Comparison

Explain Everything Whiteboard vs Democracy Test Kitchen

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Explain Everything Whiteboard

An interactive whiteboard app for creating and sharing video lessons, notes, and drawings. It offers real-time collaboration, PDF annotation, and engagement tools to enhance teaching and learning.

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 various media
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

Democracy Test Kitchen

This non-partisan voter guide helps you understand your ballot. Compare candidate stances on issues, build a personalized voting plan, and find registration and polling place information. Access your plan offline and receive election day reminders.

Highlights
  • View your personalized ballot
  • Compare candidate positions on issues
  • Build and save a voting plan
  • Find registration and polling place info
  • Offline access to your plan
  • Election Day reminders and calendar integration
Features
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NOT A GOVERNMENT APP: Democracy Test Kitchen is an independent, non-partisan project. It is not a government agency, and it does not represent any government, election office, political party, or candidate. For official election information, contact your state or local election office: https://www.usa.gov/election-office Democracy Test Kitchen is a free, non-partisan voter guide. Enter your address to see the races on your ballot, compare where the candidates stand on the issues you care about, and build a ballot plan to take with you when you vote. WHAT YOU CAN DO • See your ballot: the races and candidates for your address. • Answer short issue questions and compare the candidates' recorded positions side by side. Each position links to its source. • Build your ballot plan, then send it to yourself by email or text, or copy it. • Find out how to register and where to vote in your state. MADE FOR iPHONE • Election Day reminders: one the evening before and one the morning of. • Add Election Day to your calendar, with a link to your plan. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets that count down to Election Day and show your progress. • Your plan is saved on your phone, so you can read it without a connection. • Shortcuts on the app icon, in Spotlight and in Siri open your ballot or your plan directly. SOURCES OF GOVERNMENT INFORMATION The government information in this app comes from these official sources. Always confirm dates, deadlines and polling places with them. • Candidates, races and ballots: each state's official election office. Directory of every state and local election office: https://www.usa.gov/election-office (for example, Washington: https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections and Michigan: https://www.michigan.gov/sos/elections) • Voter registration: your state's election office. The official U.S. registration site: https://vote.gov • Election dates: each state's official election calendar, from the state's election office (https://www.usa.gov/election-office). • Polling places: your state's election office (https://www.usa.gov/election-office). • Congressional and legislative districts: Geocodio (https://www.geocod.io) matches your address to the district boundaries published by the U.S. Census Bureau: https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files.html Other sources: • Candidate positions: campaign websites, public statements, voting records, news coverage and social media. Each position in the app links to its source. • Primary dates: National Conference of State Legislatures: https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns • Officeholders and legislation: Open States (https://openstates.org) and LegiScan (https://legiscan.com). Full list of sources: https://www.democracytestkitchen.com/about NON-PARTISAN We do not tell you how to vote, and we do not take sides. When a candidate has not stated a position, we say so, or we label an inferred position and say what it is based on. PRIVACY No ads, no account, and we never sell your data. Your issue answers are not shared with anyone. Privacy policy: https://www.democracytestkitchen.com/privacy

Screenshots

Explain Everything Whiteboard4 screens
Democracy Test Kitchen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Democracy Test Kitchen at none against Explain Everything Whiteboard's 12. Democracy Test Kitchen also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). Explain Everything Whiteboard's advantage is ratings volume (8.9K vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads 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 11 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Democracy Test Kitchen asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Democracy Test Kitchen 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Explain Everything Whiteboard ships an update fortnightly, Democracy Test Kitchen every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Explain Everything Whiteboard versus Democracy Test Kitchen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExplain Everything WhiteboardDemocracy Test Kitchen
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (8.9K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings8.9K — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size312 MB3 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperPromethean Ltd.Democracy Test Kitchen

Customer experience

Explain Everything Whiteboard

All ratings8,901 ratings
Positive90.1%
Neutral3.1%
Negative6.8%
Written reviews374 reviews
Positive47.9%
Neutral12.6%
Negative39.6%

Democracy Test Kitchen

All ratings1 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

Democracy Test Kitchen

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

Democracy Test Kitchen

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Explain Everything Whiteboard free?
Explain Everything Whiteboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Democracy Test Kitchen free?
Democracy Test Kitchen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Explain Everything Whiteboard or Democracy Test Kitchen?
Democracy Test Kitchen is rated higher. Explain Everything Whiteboard averages 4.6 out of 5 from 8.9K ratings, while Democracy Test Kitchen averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Explain Everything Whiteboard or Democracy Test Kitchen have ads?
Neither Explain Everything Whiteboard nor Democracy Test Kitchen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Explain Everything Whiteboard or Democracy Test Kitchen?
Explain Everything Whiteboard ships an update fortnightly, and Democracy Test Kitchen every 2 days. Most recently, Explain Everything Whiteboard was updated on November 2, 2026 and Democracy Test Kitchen on October 31, 2026.

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