Simple Blackboard vs Conversation Board
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.
Conversation Board
Facilitate written communication by placing your device in front of another person. Customize line colors and thickness for each user, and utilize full-screen mode for an expansive writing surface. Save and share conversations easily.
- Customizable line color and thickness
- Full screen mode
- Save and share screenshots
- Individual settings for users
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A simple and easy to use conversation board app. Simply place your iPhone or iPad in front of the person you want to communicate in writing with and enjoy the conversation. ●Basic functions 1. Change the color and thickness of the lines The color and thickness of the lines can be set individually for you and your partner. 2. Full screen mode setting Use this function when you want to use it as a large board. 3. Save screenshot and share function You can save your writing to the camera roll or share it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Conversation Board at 100% against Simple Blackboard's 50%. Conversation Board also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 9 months). Simple Blackboard's advantage is ratings volume (137 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Simple Blackboard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Conversation Board sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Conversation Board holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Blackboard has 137 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Simple Blackboard's written reviews are positive against 100% of Conversation Board's.
Simple Blackboard ships an update every 9 months, Conversation Board every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Blackboard | Conversation Board |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (137 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 137 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bita Sobhani | NAOYA ONO |
Customer experience
Simple Blackboard
Conversation Board
In-app purchases
Simple Blackboard
- Premium$2.99
Conversation Board
- Support Developer$0.99
- Remove ads$3.99
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