# Whiteboard.fi review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Classroom whiteboard where every student gets their own board Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Whiteboard.fi is a browser-based whiteboard for teachers and classrooms. Each student joins by link, room code or QR code and gets an individual whiteboard, while the teacher sees every student's board in real time. It is run by Digital Teaching Tools Finland Ltd, a Kahoot! company. - **Category:** Whiteboards & Mind Maps - **Made by:** Digital Teaching Tools Finland Ltd - **Website:** https://whiteboard.fi - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free: sessions expire after 2 hours, with 20 students and 1 active session. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Whiteboard.fi has a free plan, and paid plans start at $2.49 per month, billed yearly. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 20 students per session, 1 active session and 2-hour session expiration. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial of the Premium plan for teachers. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 20 students per session, 1 active session, 2-hour expiration, waiting lobby and Clever sign-in. | | Lite | $2.49 per month, billed yearly ($29.88) | 30 students and 2 active sessions, 12-hour expiration, ZIP download of student work and Focus Mode. | | Pro | $4.99 per month, billed yearly ($59.88) | 40 students, 30-day expiration, PDF upload, co-teachers, library, assignments and feedback. | | Premium | $12.99 per month, billed yearly ($155.88) | 100 students and 100 active sessions, 365-day expiration and priority support. | Read from https://whiteboard.fi/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Whiteboard.fi before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Organisation license for schools** (Education): The pricing section offers a Purchase organisation license option for schools and other organizations; terms are not shown on the page. Source: https://whiteboard.fi/ ## Key features - **Individual student whiteboards:** Each student draws, writes, annotates images and adds math on their own board, and the teacher sees all of them live. - **Students join without an account:** Students enter through a link, room code or QR code on any device, with no login, download or installation required. - **Classroom controls:** A waiting lobby, a room lock after class starts, and a Focus Mode that pauses student boards so they follow the teacher. - **Math and drawing tools:** A math editor with a symbol keyboard, graphs, angles, pie charts, measurement tools, shapes and more than 1,000 emojis. - **Assignments and saving:** Assignment sessions collect and grade submissions, and student boards can be saved as a PDF or downloaded as a ZIP on paid plans. ## Good for - Teachers who want to see every student's work at once - Math teachers who need an equation editor and graph tools - Schools that sign in through Clever, Kahoot or Google ## Worth knowing - Free sessions expire after 2 hours and allow 20 students and one active session. - PDF upload, co-teachers, the library and assignments need the Pro plan or higher. - Prices are listed with yearly billing; the monthly-billing prices were not displayed in the page text read. - Vendor says data can be stored in the United States or the European Union and is deleted after the room closes. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Whiteboard.fi gives each student a personal whiteboard that the teacher watches live, and students join without an account. Free sessions run out after 2 hours with 20 students, and PDF upload, co-teachers and assignments need Pro at $4.99 a month on yearly billing. - **Value for money: B.** Lite is $2.49 a month on yearly billing and Pro $4.99. But PDF upload, co-teachers and assignments need Pro, which is just under the category's $5 cheaper-quarter start. - **Free plan and trial: B.** Free for 20 students, 1 active session and 2-hour sessions. A teacher can live on that, and a 14-day Premium trial is offered. - **Features: C.** Individual student boards, classroom controls, math tools and saving. It does the classroom job fully, but it's a narrower one than a general whiteboard. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Students join by link, code or QR, though the teacher sets up each session. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, but it signs in through Clever, Kahoot and Google. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Digital Teaching Tools Finland Ltd's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among whiteboard and mind map tools - Whiteboard.fi's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 58 of the 98 other whiteboard and mind map tools we grade, and level with 16. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 71 of 98) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $2.49 a month, against a middle price of $8 for the category: 2 of the 69 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 3 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.** The plain part of Whiteboard.fi you could make: templates. What surrounds it you could not. The 2 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It costs $29.88 a year. - You could make: Templates: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: An endless canvas that stays smooth with hundreds of things on it. - You could not: Several people working in it at the same moment. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Clever, Kahoot, Google **Tags:** Whiteboard, Real-time collaboration, Templates ## Alternatives - [Twiddla](https://toolgpa.com/tools/twiddla): Browser whiteboard for web meetings and tutoring. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/twiddla-vs-whiteboard-fi) - [Scribblar](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scribblar): Online classroom with a shared whiteboard for tutors. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scribblar-vs-whiteboard-fi) - [BitPaper](https://toolgpa.com/tools/bitpaper): Collaborative online whiteboard with built-in video calls. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bitpaper-vs-whiteboard-fi) - [Ziteboard](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ziteboard): Lightweight online whiteboard for tutoring and live teamwork. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/whiteboard-fi-vs-ziteboard) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://whiteboard.fi/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/whiteboard-fi Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).