Oblivious vs Pluma
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Oblivious
Connect up to four devices to your iOS device and monitor all inputs live from a single screen. Explore various specialized modes for enhanced functionality and more features are planned for future updates.
- Connect up to 4 devices
- Live input monitoring
- Single screen display
- C.U.P.P mode
- U.T.P Mode
- Search mode
- Comms Mode
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Finally the Oblivious app is here! Now you can connect unto 4 Oblivious Boards to your iOS device and watch all the inputs live from one screen. Other modes included are C.U.P.P mode, U.T.P Mode, C.D.P mode, Search mode, Comms Mode, Prevision Mode and many more functions available and much more to come.
Pluma
This app enhances impression boards with advanced AI for text and drawing recognition. It offers seamless integration with various third-party apps and devices, enabling new routines and providing a powerful yet user-friendly experience.
- Advanced AI text and drawing recognition
- Multiple impression board support
- Earworm and PeekSmith integration
- Offline text recognition
- Apple Watch app with covert mode
- Bridge & Inject integration
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Pluma is a fresh take on an impression board app, connecting to the boards you may already own. It offers dramatically better text recognition and powerful features, whilst simultaneously being dramatically better designed. Together, it's more powerful yet easier to use than the core apps offered by most impression boards. It also connects with my suite of apps as well as many third party apps, devices and services, enabling brand new routines never before possible. Features include: ** Advanced AI Text and Drawing Recognition Pluma AI offers best-in-class AI recognition, which can detect handwritten text AND drawings, in any orientation. ** Multiple Board support (beta) Receive peeks from up to four impression devices simultaneously! ** Earworm Integration Make a prediction in the YouTube app on your spectator's phone. Then, have your spectator write the name of any song on the impression pad. Pluma AI integrates with Earworm to do the rest: they just turn up the volume on the spectator's phone to find the chosen song playing in their YouTube app! ** Supports Multiple Board Types Currently supports boards from Lumen Pro, Iarvel, Pitata, Ultra Sharpie, Ultra Sharpie Neo, Oblivious Engage, PMA and Wave, with more brands added over time. ** Offline Text Recognition For times when there's no signal, Pluma includes excellent realtime offline AI text recognition at no extra charge. ** PeekSmith Integration Pluma connects directly to PeekSmith, letting you get your peek during performance. ** Lumen Duo Integration Pluma also connects directly to Lumen Duo, letting you get your peek even more covertly. ** Earpiece Support Pluma can automatically speak the recognised text to your covert earpiece. ** Apple Watch App Get your peek on the custom built Apple Watch app, with optional covert mode. ** Notifications Compatible with any Bluetooth peek device that supports third party notifications. ** Bridge & Inject Integration Automatically send your peek to the Bridge or Inject apps, which integrates Pluma with many magic apps, services and devices. ** Powerful Features, Easy To Use Pluma brings multiple, advanced innovations from my previous apps (such as Touch To Peek and app integration via polling), whilst simultaneously built to be easy to use and understand. ** Much More Pluma offers features to automatically scale, automatically send peek data and automatically clear. It offers per-board calibration settings, AI optimisation settings, intuitive history features, auto-save to photos, board battery indicatiors, and much, much more. Notes A physical impression board is required. Pluma currently supports Iarvel and Pitata boards, with more brands to be added over time. Pluma works in multiple languages, including Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese Online AI recognition features require the use of in-app credits (with some provided on purchase), or you can provide your own API key. Offline AI text recognition is included for free. No yearly subscription or device fee needed for either Pluma is offered for entertainment purposes only.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pluma at $99.99 against Oblivious's $149.99. Pluma also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). Oblivious's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). On ads and monetization model 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
Oblivious costs $149.99 and Pluma $99.99 up front. Pluma sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Oblivious asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pluma holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 9 respectively.
Oblivious ships an update every 3 months, Pluma weekly. The most recent releases landed on July 8, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Oblivious | Pluma |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $149.99 | $99.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 145 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mark Hill | Marc Kerstein |
In-app purchases
Oblivious
No in-app purchases
Pluma
- 100 Pluma AI Credits$6.99







