Comparison

Explain Everything Whiteboard vs Seamless Learning Access

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 video lessons on an infinite canvas. It facilitates real-time collaboration and offers tools for engaging students, such as polls and timers. Materials can be enriched with various media and stored in the cloud for easy access.

Highlights
  • Infinite canvas for drawing and notes
  • Record and edit whiteboard video lessons
  • Real-time collaboration
  • PDF annotation
  • Interactive engagement apps (polling, timer, spinner)
  • Import and enrich materials with media
  • Cloud storage and access
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/

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Seamless Learning Access

Features
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Important: this app requires a Jamf managed deployment. Seamless Learning Access is configured and deployed by your school's IT team through Jamf. It is not intended for individual download and will not function on a personal device or without an active Jamf managed configuration. Seamless Learning Access is part of Jamf's Apple Education platform. It keeps students signed in to their school's apps and websites throughout the day, so they spend less time typing passwords and more time learning. Once a student signs in with their school account on a managed iPad, Seamless Learning Access handles authentication in the background for the learning apps and sites their district has set up. There's no extra portal to launch and no separate password to remember. Check your sign-in at a glance by opening the app any time, to see: The account currently signed in Whether your sign-in is active and ready for the day's lessons A simple visual indicator to confirm everything is working before a test, assignment, or class activity If something isn't right, for example, if your session has expired, the app makes it clear, so you know to sign in again rather than discovering the problem mid-lesson. How it works Seamless Learning Access uses Apple's Single Sign-On Extension framework, working alongside RapidIdentity and Jamf to connect each iPad to your district's identity system. Authentication tokens are issued and refreshed automatically for the apps your school has approved, with no manual configuration required from students or teachers. For school IT teams Seamless Learning Access is available only to Jamf customers. Designed for K-12 iPad deployments managed through Jamf. Built primarily for Shared iPad, where multiple students use the same device, each signing in with their own Managed Apple ID while also fully supporting 1:1 assigned iPads. Configuration is handled centrally by your district's IT team, including identity source, app coverage, and session policies. Students and teachers do not install or configure this app directly, it is deployed and maintained as part of the programme. Support For help with sign-in issues, contact your school's IT team or technology coordinator. IT administrators can find deployment documentation and support resources on the Jamf customer portal.

Screenshots

Explain Everything Whiteboard4 screens
Seamless Learning Access3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Seamless Learning Access at none against Explain Everything Whiteboard's 10. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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 9 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Seamless Learning Access asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Explain Everything Whiteboard versus Seamless Learning Access: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExplain Everything WhiteboardSeamless Learning Access
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (8.9K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews48.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8.9K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size343 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPromethean Ltd.JAMF Software

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

Seamless Learning Access

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Explain Everything Whiteboard

Subscriptions9
  • 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
  • [LEGACY] Solo Teacher Plan7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Advanced Plan7 Days trial$69.001 Year
  • Individual Annual Plan7 Days trial$89.991 Year
  • [LEGACY] Individual Annual2 variants$129.991 Year
  • [LEGACY] EDU Group, Annual$129.991 Year
None

Seamless Learning Access

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Explain Everything Whiteboard free?
Explain Everything Whiteboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Seamless Learning Access free?
Seamless Learning Access is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Explain Everything Whiteboard or Seamless Learning Access have ads?
Neither Explain Everything Whiteboard nor Seamless Learning Access shows ads.

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