Comparison

Simple Blackboard vs Virtual Whiteboard

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Virtual Whiteboard

Features
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Unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity with Virtual whiteboard. Our virtual whiteboard empowers you to express your ideas effortlessly through drawing, text, shapes, and lines. - Drawing Tools: Sketch, doodle, and illustrate your thoughts with a wide range of drawing tools at your fingertips. Create intricate designs or simple diagrams with ease. - Text Annotations: Add context to your visuals by inserting text anywhere on the canvas. Customize fonts, sizes, and colors to convey your message effectively. - Shapes & Lines: Easily create geometric shapes, arrows, and straight lines to emphasize key points or organize your content neatly. - Save & Share: Save your whiteboard creations for future reference or share them instantly with others. Collaboration has never been this convenient. - Add a History feature for the board with autosave, enabling you to browse and edit your board with ease.

Screenshots

Simple Blackboard4 screens
Virtual Whiteboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Virtual Whiteboard at none against Simple Blackboard's 1. Virtual Whiteboard also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Simple Blackboard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Virtual Whiteboard asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple Blackboard ships an update every 9 months, Virtual Whiteboard every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Simple Blackboard versus Virtual Whiteboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple BlackboardVirtual Whiteboard
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (137 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings137 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 months — betterEvery 16 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBita Sobhanisalah Mohamed

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Simple Blackboard

One-time1
  • Premium$2.99
None

Virtual Whiteboard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simple Blackboard free?
Simple Blackboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Virtual Whiteboard free?
Virtual Whiteboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Simple Blackboard or Virtual Whiteboard have ads?
Simple Blackboard shows ads; Virtual Whiteboard does not.
Which is updated more often, Simple Blackboard or Virtual Whiteboard?
Simple Blackboard ships an update every 9 months, and Virtual Whiteboard every 16 months. Most recently, Simple Blackboard was updated on September 24, 2026 and Virtual Whiteboard on September 21, 2026.

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