Comparison

Explain Everything Whiteboard vs ChildFolio Teacher

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

ChildFolio Teacher

This app connects parents, teachers, and caregivers to monitor and support a child's educational development. It provides a shared platform for visibility into a child's growth, experiences, and learning challenges, encouraging supportive interactions.

Highlights
  • Connects parents, caregivers, and teachers
  • Monitors and engages with children's learning
  • Tracks child's growth and experiences
  • Facilitates supportive interactions
  • Provides visibility into learning progress
Features
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We are born to learn. An infant’s brain grows rapidly and remains highly "plastic" or malleable during the first five years. Important creative thinking and social-emotional skills must take root early on to become stable parts of their evolving minds. Interactions with adults, activities with physical materials, and free play with peers all set the stage for learning that has been shown - time and again - to lead to future academic, professional and personal success. Parents are now able to learn, monitor, and engage more with their children via with informal media. We believe that if parents can incorporate a parent-facing reporting system into their busy lives, this data has the potential to encourage and support parent behaviors which improve learning for children. ChildFolio connects all stakeholders - parents, caregivers, teachers, curriculum developers - with a vested interest in a child’s educational outcomes together, with common visibility into the child’s growth, experiences, successes and struggles, in a way that encourages interactions with the child to further support their comprehensive learning.

Screenshots

Explain Everything Whiteboard4 screens
ChildFolio Teacher2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Explain Everything Whiteboard at 4.6 against ChildFolio Teacher's 4.0. Explain Everything Whiteboard also leads on ratings volume (8.9K vs 44). ChildFolio Teacher's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and iOS requirement (10.2 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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

Both are free to download. Explain Everything Whiteboard sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. ChildFolio Teacher asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Explain Everything Whiteboard holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Explain Everything Whiteboard has 8.9K ratings behind it against 44, 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 53% of ChildFolio Teacher's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Explain Everything Whiteboard versus ChildFolio Teacher: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExplain Everything WhiteboardChildFolio Teacher
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (8.9K ratings) — better4.0 (44 ratings)
Positive reviews47.9% of reviews52.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings8.9K — better44
Update frequencyFortnightlyFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.010.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size312 MB220 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperPromethean Ltd.MCT Technology, Inc.

Customer experience

Explain Everything Whiteboard

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

ChildFolio Teacher

All ratings44 ratings
Positive72.7%
Neutral9.1%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive52.6%
Neutral15.8%
Negative31.6%

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

ChildFolio Teacher

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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

ChildFolio Teacher

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Explain Everything Whiteboard free?
Explain Everything Whiteboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ChildFolio Teacher free?
ChildFolio Teacher is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Explain Everything Whiteboard or ChildFolio Teacher?
Explain Everything Whiteboard is rated higher. Explain Everything Whiteboard averages 4.6 out of 5 from 8.9K ratings, while ChildFolio Teacher averages 4.0 from 44 ratings.
Do Explain Everything Whiteboard or ChildFolio Teacher have ads?
Neither Explain Everything Whiteboard nor ChildFolio Teacher shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Explain Everything Whiteboard or ChildFolio Teacher?
Explain Everything Whiteboard ships an update fortnightly, and ChildFolio Teacher fortnightly. Most recently, Explain Everything Whiteboard was updated on November 6, 2026 and ChildFolio Teacher on November 2, 2026.

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