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+

This app transforms your iPad into a precise geometry tool. Create and manipulate geometric shapes with exact measurements and live updates. It's ideal for creating educational materials and exploring geometric concepts.

Highlights
  • Infinite canvas for geometry
  • Constructions stay connected
  • Precision touch snapping
  • Live measurements
  • Classic instruments and transformations
  • Shapes from equations
  • PDF import and export
Features
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Geometry Pad+ turns your iPad into an infinite canvas for exact plane geometry. Build points, lines, triangles, polygons, circles and conics with a few taps, and they stay exact: a square stays a square, a parallel stays parallel, and an intersection point stays on its crossing however you move things around. Every feature is included. No subscriptions, no in-app purchases. CONSTRUCTIONS THAT STAY CONNECTED • Parallel and perpendicular lines, perpendicular bisectors, tangents, chords and intersection points follow their shapes as you drag them. • Altitudes, medians and angle bisectors of triangles and polygons update as the shape changes. • Right, isosceles and equilateral triangles, squares, rectangles, parallelograms, rhombi and regular polygons keep their kind when you edit them. PRECISION BY TOUCH • Points snap to the grid, to vertices, midpoints, sides and curves, and to the crossings of shapes. • A magnifying glass shows exactly where each point lands. • Type exact coordinates, lengths, radii and angles with the built-in calculator. LIVE MEASUREMENTS • Every shape shows its lengths, angles, slopes, equations, perimeter and area. • Place measurement labels on the canvas. They update as you move the shape. • Show the angles where lines cross with a single tap. CLASSIC INSTRUMENTS AND TRANSFORMATIONS • A compass that draws arcs, and a protractor that draws segments at an exact angle. • Rotate, reflect and translate shapes, or copies of them. SHAPES FROM NUMBERS • Build lines from their equations, triangles from their sides and angles, quadrangles from their sides and an angle, and parabolas and hyperbolas from their equations, with a live preview as you type. WORKSHEETS AND DOCUMENTS • Import a PDF and draw and measure on top of its pages. • Create documents with several pages, on an infinite canvas or on A4 and A3 paper. • Add pictures from the camera or photo library, and notes in text boxes. • Export as an image (with cropping), PDF or SVG, or share the document itself. • Your work saves automatically to the Files app. Documents from the previous Geometry Pad open too. MADE FOR THE CLASSROOM • Cartesian, polar and isometric grids. • Real centimeters and inches on screen. • Seven themes, including chalkboard and blueprint, and full dark mode support. • Apple Pencil, keyboard shortcuts, multitasking and VoiceOver. Geometry Pad+ is for teachers preparing lessons and worksheets, and for students exploring geometry on their own. We'd love to hear from you: tap Share feedback in the app's Help menu.

About

Explain Everything Whiteboard

An interactive whiteboard app for creating and sharing video lessons, notes, and drawings. It offers real-time collaboration, PDF annotation, and engagement tools to enhance teaching and learning.

Highlights
  • Infinite canvas for drawing and notes
  • Record and edit whiteboard video lessons
  • Real-time collaboration
  • PDF annotation
  • Interactive engagement apps (Polling, Timer, Spinner)
  • Import and enrich materials with various media
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 $9.99. Explain Everything Whiteboard also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.8) and ratings volume (8.9K vs 10). Geometry Pad+'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and iOS requirement (15.0 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 $9.99 up front. Explain Everything Whiteboard sells 9 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 8.9K 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 fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 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$9.99Free — better
Rating3.8 (10 ratings)4.6 (8.9K ratings) — better
Positive reviews52.2% of reviews — better47.9% of reviews
Number of ratings108.9K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 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 ratings8,901 ratings
Positive90.1%
Neutral3.1%
Negative6.8%
Written reviews374 reviews
Positive47.9%
Neutral12.6%
Negative39.6%

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

9 purchases

Explain Everything Whiteboard

Subscriptions9
  • 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 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 $9.99, 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 8.9K 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 fortnightly. Most recently, Geometry Pad+ was updated on November 1, 2026 and Explain Everything Whiteboard on November 6, 2026.

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