Scribble Together Whiteboard vs Trace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scribble Together Whiteboard
Collaborate on a shared digital whiteboard in real-time, from any device. Draw, annotate PDFs, and use a virtual laser pointer to communicate ideas effectively. Ideal for remote teams and educational settings.
- Real-time drawing and collaboration
- Annotate PDFs and images
- Web and app access
- Virtual laser pointer
- Automatic shape and line correction
- Infinite canvas space
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Draw together in real time, from anywhere! In seconds, anyone can follow along with your drawing or draw with you from the app or on the web. Use Scribble alongside a call; talk with FaceTime or any other app you like. DRAW ON ANYTHING Draw over pdfs and images. Snap a picture of homework and draw on it, or review a pdf together. Once you are finished, you can save out a new pdf with your annotations. WEB OR APP Work with anyone, even your guests who don’t have an iPad or iPhone. The web app can be used to draw using a tablet, touch screen computer, or stylus. Display your live drawing on a big screen in a classroom or conference room using any browser and a convenient link. SET UP IN A SNAP Get on the same whiteboard together in seconds. No registering for an account or adding contacts in yet another app. Once you’ve connected in FaceTime or by phone you can tell your guests to join you using a link or a code, for free, with no messy sign ups. INFINITE SPACE, UNLIMITED BOARDS Control scrolling of the infinite drawing space so that everyone sees the same area at the same time. Whiteboards are unlimited, so you can start fresh for each topic. Unlike a real whiteboard, many people can draw in the same space at the same time! POINT AND GESTURE Point things out as you’re speaking with Scribble’s virtual laser pointer. No more clumsy describing of which part of a picture you're referring to – just use the magical disappearing laser ink. Designate different colors if you and your guests both need to point. PENCIL SUPPORT If you’ve got an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, drawing feels especially great in Scribble. It’s like using paper, but you can draw with anyone, anywhere in the world. You can also use Settings to decide what you’d like your finger to do while you have the Pencil in hand. NEAT SHAPES, STRAIGHT LINES Can’t draw in a straight line? Neither can we! Scribble helps you draw perfect lines and shapes. Draw and pause without lifting your marker: you’ll see your shape pop magically into a rectangle, circle, ellipse, parallelogram, trapezoid, triangle or straight line. FREE FOR GUESTS Inviting people requires Scribble membership, but your guests join you for free. The membership subscription comes free for 2 weeks per monthly subscription, or 1 month per annual subscription. Drawing on your own is also free, and you can keep your whiteboards if you decide you don’t want to invite others anymore. Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription auto-renews at the same price unless disabled in iTunes Account Settings 24 hours before the end of the period each month. You can go to scribble.cool/cancel for instructions to cancel your subscription and turn auto-renew off. Terms of Service: https://scribbletogether.com/terms
Trace
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You'll Forget What You Read Today. Trace Won't. You read six articles, finished a podcast, and saved three more things to read later. By Friday, most of it is gone. The links scatter across browser history, three news apps, and a save list you never reopen. Trace fixes this with one idea: record the day, not the link. What you finished and what you still mean to get to, in one place. WHAT IT DOES Share anything to Trace as you go: articles, podcast episodes, songs, books. Trace collects them and turns each day into one clean, browsable entry, listed in the order you took them in, with the time on each. Tap a date and you see exactly what went into your head that day. The capture costs nothing to learn, because it rides the iOS share sheet you already use. WHY ONE ENTRY PER DAY MATTERS Most save-it-later tools work one item at a time. Pipe ten articles to Notion and you get ten separate pages to sort through later. Trace produces a single daily report that holds everything, every format in one stream, every title already wrapped as a clickable link to its source. That is the difference between a pile of clippings and a finished record. You stop assembling the day by hand, because the day arrives assembled. ONE LIST FOR EVERYTHING YOU MEAN TO GET TO Every news app has its own save button, and every save list is capped, buried, and walled off from the rest. Save a piece in one app, a video in another, a podcast in a third, and you have three lists to remember and the wrong app to open. Trace pulls them into one stream, each item a tap from its source. Share the things you want to come back to, and they wait in a single place instead of scattered across apps you forget you used. Everything Trace captures lives on your device. Nothing routes through a server. When you want the data elsewhere, you choose where it goes: • Notion: send the daily report straight into a database, such as your journal. • Obsidian: export to a vault folder. • Files: drop reports into any folder, including iCloud Drive. • Manual: export today as a PDF or your whole archive as a zip. No account. No subscription. No lock-in. The exits are clean, so your record is always yours to take. BUILT TO FEED A SECOND BRAIN The daily report is consistently structured: titles, sources, timestamps, and live links, the same shape every day. That makes it easy for you to read and easy for an AI agent to use. Ask the agent sitting on your Notion, "find the articles I read about the SpaceX IPO back in May," and it works from one well-formed record per day instead of parsing scattered pages or a save list it cannot filter by date. Trace does not try to be the agent. It makes the agent's job easier. FOR RESEARCH, IT WRITES THE BIBLIOGRAPHY Gathering sources by hand means copying a URL, copying the title, then stitching them together in your document, over and over. Trace hands you the formatted, linked list already built. When your reading for a project clusters across a few days, the report is a working bibliography you can lift straight into a draft. When it runs over weeks, the agent pulls the relevant subset out of your daily logs. Either way, the tedious step is gone. WHO IT'S FOR People who read a lot across formats, keep a structured journal in Notion or Obsidian, and want the day consolidated rather than the item saved. If that is you, nothing else does this cleanly. Trace records what you consumed, hands it off to the systems you already live in, and gets out of the way.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Trace at none against Scribble Together Whiteboard's 2. Scribble Together Whiteboard's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence and ads 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. Scribble Together Whiteboard sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Trace asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scribble Together Whiteboard | Trace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.3K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 74.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.3K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Scribble Together | Masayuki Ishido |
Bugs and requests
Scribble Together Whiteboard
Reported bugs
3 issues- Whiteboard pages not syncing properly
- Scrolling issues when multiple users present
- Eraser marks showing up in PDF exports
Requested features
5 requests- Add more color/brush options
- Improve PDF export quality
- Allow horizontal scrolling
- Implement built-in video chat
- Add ability to rearrange pages
Trace
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Scribble Together Whiteboard
- Collaborate Live With Anyone14 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Collaborate Live With Anyone1 Month trial$49.991 Year
Trace
No in-app purchases
Questions
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