Comparison

WhiteBoard by LiveBoard vs wryte notes

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

Head to head
About

WhiteBoard by LiveBoard

This interactive smartboard app facilitates teaching, tutoring, and collaboration. It allows users to share experiences, engage students with live chat, and make lessons visually accessible. Users can record sessions for later review or share them on social media.

Highlights
  • Interactive smartboard for teaching and tutoring
  • Real-time student engagement with live chat
  • Import images and PDFs for visualization
  • Record and share video lessons
  • Create unlimited boards and student groups
  • Integrate Zoom calls directly
Features
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WhiteBoard by LiveBoard is an easy-to-use interactive smartboard to teach, tutor, learn & collaborate. Educate, present ideas, engage in real-time, record videos & share. Whether you’re into classroom teaching, online/video tutoring, we can become your handy app. Use LiveBoard to: • Share your experience whenever & wherever you are. • Engage with your students. Ask questions, get answers from the class/group of students via live chat. • Make all students feel present. Let sick, absent students participate as if they are in the classroom. • Teach different subjects. Have different groups for each subject you teach. Enjoy creating unlimited boards and inviting as many students as you wish. • Visualize teaching. Import JPEG, JPG, PNG images and PDF files to make your lessons easy to understand & memorize. • Turn your lessons into video presentations. Record your sessions and easily share them with your students for later review and exam preparations. • Maintain your lessons for online tutoring. Keep all your materials in one place and use them later while starting your online tutoring business. • Start your Zoom call directly within your board without the need for a second screen or device • Spread your knowledge and share your experience. Record all your desired lessons and share them on your Facebook, LinkedIn, Slideshare and Youtube profiles to get more potential students. We hope you’ll give LiveBoard a try! Questions? Suggestions? Feel free to email us at support@liveboard.online . For further information please refer to: ► Privacy Policy: https://liveboard.online/privacy ► Terms and Conditions: https://liveboard.online/terms

About

wryte notes

This app revolutionizes note-taking for students and educators. It offers real-time collaboration, organization tools, and PDF editing to enhance productivity and learning.

Highlights
  • Real-time collaboration with voice and video
  • PDF import and editing
  • Smart to-do list and timetable integration
  • Document sharing and organization
  • Variety of writing and drawing tools
  • Intelligent document scanning
Features
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100% GDPR COMPLIANT Revolutionize your notes with wryte Transform your school day with wryte, the tool to take notes, collaborate & communicate, practice and organize and get more done in less time Save time Say goodbye to lost notes and disorganized documents wryte automatically saves your work and organizes it for you, so you can focus on taking notes. Work in real time with friends, classmates or colleagues from anywhere in the world Live collaboration with wryte is the perfect solution for group projects, school assignments and so much more Communicate simultaneously via voice & video thanks to our custom-built technology and work live with others like never before Perfect for education wryte is the perfect tool for students & teachers, students & lecturers Improve your grades and increase your productivity with wryte Make the most of your time and get more done with wryte Add other users as friends, share documents and collaborate live with them Share documents faster than ever before Lightning-fast document sharing with wryte contacts means you'll never have to export, upload, download and import files again With just the click of a button, whole notebooks or single pages can be shared with your wryte contacts. Tools - Pen, pencil and highlighter with different colors and line widths - Lasso tool for moving, copying and duplicating - Perfect shapes (lines, circles, rectangles, arrows and polygons) - Ruler for precise work - Text input with keyboard - Link tool for linking other documents and websites - Laser pointer for presentations - Recognition of straight lines Backgrounds - Choose from a variety of backgrounds, including music paper, chemist's hexagons, vocabulary notebooks, and even a weekly planner PDFs - Import any PDF document and edit it with all wryte tools - Export documents as PDFs or in wryte format - Forward documents or receive documents from other users Photos and scans - Add existing or new photos to entries - With wryte's intelligent scanning feature, photographed documents look as if they were scanned - wryte allows easy moving, resizing, cropping and rotating of photos and scans The smart linked desktop - The wryte desk gives a quick overview of all documents and allows quick access to all documents - Customize your desk with many colors and icons Live collaboration - Work live with other users on documents - Call other wryte users with notebooks or PDF documents and work together on projects and tasks - Activate camera and microphone on demand and collaborate with others as if you were sitting in the same room - Use wryte's collaboration feature for online tutoring and experience the best online tutoring ever The smart to-do list - Add to-dos from documents - To-dos are automatically assigned to the created subject folders - Manage, schedule, prioritize and edit all to-dos in the integrated overview Automatically linked timetable - Add appointments or lessons to the integrated timetable - wryte automatically links them to folders and documents Your account connected to the wryte Cloud - 100% GDPR compliant - The wryte Cloud automatically backs up all documents encrypted if desired - Log in from any device to view and edit all documents - Everything is always securely stored, no matter what happens to the device Experience the future of writing and collaboration with wryte. Start now!

