Comparison

Explain Everything Whiteboard vs Badge Wallet

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

This interactive whiteboard app allows users to create notes, drawings, and record video lessons. It supports real-time collaboration, PDF annotation, and offers various tools to enrich content, making it ideal for education and presentations.

Highlights
  • 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)
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

Badge Wallet

Digitally store, manage, and share your earned achievements and credentials. Earn badges through codes, QR scans, projects, or quests, and upload evidence to showcase your progress and competencies.

Highlights
  • Earn badges via code or QR scan
  • Join projects to develop competencies
  • Complete badge quests and tasks
  • Upload evidence for achievements
  • Track learning and development progress
  • Store and share credentials
  • Showcase competencies
Features
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Badge Wallet is a simple and secure way to Earn, Store, Manage and Share your achievements using digital Open Badges issued through Badgecraft (https://www.badgecraft.eu). Badge Wallet lets you: - Earn badges by typing badge code or by scanning QR code - Join badge projects and program to develop and recognize competencies - Complete badge quests and tasks - Upload text, photo, video or files as evidence to support achievements - View progress of learning, development and achievements - Store credentials and achievements in one place - Share achievements on social networks, online profiles or CV - Showcase competencies, achievements and credentials More about Badge Wallet features: http://www.badgewallet.eu Badge Wallet developments were co-funded by European Union’s Erasmus+ programme. More about this programme: http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/

Screenshots

Explain Everything Whiteboard4 screens
Badge Wallet4 screens

Verdict

The call

Explain Everything Whiteboard and Badge Wallet both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Badge Wallet's written reviews are positive against 48% of Explain Everything Whiteboard's. Badge Wallet also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 12) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Explain Everything Whiteboard's advantage is ratings volume (8.9K vs 16) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Explain Everything Whiteboard sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Badge Wallet asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Explain Everything Whiteboard against 4.6 for Badge Wallet. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Explain Everything Whiteboard has 8.9K ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 48% of Explain Everything Whiteboard's written reviews are positive against 100% of Badge Wallet's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Explain Everything Whiteboard ships an update fortnightly, Badge Wallet every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Explain Everything Whiteboard versus Badge Wallet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExplain Everything WhiteboardBadge Wallet
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (8.9K ratings)4.6 (16 ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings8.9K — better16
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size312 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPromethean Ltd.Badgecraft

Customer experience

Explain Everything Whiteboard

All ratings8,863 ratings
Positive90.1%
Neutral3.1%
Negative6.8%
Written reviews374 reviews
Positive47.9%
Neutral12.6%
Negative39.6%

Badge Wallet

All ratings16 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Badge Wallet

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Explain Everything Whiteboard

Subscriptions11
  • 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
  • Solo Teacher Plan1 Year trial$34.991 Year
  • [LEGACY] Solo Teacher Plan7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Advanced Plan7 Days trial$69.001 Year
  • Individual Annual Plan1 Year trial$89.991 Year
  • Individual Annual Plan7 Days trial$89.991 Year
  • [LEGACY] Individual Annual2 variants$129.991 Year
  • [LEGACY] EDU Group, Annual$129.991 Year
None

Badge Wallet

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Explain Everything Whiteboard free?
Explain Everything Whiteboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Badge Wallet free?
Badge Wallet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Explain Everything Whiteboard or Badge Wallet?
Badge Wallet is rated higher. Explain Everything Whiteboard averages 4.6 out of 5 from 8.9K ratings, while Badge Wallet averages 4.6 from 16 ratings.
Do Explain Everything Whiteboard or Badge Wallet have ads?
Neither Explain Everything Whiteboard nor Badge Wallet shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Explain Everything Whiteboard or Badge Wallet?
Explain Everything Whiteboard ships an update fortnightly, and Badge Wallet every 3 months. Most recently, Explain Everything Whiteboard was updated on October 29, 2026 and Badge Wallet on October 24, 2026.

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