Highly recommended

I was totally surprised and amazed when I started using the app. I found the implications of the app's use wide spreading in my life. Whether you're lost or not If your heart is still beating you'll enjoy this app.

Coach, Mentor, and Funny Friend. Love this app.

Always will get me thinking outside of "my" box!

Love this app, it always gives that extra bump I'm needing!;)

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Reminds you of different paths to creativity

This app makes me think outside the box, cliche as that sounds. It has great ideas and challenges for my inner-artist who sometimes lurks under the surface and needs to be awakened.

So far, I really love this. It has opened up my brain to new ideas and ways of thinking. Great for creative journaling starter questions.

If you've read Roger Von Oech's books, you've seen all of the creative "whacks on the head" before, but having them appear at random forces you to ask yourself questions you might not have considered. Fun to play with and well thought out.

A Great tool in my toolkit! Have used for long time...

Deceptive description and touted in a graphic design trade magazine as "inspirational". Just a series of "motivational" cards. I agree with the other non sponsor reviewers. Don't waste your money.

I'm a night owl and my new midnight ritual is opening the Card of the Day from my whack app. My dreams are more productive and meaningful!

Out of the box

This well- structured app allows you to draw cards to reenergize the creative thought process randomly or through "workshops" which draw a series of cards. You can write and send yourself notes as you read. A great motivator for any project, presentation, or artistic work.

Fun & helpful app. Great for stretching out the brain.

This is my favorite app, and it brings out the best actions in me. In many ways, it teaches you what questions to ask, as opposed to just giving you answers. Very far-reaching for an app.

I really love this app. I write stories and I get creative block once in a while and this really helps get the ball rolling.

This app is Creatively Whacked and Packed full of goodies for the artistic mind. Great tool!! Love it..

I love this app it gives you that extra motivation to get up and get what you want!

Great way to work through tricky challenges. One of the original and best paper-based tools made a seamless to mobile screen. I often start day with a whack just to reframe my viewpoint. Helps break biases and assumptions in a fun day. It also offers disciplined structure to work through questions. A great tool to have available.

Fun way to look at things with new perspective.

Intriguing, enlightening, and makes you think.

This app is fun. It helps with opening your mind.

Worth the price maybe even a couple bucks more.

Works like the Card Deck, of which I have five.

Each one differs, in that I modified with MARKER PENS, based on "Risk and Value" of the "Wacky Idea"

A Mind Clearing Experience.

I used the whack pack 20 years ago and just recently found it again. It is as helpful and fun to use as it was back then, and I am sending the whacks to my children, one in business and the other is a teacher. Terrific stuff to get the juices flowing!!

It's intelligent! I used to use the Whack Pack cards, now I use the app. And a lovely sense of humor, so I don't take myself too seriously, and so I can get back to work, w a little more creativity and a smile on my face. I love the sound effects, always making me giggle!!

Makes me laugh and relax -- which helps me "see" and / or relate ideas differently.

A refreshing way to review what we really do.

Excellent app

One of my favorite apps

I have used the whack pack for over a decade ....having it mobile and being able to whip it open in a meeting is perfect

anyone who says otherwise need a kick in the pants

I like this app! Definitely keeps your brain fresh in perspective, inspiration , and performance.

Daily whack is a great way to start the day

Awesome enough to restore the undead-est creative zombies! A daily dose helps you dodge capture from the left brained logicals that seem to rule the world !!!

Find myself using it everyday!

Great app. Fun to use. Makes me think of things I might not consider otherwise.

This is a great app. Great tools for diverging and converging in the creative process. Daily whacks are a fantastic way to start the day.

I love this app-it's like tarot cards, except the advice is useful and insightful. It may not solve the problems but it provides a thinking opportunity I might have otherwise missed!

Very helpful to get through, around or reverse direction away from writer's block or dullness. It's time for some new content soon - maybe in a paid upgrade. But - if you haven't used Whack Pack before, you'll get a lot of mileage out of it before you notice the repetition.

