Scratchpad vs Instaboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Instaboard
Collaborate on shared plans and to-do lists in real-time. Assign tasks, track progress, and communicate directly on a digital whiteboard. Ideal for organizing group projects, family events, or business operations.
- Shared live boards
- Task assignment and tracking
- Real-time collaboration
- Digital whiteboard with markup
- Cost splitting
- Offline sync
- Export to PDF/image
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Organize your stuff with cards. Instaboard is an online whiteboard where your notes, lists, photos, PDFs and links live as cards you can drag, group and share. Tutors use it to teach live: a video call right on the board, and your student writes on it too. FOR TUTORS AND TEACHERS • Start a video call on the board. Your student joins from a link and signs in free • Drop in a worksheet or PDF and write on it together, live • Draw with Apple Pencil or your finger, and point with the laser FOR STUDENTS AND WRITERS • Put lecture notes, photos and PDFs on cards, then drag them into groups • Connect cards with arrows and add sections to build mind maps and outlines • An endless canvas, so nothing has to fit on one page FOR PLANS WITH OTHER PEOPLE • Trips, weddings, family events and shop checklists: put names and due dates on cards and tick them off • Everyone sees each change live. Comment on a card instead of digging through the chat • Split costs and see who owes whom WHAT GOES ON A CARD • Notes, checklists, due dates, tags, comments, photos, files, links and places • Any card opens into its own board, so a big plan stays tidy • Lists, a calendar view for dated cards, and colors to sort at a glance SHARE IN SECONDS • Send a link, a QR code or a 4-digit code • Nothing to download: the board opens in any browser. Joining is free, and writing needs a free sign-in SAVE NOW, SORT LATER • Send links and photos from any app to Pile, then drag them onto a board when you are ready WORKS WHERE YOU ARE • iPhone, iPad and the web • Changes are kept and sync when you are back online EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://instaboard.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Instaboard at 100% against Scratchpad's 50%. Instaboard also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and device support (3 vs 1). Scratchpad's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ratings volume (59 vs 11). On price and ads 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. Instaboard sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Scratchpad asks for nothing beyond the download.
Instaboard holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Scratchpad has 59 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Scratchpad's written reviews are positive against 100% of Instaboard's.
| Parameter | Scratchpad | Instaboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (59 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 59 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 175 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dito Technologies LLC | Instaboard Ltd. |
Customer experience
Scratchpad
Instaboard
In-app purchases
Scratchpad
No in-app purchases
Instaboard
- Instaboard Pro7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Instaboard Pro$7.991 Month
- Instaboard Pro (12 months)7 Days trial$59.991 Year
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- Instaboard Pro7 Days trial$59.991 Year
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