Comparison

Overlayed vs Below

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

Head to head
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.

About

Below

Transform everyday objects into something else using your phone's camera. This app visually changes items like cards live, allowing for impressive illusions. It's designed for both close-up and stage magic performances.

Highlights
  • Live object transformation
  • Uses phone camera for illusions
  • Changes cards and business cards
  • Suitable for close-up magic
  • Suitable for stage performances
Features
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Magic App by Les French Twins "Below" is an app that lets you transform objects into another just by magic. Change a playing card, a business card, or any item live on your phone's camera. Shake a card while it’s face down, and it transforms visually. When you turn it over, it’s genuinely changed. Perfect for close-up or stage performances, "Below" brings modern magic to life !

Screenshots

Overlayed4 screens
Below4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Below at Free against Overlayed's $41.99. Below also leads on update cadence (every 11 days vs monthly). Overlayed's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Below is free to download; Overlayed costs $41.99 up front. Below sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Overlayed asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Overlayed ships an update monthly, Below every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Overlayed versus Below: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOverlayedBelow
Price$41.99Free — better
Rating—4.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings—6 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBenjamin VianneyFrench Twins Illusion

Customer experience

Overlayed

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

Below

All ratings6 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

Overlayed

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Below

One-time1
  • Buy BELOW$129.00

Questions

Is Overlayed free?
Overlayed costs $41.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Below free?
Below is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Overlayed or Below have ads?
Neither Overlayed nor Below shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Overlayed or Below?
Overlayed ships an update monthly, and Below every 11 days. Most recently, Overlayed was updated on September 10, 2026 and Below on September 7, 2026.

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