Comparison

Overhear vs Sensory Guru Magic Mirror

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

Head to head
About

Overhear

Discover and collect creative audio content like poems and stories geotagged to real-world locations. Create your own audio recordings and share them, or collaborate on projects with others. Explore a digital audio layer that enhances your perception of place.

Highlights
  • Geotagged audio recording
  • Map-based exploration
  • Audio collection
  • Create and share recordings
  • Collaborative projects
  • Offline playback
  • Parental controls
Features
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OVERHEAR records and geotags creative audio content to locations in the physical world via the app — a meta map of poems, stories and sound design for you to find and collect. This digital audio layer augments space, place and location. OVERHEAR gives you a new perspective on where you are. OVERHEAR's purpose is to move people, physically, mentally and emotionally, inviting them to reconsider their physical environment and contribute their own creative audio to that environment. EXPLORE Travel to pins on the map to collect recordings when you are in range. Some pins unlock with a QR code. Filter by project or tag, and use Sonar to hear nearby pins announced by distance and direction. RECORD Create your own recordings and pin them to a place. Invite someone to listen with a link that opens the map, zoomed to that pin. PROJECTS Browse public projects or start a private one with collaborators. Subscribe to be notified when new recordings are added. In projects that welcome it, leave an audio or text response, or submit your own recording to an existing pin — all submissions are moderated. OCCASIONS Private maps for celebrations, memorials and workshops. Guests leave voice messages at places that matter. Open your collect link, walk to each pin, and hear them where they were left. STORIES AND EVENTS Some recordings form sequential journeys or branching stories with more than one path. Look for event pins to join activities happening around you. YOUR LIBRARY Replay everything you have collected, jump back to a recording’s place on the map, and download projects to use offline. Parental Controls let you set an age band (Family, Young Adult or Adult) and protect those settings with a passcode.

About

Sensory Guru Magic Mirror

Features
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Sensory Guru’s Magic Mirror™ is an accessible app-based interactive wall projection system that opens up a world of inclusive exploration and learning. This app for Apple devices allows Magic Mirror™ customer to control all aspects of the system, from the simple browsing and running of apps, to creating, cloning and modifying your own apps, recording the screen output and more.   Magic Mirror users are transported into stunning interactive scenes and can be represented as avatars or view themselves as if looking into a magic mirror! Imagine seeing yourself immersed in a jungle surrounded by wildlife that responds to your actions.   Magic Mirror™ has configurable input settings enabling multiple users to interact together using gestures, eyes, switches, speech, sound and touch at the same time!   Magic Mirror™ apps provide a rich and varied array of enjoyable therapeutic and educational experiences delivered in the form of tasks, games, sensory effects and more.

Screenshots

Overhear4 screens
Sensory Guru Magic Mirror1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Overhear at every 8 days against Sensory Guru Magic Mirror's every 4 months. Sensory Guru Magic Mirror's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Overhear ships an update every 8 days, Sensory Guru Magic Mirror every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Overhear versus Sensory Guru Magic Mirror: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOverhearSensory Guru Magic Mirror
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.411.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB147 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperOverhear LtdSensory Guru Ltd

In-app purchases

None

Overhear

No in-app purchases

None

Sensory Guru Magic Mirror

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Overhear free?
Overhear is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sensory Guru Magic Mirror free?
Sensory Guru Magic Mirror is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Overhear or Sensory Guru Magic Mirror have ads?
Neither Overhear nor Sensory Guru Magic Mirror shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Overhear or Sensory Guru Magic Mirror?
Overhear ships an update every 8 days, and Sensory Guru Magic Mirror every 4 months. Most recently, Overhear was updated on November 3, 2026 and Sensory Guru Magic Mirror on November 2, 2026.

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