Comparison

Oblivious vs Pluma

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Connect up to 4 devices
  • Live input monitoring
  • Single screen display
  • C.U.P.P mode
  • U.T.P Mode
  • Search mode
  • Comms Mode
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Oblivious2 screens
Pluma4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Oblivious ships an update every 3 months, Pluma weekly. The most recent releases landed on July 8, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 2 level
Oblivious versus Pluma: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterObliviousPluma
Price$149.99$99.99 — better
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings) — better
Number of ratings29 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size145 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMark HillMarc Kerstein

In-app purchases

None

Oblivious

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Pluma

One-time1
  • 100 Pluma AI Credits$6.99

Questions

Is Oblivious free?
Oblivious costs $149.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pluma free?
Pluma costs $99.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Oblivious or Pluma?
Pluma is rated higher. Oblivious averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Pluma averages 5.0 from 9 ratings.
Do Oblivious or Pluma have ads?
Neither Oblivious nor Pluma shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Oblivious or Pluma?
Oblivious ships an update every 3 months, and Pluma weekly. Most recently, Oblivious was updated on July 8, 2026 and Pluma on September 22, 2026.

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