Planboard vs Explain Everything Whiteboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Planboard
This app helps educators create, edit, and organize lesson plans with curriculum standards and attachments. It features a beautiful timetable view and syncs across devices, allowing teachers to plan on the go and reduce prep time.
- Create, edit, and share lesson plans
- Organize timetable, subjects, and semesters
- Manage curriculum standards
- Add attachments to lesson plans
- Syncs with web version
- Easy setup
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Plan lessons on the go in an easy-to-use editor with curriculum standards and attachments. Planboard organizes your lessons, subjects, and semesters in a beautiful timetable that is with you everywhere. Join over 250,000 teachers around the world who are already using Planboard to cut down their classroom prep time and spend more time with students! —————————————————————————————— FEATURES • 100% free for teachers! • Create, edit, and share lesson plans • Organize your timetable, subjects, and semesters • Manage curriculum standards • Take photos and add files to lesson plans • Syncs with Planboard on the web • Fast and easy to get set up WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING “A fantastic app that has transformed my lesson planning...I have dumped my old paper planner for good. This is an excellent app.” - benjro “I love this program! I can create my lessons in a jiffy- dare I say lesson planning is almost *fun* now?! I can even do lesson planning while on the go because the program now syncs with the app- SCORE! I love being able to be out and about and not have to be tied to my computer, but if I think of something for a lesson, I can just plug it right in!...And all of this awesomeness is on the FREE version. I love this software!!!” - Tater and her tots “I have been looking for a planning and attendance app for so long! This app is absolutely perfect, whether you’re using it on your iPad, iPhone or using the online site on your computer it works flawlessly! Thank you so much!” - Ethie56 “This app is exactly what I was looking for! I have tried many digital planning options and this is by far the best. Being able to change my planner easily on my iPad or computer makes it so easy to change plans and have them there ready to go...Great app!” - J.Lee.17 “So much better than planning in a paper based planner. I like being able to check my lessons or add to them as ideas occur to me using my phone on the go.” - KT28363838 “Will render you pencil & paper daybook obsolete. It is fantastic for your day to day planning and makes printing off a paper copy for a supply teacher super easy” - Mr.Esss “I have been using it for three years now and love the planning/assessment tools. My principal asked me to inform the rest of the staff about this program. It has helped me make my teaching more organized.” - Stolenfeather “I feel as though I would not be as organized without Chalk! And the fact that it’s free makes it even more amazing! As we know as teachers we spend a lot of our own money on supplies for our students and having a program this amazing for free means I can spend more on my students so thank you!” - btpuggy “I wish I had found Planboard years ago! It has changed my entire approach to planning lessons! I cannot recommend this app enough” - BryarsMom SUPPORT The Chalk Team can be reached anytime by email at support@chalk.com, or during the day by live chat to assist you with getting the most out of Planboard.
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.
- 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)
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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 clearest difference is in-app purchases: Planboard at none against Explain Everything Whiteboard's 12. Planboard also leads on review sentiment (62% vs 48%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). Explain Everything Whiteboard's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (8.9K vs 1.9K). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. Explain Everything Whiteboard sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Planboard asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Planboard against 4.6 for Explain Everything Whiteboard. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.9K and 8.9K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 62% of Planboard's written reviews are positive against 48% of Explain Everything Whiteboard's.
Planboard ships an update every 6 weeks, Explain Everything Whiteboard fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Planboard | Explain Everything Whiteboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.9K ratings) — better | 4.6 (8.9K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.0% of reviews — better | 47.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.9K | 8.9K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 312 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PowerSchool Group LLC | Promethean Ltd. |
Customer experience
Planboard
Explain Everything Whiteboard
User reviews
Planboard
From 1.9K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Convenient for planning on the go
- 💡 Customizable templates
- 🚀 Flexible scheduling
- 👍 Helpful for organization
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and glitches
- 🐛 Scheduling issues
- 🐛 Inability to add classes or subjects
- 🐛 Incompatibility with Apple Pencil
- 🐛 Lack of offline functionality
Explain Everything Whiteboard
From 8.9K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Amazing app
- 👍 Great teaching and learning tool
- 👍 Excellent for creating and sharing information
- 👍 Useful recording facility for students
- 👍 Intuitive and productive
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitches and bugs
- 🐛 Unstable and inconsistent line width
- 🐛 Freezes and crashes
- 🐛 Deletes projects and recordings
- 💰 Expensive subscription
Bugs and requests
Planboard
Reported bugs
5 issues- Crashes when adding classes
- Scheduling issues with non-standard time slots
- Inability to log in or create account
- Syncing problems between devices
- Lesson plan data loss
Requested features
7 requests- Month view option
- Unit planning view
- Ability to add events/meetings
- Google Calendar integration
- Behavior tracking/logging
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- More curriculum standard options
- Offline access
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
Planboard
No in-app purchases
Explain Everything Whiteboard
- 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
- Solo Teacher Plan1 Year trial$34.991 Year
- [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 Planboard free?
Is Explain Everything Whiteboard free?
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Do Planboard or Explain Everything Whiteboard have ads?
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