Overlayed vs Below
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
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.
- Live object transformation
- Uses phone camera for illusions
- Changes cards and business cards
- Suitable for close-up magic
- Suitable for stage performances
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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 !
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Verdict
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
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.
Overlayed ships an update monthly, Below every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Overlayed | Below |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $41.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 4.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Benjamin Vianney | French Twins Illusion |
Customer experience
Overlayed
Below
In-app purchases
Overlayed
No in-app purchases
Below
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