Comparison

Picasso Pro vs Overlayed

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

Head to head
About

Picasso Pro

This app enables you to perform a magic trick where a spectator colors a drawing on their own phone. The app then reveals a matching prediction, requiring no special props. It's a customizable prediction tool for entertainment.

Highlights
  • Perform 'Color Match' magic trick
  • Uses spectator's phone
  • No special props needed
  • Fully customizable templates
  • Customizable color labels
  • Prediction tool
Features
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Perform ‘Color Match’ on a spectators phone. Picasso Pro allows you to perform the famous Picasso routine, know around the world as Color Match - with only your phone. No special props required. This app and the secrets within do all the work for you. Walk up to a spectator and have them color in a drawing on THEIR phone. When it’s completed you can show that it matches your prediction perfectly. Fully customizable, use your own templates (or choose one of the built in ones) and color labels, it’s the ultimate prediction tool. In collaboration with Promystic.com & Ellusionist.com, this is Picasso Pro. Download TODAY.

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

Picasso Pro4 screens
Overlayed4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Overlayed at 100% against Picasso Pro's 44%. Picasso Pro's advantage is price ($29.99 vs $41.99). On update cadence, 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

Picasso Pro costs $29.99 and Overlayed $41.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Picasso Pro ships an update every 2 weeks, Overlayed monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Picasso Pro versus Overlayed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPicasso ProOverlayed
Price$29.99 — better$41.99
Rating2.5 (28 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews43.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings28 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.114.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEllusionist.com INCBenjamin Vianney

Customer experience

Picasso Pro

All ratings28 ratings
Positive35.7%
Neutral3.6%
Negative60.7%
Written reviews39 reviews
Positive43.6%
Neutral7.7%
Negative48.7%

Overlayed

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

In-app purchases

None

Picasso Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Overlayed

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Picasso Pro free?
Picasso Pro costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Overlayed free?
Overlayed costs $41.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Picasso Pro or Overlayed have ads?
Neither Picasso Pro nor Overlayed shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Picasso Pro or Overlayed?
Picasso Pro ships an update every 2 weeks, and Overlayed monthly. Most recently, Picasso Pro was updated on October 9, 2026 and Overlayed on October 8, 2026.

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