Blackboard by Boogie Board vs Scrollly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blackboard by Boogie Board
This smart notebook app digitizes handwritten notes and drawings, offering a paperless way to capture ideas. It allows for easy saving, organizing, editing, and sharing of your work to cloud services and via email.
- Digitize handwritten notes and drawings
- Save, organize, and share work
- Integrates with cloud services
- Edit and enhance notes
- Smart Scan functionality
- Archive and search notes
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Blackboard™ by Boogie Board® is a reusable smart notebook that blends creativity with productivity. It delivers a fluid, freeform, and paperless note-taking experience. The FREE, all-in-one Blackboard™ app turns handwritten notes or drawings into digital files – backing content up to your favorite cloud platform. Saving, organizing, and sharing work has never been easier. STAY CONNECTED & SEAMLESSLY CAPTURE WORK The Blackboard™ app works across the following models: Blackboard™ 2.0 (new for 2024) and the original Blackboard (in both Letter and Note sizes). Both Blackboard™ 2.0 and the original Blackboard™ models support Smart Scan, which captures and saves notes to the app using the smartphone camera. The app also integrates with popular cloud-based services, including OneNote, Evernote, Dropbox, and Google Drive. EDIT & ENHANCE The Blackboard™ app includes tools to draw, highlight, and enhance work materials. SHARE The Blackboard™ app archives work as images or PDFs for easy and fast sharing to e-mail, messages and more. ARCHIVE, ORGANIZE, & SEARCH The Blackboard™ app allows work to be tagged – making organization and search move swiftly. FEEDBACK OR HELP? E-mail us anytime at customerservice@buffalogames.com Instagram & Facebook: @myboogieboard
Scrollly
Read documents and text hands-free with automatic scrolling. Import PDFs, extract text from images using AI, or paste your own content for a smooth, uninterrupted reading session. Customize font sizes and enjoy a distraction-free interface.
- AI text extraction from images
- Import PDF documents
- Paste or type text
- Automatic scrolling
- Adjustable scrolling speed
- Dark Mode
- Save favorite texts
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Transform the way you read. Scrollly lets you read without constantly swiping the screen. Import PDF files, extract text from images with AI, or paste any text, then enjoy a smooth, hands-free reading experience with automatic scrolling. Perfect for reading articles, books, study notes, scripts, speeches, documents, and any text you want to read comfortably. Features: • AI-powered text extraction from images (OCR) • Import PDF documents • Paste or type any text • Smooth automatic scrolling • Adjustable scrolling speed • Multiple font sizes • Dark Mode for comfortable night reading • Save your favorite texts to read later • Clean, distraction-free reading interface • Fast and lightweight Upgrade to Scrollly Premium to unlock the complete reading experience with premium features, AI tools, and future updates. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sobhi-portfolio.netlify.app/scrollly_pp
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Verdict
Blackboard by Boogie Board and Scrollly both sit at 3.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Scrollly's written reviews are positive against 27% of Blackboard by Boogie Board's. Scrollly also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). Blackboard by Boogie Board's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (53 vs 3). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Scrollly sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Blackboard by Boogie Board asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.4 for Blackboard by Boogie Board against 3.3 for Scrollly. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Blackboard by Boogie Board has 53 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 27% of Blackboard by Boogie Board's written reviews are positive against 100% of Scrollly's.
Blackboard by Boogie Board ships an update every 2 months, Scrollly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blackboard by Boogie Board | Scrollly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (53 ratings) — better | 3.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 27.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 53 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Buffalo Games, LLC | Sobhi Arood |
Customer experience
Blackboard by Boogie Board
Scrollly
In-app purchases
Blackboard by Boogie Board
No in-app purchases
Scrollly
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Annual$9.991 Year
- Lifetime$19.99
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