Overlayed vs SvenGallery
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.
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.
- Digital Svengali card trick reimagined
- Spectator selects any image
- Instantaneous image transformation
- Modern blend of magic and technology
- Dedicated image reveal system
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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.
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Verdict
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
SvenGallery is free to download; Overlayed costs $41.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Overlayed ships an update monthly, SvenGallery every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Overlayed | SvenGallery |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $41.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Benjamin Vianney | Chetan Mehta |
Customer experience
Overlayed
SvenGallery
In-app purchases
Overlayed
No in-app purchases
SvenGallery
No in-app purchases








