Explain Everything review (2026): is the free plan enough?
Teaching whiteboard with slides, video recording and collaboration
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Explain Everything report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 12, 2026
Best for teachers recording lessons on a whiteboard
Explain Everything is a teaching whiteboard with slides and recorded video lessons, on browsers, iPads and Android devices. The free plan holds 3 one-slide projects with 3-minute videos, and schools buy custom plans with volume pricing.
Who Explain Everything is for
- Fits if you record whiteboard lessons from an iPad or a browser
- Works for a school that hands out assignments through Canvas, Moodle or Blackboard
Who Explain Everything is not for
- Tight if you stay free: one slide per project and 3-minute videos run out fast
- Skip it if you want a Mac or Windows app, as none is named
- Watch out: free collaboration is one person for 15 minutes at a time
- Watch out: the $69 educator plan covers one educator account, and schools get custom quotes
- Watch out: deployment through MDM and group settings need the Team plan
Why Explain Everything gets a 2.2
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for moneyPro is $7.49 a month billed yearly, between the category's cheaper quarter at $5 and the dearer quarter at $9.99. Education Advanced is $69 a year.
- CFree plan and trialThe free plan has 3 projects, 1 slide each, 3-minute videos, 500 MB and 15-minute sessions with one collaborator. No card is needed.
- CFeaturesInfinite canvas, video recording and classroom tools. Gaps the listing shows: the free tier's size limits, and larger collaboration needs Team or a school plan.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record. You build lessons slide by slide.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb, iOS and Android, with Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Canvas, Schoology, Moodle and Blackboard listed. No Mac or Windows download is named.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Explain Everything's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Explain Everything's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 12 of the 61 other whiteboard and mind map tools we grade, and level with 12.
It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 22 of 61) and worst on features (C, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $7.49 a month, against a middle price of $7.49 for the category: 22 of the 44 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 13 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 62 whiteboard and mind map tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. Explain Everything’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 7 of 61, level with 30
- CFree plan and trialAbove 7 of 61, level with 40
- CFeaturesAbove 0 of 61, level with 42
- CEase of useAbove 0 of 61, level with 44
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 22 of 61, level with 31
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 55 whiteboard and mind map tools. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep Explain Everything, or make your own?
Keep it
Nothing Explain Everything does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 6 things listed below take a company.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 37 of the 61 other whiteboard and mind map tools grade higher. It costs $89.88 a year.
What you could not
- An endless canvas that stays smooth with hundreds of things on it.
- Recording the screen with its sound, and somewhere to keep the video.
- A slide editor.
- A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- Several people working in it at the same moment.
- It plugs into other products, Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive among them.
What this rests on. Explain Everything’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Explain Everything?
Explain Everything is an infinite-canvas whiteboard aimed at teaching. Users build interactive lessons, record video tutorials and work in a shared project with other people. Its homepage says it is joining Promethean, and the education plans carry a Promethean bundle.
Worth knowing
- The Free plan allows 3 projects with a single slide each, 3-minute videos and 15-minute collaboration sessions.
- Group-wide settings, license deployment through MDM and larger collaboration need the Team plan or a custom school plan.
- The pricing page lists iPads, iPhones, Chromebooks, Android devices and a browser app, with no separate Mac or Windows download named.
- Schools buy custom plans with volume pricing; the $69 Advanced plan covers one educator account.
Key features
- Infinite-canvas whiteboard
- All plans include the whiteboarding tools and an infinite canvas that takes PDFs, documents, images, presentations, audio and video.
- Video recording
- A project can be recorded as a video tutorial. Length is capped at 3 minutes on the free plan and unlimited on paid plans.
- Collaboration
- People can work in one project at the same time or at different times. Session length and group size depend on the plan.
- Classroom tools
- Education plans add polling, a timer and a spinner, and school plans can hand out assignments through Canvas, Schoology, Moodle and Blackboard.
- Projection and broadcast
- The whiteboard can be shown on a second display or shared into a video meeting app.
Explain Everything pricing
As of Nov 12, 2026, Explain Everything has a free plan, and paid plans start at $7.49 per month, billed yearly ($9.99 billed monthly).
- Starts at
- $7.49 per month, billed yearly ($9.99 billed monthly)
- Free plan
- Up to 3 projects with 1 slide each, 3-minute videos, 500 MB storage and 15-minute sessions for 1 collaborator.
- Free trial
- None listed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Up to 3 projects, 1 slide per project, 3-minute videos, 500 MB cloud storage, 1-on-1 collaboration for up to 15 minutes. |
| Pro | $7.49per month, billed yearly ($9.99 billed monthly) | Unlimited projects and slides, unlimited video length, 20 GB storage, up to 8 people collaborating with no time limit, email support. |
| Team | $7.49per user / month, billed yearly ($9.99 billed monthly) | Pro limits for a company, plus team settings, shared folders, 20 GB pooled storage per person and a choice of data region. |
| Education Advanced | $69per year | For educators: unlimited projects, slides and video length, Promethean polling, timer and spinner, 7.5 GB storage, 30-minute collaboration. |
Read from explaineverything.com on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Explain Everything before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- EducationEducation plans for teachers and schools
The pricing page has a separate Plans for Education view with an Advanced plan at $69 per year and custom pricing for schools and districts.
Stated on explaineverything.com
How people rate the Explain Everything app
4.6
out of 5 for the iPhone and iPad app
- 5 stars80%
- 4 stars10%
- 3 stars3%
- 2 stars1%
- 1 star5%
8,913 ratings on the App Store in the United States, read Nov 13, 2026. It rates the app, not everything the product does. See the listing
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Common questions
Does Explain Everything have a Windows app?
No Windows app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Explain Everything is listed for Web, iOS and Android.
Does Explain Everything have a macOS app?
No macOS app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Explain Everything is listed for Web, iOS and Android.
Is Explain Everything open source?
Explain Everything is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 12, 2026.
Sources for this page
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