# Explain Everything Whiteboard

> Ultimate lesson creation and delivery platform for engaging teaching

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.explaineverything.explaineverything](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.explaineverything.explaineverything)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.explaineverything.explaineverything`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Promethean Limited
- **Category:** EDUCATION
- **Downloads:** 904,394
- **Rating:** 4.06 / 5 (4,006 ratings)
- **Version:** 9.2.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-13
- **First published:** 2016-01-19
- **Publisher country:** GB
- **Size:** 120 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.explaineverything.explaineverything)
- **Website:** [https://www.explaineverything.com](https://www.explaineverything.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://explaineverything.com/privacy-policy/](https://explaineverything.com/privacy-policy/)

## Description

Explain Everything Whiteboard is a powerful cloud-based interactive whiteboard tool designed for educators. It enables users to create dynamic lesson content by making notes, drawings, annotations on PDFs, and sharing boards anywhere. The platform supports real-time collaboration, allowing teachers and students to engage actively through features like Polling, Timer, and Spinner apps that promote participation.

Educators can record and edit whiteboard video lessons and share them automatically via the cloud. The infinite canvas offers flexibility to visualize ideas using pencil stylus inputs, sticky notes, images, shapes, and hyperlinks. Explain Everything also integrates with popular conferencing tools such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams, making it ideal for both in-classroom and online teaching. With cloud storage (Explain Everything Drive), users can store and access materials from any device, facilitating seamless lesson delivery and collaboration.

## Rankings

- #72,192 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE`
- `android.permission.CAMERA`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS`
- `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS`
- `android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED`
- `android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO`
- `android.permission.USE_BIOMETRIC`
- `android.permission.USE_FINGERPRINT`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `com.android.vending.BILLING`
- `com.explaineverything.explaineverything.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`
- `com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE`
- `com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE`
- `com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID`

## Review summary

Overall, the app is valued for teaching usefulness and whiteboard capabilities, including Microsoft Whiteboard–like features. Recurrent drawbacks are pricing/paying for features, stability problems, cross-device paid-account issues, feature gaps, and specific bugs in interaction and editing.

### Pros

- Very useful for tutoring and learning.
- Generally excellent or good app with positive user sentiment.
- Functions as a capable whiteboard, comparable to Microsoft Whiteboard.

### Cons

- Price concerns: not free beyond a short trial and paid features feel expensive.
- Frequent crashes and glitches, especially during recording, with reports of Samsung device issues.
- Paid accounts often not transferable or usable across devices.
- Feature limitations and missing capabilities (e.g., blank worksheets, extra slides) while pricing remains high.
- Bugs affecting writing: writing disappears when moving the board, and locked-items/zoom issues.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.explaineverything.explaineverything)