# Explain Everything review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> Teaching whiteboard with slides, video recording and collaboration

Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA.

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.

- **Category:** Whiteboards & Mind Maps
- **Made by:** Promethean
- **Website:** https://explaineverything.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free: one slide per project and 3-minute videos run out fast.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026

## 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).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **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 | $7.49 per 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 | $7.49 per 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 | $69 per year | For educators: unlimited projects, slides and video length, Promethean polling, timer and spinner, 7.5 GB storage, 30-minute collaboration. |

Read from https://explaineverything.com/pricing/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Explain Everything before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Education plans for teachers and schools** (Education): 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. Source: https://explaineverything.com/pricing/

## 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.

## Good for

- Teachers who build and record lessons on an iPad or in a browser
- Tutors and trainers who record explainer videos
- Schools that need LMS assignments and volume licensing

## 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.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. 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.

- **Value for money: C.** Pro 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.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** The free plan has 3 projects, 1 slide each, 3-minute videos, 500 MB and 15-minute sessions with one collaborator. No card is needed.
- **Features: C.** Infinite 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.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You build lessons slide by slide.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iOS and Android, with Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Canvas, Schoology, Moodle and Blackboard listed. No Mac or Windows download is named.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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.

## Where it stands among whiteboard and mind map tools

- 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.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/whiteboards

## Keep it, 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.

- You could not: An endless canvas that stays smooth with hundreds of things on it.
- You could not: Recording the screen with its sound, and somewhere to keep the video.
- You could not: A slide editor.
- You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: Several people working in it at the same moment.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive among them.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.6 out of 5 from 8,913 ratings in the United States, read Nov 13, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1020339980

## Works with

Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, YouTube, Canvas, Schoology, Moodle, Blackboard

**Tags:** Whiteboard, Screen recording, Real-time collaboration, Presentations

## Alternatives

- [Microsoft Whiteboard](https://toolgpa.com/tools/microsoft-whiteboard): Free collaborative canvas built into Microsoft 365 and Teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/explain-everything-vs-microsoft-whiteboard)
- [Miro](https://toolgpa.com/tools/miro): Online whiteboard for team brainstorming, diagrams and planning. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/explain-everything-vs-miro)
- [Conceptboard](https://toolgpa.com/tools/conceptboard): Online whiteboard with task management, hosted in Germany. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/conceptboard-vs-explain-everything)
- [Klaxoon](https://toolgpa.com/tools/klaxoon): Visual collaboration platform for meetings and workshops. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/explain-everything-vs-klaxoon)
- [Padlet](https://toolgpa.com/tools/padlet): Boards and sandboxes for sharing ideas in classrooms and teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/explain-everything-vs-padlet)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026:

- https://explaineverything.com
- https://explaineverything.com/pricing/

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