Comparison

Explain Everything Whiteboard vs Classroom Roulette

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Explain Everything Whiteboard

An interactive whiteboard app for creating and sharing video lessons, notes, and drawings. It offers real-time collaboration, PDF annotation, and engagement tools to enhance teaching and learning.

Highlights
  • Infinite canvas for drawing and notes
  • Record and edit whiteboard video lessons
  • Real-time collaboration
  • PDF annotation
  • Interactive engagement apps (Polling, Timer, Spinner)
  • Import and enrich materials with various media
Features
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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/

About

Classroom Roulette

This app provides a visually appealing spinning wheel for random selections in educational settings or for general decision-making. Users can create custom lists for students, quizzes, or any other purpose, with options for automatic slice removal and tracking of past selections. It offers extensive customization for slices and scenarios, making it a versatile tool for engagement and fun.

Highlights
  • Customizable spinning wheel
  • Unlimited lists and slices
  • Track picked items
  • Automatic slice removal
  • Import/export lists
  • Customizable scenarios
  • Voice over for selections
Features
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Classroom roulette is a gorgeous looking spinning wheel that will help to spice up your classes with truly random selections. You can configure your own lists with students, quizzes or any other combination. Use it for educational purposes, plain fun or decision maker. Endless possibilities! Classroom roulette keeps track of who's been picked and you can review it any time. Slices can also be removed automatically. These are its main features: - Universal app. Works on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Does not sync between devices. - Slide-over and Split-view support - Configure unlimited lists with unlimited number of slices - Work with one or two roulettes at the same time (e.g. students and quizzes) - Voice over on picked slices - Tweet or post on facebook with your current selection - Soundboard. Play special sound effects at will - Manual or automatic spin (tap on center star) - Customizable slices: text, icons or images (iPad only), colors and sound effects - Option to randomize list items automatically - Duplicate and edit your lists easily - Configure it to remove slices automatically - or manually - if they have been selected N times - Full history. Keeps track of who's been picked. - Import students lists from Google Classroom, Classroom Badge Maker, iDoceo or XLS files - Export and share your roulettes with other users - Choose between fast and slow wheel deceleration - Customize your scenario. Change your own curtains and switch floors.

Screenshots

Explain Everything Whiteboard4 screens
Classroom Roulette3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Explain Everything Whiteboard at Free against Classroom Roulette's $1.99. Explain Everything Whiteboard also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (8.9K vs 90). Classroom Roulette's advantage is review sentiment (85% vs 48%) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). On rating, ads 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

Explain Everything Whiteboard is free to download; Classroom Roulette costs $1.99 up front. Explain Everything Whiteboard sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Classroom Roulette asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Explain Everything Whiteboard holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Explain Everything Whiteboard has 8.9K ratings behind it against 90, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 48% of Explain Everything Whiteboard's written reviews are positive against 85% of Classroom Roulette's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Explain Everything Whiteboard ships an update fortnightly, Classroom Roulette every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Explain Everything Whiteboard versus Classroom Roulette: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExplain Everything WhiteboardClassroom Roulette
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.6 (8.9K ratings) — better4.4 (90 ratings)
Positive reviews47.9% of reviews85.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings8.9K — better90
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.08.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size312 MB58 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperPromethean Ltd.iDoceo Studios Ltd.

Customer experience

Explain Everything Whiteboard

All ratings8,901 ratings
Positive90.1%
Neutral3.1%
Negative6.8%
Written reviews374 reviews
Positive47.9%
Neutral12.6%
Negative39.6%

Classroom Roulette

All ratings90 ratings
Positive86.7%
Neutral7.8%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews121 reviews
Positive85.1%
Neutral6.6%
Negative8.3%

User reviews

Explain Everything Whiteboard

From 8.9K App Store ratings

What we love

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

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Glitches and bugs
  • 🐛 Unstable and inconsistent line width
  • 🐛 Freezes and crashes
  • 🐛 Deletes projects and recordings
  • 💰 Expensive subscription

Classroom Roulette

From 90 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Engaging and fun for students
  • 🚀 Easy to use and configure
  • 💡 Useful for various classroom activities
  • 🎉 Motivates students and captures their attention
  • 🔗 Good integration with iDoceo

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Repeated selection of students who have already been chosen
  • 🔍 Lack of option to hide or block selected students from being chosen again
  • 🔊 Audio issues or inability to control sound
  • 📱 Lack of sync between devices or inability to transfer settings

Bugs and requests

Explain Everything Whiteboard

Reported bugs

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

Requested features

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

Classroom Roulette

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Audio not working on some devices
  • Translations issues in certain languages

Requested features

5 requests
  • Increase maximum number of choices beyond 20
  • Add option to customize wheel design, background, and animations
  • Implement sync functionality across devices
  • Improve usability for larger class sizes
  • Provide better instructions and tutorials

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Explain Everything Whiteboard

Subscriptions9
  • Individual Monthly Plan7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • [LEGACY] Individual Monthly$12.991 Month
  • [LEGACY] EDU Group, Monthly$12.991 Month
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  • [LEGACY] Individual Monthly7 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • [LEGACY] Solo Teacher Plan7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Advanced Plan7 Days trial$69.001 Year
  • Individual Annual Plan7 Days trial$89.991 Year
  • [LEGACY] Individual Annual2 variants$129.991 Year
  • [LEGACY] EDU Group, Annual$129.991 Year
None

Classroom Roulette

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Explain Everything Whiteboard free?
Explain Everything Whiteboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Classroom Roulette free?
Classroom Roulette costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Explain Everything Whiteboard or Classroom Roulette?
Explain Everything Whiteboard is rated higher. Explain Everything Whiteboard averages 4.6 out of 5 from 8.9K ratings, while Classroom Roulette averages 4.4 from 90 ratings.
Do Explain Everything Whiteboard or Classroom Roulette have ads?
Neither Explain Everything Whiteboard nor Classroom Roulette shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Explain Everything Whiteboard or Classroom Roulette?
Explain Everything Whiteboard ships an update fortnightly, and Classroom Roulette every 4 months. Most recently, Explain Everything Whiteboard was updated on November 7, 2026 and Classroom Roulette on November 2, 2026.

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