Comparison

Overlayed vs iCons

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

iCons

This magic app lets you influence minds using your phone's icons. Easily create illusions with any card or text, supporting multiple languages and secret inputs. Performances are explained within the app.

Highlights
  • Influence minds with phone icons
  • Use any card or text
  • Secret inputs
  • Multi-language support
  • Performance explanations
  • Card and text input
Features
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iCons allows you to influence people's mind with any card, any text using the icons of your phone. It's a magic app. It's easy to use, very simple to do. Multi-Language Connected to Inject, Elips & WikiTest Card Input Text Input 2 Secret Inputs Letters and numbers Performances explained

Screenshots

Overlayed4 screens
iCons3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: iCons at Free against Overlayed's $41.99. iCons also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Overlayed's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Overlayed ships an update monthly, iCons weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Overlayed versus iCons: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOverlayediCons
Price$41.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — 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 MB124 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBenjamin VianneyFrench Twins Illusion

Customer experience

Overlayed

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

iCons

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Overlayed

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

iCons

One-time1
  • Buy iCons$44.99

Questions

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

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