Creative whack pack is perfect for those creative dry spells that we have from time to time. Well thought out and great content.

It will at least get you think in a different direction. Worth the time if you're needing or wanting to be creative.

I decided to try the online version of Roger's Creative Whack Pack after getting a great deal of use out of the physical set of Creative Whack Pack cards. The App proved to be unbelievably well organized and totally up to date with the latest technology. I have used the Creative Whack Pack App to help guide my students at work through both problems in the classroom and problems in life. The kids have found that the guidance of the cards from the App help them to change their perspective on issues which enables them to solve problems that previously stumped them. I, personally, have found that the App forces me to take an unbiased approach toward my own problem solving because it leads me to think in ways that I may not otherwise be inclined to think. Overall, this product is a must have for pretty much anyone as it can be helpful in work/group settings as well as for personal needs.

The Creative Whack Pack is a fun set of creativity strategies. Sometimes I use it for a few minutes to get a quick hit of inspiration. Sometimes I do the workshops when I have a specific problem. Check it out.

Love the retina art in the new version. Pops right out!

Like the new version

The CWP app is a smart, useful & fun app. I use it to short circuit my thoughts and re-bounce towards a new angle of what I was doing before I opened the app.

Whether just before a briefing, during problem solving, or into a creative process, the benefit is generally tangible. I particularly love the "Whack of the Day" that I try to check out each day. Give it a whirl.

Bravo for the new version!

I use this app at least every few of days or so. This afternoon it gave me some interview question ideas. Yesterday, a friend & I used it to think about different vacation possibilities. I wonder what issues I'll use it for tomorrow? This is a good product.

When the 6.0 update came out for Creative Whack Pack, I found that my first gen IPad would not take the update, being that Apple stopped all support for the original IPads after only two years (not too creative). I feared that I would be stuck with the final 5.1 update of CWP. Not so . . . I contacted the developer of this great app and explained my dilemma and to my amazement found that update 6.1 would be introduced to correct this issue (now thats creative). Roger-thanks for the revised update. All I can say is this app works!

Roger has enhanced this app to take advantage of the the latest technology! The new retina art is visually stimulating. The creative strategies continue to spark my thinking. It's easy to record my ideas and share with friends. I love this wise, funny, unorthodox, insightful tool. Many thanks!

I've been using the Whack Pack series of products since 1998, when I had the physical deck, and have turned to it whenever I've been stuck. I'm glad the author found a way to digitize the cards, since I often forget to take the deck of cards with me while traveling. The app is a faithful adaptation of the deck of cards, and then some. I did not expect it to have workshops with notes and other features, like choosing a random card from a particular suit. I've been recommending it to everybody since I bought the app when it came out 3 years ago!

I'm a long-time fan of the Creative Whack Pack card deck. The iPhone version is a trip. The iPad version is also worthwhile. Both are easy to use, and have lots of provocative content.

I especially like the creativity Workshops. I did the Oracle workshop this morning and got some useful insights. And I shared some cards too.

This is definitely an every day App! I'm glad you keep adding new features to this product.

This is a very good product that covers all the bases of the creative process. Useful stories and questions as well.

I like the new version. What I'd like to see is a feature that would allow the user to add his/her own creativity cards to the 84 cards that are already there. That would be cool.

This app works as described. It's a series of creativity strategies designed to get us to think a little bit differently. Some ask us to look at problems from a different perspective and some say get the idea implemented. All have stories, sound, pictures, and questions. I think the random way in which these "whacks" are delivered is one of the product's main strengths. Whatever cards we receive seem to be the ones we need.

I found the most value in the workshops because there I took time to really engage with the different cards' messages.

Using this app is a great way to put some freshness in your thinking and also reframe problems. I especially like using it with others. Contains a well-thought out set of creative strategies. Good concept, design, and execution.

I also like what you've done in the new version.

