Comparison

Geometry Pad+ 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

Geometry Pad+

Create and manipulate fundamental geometric shapes on a digital workbook. Explore properties, calculate metrics, and add annotations with integrated tools. Save and export your work in various formats.

Highlights
  • Create geometric shapes
  • Explore shape properties
  • Calculate metrics
  • Add text and image annotations
  • Transform shapes
  • Save and export to PDF/image
Features
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With Geometry Pad you can create fundamental geometric shapes, explore and change their properties, and calculate metrics. The shapes are displayed on a scrollable and zoomable workbook with a rectangular coordinate system. The following tools are built into the application: - Point, angle, line, ray, segment, perpendicular bisector, tangent, triangle, quadrilateral, polygon, regular polygon, arc, sector, circle, ellipse, parabola, hyperbola. - Tools to create medians, altitudes and bisectors in a triangle. - Tools to create special triangles and quadrilaterals: right, isosceles, equilateral, square, rectangle, parallelogram and rhombus. - Two additional ways to create an ellipse: by center, end of a major axis, and a point on the ellipse; by focus points, and a point on the ellipse. - Compass tool to plot arcs with an easily adjustable center and radius. - Pencil tool to draw freehand annotations. - Text annotations and labels with mixed-in metrics such as length, angle, perimeter, equation, etc. - Transformation tools: rotation, reflection, enlargement, translation. - Create lines and triangles with predefined parameters such as equation of a line, and angles or sides of a triangle. - Insert images into the document. Each shape has a set of customizable properties such as color, width, background, etc. Shape metrics are automatically calculated and presented along with shape properties. Some of them are editable such as point location, line length, circe radius, etc. Snapping is deeply integrated into the application. Snap-to-grid and snap-to-objects allow for precise constructions. Additionally, lines can snap to parallel, perpendicular and tangent lines. Snapping can be easily turned on/off in the quick snapping settings window. Documents can be saved to your device, iCloud or to Dropbox. Export formats include PDF and image. Additionally, PDF documents can be opened within the app, annotated using any of the built in tools and exported as PDF again. Your suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. Just select Feedback under the app menu and write us an e-mail.

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/

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Explain Everything Whiteboard at Free against Geometry Pad+'s $6.99. Explain Everything Whiteboard also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.8) and ratings volume (8.8K vs 10). Geometry Pad+'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Explain Everything Whiteboard is free to download; Geometry Pad+ costs $6.99 up front. Explain Everything Whiteboard sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Geometry Pad+ asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Explain Everything Whiteboard holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Explain Everything Whiteboard has 8.8K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 52% of Geometry Pad+'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

Geometry Pad+ ships an update every 2 months, Explain Everything Whiteboard every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Geometry Pad+ versus Explain Everything Whiteboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGeometry Pad+Explain Everything Whiteboard
Price$6.99Free — better
Rating3.8 (10 ratings)4.6 (8.8K ratings) — better
Positive reviews52.2% of reviews — better48.2% of reviews
Number of ratings108.8K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB312 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBytes Arithmetic LLCPromethean Ltd.

Customer experience

Geometry Pad+

All ratings10 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive52.2%
Neutral17.4%
Negative30.4%

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

Geometry Pad+

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

Geometry Pad+

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 Geometry Pad+ free?
Geometry Pad+ costs $6.99, 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, Geometry Pad+ or Explain Everything Whiteboard?
Explain Everything Whiteboard is rated higher. Geometry Pad+ averages 3.8 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Explain Everything Whiteboard averages 4.6 from 8.8K ratings.
Do Geometry Pad+ or Explain Everything Whiteboard have ads?
Neither Geometry Pad+ nor Explain Everything Whiteboard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Geometry Pad+ or Explain Everything Whiteboard?
Geometry Pad+ ships an update every 2 months, and Explain Everything Whiteboard every 2 weeks. Most recently, Geometry Pad+ was updated on June 5, 2026 and Explain Everything Whiteboard on September 24, 2026.

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