Explain Everything Whiteboard vs Audio Notebook Pocket Recorder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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)
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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/
Audio Notebook Pocket Recorder
Record lectures, meetings, or ideas with crystal-clear audio and take notes simultaneously. Review recordings at up to 2x speed and organize them with custom colors for easy access. Share notes and audio via email or transfer to your computer.
- All-day audio recording
- Simultaneous note-taking
- 2x playback speed
- Color-coded organization
- Email sharing
- iTunes File Sharing
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All-Day Audio Recorder, 2x Playback, and Note-Keeping System. Audio Notebook is perfect for: - Students: To record all your lectures, and take notes on all your classes, - Professionals: For every meeting and interview, - Everyone else: To capture your thoughts and ideas for all of life's projects. CRYSTAL CLEAR ALL-DAY RECORDING Stop struggling to take notes while keeping up with discussions. Audio Notebook captures everything that is said, so you don't have to worry about missing a thing. Record through your whole day and take notes at the same time. Edit and add to your notes while recording or reviewing later. When you're done, easily email your notes and recordings with a tap. Leave your laptop behind. Stay on top of all your classes and meetings with just your iPhone. FAST 2x PLAYBACK Reviews are a snap: Audio Notebook lets you breeze through recordings with up to 2x playback speed. Rewind by 5 seconds with just a tap, and capture every point with perfect recall. EASY DATA ACCESS It's your data: Copy all your notes and audio to your Mac or PC with iTunes File Sharing at any time. This is great for extra backups or sharing with others. It even works wirelessly over WiFi. CUSTOM-COLORED ORGANIZATION Color code your notes with multiple categories to find them easily and stay on top of all your projects. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO TAKE GREAT NOTES Integrated Text Editor: - Text notes with built-in Audio Recorder - Works great in both landscape and portrait mode - Large, legible font - Copy & Paste - Automatic spell check Flexible Note Organizer: - Multiple color-coded categories to stay organized - Filter notes by category, to quickly find the one you want - Sort by name or by date - Customizable category names - Share notes and recordings via Email High Quality Audio Recorder: - Variable play speed: 1x, 1.5x, or 2x - Instant seek - Quick skip by 5 second increments - Unlimited audio recording time - High quality MPEG-4 audio: An hour takes approximately 12MB - Record and take notes simultaneously - Pause and continue recording as many times as needed
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Audio Notebook Pocket Recorder at none against Explain Everything Whiteboard's 12. Audio Notebook Pocket Recorder also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Explain Everything Whiteboard's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 22 months). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Explain Everything Whiteboard sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Audio Notebook Pocket Recorder asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Explain Everything Whiteboard against 4.6 for Audio Notebook Pocket Recorder. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Explain Everything Whiteboard has 8.9K ratings behind it against 99, 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 40% of Audio Notebook Pocket Recorder's.
Explain Everything Whiteboard ships an update fortnightly, Audio Notebook Pocket Recorder every 22 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Explain Everything Whiteboard | Audio Notebook Pocket Recorder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (8.9K ratings) | 4.6 (99 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.9% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8.9K — better | 99 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 22 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 312 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Promethean Ltd. | Qrayon, LLC |
Customer experience
Explain Everything Whiteboard
Audio Notebook Pocket Recorder
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
Audio Notebook Pocket Recorder
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Explain Everything Whiteboard
- 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
Audio Notebook Pocket Recorder
No in-app purchases
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