I wasn't quite sure what to expect when I got this app. On the surface, it's a set of 84 creative thinking strategies, each with a nifty illustration & sound effect. But as I dug down into the product, I was pleasantly surprised to find a treasure-house of stories, anecdotes, and useful creativity examples. Plus, you can do workshops and also take notes.

The Creative Whack Pack gave me three ideas today. The "Whack of the Day" was "Combine Ideas." After reading the story and answering the questions, it gave me the prod to make a decision on a problem that's been bothering me.

Then I got "Simplify" and read the story about the writer and the editor. Good stuff. I recommend this app!

Every morning I check the "Whack of the Day" and that gives me something different to think about. A couple of times I've had some work issues, and so I used the creative workshops and I found it helped give me a fresh perspective. I did the "oracle" with a friend and that gave us a stuff to talk about.

Anyway, a nice tour of the creative process: lots of good illustrations and strategies. I like the new features!

I'm deducting one star because the Facebook sharing doesn't work. You'll just end up posting your remark but no reference to the card shows. Otherwise the "Oracle" section should also say what each card is supposed to be dealt for like the original card set. That often inspires a lot of mental connections people might not always think of.

Use it everyday...look forward to the card of the day. Very easy to navigate. Great creative advice and wise thoughts; whether you're looking to tap into the abundance of your creativity, need a new perspective, or just enjoy the thought provoking cards...this app is well designed, and I highly recommend it to anyone.

These cards can be used randomly in the same way that tarot cards operate. Tarot cards, however, pretend to be sacred and magical. The Whack Pack cards do the job of tarot: they force you to look deep down into yourself for the answers you've been ignoring. The Whack Pack, like tarot, works psychologically.

This app gives you four (now five) suits of cards, each with a different purpose, ranging from generating ideas to implementing them. They help you to think outside the box. But because everyone is doing that since those Taco Bell commercials, Whack Pack helps you think outside the triangle and draw outside the two dimensional line.

The card descriptions are creative, effective, and well- written. The artwork is fresh, haunting, discomfiting. it whacks you out of your visual bird's nest.

When, like tarot users, you need self-help changing your routine thought patterns, buy this reasonably priced app.

I've been a long time fan of the original Creative Whack Pack card deck. The App version goes way beyond it both in content and functionality. There are many, many more stories and tips. There are also extended workshops (you can save your ideas and review them later). The twenty Heraclitus cards are a wonderful bonus.

I try to spend at least five minutes every day thinking about the messages on the cards.

I give myself a few minutes every morning to play with this app. It gets my thinking going in a fresh way. Occasionally I'll use it in meetings when things start getting repetitive and we need a different approach. I also like the stories and tips.

This app helps me look at my problems in different ways. I tend to get stuck, and the Whack Pack prods me and provides suggestions to look at things a little differently. Recently, I had a mother-in-law issue, & it helped me think of some alternative ways to deal with her. And then I shared it with her.

At first I thought this might just be a frivolous exercise in reading someone else's lame philosophical meanderings, but I'm hooked. Roger von Oech's "whacks" inspire me when I need a random "kick in the pants" (another of his books, as it happens), or just new thinking on a problem I'm trying to solve. Time and again I gain deeper insights into how else I can look at an issue, to consider its other dimensions, or just step back and let it speak to me without my own noise getting in the way.

Others I've sent Whacks to now also enjoy the same mental liberation. Highly recommended for those who like to think, consider, and solve (which excludes those one-star reviewers, I suspect).

A five-minute Creative Whack Pack break is probably more productive than staring at your computer screen all day. This app will stimulate your thought processes and get you to look at problems from a new angle. The notes feature is a helpful addition. The sounds and "share" features are helpful too! Give it a try.

I've been a long time fan of this product. Thanks also for adding the 20 new cards!

