Comparison

Pluma vs NeuroDice

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. ** Simultaneous Multiple Board support Receive peeks from up to four impression devices simultaneously! ** Offline Sync Lost connection mid-performance? Supported devices redraw everything written as soon as they reconnect. ** 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, NOVA Sharpie, 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 boards from Lumen Pro, Iarvel, Pitata, Ultra Sharpie, Ultra Sharpie Neo, Oblivious Engage, NOVA Sharpie, PMA and Wave, with more brands 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 subscription nor device fee needed. Pluma is offered for entertainment purposes only.

About

NeuroDice

Features
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NEURODICE – DICE MAGIC WITHOUT ANY DICE Created by professional mentalist Paul Brook, NeuroDice is a precision-engineered mentalism tool that works with imaginary (or “invisible”) dice. It transforms thought-of dice rolls into powerful, impossible predictions, allowing you to perform your existing routines without any physical dice or supercharge the ones that do use them. VARIOUS INPUT METHODS Use your iPhone keyboard, a Bluetooth remote, or your voice to secretly input information directly into the app. PREDICTION NOTE OR IN-APP DATA Receive the information inside the app, or let NeuroDice automatically create a hidden prediction in Notes that reveals the exact dice values your participant is thinking of...all without ever touching a real die.

Screenshots

Pluma4 screens
NeuroDice4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: NeuroDice at $24.99 against Pluma's $99.99. On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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 NeuroDice $24.99 up front. Pluma sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and NeuroDice sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pluma ships an update weekly, NeuroDice every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Pluma versus NeuroDice: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlumaNeuroDice
Price$99.99$24.99 — better
Rating5.0 (10 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.4
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarc KersteinPaul Michael Brook

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pluma

One-time1
  • 100 Pluma AI Credits$6.99
7 purchases

NeuroDice

One-time7
  • Inject Output$14.99
  • Kinetic Mental Dice Input$14.99
  • Inject Input$14.99
Show 4 more
  • URL Scheme Output$14.99
  • Clipboard Output$14.99
  • Watch Output$14.99
  • Unlock All$49.99

Questions

Is Pluma free?
Pluma costs $99.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is NeuroDice free?
NeuroDice costs $24.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Do Pluma or NeuroDice have ads?
Neither Pluma nor NeuroDice shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pluma or NeuroDice?
Pluma ships an update weekly, and NeuroDice every 10 days. Most recently, Pluma was updated on October 14, 2026 and NeuroDice on October 16, 2026.

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