Comparison

AR Magic Show vs Overlayed

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

Head to head
About

AR Magic Show

Experience a private magic show in your own space using augmented reality. Point your device at an empty area, scan the floor, and place a virtual magician to perform illusions. It's like having a world-famous iPad magician right in your living room.

Highlights
  • Place virtual magician in any space
  • Scan floor to position performer
  • Holographic illusions
  • Private magic show experience
  • Developed with university cooperation
  • Works on iOS devices
Features
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HOW IT WORKS The app is easy to use: Aim your smartphone camera at an empty space on the floor at least 2 meters away. As you aim, move your camera to scan the floor. A white circle appears. As soon as it is completely white, touch it. This way you can position the magician like a hologram. WHAT IT’S ABOUT Simon Pierro is best known as the iPad magician. His performance at The Ellen DeGeneres Show made him a world-wide (internet?) phenomenon. How would you like a private magic show in your living room, home office or on your patio? Yup, that is possible, thanks to this unique AR App: In cooperation with the university HSD Dusseldorf led by Prof. Dr. Geiger, Simon's digital magic was caught on camera inside a 360° greenscreen studio and later mapped out by room tracking devices that incorporated it into a fascinating app. Check out a video about the development here: https://youtu.be/G9c4UCFl5L8 Also, below is a link to see an entire virtual magic performance in Times Square, on the Maldives or on top of Table Mountain in Cape Town: Virtual Shows Around The World! -> LINK WHAT IS AUGMENTED REALITY? Augmented reality, or AR in short, is technology that lets you place virtual images, three-dimensional animations and additional information in real environments, blending the real world with virtual elements. Use your tablet or smartphone (iOS 12.0. or later) to bring the virtual performer into any space you choose.

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

AR Magic Show2 screens
Overlayed4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: AR Magic Show at Free against Overlayed's $41.99. AR Magic Show also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On review sentiment, 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

AR Magic Show is free to download; Overlayed costs $41.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AR Magic Show ships an update weekly, Overlayed monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
AR Magic Show versus Overlayed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAR Magic ShowOverlayed
PriceFree — better$41.99
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimon PierroBenjamin Vianney

Customer experience

AR Magic Show

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Overlayed

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

In-app purchases

None

AR Magic Show

No in-app purchases

None

Overlayed

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AR Magic Show free?
AR Magic Show is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Overlayed free?
Overlayed costs $41.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do AR Magic Show or Overlayed have ads?
Neither AR Magic Show nor Overlayed shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AR Magic Show or Overlayed?
AR Magic Show ships an update weekly, and Overlayed monthly. Most recently, AR Magic Show was updated on October 4, 2026 and Overlayed on October 10, 2026.

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