Comparison

Simple Blackboard vs Binky.AI

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

Binky.AI

This AI-powered productivity app delivers curated intelligence through automated feeds on finance, crypto, news, and research. Customize schedules, utilize an agent mode for complex tasks, and engage in AI chat with tool access for a distraction-free experience.

Highlights
  • Automated AI feeds
  • Customizable schedules
  • Agent mode for tasks
  • AI chat with tool access
  • Distraction-free reading
Features
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Binky.AI is a feed-centric AI productivity app. Subscribe to automated AI feeds that deliver curated intelligence — finance, crypto, news, research, and more — on autopilot. Key Features: - 40+ ready-made AI feeds covering stocks, crypto, macro, tech, and lifestyle - Fully customizable schedules (daily, weekly, or custom cron) - Agent mode for complex multi-step tasks - AI chat with tool access: web search, image analysis, code execution, and more - Clean, distraction-free reading experience Free Plan: - 300 credits/month - Access to all feeds and tools Pro Plan ($9.99/month): - 6,000 credits/month - Priority AI processing - Unlimited feed refreshes Credits can also be purchased separately as needed. Subscription automatically renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Terms of Service: https://binky-ai.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://binky-ai.com/privacy

Screenshots

Simple Blackboard4 screens
Binky.AI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Binky.AI at 5.0 against Simple Blackboard's 4.3. Binky.AI also leads on ads (none vs shown). Simple Blackboard's advantage is ratings volume (137 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Simple Blackboard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Binky.AI sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Binky.AI 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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Simple Blackboard versus Binky.AI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple BlackboardBinky.AI
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (137 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings137 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBita SobhaniDINGHAO YIN

Customer experience

Simple Blackboard

All ratings137 ratings
Positive81.0%
Neutral7.3%
Negative11.7%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral22.2%
Negative27.8%

Binky.AI

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Simple Blackboard

One-time1
  • Premium$2.99
2 purchases

Binky.AI

Subscriptions1
  • Binky.AI Pro$9.991 Month
One-time1
  • Binky.AI 3,000 Credits$5.99

Questions

Is Simple Blackboard free?
Simple Blackboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Binky.AI free?
Binky.AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Simple Blackboard or Binky.AI?
Binky.AI is rated higher. Simple Blackboard averages 4.3 out of 5 from 137 ratings, while Binky.AI averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Simple Blackboard or Binky.AI have ads?
Simple Blackboard shows ads; Binky.AI does not.

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