Comparison

Overlayed vs SvenGallery

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

SvenGallery

This app digitally recreates the classic Svengali card trick using images. Spectators select a photo, and all images in the gallery instantly transform into the chosen one, offering a modern magic illusion.

Highlights
  • Digital Svengali card trick reimagined
  • Spectator selects any image
  • Instantaneous image transformation
  • Modern blend of magic and technology
  • Dedicated image reveal system
Features
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SvenGallery is a modern reimagination of the classic Svengali card trick. The spectator selects any image—whether through a force or their latest picture—and, in an instant, every photo in SvenGallery transforms into the same image. This seamless blend of timeless magic and cutting-edge technology brings the Svengali principle into the digital age, creating an unforgettable visual illusion. SvenGallery is a dedicated image reveal system within the Sven ecosystem. For magicians only. Not for laymen. Svengallery is a specialized magic app, not a traditional gallery, and is intended solely for performance and entertainment purposes.

Screenshots

Overlayed4 screens
SvenGallery3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: SvenGallery at Free against Overlayed's $41.99. Overlayed's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads and in-app purchases 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

SvenGallery 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

Overlayed ships an update monthly, SvenGallery every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Overlayed versus SvenGallery: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOverlayedSvenGallery
Price$41.99Free — better
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBenjamin VianneyChetan Mehta

Customer experience

Overlayed

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

SvenGallery

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Overlayed

No in-app purchases

None

SvenGallery

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Overlayed free?
Overlayed costs $41.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is SvenGallery free?
SvenGallery is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Overlayed or SvenGallery have ads?
Neither Overlayed nor SvenGallery shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Overlayed or SvenGallery?
Overlayed ships an update monthly, and SvenGallery every 4 months. Most recently, Overlayed was updated on October 10, 2026 and SvenGallery on September 27, 2026.

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