Comparison

Not From Earth vs Overlayed

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

Head to head
About

Not From Earth

Transform photos of people into aliens with a variety of effects and backgrounds. Share your alien discoveries with friends and family, complete with a certificate of discovery. Enjoy free updates and no advertisements.

Highlights
  • Alien photo transformation
  • Hundreds of free effects
  • Backgrounds included
  • Shareable discovery certificates
  • Free lifetime updates
  • No ads or addons
Features
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Finally, a way for Terrans to detect Aliens from other worlds that walk among us. Simply take a snapshot or use exiting photos of someone that you suspect of being from another world and turn them into an alien. Share the discovery with your friends and family. A certificate of discovery is provided for sharing and exposing the culprit. Hundreds of free effects and backgrounds. Free Updates for life. No Ads. No Addons needed.

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

Not From Earth4 screens
Overlayed4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Not From Earth at $5.99 against Overlayed's $41.99. Overlayed's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 6 months). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

Not From Earth costs $5.99 and Overlayed $41.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Not From Earth ships an update every 6 months, Overlayed every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Not From Earth versus Overlayed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNot From EarthOverlayed
Price$5.99 — better$41.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size502 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperXMLAuthor IncBenjamin Vianney

Customer experience

Not From Earth

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Overlayed

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

In-app purchases

None

Not From Earth

No in-app purchases

None

Overlayed

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Not From Earth free?
Not From Earth costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Overlayed free?
Overlayed costs $41.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Not From Earth or Overlayed have ads?
Neither Not From Earth nor Overlayed shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Not From Earth or Overlayed?
Not From Earth ships an update every 6 months, and Overlayed every 5 weeks. Most recently, Not From Earth was updated on November 11, 2026 and Overlayed on November 3, 2026.

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