Comparison

Pluma vs PhotoMorph

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

Head to head
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.

About

PhotoMorph

Features
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PhotoMorph is a brand-new magic method that lets you transform a photo into another inside the Camera Roll, adding a powerful kicker to any reveal! And the best part: you can even perform it on your spectator’s own device — no need to install any Shortcuts, App Clips, or anything at all on their phone. Just AirDrop a single photo… and you’re ready to go! The method is easy, clean, fun to perform, and allows you to focus on what really matters in magic: your presentation. Picture this: you send your spectator a photo of you holding a playing card — let's say it’s the 3 of Diamonds. You then ask them to choose a card from a deck, and — surprise — it’s a different one: the King of Spades. With a wave of your hand over their phone, the photo visually morphs, transforming the 3 of Diamonds into the King of Spades! That’s just one idea. You can get creative and use PhotoMorph for so much more: fixing "wrong" predictions, time travel routines, transforming one selection into another, making something appear or disappear from the image, creating multiple outs, or combining with other magic tricks (like Double Exposure by Asi Wind, 52 to 1 by Dani DaOrtiz, Free Will, The Architect of Predictions, and more)! KEY FEATURES: - A brand-new, devious method — simple and powerful - Incredibly easy to perform - Perform the effect on your spectator’s phone, with no need to install any Shortcut, App Clip, or anything at all - You end completely clean, with nothing to delete or remove from their device - Multiple ways of performing the transformation, including visually - You can make the photo change even months after you sent it - No assistants needed and no internet connection required - Fully integrated with iOS Shortcuts for advanced users, so you can integrate it to other apps and ideas - Take the photo on the spot - even with your spectator holding a card, a billet, or anything else - Access to an exclusive Facebook users group Thanks for checking out PhotoMorph — I can’t wait to see what you’ll create with it! Let your imagination lead the way. ****************************** DISCLAIMER: • TV performance rights are NOT included with purchase. All TV rights are reserved and available from Gui Del Frate. Please contact Gui at me@guidelfrate.com for details. • This app is a magic trick intended for entertainment purposes only. ****************************** Terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Pluma4 screens
PhotoMorph3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: PhotoMorph at $69.99 against Pluma's $99.99. PhotoMorph also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Pluma's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 5 months). On ads, 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

Pluma costs $99.99 and PhotoMorph $69.99 up front. Pluma sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PhotoMorph asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pluma ships an update weekly, PhotoMorph every 5 months. Both last shipped on September 22, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Pluma versus PhotoMorph: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlumaPhotoMorph
Price$99.99$69.99 — better
Rating5.0 (9 ratings) — better
Number of ratings9 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaid
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarc KersteinGuilherme Del Frate

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pluma

One-time1
  • 100 Pluma AI Credits$6.99
None

PhotoMorph

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pluma free?
Pluma costs $99.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is PhotoMorph free?
PhotoMorph costs $69.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pluma or PhotoMorph have ads?
Neither Pluma nor PhotoMorph shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pluma or PhotoMorph?
Pluma ships an update weekly, and PhotoMorph every 5 months. Most recently, Pluma was updated on September 22, 2026 and PhotoMorph on September 22, 2026.

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