Comparison

Explain Everything Whiteboard vs Reading Tracker

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

Reading Tracker

Features
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ReadMine helps you keep the ideas worth remembering from every book. Track your reading, capture meaningful insights, and revisit them through spaced review and active recall. CAPTURE INSIGHTS Write an insight or scan a printed page to extract its text. Add optional tags and save multiple thoughts without repeatedly reopening the capture screen. You can later edit an insight, mark an exact quote, add chapter and page information, or keep a personal note out of reviews. REMEMBER WHAT YOU READ ReadMine uses the SM-2 spaced repetition algorithm to schedule saved insights for review. On supported Apple Intelligence devices, ReadMine creates multiple-choice quizzes from your insights using an on-device model. When quiz generation is unavailable, ReadMine provides a reveal-and-rate recall exercise instead. TRACK YOUR BOOKS Add books through online search, ISBN barcode scanning, or manual entry. Organize your library into Reading, Finished, and Want to Read shelves. Update your current page, follow book progress, search your library, and sort books by date, title, progress, or number of insights. FOCUS ON READING Use the built-in stopwatch to record reading time and sessions for each book. Connect Apple Music to choose from low-distraction focus, lo-fi, classical, and ambient reading playlists. Playback controls remain available while you use the rest of the app. Apple Music playback requires an active Apple Music subscription. Playlist availability may vary by region. UNDERSTAND YOUR PROGRESS See your reading minutes, captured insights, completed reviews, and active reading days for the current week. Monitor active books, due reviews, review streak, quiz accuracy, finished books, and library totals. Earn XP from reading and reviewing, level up, unlock new themes, and celebrate reading milestones. REMINDERS AND WIDGETS Choose a daily review reminder and receive alerts that help protect an active review streak. Home Screen widgets can show your current book and progress, due-review count, streak, and a rotating saved insight. SHARE AND EXPORT Share an individual insight as a designed image or plain text. Export your complete insight collection as Markdown or JSON. SYNC ACROSS DEVICES Sign in with Apple or Google to sync your books, insights, progress, settings, and review history across devices. You can also continue without an account and keep your data on that device. READMINE PRO Free users can track up to 3 books. ReadMine Pro unlocks unlimited book tracking through a monthly or annual auto-renewable subscription. Privacy Policy: https://www.freeprivacypolicy.com/live/c6b3b553-b590-4632-a2f3-1ae51cf6367a Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Explain Everything Whiteboard4 screens
Reading Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Reading Tracker at every 6 days against Explain Everything Whiteboard's every 2 weeks. Explain Everything Whiteboard's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Reading Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Explain Everything Whiteboard ships an update every 2 weeks, Reading Tracker every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Explain Everything Whiteboard versus Reading Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExplain Everything WhiteboardReading Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (8.8K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews48.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings8.8K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size312 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPromethean Ltd.Rajesh Budhiraja

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

Reading Tracker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Explain Everything Whiteboard

Subscriptions10
  • 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 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
2 purchases

Reading Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • ReadMine Pro$5.991 Month
  • ReadMine Pro$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Explain Everything Whiteboard free?
Explain Everything Whiteboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Reading Tracker free?
Reading Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Explain Everything Whiteboard or Reading Tracker have ads?
Neither Explain Everything Whiteboard nor Reading Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Explain Everything Whiteboard or Reading Tracker?
Explain Everything Whiteboard ships an update every 2 weeks, and Reading Tracker every 6 days. Most recently, Explain Everything Whiteboard was updated on September 24, 2026 and Reading Tracker on August 30, 2026.

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