Vision vs Overlayed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vision
Enhance your magic performances with this app, designed to work with a card recognition tool. It allows magicians to manage card stacks, monitor data remotely, and even automate trick sequences for seamless shows. Expand your magical repertoire with a growing collection of routines.
- Stack Manager for custom card sequences
- Remote data monitoring via webserver
- Automated trick sequences
- Peek device functionality
- Accomplice mode for remote assistance
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This app is intended to be used by magicians. It is the perfect addition to my Vision app (which does a optical character recognition of playing cards, which are layed out in a spread. With this new app a wide variety of new things will be possible. The collection will increase by time. This app can also be used by an accomplice, since the data can be received from a webserver. So the magician secretly analyses the spread and the accomplice has all the necessary information within seconds - whilst being far away. Features: Stack Manager: You can define and store any stacks, you use. These can be accessed from all different functions of the app. Monitor: Allows you to monitor the extracted data, which was sent to a webserver. Show missing card: Can be used as a peek-device Some Tricks Auto Pilot Lets you create a sequence of tricks, which you can perform automated one after the other! The collection will be updated and increased constantly in hope, that this will become a new era in card magic.
Overlayed
This app allows magicians and mentalists to overlay and animate digital effects onto real-time images, creating modern and interactive magic routines. Enhance existing tricks or invent new ones, with customizable animations and the ability to save transformed images.
- Overlay digital effects on images
- Animate effects in real-time
- Create custom magic routines
- Spectator-shareable photos
- Invisible animation control
- Save transformed images
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OVERLAYED by David Penn & Magie Factory is a real tool for magicians and mentalists, for creating modern and amazing routines. OVERLAYED allows you to overlay and animate digital effects within images captured in real-time. These can even be selfies that the spectator can share on their socials, freezing their moment of magic forever. OVERLAYED allows you to enhance existing effects like David’s ‘Digital Double Cross’, and ‘Card Apparition’, and create awesome new ones which were impossible until now. Imagine taking a photo with your device, or the spectator’s phone (using a sold separately NFC Tag), then being able to visually make appear any image (object, writing, shape etc.) at a specific location on that very same image! All OVERLAYED effects can be animated invisibly because you as the performer are in control of everything! The image can then be automatically saved in the phone’s gallery with or without the transformation! In ‘Digital Double Cross’, the cross is removed from the spectator’s hand and is dropped into an image of their hand on the phone screen! It is then removed magically from the digital image and transferred to their other hand. Finally you travel back in time and the cross is back in their image, but within the camera roll, ready to share. (Double Cross sold separately by Magic Smith) In ‘Card Apparition’ you can take a selfie with you and your spectators. A chosen card then vanishes and appears in the previously taken image, at any time, under your complete control! The card can look real, or like a ghostly apparition, because everything is customisable in the crisp and clean settings and animation area of the app. There are endless possibilities that are only limited by your imagination. Join the users' group on FACEBOOK where the community of users will grow and continue to share ideas and routines. Welcome to OVERLAYED! All rights reserved for TV Please contact us to get our consent for a TV show.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Vision at Free against Overlayed's $41.99. Vision also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). Overlayed's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On review sentiment, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Vision is free to download; Overlayed costs $41.99 up front. Vision sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Overlayed asks for nothing beyond the download.
Vision ships an update every 3 months, Overlayed monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vision | Overlayed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $41.99 |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Martin Eisele | Benjamin Vianney |
Customer experience
Vision
Overlayed
In-app purchases
Vision
- Shuffle Bored$13.99
- Voice Control$13.99
- Impromptu Stack$13.99
Overlayed
No in-app purchases








