Simple Blackboard vs Scratchpad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Blackboard
This app provides a digital canvas for drawing, sketching, and note-taking. It offers various tools like brushes, colors, shapes, and text, with options to load photos and record your creative process. Save your work, manage pages, and keep your last drawing accessible.
- Blackboard or whiteboard selection
- Adjustable brush sizes and colors
- Drawing of various shapes
- Text typing with adjustable font size
- Load photos onto the board
- Record video of drawing process
- Save drawings and manage pages
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This app allows you to draw on a simple blackboard (or whiteboard). You can use it for drawing, jotting down, illustrations, math calculations and etc. The key features are: - You can choose blackboard or whiteboard. - You have various brush sizes and huge number of paint colors. - You can draw various shapes such as line, arrow, circle, oval, square, rectangle, triangle, and polygon. - You can type text with adjustable font size. - You can load photo to the board. - You can record video from your drawing screen with sound from your device microphone. - You can save your drawing to your device. - You can add or remove pages. - You can set your favourite paint colors and color opacity. - Your last drawing is always saved. - The device screen never goes off while you are using the app. The premium purchase removes all ads, enables adding text, loading photo, drawing shapes and grid, setting favorite paint colors, and paint color opacity.
Scratchpad
This app functions as a digital whiteboard, perfect for capturing and organizing your ideas. It offers seamless note management and keeps a full history of your entries, designed for intuitive use with a stylus.
- Digital whiteboard functionality
- Add and remove notes easily
- Maintains a complete history of entries
- Optimized for Apple Pencil
- Intuitive thought organization
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Designed specifically with the Apple Pencil in mind. This app acts as a whiteboard for your thoughts. Add and remove notes easily from your boards all the while maintaining a complete history of everything that you have ever written. We hope that you enjoy this app!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Scratchpad at none against Simple Blackboard's 1. Scratchpad also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). Simple Blackboard's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Simple Blackboard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Scratchpad asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Simple Blackboard against 4.3 for Scratchpad. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 137 and 53 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 50% and 50% positive.
| Parameter | Simple Blackboard | Scratchpad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (137 ratings) — better | 4.3 (53 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 137 — better | 53 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bita Sobhani | Dito Technologies LLC |
Customer experience
Simple Blackboard
Scratchpad
In-app purchases
Simple Blackboard
- Premium$2.99
Scratchpad
No in-app purchases
Questions
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