Screenshots

WhiteBoard by LiveBoard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: wryte notes at 4.7 against WhiteBoard by LiveBoard's 4.2. wryte notes also leads on review sentiment (60% vs 48%). WhiteBoard by LiveBoard's advantage is ratings volume (341 vs 23) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. WhiteBoard by LiveBoard sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and wryte notes sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

wryte notes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WhiteBoard by LiveBoard has 341 ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of WhiteBoard by LiveBoard's written reviews are positive against 60% of wryte notes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WhiteBoard by LiveBoard ships an update every 9 days, wryte notes every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
WhiteBoard by LiveBoard versus wryte notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhiteBoard by LiveBoardwryte notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (341 ratings)4.7 (23 ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.5% of reviews60.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings341 — better23
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB128 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLiveBoard, Inc.Signal Hill GmbH

Customer experience

WhiteBoard by LiveBoard

All ratings341 ratings
Positive79.8%
Neutral5.0%
Negative15.2%
Written reviews122 reviews
Positive47.5%
Neutral13.9%
Negative38.5%

wryte notes

All ratings23 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral40.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

WhiteBoard by LiveBoard

Reported bugs

29 issues
  • App crashes on launch or during use
  • Drawings disappear or become invisible
  • Lag when writing with Apple Pencil
  • Text positioning differs between devices
  • Images cannot be moved after placement
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  • Portions of board become blank unexpectedly
  • Eraser creates dead zones where writing is impossible
  • Ink strokes not registering properly
  • Grid settings not saving across pages
  • Session joining fails with loading screen stuck
  • Recording sessions lost or inaccessible
  • Collaborative erasing is buggy
  • File app crashes when accessing LiveBoard folder
  • Subscription billing errors
  • Unable to upload profile photos
  • Audio/video conferencing not working
  • Grid layout not syncing between users
  • Slow image uploads with lag for other users
  • Pen options not displaying correctly
  • Erase feature incomplete
  • App incompatible with older iOS versions
  • Boards randomly deleted
  • Finger detection erases drawings mid-stroke
  • Objects disappear when switching to selection tool
  • Share board feature not working
  • PDF export causing crashes
  • Worksheets becoming unclickable during sessions
  • Freezing during collaborative drawing
  • Hanging on join/leave/rejoin sequences

Requested features

24 requests
  • Undo/redo functionality
  • More drawing shapes and tools (triangles, pentagons, etc.)
  • Laser pointer feature
  • Highlighter tool
  • Music staff notation lines for music teachers
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  • Geometric tools (compass, ruler, protractor, square)
  • More color options and shades
  • More brush styles
  • Ability to extend pages like Word documents
  • Mute student audio controls
  • Better text editing with bullet points
  • PDF and multi-page document support
  • Screen rotation support
  • Infinite canvas without borders
  • Grid type persistence across new pages
  • Ability to prevent student erasure of teacher content
  • Better touch ID/Face ID support
  • Improved UI for newer device models
  • Turkish language support
  • Arabic language support improvements
  • Mac app version
  • Desmos integration for math teaching
  • Export to Word/PDF functionality
  • Microphone status indicator for students

wryte notes

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

13 purchases

WhiteBoard by LiveBoard

Subscriptions13
  • LiveBoard Classroom plan7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Classroom plan14 Days trial$8.991 Month
  • LiveBoard Premium plan14 Days trial$9.991 Month
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  • Online Tutoring plan7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Standard14 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Premium Monthly14 Days trial$12.491 Month
  • Tutoring Small Plan14 Days trial$18.991 Month
  • Pro7 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Pro14 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Advanced14 Days trial$29.991 Month
  • Tutoring Big Plan14 Days trial$38.991 Month
  • Standard14 Days trial$89.991 Year
  • Premium14 Days trial$119.991 Year
4 purchases

wryte notes

Subscriptions4
  • Basic2 variants$0.991 Month
  • Standard2 variants$2.991 Month
  • Premium$4.991 Month
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  • Premium$9.991 Month

Questions

Is WhiteBoard by LiveBoard free?
WhiteBoard by LiveBoard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is wryte notes free?
wryte notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, WhiteBoard by LiveBoard or wryte notes?
wryte notes is rated higher. WhiteBoard by LiveBoard averages 4.2 out of 5 from 341 ratings, while wryte notes averages 4.7 from 23 ratings.
Do WhiteBoard by LiveBoard or wryte notes have ads?
Neither WhiteBoard by LiveBoard nor wryte notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WhiteBoard by LiveBoard or wryte notes?
WhiteBoard by LiveBoard ships an update every 9 days, and wryte notes every 2 weeks. Most recently, WhiteBoard by LiveBoard was updated on September 26, 2026 and wryte notes on July 5, 2026.

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