Comparison

Stack Master vs Overlayed

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Stack Master

Master your favorite card stacks with this mobile training application. It offers multiple training modes and challenges to analyze your weaknesses and improve your learning curve. Supports various pre-set and custom stacks.

Highlights
  • Multiple training modes
  • 18 funny challenges
  • Supports pre-set stacks
  • Create custom stacks
  • Publish scores and compare with friends
  • Specialized training modules
Features
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Stack Master is a stack training application. To learn a stack, best option from my perspective, are the flash cards. There are some awesome flash cards applications but I wanted something "stack oriented", easy and fun, that runs on my mobile phone ; a simple mobile application that analyzes my weaknesses and "trains" me accordingly, remembering my "weak cards" and my learning curve. Stack Master offers you to study your stack without pain, using 9 clever training modes and 18 funny challenges. Stack Master supports multiple stacks (Mnemonica, Aronson, Osterlind, Redford, Si-stebbins, Rix...) and you can add and create custom ones, directly from the application. You can even publish your score challenges and compare them with those of your friends! Besides the 18 funny challenges and the 4 training modules, 5 special training modules are available as well: * "The core", if you bought this nice routine of Pitt Hartling, you'll be able to train yourself with this dedicated module. * "Perfect hit", if you wish to improve your practice of effects like "Mnemonicosis" of the master Juan Tamariz, then this module is for you. * "Miracaan", if you bought this nice ACAAN of Dorian Caudal, you'll be able to train yourself with this dedicated module. * "Decimals of Pi", if you bought this effect of Vincent Hedan, you'll be able to train yourself with this dedicated module. * "Sandbox", if you only need to experiment something with a virtual deck of cards, be my guest!

About

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.

Highlights
  • Overlay digital effects on images
  • Animate effects in real-time
  • Create custom magic routines
  • Spectator-shareable photos
  • Invisible animation control
  • Save transformed images
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Stack Master2 screens
Overlayed4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Stack Master at $24.99 against Overlayed's $41.99. Stack Master also leads on chart position (#200 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). Overlayed's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 83%). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Stack Master costs $24.99 and Overlayed $41.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stack Master ships an update every 3 weeks, Overlayed monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Stack Master versus Overlayed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStack MasterOverlayed
Price$24.99 — better$41.99
Rating3.8 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#200 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDevious-MonkeyBenjamin Vianney

Customer experience

Stack Master

All ratings9 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative22.2%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral8.3%
Negative8.3%

Overlayed

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Stack Master

No in-app purchases

None

Overlayed

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stack Master free?
Stack Master costs $24.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Overlayed free?
Overlayed costs $41.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Stack Master or Overlayed have ads?
Neither Stack Master nor Overlayed shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stack Master or Overlayed?
Stack Master ships an update every 3 weeks, and Overlayed monthly. Most recently, Stack Master was updated on September 7, 2026 and Overlayed on September 10, 2026.

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