Scribble Together Whiteboard Reviews

More Cons than Pros

Andiesmommy

Pro: Does what it says it does. This helped me still homeschool my child while keeping physical distance from her (I work at a hospital and provide direct care for Coronavirus patients, and now quarantining myself in a separate room from the rest of my family)... Cons: 1. The monthly price! Like, seriously?? 2. For the monthly price, there are limited color options and pen sizes. As a Goodnotes 5 user, I wish they would look at the pen, highlighter, and color options that GoodNotes offers for a ONE TIME PRICE OF $7! 3. This is what irritates me the most: when exporting the files as pdf to turn in the work to my daughter’s teacher, the pdf file is messed up. It adds unnecessary blank pages at the front and the end of the document, and some parts of the document are completely whited out. The scribbles are still present, but some components of the template (for example, some worksheet we were working on) are whited out in different spots. 4. Once again, as a Goodnotes 5 user, the quality/resolution of the scribbles when exported to pdf is so low... Again, this makes the price of this app so irritating. The handwriting gets pixelated!!! I hope this helps anyone who is looking to download. I suggest this for temporary needs, but not for more professional needs or anything long term...

Almost perfect

Dry Eraser

This is by far the best white board app I’ve found on the white board so far, but there are a few things that are missing. First, there should be a way to select the color theme manually. My iPad is always on dark mode, but I’d much rather write on a whiteboard than blackboard. Also, there should be a clear canvas option. I use this app a lot for jotting down scratch work and it’s really annoying I always need to use the selection tool to clear the canvas. And why does pressing on one of the buttons below open (like the marker button) always open up the additional options? It’s a small thing but it really bugs me; it should be a double tap to open up additional options since I don’t want to see those every time I change from the pen to eraser. If these things are fixed I’d be more than happy to give this app 5 stars.

Excellent for remote math tutoring

DurkinPhD

Scribble Together has been an indispensable tool enabling me to tutor my students in mathematics. My student and I can work on the same digital page as we talk via voice phone. We can see each other’s stylus strokes real time. The laser pointer is great to guide my student to understanding. I appreciate the pen options: colors, stroke width, shapes - being able to make my lines and polygons straight is useful. I can switch between tools with ease as I talk to my student, bringing our work to life. Controls are just right - not too much, which would make navigating cumbersome. It’s a great utility that I can import a worksheet PDF or a photo, and we can work on the sheet together. The app allows great platform flexibility: I run the app on my iOS, while students are able to access it on webpage (for example, using a Surface). Thank you!

Pay to scribble together!?

czfuzzypixels

I have to pay to scribble with someone else when the whole point of the app is to scribble TOGETHER if you want a simple drawing app then get a different one!

Better free options to the subscription

Moose can speak

Jamboard from google comes for free with suite and provides similar function with some nice add-ons. If it weren’t for the subscription fees would give a higher score.

This has a lot of potential for a remote education system

Lina Burgos

I am a teacher and I’m currently using this with my students in my virtual classroom. I think this has a lot of potential. I love the options where you can upload a file and edit it together. As an English teacher, this is really helpful. I wish it had the option of video calling so I wouldn’t need to have two different tabs and I could see all my students on camera at the same time.

Have to pay to use the one feature you advertise ?

Radar131

Seriously?!? You advertise all over that you can collaborate and draw with other people, so I assumed you made it free. But nope! You have to pay for that. That is the main thing you advertise, “Draw together in real time”, that is your main selling point. At least give people a limited number of times they can get a link to invite people or something! Disappointing.

What’s the point of this?

Potato drawer

I REALLY liked this app! It was amazing to draw with other friends and work together. I really liked it, but I was going to enter it again and it asked me to pay. I obviously said no and when I intended to invite a friend I said I had to pay. I mean! Seriously?! This app is SUPPOSE to be for friends to work and draw together during this quarantine. But then, what is the point of using this app if I can’t even draw with my friends. I really liked this... I recommend to make the paying to stop... because then their is no point in getting this if I have to pay to draw with friends. Witch is the POINT of this app. But the rest of it, is good.

Works great

joaep2

Lines don’t snap straight, circles don’t snap round—I’m on an iPhone 11, iOS 13.4. Any ideas? Edit: got it, thanks devs. Now it works perfectly ? Maybe a slider in a setting somewhere to control the latency to snap?

Ehhh

Bored with summer selection

*UPDATE The developer did reach out and changed the background option which I really appreciate. I still think offering 1 more payment option would still be helpful. I do take back the greedy part cause apps like these are far and few and I can imagine the amount of work to develop it to be as simple and seamless is very difficult especially as an app. As a designer that works with an international team...this app is invaluable but I don't use it that often. if it had more designer friendly features, I can easily see myself paying for the annual subscription. Developers....hint, hint There are some big cons with this. First will be pricing...I like the app but the pricing is a bit outrageous cause I would only use the sharing feature every once in a while so being forced into a subscription plan or paying close to 50 bucks for the annual is ridiculous imo. Offering another option to pay for those who wouldn't use it regularly would be great. I hate feeling locked into things. My second gripe is the obnoxious glitter background that makes my eyes go blind. I prefer a simple clean look or at least give the user the option to change the background. We're not all kids using this. Also the laser feature is too thick and needs options as well. I think the idea is great, but the price is a bit greedy and it still needs work.

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