Comparison

Pluma vs Digital Reveals

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

Digital Reveals

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The Ultimate Digital Companion for the Modern Performer Digital Reveals is a high-end performance utility designed for professional magicians and serious hobbyists. Bridge the gap between the physical and digital worlds with a suite of visual revelation engines that turn your iPhone into a powerful magical prop. TOUCH OR HANDS-FREE STEALTH OPERATION Perform your way. Trigger reveals with a simple tap on invisible screen zones, or go fully hands-free with deep Flic 2 Smart Button integration and generic Bluetooth volume remote support. Trigger reveals wirelessly from your pocket or a hidden prop when you want true hands-free freedom, or keep it simple with touch alone, the choice is yours every time you perform. 11 ELITE REVEAL ENGINES Standard Reveal: A crisp, high-fidelity digital revelation for quick, hard-hitting performance. Fade In: A playing card slowly materialises onto your phone screen. Scratch Card: Let your spectator "rub" away the screen to reveal their selection. Digital Invisible: From the mind of David Penn, an outstanding digital take on the real-world invisible deck, glitching dramatically into view before bringing the digital and real worlds together. With Glitch In Digi-Iniv Fade: As Above but with original Fade In back after request. Red Hot Digital: A take on the classic Red Hot Mama effect, using your phone to visibly change a card's back colour in the audience's hands. Colour Change: A smooth, instant colour wipe across the card back, triggered on your command. Glitch Reveal: A punchy digital tear across the whole screen, snapping clean to reveal the card in a fraction of a second. MF Auto & MF Control: Two takes on the classic Mercury Fold, automatic hands-off folding or performer-controlled staging, for any deck including your own. Voice Assistant: Let your phone tell you the card your spectator chose. PROFESSIONAL FEATURES Dim Mode: The screen fades to a low brightness like a phone about to lock, and wakes the instant you touch it, the perfect cover for a secret selection. Set List Mode: Pre-program up to 8 distinct effects for a fluid, multi-trick routine. Perform a complete set with nothing but your phone and a deck of cards. Stealth Input: Choose invisible screen zones, a Flic button, or hardware volume triggers for covert data entry, including a dedicated One-Hand mode for working entirely by thumb. Complete Customization: Upload your own backgrounds, client logos, or even your own deck's card backs (with dual custom slots) for high-impact corporate branding.

Screenshots

Pluma4 screens
Digital Reveals4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Digital Reveals at $39.99 against Pluma's $99.99. Digital Reveals also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Pluma's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks) 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 Digital Reveals $39.99 up front. Pluma sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Digital Reveals asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pluma ships an update weekly, Digital Reveals every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Pluma versus Digital Reveals: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlumaDigital Reveals
Price$99.99$39.99 — better
Rating5.0 (10 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB37 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperMarc KersteinJAMES BUCHANAN COWAN

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pluma

One-time1
  • 100 Pluma AI Credits$7.99
None

Digital Reveals

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pluma free?
Pluma costs $99.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Digital Reveals free?
Digital Reveals costs $39.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pluma or Digital Reveals have ads?
Neither Pluma nor Digital Reveals shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pluma or Digital Reveals?
Pluma ships an update weekly, and Digital Reveals every 5 weeks. Most recently, Pluma was updated on October 25, 2026 and Digital Reveals on October 24, 2026.

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