BlackBoard vs Simple Blackboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BlackBoard
This app provides a simple digital canvas for quick handwritten notes and drawings. It allows for smooth multi-finger input, adjustable line thickness, and a basic color palette. Save your creations or erase them easily.
- Multi-finger writing
- Adjustable line thickness
- Five color options
- Eraser tool
- Save to image
- Bulk delete
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BlackBoard is a simple, fun drawing app that lets you doodle on a chalkboard using your finger — just like real chalk. Features: • Draw with 4 chalk colors: pink, red, green, and blue • Eraser tool to wipe away your drawing • Adjustable line width with an easy slider • Clear the whole board with a single tap • Save your artwork to Photos with one tap Great for quick doodles, kids' drawing fun, note sketches, and idea sketching — anytime, anywhere.
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 rating: Simple Blackboard at 4.3 against BlackBoard's 3.5. Simple Blackboard also leads on ratings volume (137 vs 4) and update cadence (every 9 months vs every 21 months). BlackBoard's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (67% vs 50%). 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. BlackBoard asks for nothing beyond the download.
Simple Blackboard holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Blackboard has 137 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of BlackBoard'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.
BlackBoard ships an update every 21 months, Simple Blackboard every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BlackBoard | Simple Blackboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (4 ratings) | 4.3 (137 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 137 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months | Every 9 months — better |
| 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 | 4 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kiyoshi Koike | Bita Sobhani |
Customer experience
BlackBoard
Simple Blackboard
In-app purchases
BlackBoard
No in-app purchases
Simple Blackboard
- Premium$2.99
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