Comparison

Explain Everything Whiteboard vs Teacher Assistant AI

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
Read full description

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

Teacher Assistant AI

Features
Read full description

The official Teacher Assistant AI app that helps schools, English centers and teachers gain deeper insights into their student's academic performance! > Manage all of your online classes on FLYER - English Testing Platform from anywhere, at any time, using just your smartphone. > Assign homeworks or tests to students in just a few clicks. > Understand how your classes and students are performing thanks to detailed analytics: studying time, number of tests completed, test scores, stats for each skill, etc. Improve your classes' performance with our Admin Dashboard, specifically designed for teachers! Try out for FREE with no time limit! If you enjoy it, please contact us to sign up for the partner program (exclusively for teachers, English centers and schools). For more information, please visit: https://schools.flyer.vn/ Have feedback? Contact us via email: admin@flyer.us. We’d love to hear from you :) Privacy Policy: https://flyer.us/privacy-policy-updated/ Terms of Service: https://flyer.us/terms-of-service-terms/

Screenshots

Explain Everything Whiteboard4 screens
Teacher Assistant AI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Teacher Assistant AI at none against Explain Everything Whiteboard's 12. Teacher Assistant AI also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Teacher Assistant AI asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Explain Everything Whiteboard ships an update fortnightly, Teacher Assistant AI every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Explain Everything Whiteboard versus Teacher Assistant AI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExplain Everything WhiteboardTeacher Assistant AI
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (8.9K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews47.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings8.9K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size312 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPromethean Ltd.FLYER TECHNOLOGY JOINT STOCK COMPANY

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
Show 1 more
  • Customizable font size

Teacher Assistant AI

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
Show 8 more
  • [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

Teacher Assistant AI

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Explain Everything Whiteboard free?
Explain Everything Whiteboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Teacher Assistant AI free?
Teacher Assistant AI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Explain Everything Whiteboard or Teacher Assistant AI have ads?
Neither Explain Everything Whiteboard nor Teacher Assistant AI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Explain Everything Whiteboard or Teacher Assistant AI?
Explain Everything Whiteboard ships an update fortnightly, and Teacher Assistant AI every 3 weeks. Most recently, Explain Everything Whiteboard was updated on October 22, 2026 and Teacher Assistant AI on October 18, 2026.

Other comparisons