Comparison

Stormboard vs FR Show

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

Head to head
About

Stormboard

This app provides a digital workspace for remote and in-office teams to brainstorm, organize, and prioritize ideas. It facilitates real-time collaboration with features like shared sticky notes, documents, and whiteboards, helping teams turn concepts into actionable plans.

Highlights
  • Infinite digital canvas
  • Real-time remote team collaboration
  • Hundreds of smart templates
  • Capture ideas with sticky notes, photos, files, videos
  • Organize ideas with substorms
  • In-app chat for team communication
  • Idea prioritization through voting
Features
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You can’t always predict when or where you’ll get your best ideas! Never lose track of your best plans or ideas with Stormboard’s digital workspace for remote collaboration. With the Stormboard iOS app for iPhone and iPad, you can create, collaborate, and virtually brainstorm whether you are out for a jog or at dinner with friends. Stormboard helps teams share sticky notes, documents, videos, files, and whiteboards in a virtual space — perfect for both remote teams and those working in-office. It is an easy-to-use online meeting, brainstorming, and collaboration platform that helps you generate, organize, and prioritize ideas and then create a plan to turn them into action. Eliminate the hassle of maintaining and transcribing physical whiteboards, navigating busy schedules and meeting rooms, or creating paper waste. By using the Stormboard app on your iPhone or iPad, you can stay connected and in sync with your team — in real time — from anywhere in the world. Stormboard for iPhone A new app user interface enables faster, easier collaboration from anywhere. On top of being able to add and edit sticky notes from your mobile device, you can manage your team and workflow through the improved voting system, sticky note assignments, and tasks. Stormboard for iOS allows you to check your Storm activity, take advantage of improved whiteboarding and search functions, create Storms, join Storms, invite users, edit ideas, and more! Note that the iOS App does not have the same functionality as your desktop version of Stormboard but is meant to be a companion to the full online version. Stormboard for iPad Stormboard for iPad works just like our desktop edition but takes advantage of the Tablet pinch and zoom. Stormboard Features • Infinite canvas: Create, collaborate, and explore ideas on a cloud-based digital whiteboard with no size limit! • Connect remote teams: No matter where the members of your team are located, you can all meet in one space to collaborate in real-time, or on your own time. • Smart Templates: Hundreds of smart templates are available to use for business processes like Kanban, Agile, Kaizen, brainstorming, project planning, and more! • Generate and capture ideas: Quickly add sticky notes, photos, files, and videos to the shared workspace. • Navigate Substorms: Create a Storm within a Storm to help you expand on ideas, add more content, and keep thoughts and tasks organized. • Chat: The chat window allows you to communicate with your team members in that specific Storm, no matter what device they are using Stormboard on. • Comment on ideas: All ideas have a comment thread allowing your team to clarify, debate, and refine ideas. • Prioritize your ideas: Users get 'dots' to vote on their favorite ideas. They can add all their votes to one idea or spread them around. With one click, instantly see what ideas your team likes and dive deeper into the best ideas. • Quick reporting: Rather than waiting weeks to transcribe a blurry photo of a whiteboard, you can instantly generate reports that can be used as meeting minutes, presentations, and more! • Reduce paper use: Stop rolling up flipcharts you never look at again, or tossing away sticky notes after a meeting. • Security: Everything in Stormboard is transmitted over an SSL encrypted connection so no one can intercept your ideas. Enterprise-level security options are also available.

About

FR Show

Features
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Show management app

Screenshots

Stormboard4 screens
FR Show3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: FR Show at every 3 days against Stormboard's every 3 months. 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stormboard ships an update every 3 months, FR Show every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Stormboard versus FR Show: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStormboardFR Show
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews3.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStormboardFashion Republic LLC

In-app purchases

None

Stormboard

No in-app purchases

None

FR Show

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stormboard free?
Stormboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FR Show free?
FR Show is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Stormboard or FR Show have ads?
Neither Stormboard nor FR Show shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stormboard or FR Show?
Stormboard ships an update every 3 months, and FR Show every 3 days. Most recently, Stormboard was updated on November 6, 2026 and FR Show on November 9, 2026.

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