Whiteboard vs Simple Blackboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Whiteboard
This simple notepad app allows users to write notes horizontally with customizable colors and sizes. Save your notes as images and easily access them later. Optimized for quick jotting and visual organization.
- Horizontal writing
- Color selection
- Adjustable text size
- Save notes as images
- Simple interface
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Simple notepad sideways! ◆ Write to choose a color. ◆ you can change the size of the slider. ◆ you will be able to save the image. ※ (later iOS6) · · · If I can not save image / Privacy "Settings" / Please turn on the "Notes" horizontal / photo.
Simple Blackboard
This app provides a digital canvas for drawing, sketching, and note-taking. It offers various tools like brushes, colors, shapes, and text, with options to load photos and record your creative process. Save your work, manage pages, and keep your last drawing accessible.
- Blackboard or whiteboard selection
- Adjustable brush sizes and colors
- Drawing of various shapes
- Text typing with adjustable font size
- Load photos onto the board
- Record video of drawing process
- Save drawings and manage pages
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This app allows you to draw on a simple blackboard (or whiteboard). You can use it for drawing, jotting down, illustrations, math calculations and etc. The key features are: - You can choose blackboard or whiteboard. - You have various brush sizes and huge number of paint colors. - You can draw various shapes such as line, arrow, circle, oval, square, rectangle, triangle, and polygon. - You can type text with adjustable font size. - You can load photo to the board. - You can record video from your drawing screen with sound from your device microphone. - You can save your drawing to your device. - You can add or remove pages. - You can set your favourite paint colors and color opacity. - Your last drawing is always saved. - The device screen never goes off while you are using the app. The premium purchase removes all ads, enables adding text, loading photo, drawing shapes and grid, setting favorite paint colors, and paint color opacity.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Whiteboard at none against Simple Blackboard's 1. Whiteboard also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 9 months). Simple Blackboard's advantage is ratings volume (137 vs 3) and review sentiment (50% vs 30%). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Simple Blackboard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whiteboard asks for nothing beyond the download.
Whiteboard holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Blackboard has 137 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 30% of Whiteboard's written reviews are positive against 50% of Simple Blackboard's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Whiteboard ships an update every 4 months, Simple Blackboard every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Whiteboard | Simple Blackboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better | 4.3 (137 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 30.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 137 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kiyoshi Koike | Bita Sobhani |
Customer experience
Whiteboard
Simple Blackboard
In-app purchases
Whiteboard
No in-app purchases
Simple Blackboard
- Premium$2.99
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