Whiteboard vs Chalk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Whiteboard
Share drawings, photos, and messages directly to friends' home screen widgets. This app offers creative drawing tools and group messaging for fun, visual communication.
- Send doodles, drawings, and photos to widgets
- Customizable drawing tools with saved presets
- Add photos from library or camera
- Create and message in groups
- Multiple widget options for different views
- Private by default friend connections
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Send doodles, drawings, messages, and more directly to your friends’ widgets! Whiteboard makes staying connected fun and creative. Share quick sketches, notes, photos, and even group messages that appear right on your friends’ home screens. ------- Drawing Choose from different pen styles, thicknesses, and colors—or create your own custom colors and save them as presets. Add backgrounds, photos from your library or camera, text, and more. Save drafts to finish your creations later. ------- Friends Your account starts as private so only friends can send you messages. Switch to public if you’d like anyone in the app to connect with you. Finding friends is simple—search nearby, sync your contacts, or share your invite code. ------- Groups Create groups to share doodles and messages between multiple friends all in one widget. Think of it as group chat, but more fun and visual. ------- Widgets Add multiple widgets to keep up with all your messages. Choose from: - Recent Messages: See the latest updates from friends and groups. - Friend Widget: View the most recent message from a specific friend. - Group Widget: View the most recent message from a group.
Chalk
This app allows real-time group chats with both online and offline modes. Create or join rooms to connect with people nearby or globally, even without an internet connection. Secure, password-protected rooms are available.
- Real-time group chat
- Online and offline modes
- Create or join rooms
- Secure, password-protected rooms
- No account or subscriptions required
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Draw, type, and share your creativity with people nearby and around the world. Chalk-Talk is a real-time group chat app with online and offline modes. Create or join rooms with or without an internet connection—ideal when you’re on the go, in low-signal areas, or hanging out with nearby friends. Want to extend your reach? Create an online room, and chat with anyone anywhere. • No account or subscriptions required • Create secure, password-protected chat rooms • [NEW!] Online mode: chat with anyone anywhere in the world (internet required) • Offline mode: chat with anyone nearby (no internet required)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Whiteboard at none against Chalk's shown. Whiteboard also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (465 vs 19). Chalk's advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 43%) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). On price, rating, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Whiteboard sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Chalk sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Whiteboard against 4.2 for Chalk. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Whiteboard has 465 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 43% of Whiteboard's written reviews are positive against 75% of Chalk's.
Whiteboard ships an update fortnightly, Chalk every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Whiteboard | Chalk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (465 ratings) | 4.2 (19 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 43.5% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 465 — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Ample Software LLC | Ouroboros Technologies, LLC |
Customer experience
Whiteboard
Chalk
Bugs and requests
Whiteboard
Reported bugs
17 issues- Widget displays blank or grey, doesn't show messages
- App freezes and crashes when zooming in on drawings
- Undo function causes drawings to disappear or app to crash
- Color selection doesn't apply to drawings
- Zoom feature removed in recent update, breaking functionality
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- Eyedropper tool doesn't work properly after update
- Erase option missing after update
- Messages fail to send to friends and groups
- Drawings get deleted when attempting to send
- Group chat rooms don't appear on widget
- Bucket tool erases entire drawing instead of filling
- Recent chats won't load
- Widget impossible to add on some devices
- Drafts significantly lower drawing quality with white line artifacts
- Zoom glitch makes zoomed section become full drawing
- Loading popup gets stuck and won't stop
- Doodles display as blank white space
Requested features
15 requests- Zoom in/out functionality for detailed drawing
- Eyedropper/color picker tool
- Layer support for complex drawings
- Ability to delete drawings from profile
- Ability to delete groups
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- Custom color saving
- Nicknames for contacts (like Snapchat)
- Better bucket fill tool (non-destructive)
- Multiple widgets for different contacts
- Separate tabs for friends vs recommendations when sending
- Widget dark line removal/redesign
- More brush textures and colors
- Automatic widget updates without opening app
- Color code input option
- Better color wheel functionality
Chalk
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Whiteboard
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Doodle - 1 Day Boost$0.99
- Small Tip$0.99
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- Medium Tip$2.99
- Large Tip$4.99
- Huge Tip$9.99
- Mountainous Tip$19.99
Chalk
- Remove Advertisements$3.99
