Locked & Loaded vs Overlayed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Locked & Loaded
This app allows you to instantly predict a spectator's thought, such as a card or vacation spot, by revealing a matching image on your phone's lock screen. It requires no preparation, resets quickly, and can be customized with your own photos. The method is direct and easy to perform.
- Predict any thought
- Instant lock screen reveal
- No preparation needed
- Resets in seconds
- Customizable images
- Offline functionality
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Imagine predicting anything, at any time, with no preparation. A spectator merely thinks of a playing card, vacation spot, sports team, or anything else you can imagine. Without hesitation, you show a matching photo on your phone’s lock screen. Resets in seconds, no internet connection needed, and you can fully customize with your own images. No voice recognition, no awkward moves or use of internal gyroscopes. This method is surefire, immediate, and incredibly easy to perform. Currently, the app menus are all in English. The trick supports English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, or Portuguese, based on your phone's language settings. More languages will be added in future releases.
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 in-app purchases: Overlayed at none against Locked & Loaded's 3. Overlayed also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 2 months) and device support (3 vs 1). Locked & Loaded's advantage is price ($39.99 vs $41.99). On review sentiment and ads 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
Locked & Loaded costs $39.99 and Overlayed $41.99 up front. Locked & Loaded sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Overlayed asks for nothing beyond the download.
Locked & Loaded ships an update every 2 months, Overlayed every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Locked & Loaded | Overlayed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $39.99 — better | $41.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (26 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Turner Logic | Benjamin Vianney |
Customer experience
Locked & Loaded
Overlayed
In-app purchases
Locked & Loaded
- Odd Card Out AlbumFree
- Red Bicycle AlbumFree
- Drivers Instinct Album$9.99
Overlayed
No in-app purchases
Questions
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