Great thought-provoking presentations that make you think. However, I'm not a fan of the graphics. It gives me the heeby-geebies. I did notice that the notes you take are not searchable. In other words, once you make a notation, you have to immediately e-mail yourself or you'll lose them forever in the stack of cards. That's no good when you want to go back and review what you've studied. Landscape support would be a welcome addition as well.

I have been curious about this app for a few weeks. I finally decided to explore it! I wish I would have done it sooner! I can think of a dozen or more lost opportunities where this app could have helped me be more creative! I am looking forward to all the future opportunities I now have!!!

A few minutes every morning with this app is a productive way to start the day. It gets me thinking about things in different ways. Sometimes I use it in meetings as well (when things get bogged down). I also like the new Heraclitus cards that have been added.

This is a very good app. I like the model of the creative process — explorer/artist/judge/warrior — used in the creative strategies. This means that there's a variety of different kinds of "whacks."

I like that I can "Share A Whack" with other people via email, Twitter, and Facebook. I also enjoy sharing a card with sounds with strangers. It's a great ice-breaker!

A very good value. Excellent job.

If you are ever looking for something to get the ideas rolling, you need this app! This is a great tool for un-clogging your brain. Works great and has lots of great ways to make use of it. We share cards via email with our partner who has the card deck but no iphone- and that works great too. One of my fave apps.

I'm always on the lookout for a competitive advantage. Usually it comes as a result of a creative spin of an existing idea. This product forces me to look at what I'm doing in different ways. The questions work best for me. The new notes feature in the workshops makes the questions even more effective. Small investment, nice dividend. Worth sharing with my FB and Twitter friends too!

This App works for both 1) quick use [30 seconds] to spark your thinking, and 2) longer use [5-10 minutes] in a creative workshop. I recommend both ways. The stories, pictures, sounds, and questions in this App will get your creative juices flowing!

The Creative Whack Pack card deck is one of my favorite creativity tools. The iPhone version is even better. It's a consistent provider of different ways of looking at things! I especially like the "Whack of the Day" feature. Check it out!

I've been a long time user of the Creative Whack Pack card deck to stimulate my creative juices. I was recently delighted to find the iPhone version of this product. The developers have done a great job of translating the Whack Pack's content into an App. But even more than that, there's a lot more functionality in the App version. I like the workshops, the "Whack of the Day," and the creative workshops. Best of all is that I can share creative strategies with friends. I recommend the Whack Pack.

There's a lot of value here. We can all pretty much stand to alter our thinking; thence originates creativity. This little app will provoke you and provide the much-needed "whack" as promised. Work with this and think about it when you're stuck waiting. Far better use of your time than playing a video game or reading People magazine.

A good program with some very useful information and interesting way of zig-zagging around within the app. However, I find myself not using it very often because the interface works very slowly (even on my new iPhone) -- faster and smoother operation would make it a 4 or 5 star app. I also wish the icon were beautiful rather than ordinary; I like the idea of the positive/negative space of the image, yet keep wishing that an app about creativity looked more enticing...

This is not your ordinary iPhone game or application but a daily mini-course for exercising your mind. It's both playful and serious depending upon your mood or the situation of the moment you're brainstorming about. I personally enjoy the Whack of the Day feature because it's both random and usually relevant.

Each card in the stack is "vitamin rich" in ideas, perspectives and inspirations. If nothing else, your worldly knowledge will be challenged and hopefully, you'll learn something new about yourself and about how others throughout history have approached life's challenges. In short, it's just plain fun exploring the stack and getting your brain turbocharged into a new way of thinking.

And I highly recommend it for educators, parents and students. I am neither a cognitive scientist nor a neuro-biologist but clearly, this is an iPhone application that stimulates your brain into action. And best of all, you can share your mental bliss with others by using the program's clever share feature to send a "creative whack" via email.

I was skeptical about buying this app at first because I wasn't quite sure what it did. I'm very glad I decided to purchase it. Because I work for myself I can develop a tunnel vision of sorts, where I fall in love with my ideas. This application helps me challenge my ideas to ascertain whether I'm on the right track. It's like having a couple of creative people in the room to bounce your ideas off of. Well worth five bucks.

