# Explain Everything Whiteboard — Video Lessons, Drawing & Notes

> Interactive whiteboard for lesson recording, collaboration, and content creation. (iPhone/iPad app by Promethean Ltd..)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/explain-everything-whiteboard/id1020339980 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Promethean Ltd.](https://appshunter.io/developer/997777811)
- Category: Education, Productivity
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.60/5 from 8,801 App Store ratings · 367 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.6 · 316 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, Danish, Finnish, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish and 5 more
- Released: 2016-02-01
- Data updated: 2026-08-27
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/explain-everything-whiteboard/id1020339980/reviews.md

## What is Explain Everything Whiteboard?

The iPad App Store Trend of the Year 2020 award-winning interactive whiteboard and note taking app for iPad. With over 25 million downloads across the globe, Explain Everything helps teachers and students with every day learning. 

Explain Everything Advanced, Promethean's award-winning cloud-based plan, is one of the most dynamic, easy-to-use, and powerful lesson creation and delivery tools on the market today. 

Explain Everything is an interactive whiteboard, built to create notes and make drawings, explain concepts and share boards anywhere. 

Make notes and draw together on the infinite canvas. Use sticky notes, work with imported documents, and annotate PDFs. Easily record whiteboard videos and share the entire process of explaining a lesson. Use real-time collaboration to stay on the same page with your students or team. 

Our customers love using Explain Everything to:

• Record and edit whiteboard video lessons, then share them automatically with your preferred cloud drive!
• Capture ideas, create interactive presentations, and use PDF annotation for teaching purposes.
• Use engagement apps such as Polling, Timer, and Spinner to promote student participation and deep focus.
• Draw, write, sketchnote, visualize, and scribble using Apple Pencil then easily present materials both in-classroom or online.
• Enrich your materials with images and GIFs, Sticky Notes, Clipart, 3D Models, Shapes, Web Browser, Equations, hyperlinks, text boxes and notes grid. 
• Digitize and store materials in one place thanks to the Explain Everything Drive cloud; available from any device, anywhere.
• Collaborate with students by hosting group assignments in the classroom and in the cloud.
• Broadcast through SharePlay or popular conferencing tools, including Zoom or Microsoft Teams.

New Activities within Advanced Plan 

We’re coming with new activities to enhance your lessons and create some fun throughout your classroom. Launch and play activities right from your whiteboard canvas. 

Crossword – Add a list of words, provide image or text clues, and Explain Everything will generate a crossword for you.
Memory game – Turn a set of images into a randomized memory pair-finding game.
Matching game – Build a matching game from a collection of images, shapes, and text.

Promethean Engagement Apps 
We’ve enhanced our Explain Everything Advanced plan with other new features, including Promethean’s ever-popular Spinner, Timer, and Polling apps; all to improve your teaching experience in the classroom.

Polling – ask questions and receive responses from students instantly.
Timer – use clock and stopwatch to measure time and improve executive functioning skills.
Spinner – randomly select items from the built-in templates or your own lists to add excitement to any class.

If you enjoy using Explain Everything please leave us a review!

https://explaineverything.com/terms-of-use/

## Key features

- Infinite canvas for notes and drawings
- Record and edit whiteboard video lessons
- Real-time collaboration
- PDF annotation
- Import images, GIFs, 3D models, and more
- Interactive engagement apps (Polling, Timer, Spinner)

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| LEGACY  Individual Monthly | $12.99 | per month |
| LEGACY  Individual Annual | $129.99 | per year |
| LEGACY  EDU Group, Monthly | $12.99 | per month |
| LEGACY  EDU Group, Annual | $129.99 | per year |
| Individual Annual Plan | $89.99 | per year |
| LEGACY  Individual Annual | $129.99 | per year |
| LEGACY  Individual Monthly | $12.99 | per month |
| Individual Monthly Plan | $9.99 | per month |
| LEGACY  Solo Teacher Plan | $34.99 | per year |
| Individual Annual Plan | $89.99 | per year |
| Advanced Plan | $69.00 | per year |


## What do users think of Explain Everything Whiteboard?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 🚀 Amazing app
- 👍 Great teaching and learning tool
- 👍 Excellent for creating and sharing information
- 👍 Useful recording facility for students
- 👍 Intuitive and productive
- 👍 Fantastic for teachers

**Cons**

- 🐛 Glitches and bugs
- 🐛 Unstable and inconsistent line width
- 🐛 Freezes and crashes
- 🐛 Deletes projects and recordings
- 💰 Expensive subscription
- 💰 Misleading pricing information

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Inability to select desired controls
- Recordings cutting off audio
- Projects not saving properly
- Restricted account limits

**Most requested features**

- Toggle option for consistent line width
- Improved pen and drawing tools
- Better undo/redo functionality
- Ability to move audio clips
- Animated GIF support
- Customizable font size

## Recent user reviews (10 of 367)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/explain-everything-whiteboard/id1020339980/reviews.md

### 4/5 — Shape recognition

*2026-08-05*

The one thing that this app doesn’t have is shape recognitions like line,circle, etc… this one feature will make it the ultimate app for video lessons

**Developer response:** Hello, and thank you for the review. You can enable Recognition Mode in the Draw Tool menu to see and select shape and text suggestions based on your drawing or writing. Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any more questions.

### 1/5 — Buggy updates

*2026-06-23, version 9.4.1*

This app is on a downward trajectory. Latest update is full of bugs. For an app that professionals rely on in their daily work, this is unacceptable. What exactly am I paying for? It’s unusable.

