Comparison

Pluma vs Forecast Pro

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

Forecast Pro

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A new mind reading tool from the minds of Charlie Hewish and Shane The Mentalist.  Presented by Velith Studios. Forecast Pro presents weather conditions in a way that feels immediate and easy to understand, whether you’re learning, presenting, or performing live. The app supports multiple locations, custom language settings, and alternative data outputs, allowing weather information to be shared externally or used in creative workflows. Seamless Intergrations: - Glyphs - PeekSmith - Goo - Inject - Shortcuts - Hydra (via Goo/Inject) - Lumen Prism (via Goo/Inject) Forecast Pro is designed to be simple on the surface, while offering deeper control for those who want it. IMPORTANT NOTE: TV rights are not included. This app is licensed for live performance only, for TV rights please contact sales@velithstudios.com DISCLAIMER: Forecast pro is entertainment purposes only, it won't give you real mind reading abilities - Velith Studios

Screenshots

Pluma4 screens
Forecast Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Forecast Pro at $59.99 against Pluma's $99.99. Forecast Pro also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Pluma's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads 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 Forecast Pro $59.99 up front. Pluma sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Forecast Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pluma ships an update weekly, Forecast Pro monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Pluma versus Forecast Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlumaForecast Pro
Price$99.99$59.99 — better
Rating5.0 (10 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarc KersteinCharlie Hewish

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pluma

One-time1
  • 100 Pluma AI Credits$6.99
None

Forecast Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pluma free?
Pluma costs $99.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Forecast Pro free?
Forecast Pro costs $59.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pluma or Forecast Pro have ads?
Neither Pluma nor Forecast Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pluma or Forecast Pro?
Pluma ships an update weekly, and Forecast Pro monthly. Most recently, Pluma was updated on October 14, 2026 and Forecast Pro on October 3, 2026.

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