Comparison

Explain Everything Whiteboard vs Compass Tutor

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

Compass Tutor

Manage student programs, schedules, and availability on the go. Receive instant notifications for new offers and request practice test spaces. Access student profiles, test scores, and communication tools.

Highlights
  • Receive new offer notifications
  • Manage student profiles and scores
  • Schedule and update lessons
  • Request practice test spaces
  • View calendar and announcements
  • Communicate with students/parents
Features
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Compass Tutor provides tools for tutors of Compass Education Group to manage their students, programs, and schedules on the go! Enable Push Notifications to immediately receive your new program offers. Use the calendar to review your current availability while scheduling new lessons. Request practice test spaces for your students and see which students are already signed up! The Compass Tutor app provides a streamlined mobile access to your workflow. Important! The Compass Tutor app requires valid and previously assigned login credentials. These are the same credentials you would use to log into Compass Points. If you aren’t sure of your username or password, please reach out to the Compass office for assistance. App Features - Immediately receive notifications of new offers with the option to accept or decline - View student profiles and test scores - View and update the programs, lessons, and activities of your past and present students - View a student’s address in your maps app - Initiate a phone call or text message to a student/parent - View your Compass Calendar, including lessons, practice tests, and test dates - Schedule new lessons - View which of your students are on a given test day roster - View upcoming practice tests by date and location - Request practice test spaces for your students - View Compass announcements and recent student activities - Instantly view any document within the Compass Document Library

Screenshots

Explain Everything Whiteboard4 screens
Compass Tutor2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Compass Tutor at none against Explain Everything Whiteboard's 12. Compass Tutor also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Explain Everything Whiteboard's advantage is ratings volume (8.9K vs 7) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, 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. Compass Tutor asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Compass Tutor holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Explain Everything Whiteboard has 8.9K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Explain Everything Whiteboard ships an update fortnightly, Compass Tutor every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Explain Everything Whiteboard versus Compass Tutor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExplain Everything WhiteboardCompass Tutor
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (8.9K ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings8.9K — better7
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size312 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPromethean Ltd.Compass Education Group, LLC

Customer experience

Explain Everything Whiteboard

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

Compass Tutor

All ratings7 ratings
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

Compass Tutor

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

Compass Tutor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Explain Everything Whiteboard free?
Explain Everything Whiteboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Compass Tutor free?
Compass Tutor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Explain Everything Whiteboard or Compass Tutor?
Compass Tutor is rated higher. Explain Everything Whiteboard averages 4.6 out of 5 from 8.9K ratings, while Compass Tutor averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do Explain Everything Whiteboard or Compass Tutor have ads?
Neither Explain Everything Whiteboard nor Compass Tutor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Explain Everything Whiteboard or Compass Tutor?
Explain Everything Whiteboard ships an update fortnightly, and Compass Tutor every 2 months. Most recently, Explain Everything Whiteboard was updated on October 15, 2026 and Compass Tutor on September 27, 2026.

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