Explain Everything vs ShowCam

Explain Everything is an online whiteboard for teaching, creating interactive lessons, recording video tutorials, and collaborating. Its infinite canvas accepts documents, presentations, images, audio, and video for users to import and work with. Users can record narration and canvas activity, edit recordings, and render videos in Explain Drive. Collaboration can be synchronous or asynchronous, with invitations by link or access code and built-in voice chat. Listed integrations include Dropbox, Google Drive, YouTube, OneDrive, and Schoolwork, as well as LMS assignment tools such as Canvas, Schoology, Moodle, and Blackboard. Schools can provision licenses through Google Admin, and students can sign in with Google EDU accounts. Explain Everything runs on Android, iOS, and the web. The free plan permits three projects, one slide per project, videos up to three minutes, one collaborator, 15-minute collaboration sessions, and 500 MB of cloud storage. Pro costs $9.99 a month; Team costs $9.99 a month per user. The maker says the service's data is stored in an AWS SOC2-certified data center in North Virginia.

ShowCam records presentation material, a camera bubble, and narration together in one video on iOS. It supports photo slideshows, videos, interactive web pages, PDFs, Markdown files, and text files. During recording, you can move through slides, scrub videos, tap links, scroll web pages, and use a laser pointer. The camera bubble can use either camera, while narration is mixed with app audio in sync. Recordings remain in the app library, can be saved automatically to Photos, and can be shared. The free plan permits 30 minutes of recording per day, resetting at midnight, and includes all listed presentation sources, both cameras, laser pointer, saving and sharing, and no watermark. Pro adds unlimited recording, markup tools, background effects, camera styling, and no ads. Pro costs $4.99 a month billed weekly, $24.99 a year, or $29.99, paid once. ShowCam records only content opened inside it, not other apps.