Comparison

TARGET MAGIC vs Overlayed

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

Head to head
About

TARGET MAGIC

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Take a photo of five items. Put the phone face down. Then ask someone to choose one of the items. Flip the phone back; the chosen item is zoomed in! (It can also be surrounded) Easy handling!

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

TARGET MAGIC4 screens
Overlayed4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: TARGET MAGIC at $14.99 against Overlayed's $41.99. TARGET MAGIC also leads on update cadence (daily vs monthly) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On 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

TARGET MAGIC costs $14.99 and Overlayed $41.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TARGET MAGIC ships an update daily, Overlayed monthly. The most recent releases landed on December 22, 2025 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
TARGET MAGIC versus Overlayed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTARGET MAGICOverlayed
Price$14.99 — better$41.99
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyDaily — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Paid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developersebastien macakBenjamin Vianney

In-app purchases

None

TARGET MAGIC

No in-app purchases

None

Overlayed

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TARGET MAGIC free?
TARGET MAGIC costs $14.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Overlayed free?
Overlayed costs $41.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do TARGET MAGIC or Overlayed have ads?
Neither TARGET MAGIC nor Overlayed shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TARGET MAGIC or Overlayed?
TARGET MAGIC ships an update daily, and Overlayed monthly. Most recently, TARGET MAGIC was updated on December 22, 2025 and Overlayed on October 8, 2026.

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