Comparison

Explain Everything Whiteboard vs Schoolhouse Moolah

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

Schoolhouse Moolah

This app helps teachers manage classroom economies and student behavior for grades K-5. It teaches financial literacy through virtual jobs, earnings, and a store, while reinforcing positive actions. Students can track their progress and learn budgeting skills.

Highlights
  • Classroom economy management
  • Behavior reinforcement
  • Virtual store
  • Student earnings tracking
  • Financial literacy education
  • Customizable jobs and expectations
Features
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Schoolhouse Moolah is a free classroom economy and behavior management app designed by teachers for grades K–5. It helps students build real-world financial literacy while reinforcing positive behavior in a fun, age-appropriate way. Teachers use this mobile app to set up and manage their classroom economy—assigning jobs, customizing expectations, awarding bonuses, applying fines, and managing a virtual store. Students access a web-based dashboard to track their earnings, savings, and purchases—learning to budget, set goals, and make smart decisions. The platform offers weekly Student Bank Statements for families and real-time teacher behavior logs. It aligns with PBIS, MTSS, Common Core, and financial literacy frameworks like MyMoney Five. Note: Teachers must download this free app to use Schoolhouse Moolah effectively with students. Visit schoolhousemoolah.org to get started.

Screenshots

Explain Everything Whiteboard4 screens
Schoolhouse Moolah4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Schoolhouse Moolah at 100% against Explain Everything Whiteboard's 48%. Schoolhouse Moolah also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 12) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Explain Everything Whiteboard's advantage is ratings volume (8.9K vs 1). 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. Schoolhouse Moolah asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Schoolhouse Moolah 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 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of Explain Everything Whiteboard's written reviews are positive against 100% of Schoolhouse Moolah's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Explain Everything Whiteboard ships an update fortnightly, Schoolhouse Moolah every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Explain Everything Whiteboard versus Schoolhouse Moolah: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExplain Everything WhiteboardSchoolhouse Moolah
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (8.9K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings8.9K — better1
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size312 MB55 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperPromethean Ltd.NextGen Prosperity Foundation

Customer experience

Explain Everything Whiteboard

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

Schoolhouse Moolah

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 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

Schoolhouse Moolah

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

Schoolhouse Moolah

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Explain Everything Whiteboard free?
Explain Everything Whiteboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Schoolhouse Moolah free?
Schoolhouse Moolah is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Explain Everything Whiteboard or Schoolhouse Moolah?
Schoolhouse Moolah is rated higher. Explain Everything Whiteboard averages 4.6 out of 5 from 8.9K ratings, while Schoolhouse Moolah averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Explain Everything Whiteboard or Schoolhouse Moolah have ads?
Neither Explain Everything Whiteboard nor Schoolhouse Moolah shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Explain Everything Whiteboard or Schoolhouse Moolah?
Explain Everything Whiteboard ships an update fortnightly, and Schoolhouse Moolah every 3 weeks. Most recently, Explain Everything Whiteboard was updated on October 21, 2026 and Schoolhouse Moolah on October 11, 2026.

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