AirServer Connect vs Explain Everything Whiteboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AirServer Connect
Easily discover and connect to AirServer on complex networks. This app simplifies screen mirroring by scanning QR codes or automatically detecting devices, making it ideal for educational and business environments.
- Discover AirServer on busy networks
- Connect across subnets/VLANs
- QR code scanning for easy setup
- Automatic device detection
- Simplified screen mirroring
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AirServer Connect assists you in discovering AirServer on a busy network or when you have multiple subnets / VLANs (but connectivity) on your network. This is especially handy for schools and businesses with more complex network environments. Connecting is simple: 1. On the computer side, open AirServer* settings and click the QR code button. 2. On the iOS device side, open AirServer Connect and click the Scan button. AirServer Connect will read the QR code and will automatically add your computer name to the AirPlay list in your iOS device. To mirror your display to your computer running AirServer, simply tap on this new entry and enable mirroring. *AirServer must be installed and running on your computer.
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 rating: Explain Everything Whiteboard at 4.6 against AirServer Connect's 2.2. Explain Everything Whiteboard also leads on review sentiment (48% vs 22%) and ratings volume (8.9K vs 257). AirServer Connect's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 12) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. AirServer Connect asks for nothing beyond the download.
Explain Everything Whiteboard holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Explain Everything Whiteboard has 8.9K ratings behind it against 257, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of AirServer Connect's written reviews are positive against 48% of Explain Everything Whiteboard's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AirServer Connect | Explain Everything Whiteboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (257 ratings) | 4.6 (8.9K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.9% of reviews | 47.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 257 | 8.9K — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 312 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | App Dynamic | Promethean Ltd. |
Customer experience
AirServer Connect
Explain Everything Whiteboard
User reviews
AirServer Connect
From 257 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Necessary and stable
- 🚀 Perfect for iPad lectures
- 🚀 Does what it's supposed to do
- 🚀 Great companion app
- 🚀 Brilliant
Room to improve
- 🐛 Only audio working. No video
- 🐛 Goes black when watching movies
- 🐛 Absolute garbage
- 🐛 Scam
- 🐛 doesn't work
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
AirServer Connect
Reported bugs
14 issues- Newest update seems to have broken things
- Just stopped working
- Newest Update Issue
- For latest version
- Doesn't Work Anymore
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- It used to work...
- Sound doesn't work
- Doesn't connect..
- Doesn't work
- WHAT THE HELL!!!
- Unstable, buggy, and ultimately unusable
- Couldn't scan QR code
- IOS 10.3 crashes AirServer
- QR Connect to fast
Requested features
2 requests- Needs updating
- Fix the where you swipe up on iPhone X
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
AirServer Connect
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
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