Color Board vs LanShare
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Color Board
This utility app allows users to create vibrant color boards and display large, customizable text on their iPhone and iPad. It's ideal for presentations, events, or making bold statements with adjustable colors, backgrounds, and text effects.
- Create pure color boards
- Display big, customizable text
- Choose background and text colors
- Twinkle mode for flashing effects
- Adjustable font size and speed
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Color Board – Big Text & Pure Colors Color Board is a simple yet powerful tool designed for iPhone and iPad. Whether you need to display a big, clear message or create a vibrant color board, this app makes it easy and effective. With customizable colors, backgrounds, and text, you can instantly turn your device into a bold display. Perfect for presentations, events, or simply grabbing attention. Key Features: • Create pure color boards on iPhone and iPad • Display big, customizable text • Choose any background or text color • Twinkle mode for flashing color effects • Adjustable font size and speed settings Bring your message to life with Color Board – where text meets color in the simplest way.
LanShare
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LanShare sends files straight from one device to another over your own network. It never uses the internet. Open LanShare on both devices and they find each other in seconds. Pick photos, videos or any file, tap the other device, and it arrives at full quality, checked on arrival. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. • Works between iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows • No Wi-Fi? An Android phone can create a private network, and your iPhone joins it by scanning a code • No accounts, no cloud, no ads, no tracking • Encrypted between your devices, and nothing arrives until you tap Accept • Any file type and size; a transfer picks up where it left off if the connection drops • Received files are in the Files app LanShare connects only to devices on your local network, and refuses everything else. Keep LanShare open on your iPhone while a transfer runs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: LanShare at 5.0 against Color Board's 1.6. LanShare also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Color Board's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price 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. Color Board sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. LanShare asks for nothing beyond the download.
LanShare holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Color Board has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Color Board ships an update every 2 months, LanShare daily. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Color Board | LanShare |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 文睿 李 | Aram Digital Solutions |
In-app purchases
Color Board
- Remove Ads$0.99
LanShare
No in-app purchases