I donwloaded app 2 weeks ago had had a couple problems figuring it out. Like most men I never read the instrruction. I sent an email and with in a few hours, I received a call fom the creator of Creative Whack Pack and he explained the app completely and also sent me a quick video. I would recommend this app to everyone. Have a great day!

I've looked at the whack pack in the college bookstores, brand new is around $30. Some of the teachers require you to use it and to have it on the iPod that won't take up more room than it already does is really handy. I was bumbed about the cost for it in the bookstore, didn't have enough, but randomly found the app and knew I couldn't pass up purchasing it.

I know apps are inexpensive, but when you have a tool that can help you create break-through ideas... Isn't that worth the price of a latte and a muffin?

I love that you can choose to view random cards, or choose a program to follow to help you solve a problem.

This digital version is more dynamic and more convenient than the physical card deck.

I found the Whack Pack in a magic store six years ago. Whenever I've needed a bit of mojo, I could play with these clever cards. The iPhone App will give me no excuse to use them more often. Hopefully, future versions of this app could use better social network connectivity,, extrapolation & annotattion features that allow one to expound on what is of value to the card drawn. Since the first release of the app is not much different the deck, I'm not giving the author five stars.

Creative Whack Pack for the iphone is a fantastic digital extension of the original Creative Whack Pack! For those you who know this tool, the portability of it on your iphone means you can easily inspire your creative mind anywhere. If you're not familiar with it, and you're a creative professional, the anecdotal outside the box viewpoints, are fantastic at giving you new perspectives on your projects. Great for the muddled mind, and now portable too! (Oh and sssssh, keep this a secret, but it's also a fantastic bargain when compared to the best selling original! )

The graphics are good. The implementation is also good. However, I wouldn't give the advice too much credance. I found some tips helpful, some neutral and some downright foolish to heed. The glowing reviews apparantly contradict this opinion, but I feel strongly that some of these tips will hinder more than help, as they often misinterpret a real issue and lead one down a wrong path. Depends on which card you look at--It's the luck of the draw. I'd call it a good novelty app but not much more.

For those wondering what this app is , just as I was wondering, it helps one look at problems in a different light to gain a different hopefully brighter perspect of their delima. It works wonderfully although right now I am problem free, but when problems arise this will be the first app I got to. As a suggestion I would add a note function so the reader of the whack can note what they like.

Checking out the Whack of the Day has quickly become a part of my morning routine. It’s a surefire way to get the creative juices flowing! The best thing about the Whack Pack is that each card can be used over and over again, serving as your creative guide through any and all of the challenging situations you may face. It is an invaluable investment and can now be conveniently located on your iPhone!

Overall, it is a fantastic application that is attractive, easy to use, inspiring, and FUN!! I am certain this is one app that will remain on my home screen for a very long time!

If you sometimes have trouble making a decision (like me), this is probably the most powerful ally you will find. These cards spur creativity and help you look at your problem from new angles, which can sometimes make all the difference. The best part is that it's still YOU making the decision, the cards just bring you into a more thoughtful and understanding mindset. Not to mention ease of use and cool features. This app is well worth it!

This product is wonderful because it offers fresh perspectives to help keep me creative. Also, it is extremely intuitive and well polished. I was immediately able to use this product and get inspired!

I really appreciate the time that obviously went into the product in terms of its inspirational content, and also the software itself. Instant fan.

Think of this as an expanded version of the card-based whack pack. It takes great advantage of the iPhone platform, and provides a great user experience. Simple to navigate, even share Creative Whacks with friends and associates. For inspiration, select Whack of the Day, a new card pops up, and each and every card provides a spark to your imagination, jogs your mind and helps you solve problems big and small. It does a great job addressing the creativity process from many perspectives as well. This is definitely worth the money.