Comparison

Socrative Teacher vs Explain Everything Whiteboard

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

Head to head
About

Socrative Teacher

This app helps educators conduct real-time formative assessments, allowing them to quiz and grade students instantly from any device. It provides flexible assessment tools, automatic grading, and powerful reporting to identify learning gaps and engage students effectively.

Highlights
  • Real-time formative assessment
  • Create and share quizzes
  • Automatic grading
  • Virtual classroom rooms
  • Instant feedback and reporting
  • Cross-device compatibility
Features
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Socrative is the best classroom app for formative assessment, empowering teachers to quiz and grade at the speed of learning, from any device, in class or remotely. Simple and reliable, Socrative is trusted by millions of educators around the world to deliver effective assessments to learners at every level. With instant feedback, you can identify knowledge gaps, engage your students more effectively, and adjust teaching on-the-fly to close feedback loops faster. - Flexible & engaging assessment tools: quickly create, manage, share a library of activities, and send customized quizzes directly to students, all in one simple platform. - Easy-to-create virtual rooms: easily set up rostered rooms for classes or individual activities, and invite students with simple and secure login options. - Automatic grading: with real-time marking and result reporting, it’s never been easier to visualize student learning so you can engage your learners, quickly adapt lessons or revisit concepts in the moment, and spend less time grading assignments. - Powerful real-time reporting: download detailed student and question-level quiz reports to share with students or colleagues, and make communication a breeze with automatic distribution of quiz results to students. Socrative is available for download on all major digital devices, and for use on all major browsers. You can use Socrative on smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktop computers. Socrative is 100% free for students to use, on all devices.

About

Explain Everything Whiteboard

This interactive whiteboard app allows users to create notes, drawings, and record video lessons. It supports real-time collaboration, PDF annotation, and offers various tools to enrich content, making it ideal for education and presentations.

Highlights
  • Infinite canvas for notes and drawings
  • Record and edit whiteboard video lessons
  • Real-time collaboration
  • PDF annotation
  • Import images, GIFs, 3D models, and more
  • Interactive engagement apps (Polling, Timer, Spinner)
Features
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The iPad App Store Trend of the Year 2020 award-winning interactive whiteboard and note taking app for iPad. With over 25 million downloads across the globe, Explain Everything helps teachers and students with every day learning. Explain Everything Advanced, Promethean's award-winning cloud-based plan, is one of the most dynamic, easy-to-use, and powerful lesson creation and delivery tools on the market today. Explain Everything is an interactive whiteboard, built to create notes and make drawings, explain concepts and share boards anywhere. Make notes and draw together on the infinite canvas. Use sticky notes, work with imported documents, and annotate PDFs. Easily record whiteboard videos and share the entire process of explaining a lesson. Use real-time collaboration to stay on the same page with your students or team. Our customers love using Explain Everything to: • Record and edit whiteboard video lessons, then share them automatically with your preferred cloud drive! • Capture ideas, create interactive presentations, and use PDF annotation for teaching purposes. • Use engagement apps such as Polling, Timer, and Spinner to promote student participation and deep focus. • Draw, write, sketchnote, visualize, and scribble using Apple Pencil then easily present materials both in-classroom or online. • Enrich your materials with images and GIFs, Sticky Notes, Clipart, 3D Models, Shapes, Web Browser, Equations, hyperlinks, text boxes and notes grid. • Digitize and store materials in one place thanks to the Explain Everything Drive cloud; available from any device, anywhere. • Collaborate with students by hosting group assignments in the classroom and in the cloud. • Broadcast through SharePlay or popular conferencing tools, including Zoom or Microsoft Teams. New Activities within Advanced Plan We’re coming with new activities to enhance your lessons and create some fun throughout your classroom. Launch and play activities right from your whiteboard canvas. Crossword – Add a list of words, provide image or text clues, and Explain Everything will generate a crossword for you. Memory game – Turn a set of images into a randomized memory pair-finding game. Matching game – Build a matching game from a collection of images, shapes, and text. Promethean Engagement Apps We’ve enhanced our Explain Everything Advanced plan with other new features, including Promethean’s ever-popular Spinner, Timer, and Polling apps; all to improve your teaching experience in the classroom. Polling – ask questions and receive responses from students instantly. Timer – use clock and stopwatch to measure time and improve executive functioning skills. Spinner – randomly select items from the built-in templates or your own lists to add excitement to any class. If you enjoy using Explain Everything please leave us a review! https://explaineverything.com/terms-of-use/

Screenshots

Socrative Teacher4 screens
Explain Everything Whiteboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Explain Everything Whiteboard at 4.6 against Socrative Teacher's 3.2. Explain Everything Whiteboard also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (8.8K vs 29). Socrative Teacher's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, ads 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. Explain Everything Whiteboard sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Socrative Teacher asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Explain Everything Whiteboard holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Explain Everything Whiteboard has 8.8K ratings behind it against 29, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Socrative Teacher's written reviews are positive against 48% of Explain Everything Whiteboard's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Socrative Teacher ships an update every 3 months, Explain Everything Whiteboard every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 21, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Socrative Teacher versus Explain Everything Whiteboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSocrative TeacherExplain Everything Whiteboard
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.2 (29 ratings)4.6 (8.8K ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better48.2% of reviews
Number of ratings298.8K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB312 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShowbie Inc.Promethean Ltd.

Customer experience

Socrative Teacher

All ratings29 ratings
Positive41.4%
Neutral24.1%
Negative34.5%
Written reviews104 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral20.2%
Negative29.8%

Explain Everything Whiteboard

All ratings8,841 ratings
Positive90.1%
Neutral3.1%
Negative6.8%
Written reviews371 reviews
Positive48.2%
Neutral12.7%
Negative39.1%

Bugs and requests

Socrative Teacher

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Explain Everything Whiteboard

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Inability to select desired controls
  • Recordings cutting off audio
  • Projects not saving properly
  • Restricted account limits

Requested features

6 requests
  • Toggle option for consistent line width
  • Improved pen and drawing tools
  • Better undo/redo functionality
  • Ability to move audio clips
  • Animated GIF support
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  • Customizable font size

In-app purchases

None

Socrative Teacher

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Explain Everything Whiteboard

Subscriptions10
  • Individual Monthly Plan7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • [LEGACY] Individual Monthly$12.991 Month
  • [LEGACY] EDU Group, Monthly$12.991 Month
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  • [LEGACY] Individual Monthly7 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • [LEGACY] Solo Teacher Plan7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Advanced Plan7 Days trial$69.001 Year
  • Individual Annual Plan1 Year trial$89.991 Year
  • Individual Annual Plan7 Days trial$89.991 Year
  • [LEGACY] Individual Annual2 variants$129.991 Year
  • [LEGACY] EDU Group, Annual$129.991 Year

Questions

Is Socrative Teacher free?
Socrative Teacher is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Explain Everything Whiteboard free?
Explain Everything Whiteboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Socrative Teacher or Explain Everything Whiteboard?
Explain Everything Whiteboard is rated higher. Socrative Teacher averages 3.2 out of 5 from 29 ratings, while Explain Everything Whiteboard averages 4.6 from 8.8K ratings.
Do Socrative Teacher or Explain Everything Whiteboard have ads?
Neither Socrative Teacher nor Explain Everything Whiteboard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Socrative Teacher or Explain Everything Whiteboard?
Socrative Teacher ships an update every 3 months, and Explain Everything Whiteboard every 2 weeks. Most recently, Socrative Teacher was updated on August 21, 2026 and Explain Everything Whiteboard on September 24, 2026.

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