### 5/5 — Data Loss Issue

*2026-06-08, version 9.3*

Subject:
Data Loss Issue: Blank Slides, Missing Audio, and Random Crashes

Review:
Explain Everything occasionally crashes, some slides turn blank white, and audio recordings disappear from certain slides. This has affected multiple projects and caused loss of content. Please investigate this issue.

### 5/5 — So good

*2026-06-04, version 9.3*

I loved this.I only used the free version so I only got to used one slide but that’s fine. I loved how my creative mind could flow.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

### 5/5 — Excellent, but…

*2026-05-04*

Have been using this app for several years for teaching and think it’s awesome. Getting frustrated, though, that for the last few weeks I’ve been getting a pop-up asking me to rate this app every 30 minutes or so. It’s very intrusive when teaching, and irritating to be asked so many times. Whether I rate or not, the pop-up reappears shortly afterwards. And again. And again. Grrrr.

### 5/5 — Fantástico

*2026-04-13*

Utilizo todos os dias em apresentações e mentoria de gestão em saúde

### 2/5 — Cut off writing

*2026-03-24, version 9.2.1*

I’ve never had it before but when I make a video, it is cutting off the writing that I was doing on the screen.

### 3/5 — Crashes after latest update

*2026-03-18, version 9.2*

Crashes when accessing files after latest update. I rely on this app to teach and now I can’t access the files after the latest update. 0 stars.

### 2/5 — Buggy

*2026-03-03, version 9.1.2*

The app would randomly do odd things, like my background just turned black, the finger tool stopped moving object and would only select even if it was not in select mode. The top menus was overlapping the lock and battery icons so it was hard to tap on them. Maybe work on making this app better instead of trying so hard to make me pay for it with constant pop ups and restrictions. Adding the pop-menu for Apple Pencil Pro would also be nice. Very disappointed because the ability to use it as a whiteboard in airplay it probably the only good things is has going for it.

### 2/5 — Amazing but…..

*2026-02-26, version 9.1.2*

This is an amazing app I always use it for school, but now it says to pay. So at school time I had to use another app, please fix this.

## Frequently asked questions about Explain Everything Whiteboard

### What is Explain Everything Whiteboard?

Explain Everything Whiteboard is an award-winning interactive whiteboard and note-taking app designed for creating lessons, making drawings, and explaining concepts. It allows users to record their entire process of explaining a lesson and share it easily.

### What are the key features of this app?

Key features include an infinite canvas for drawing and note-taking, the ability to record and edit whiteboard video lessons, real-time collaboration for group work, and PDF annotation. It also offers a variety of content enrichment tools like images, GIFs, and 3D models, along with interactive engagement apps.

### How much does Explain Everything Whiteboard cost?

The app is available for free with in-app purchases. The 'Advanced' plan offers more dynamic features for lesson creation and delivery, including new activities and enhanced engagement apps.

### What devices is Explain Everything Whiteboard compatible with?

The app is specifically highlighted as an iPad app, having won awards on the iPad App Store. It is designed to work across various devices, with cloud storage available from any device, anywhere.

### How can I use Explain Everything Whiteboard for teaching?

Teachers can use the app to record and share video lessons, create interactive presentations with PDF annotation, and use engagement apps like Polling, Timer, and Spinner to boost student participation. It also facilitates group assignments and collaboration both in the classroom and online.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 9.5 — 2026-08-27

• Closed Captions
Add closed captions to your recordings with the new Transcription button on the recording toolbar. Captions are generated automatically and saved within your local projects. Support for closed captions in cloud projects and web video links is coming soon.

### 9.4.5 — 2026-08-04

• Shape and text recognition 
Transform your drawings and handwriting into shapes or text with the touch of a button. Enable the recognition mode in the Draw tool menu to see and select from shape and text suggestions based on your drawing or writing. Once you select an option, your drawing will convert into an editable shape or text object. 
 
• Sync your projects with iCloud  
You can now enable full iCloud sync to sync your projects across your iCloud devices. Unlike the already available iCloud backup, iCloud Sync works on the fly and will sync all your local projects on all connected devices immediately.

### 9.4.4 — 2026-07-18

• Shape and text recognition 
Transform your drawings and handwriting into shapes or text with the touch of a button. Enable the recognition mode in the Draw tool menu to see and select from shape and text suggestions based on your drawing or writing. Once you select an option, your drawing will convert into an editable shape or text object. 
 
• Sync your projects with iCloud  
You can now enable full iCloud sync to sync your projects across your iCloud devices. Unlike the already available iCloud backup, iCloud Sync works on the fly and will sync all your local projects on all connected devices immediately.

### 9.4.3 — 2026-06-27

• Shape and text recognition 
Transform your drawings and handwriting into shapes or text with the touch of a button. Enable the recognition mode in the Draw tool menu to see and select from shape and text suggestions based on your drawing or writing. Once you select an option, your drawing will convert into an editable shape or text object. 
 
• Sync your projects with iCloud  
You can now enable full iCloud sync to sync your projects across your iCloud devices. Unlike the already available iCloud backup, iCloud Sync works on the fly and will sync all your local projects on all connected devices immediately.

### 9.4.2 — 2026-06-26

• Shape and text recognition 
Transform your drawings and handwriting into shapes or text with the touch of a button. Enable the recognition mode in the Draw tool menu to see and select from shape and text suggestions based on your drawing or writing. Once you select an option, your drawing will convert into an editable shape or text object. 
 
• Sync your projects with iCloud  
You can now enable full iCloud sync to sync your projects across your iCloud devices. Unlike the already available iCloud backup, iCloud Sync works on the fly and will sync all your local projects on all connected devices immediately.

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