Comparison

Overlayed vs ArcaneHub

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

ArcaneHub

Features
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ArcaneHub is the official companion app for Arcane Relics performance props — a suite of Bluetooth-connected devices for professional and semi-professional magicians and mentalists. Connect your Arcane Relics props over Bluetooth Low Energy and control them right from your phone. ArcaneHub turns your devices into a seamless part of your act, with results delivered instantly and discreetly. SUPPORTED EFFECTS - Talos — a wireless medallion with heads-or-tails detection over BLE. - De-Constructed — an antique cube that reveals secretly chosen questions and answers. - Scribe — real paper, real pen; their written thoughts appear on your phone. - Intonation & Echo — audio-driven performance props. - Plus a growing line of Arcane Relics devices. FREE EFFECTS (no hardware required) Explore a full set of built-in routines you can use right away: - Tarot — Major Arcana - Cosmic Insights — Zodiac horoscope - Chinese Zodiac — 12 animal signs - Numerology — life path numbers - Runes — Elder Futhark PERFORMANCE MODE Build named shows with ordered effects and trigger settings. Arrange your routines, set how each effect fires, and run a polished performance from start to finish. WEAR OS SUPPORT Pair a compatible Wear OS watch to receive performance results discreetly on your wrist. DESIGNED FOR PERFORMERS ArcaneHub is built for live performance — fast connections, clean reveals, and a dark, low-distraction interface that stays out of your way on stage. Arcane Relics hardware is sold separately at arcanerelics.com. ArcaneHub requires the corresponding prop for hardware-based effects; Free Effects work on any device.

Screenshots

Overlayed4 screens
ArcaneHub4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ArcaneHub at Free against Overlayed's $41.99. ArcaneHub also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

ArcaneHub 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, ArcaneHub every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Overlayed versus ArcaneHub: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOverlayedArcaneHub
Price$41.99Free — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBenjamin VianneyCHRISTOPHER THOMAS SIPES

In-app purchases

None

Overlayed

No in-app purchases

None

ArcaneHub

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Overlayed free?
Overlayed costs $41.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ArcaneHub free?
ArcaneHub is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Overlayed or ArcaneHub have ads?
Neither Overlayed nor ArcaneHub shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Overlayed or ArcaneHub?
Overlayed ships an update monthly, and ArcaneHub every 3 days. Most recently, Overlayed was updated on October 10, 2026 and ArcaneHub on October 6, 2026.

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