WhiteBoard by LiveBoard vs Teacher Aide (cloud)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Teacher Aide (cloud)
Manage student attendance, grades, and seating charts across multiple devices. Easily notify students and parents, and identify at-risk students. Sync rosters from Google Classroom and export grades.
- Cloud database for multi-device sync
- Attendance and grade tracking
- Seating chart functionality
- Student at-risk identification
- Bulk email notifications
- Google Classroom roster sync
- CSV grade export
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Designed by a teacher, for teachers! • Cloud database allows easy switching between iPhone, iPad and MacBook • Attendance, Grades, Seating Chart for up to 6 semesters with 10 classes each. • Variety of PDF reports • Identify students at-risk due to attendance or grades • Easily notify students, parents and advisors with bulk email. • Easily sync student roster from Google Classroom • Export grades in CSV format to use with other grading systems Teacher Aide (cloud) is designed for use by individual teachers or co teachers of the same class. The app stores data in the cloud, so the the teacher can easily switch between devices, such as an iPhone, iPad or MacBook. Try out the app for free for 1 month with one class and see if you find it useful. An easy to use attendance and grading interface makes record keeping in the digital classroom a simple process. Additional features teachers will find useful are the seating chart, progress report and identification of student at risk due to attendance or academic performance. An auto-renewable monthly subscription allows access for up to 10 or 20 classes in each semester, and multiple semesters are supported. Please email the developer at support@inpocketsolutions.com with any questions or suggestions. Privacy Policy: https://inpocketsolutions.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://inpocketsolutions.com/terms Autorenewable Subscription Details To access features after the 1 month free access, the user needs to subscribe to an auto renewable monthly or annual subscription. This means the subscription automatically renews 24 hours before the end of the subscription date. Auto renewable subscriptions can be managed from the user iTunes account, and a link is provided in the subscription screen while in the app. All future updates are included with the auto renewable monthly subscription. The subscription may be cancelled for any future months, and the user will still have access to the data, only the additional features will be disabled. Facebook page www.facebook.com/TeacherAidePro
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Teacher Aide (cloud) at 4.8 against WhiteBoard by LiveBoard's 4.2. Teacher Aide (cloud) also leads on review sentiment (79% vs 48%). WhiteBoard by LiveBoard's advantage is ratings volume (348 vs 48) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). 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
Both are free to download. WhiteBoard by LiveBoard sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Teacher Aide (cloud) sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Teacher Aide (cloud) holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WhiteBoard by LiveBoard has 348 ratings behind it against 48, 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 79% of Teacher Aide (cloud)'s.
WhiteBoard by LiveBoard ships an update every 9 days, Teacher Aide (cloud) weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WhiteBoard by LiveBoard | Teacher Aide (cloud) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (348 ratings) | 4.8 (48 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.5% of reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 348 — better | 48 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LiveBoard, Inc. | Glen Botha |
Customer experience
WhiteBoard by LiveBoard
Teacher Aide (cloud)
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
Teacher Aide (cloud)
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
WhiteBoard by LiveBoard
- 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
- Pro14 Days trial$19.991 Month
- Tutoring Big Plan14 Days trial$38.991 Month
- Premium14 Days trial$119.991 Year
Teacher Aide (cloud)
- Standard (10 classes)$3.991 Month
- Standard (20 classes)$6.991 Month
- Premium (10 classes)$6.991 Month
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- Premium (20 classes)$9.991 Month
- Premium (10 classes)$69.991 Year
- Premium (20 classes)$99.991 Year
Questions
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