Pluma vs Dayzed (Mentalism)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Dayzed (Mentalism)
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DAYZED - THE INSTANT DAY CALCULATOR Created by professional mentalist Paul Brook, Dayzed instantly calculates the day of the week for any spoken date. During performance, a spectator names any calendar date. The performer simply repeats that date into their own Apple Watch after starting a listening session. Dayzed instantly recognises the performer’s spoken date, calculates the correct day of the week, the iPhone then communicates the result through vibration, and displays it on the Apple Watch. Once activated, Dayzed can continue listening throughout your performance, allowing you to reveal multiple dates without stopping or restarting. It’s automatic, performance-focused, and designed to let you concentrate on your presentation. ------ SET IT AND FORGET IT Simply start listening and perform as you normally would. Dayzed works continuously throughout your performance, automatically recognising the performer’s spoken dates as they are repeated. Your iPhone can remain in your pocket, allowing you to focus entirely on your presentation while Dayzed quietly does the work. ------ BUILT FOR PERFORMANCE Dayzed is designed specifically for real-world performance. Choose how the app behaves with options including continuous listening, Blackout Mode, lock words, Apple Watch visual confirmation, and more. Every feature is designed to make Dayzed reliable, practical and effortless to use during live performance. ------ UNLOCK MORE WITH PRO FEATURES Enhance your performance with optional Pro features (In-App Purchases): API OUTPUT - send fully custom messages containing the detected date or day of the week to your own API endpoint URL OUTPUT - send fully custom messages containing the detected date or day of the week using your preferred URL Scheme CLIPBOARD OUTPUT - automatically copy fully custom messages containing the detected date or day of the week to your device’s clipboard VIBRATION CODE - create your own custom vibration patterns by assigning any combination of long and short vibrations to each day of the week ------ ALWAYS EVOLVING Dayzed is designed as a living performance tool for modern mentalists, continuously refined with new features, improvements and integrations. Whether you’re performing a single demonstration or revealing multiple dates throughout an entire show, Dayzed is designed to support your performance by delivering information exactly when you need it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Dayzed (Mentalism) at $39.99 against Pluma's $99.99. Pluma's advantage is chart position (#177 vs unranked). 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
Pluma costs $99.99 and Dayzed (Mentalism) $39.99 up front. Pluma sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Dayzed (Mentalism) sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pluma ships an update weekly, Dayzed (Mentalism) every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pluma | Dayzed (Mentalism) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $99.99 | $39.99 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | #177 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marc Kerstein | Paul Michael Brook |
In-app purchases
Pluma
- 100 Pluma AI Credits$7.99
Dayzed (Mentalism)
- API Output$19.99
- URL Output$19.99
- Clipboard Output$19.99
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- Vibration Code$29.99
- Unlock All$49.99









