OpenBoard 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

OpenBoard

4.6

(7)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About OpenBoard

OpenBoard is an open-source whiteboard solution that helps educators interact with students by creating live content utilizing custom stylus lines, highlighters, erasers and more. It enables users to configure the background size, color, and grid and line intensity as per individual requirements.

OpenBoard comes with a built-in library of sounds, videos, images, shapes and animations, allowing teachers to create interactive content and increase student engagement. Schools and universities can upload and store course-specific documents within the platform, ensuring quick access to content for teachers and students. It provides a web browser, which lets tutors make annotations and share webpages from a centralized platform. Additionally, users can access various tools such as protractors, calculator, clock, stopwatch, world maps and sticky notes to improve the learning experience.

OpenBoard facilitates integration with third-party applications, including GoogleMaps and GraphMe. It is available for free and support is extended via documentation, discussion forum and email.

OpenBoard Screenshots

OpenBoard Pricing and Plans

Starting price: Pricing available upon request

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

Pricing available upon request

No plan information available

OpenBoard Features

Popular features found in Whiteboard
Digital Canvas
Idea Management
Presentation Tools
Project Planning
Sketching and Annotation Tools
Templates
Visual Workflow Management
More features of OpenBoard
Activity Dashboard
Categorization/Grouping
Collaboration Tools
Content Management
Data Import/Export
Document Management
Document Storage
Drag & Drop
Image Library
Tagging
Third-Party Integrations
Whiteboard

OpenBoard Integrations

Google Maps

OpenBoard User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

71%

14%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.0

Value for money

4.4

Customer support

3.8

Functionality

4.0

Have you used OpenBoard and would like to share your experience with others?

Prudhvi Raj M.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2024

OpenBoard for Easy Note-Taking & Sharing

It is the best software for taking notes and sharing we can add pictures and images export the notes in PDF format and share it

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

OpenBoard's color-changing pens help categorize key points while adding pictures enhances understanding.

Cons:

pressure sensitivity issue while making the pen strike for the first time makes bold

Christian M.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2021

Full featured whiteboard

I have been using manu other whiteboards, usually shipping with interactive whiteboards, and this one really suits my needs.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

You can write on a standard whiteboard or scribble on top of your desktop, to overlay on your documents and software. This is really nice to setup with a tablet or interactive whiteboard. Unobstrusive icons let you switch from normal use to overlay scribbling.

Cons:

Ideal for videoconferences to whether explain something on a board or to add to a document that you are sharing on your screen.

Reasons for switching to OpenBoard

eBeam is nice but works only with their hardware. Jamboard, Miro and the like don't do overaly on your desktop, they just allow you to write on a whiteboard. OpenBoard allows to write on top of your desktop and this is really an interesting feature.

Rishi G.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

Lightweight and Powerful Whiteboarding Software!

I've been using Openboard for a long time, and it's one of my favorite productivity software when it comes to taking notes and sharing/storing them either in PDF/video format. It's fast and has all the features I need when I'm learning something and need a place to brainstorm.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

A few things that I really like in Openboard are - 1. I use it on my Ubuntu machine and it works flawlessly. It's light on the CPU and almost never lags, it takes less than a second to fire up and it's ready to work.2. Openboard's interface is not bombarded with features and that keeps the UI/UX clean and minimal.3. The Podcast option is straightforward. It comes with almost all the options required to share the screen and lets you share everything in a few clicks. 4. The library is diverse and has the vast majority of features (eg. adding audio, video, and shapes) needed to take notes (even the technical ones). 5. One of my favorite features in Openboard is how easy it is to add images from the web without leaving the application. Takes a couple of clicks and it's done!

Cons:

The unavailability of shortcuts. I use Openboard for taking notes through my touchpad, and it'd be nice if the application also had keys assigned to various tools through which a user could switch between them. For example - if I have selected a pen, I could choose an eraser with the key "a" and then switch back to using the pen with the key "s" or anything else. The same goes for other tools as well. This will make using Openboard even easier and highly efficient. It's such an important feature that the software lacks.

Anitta j.

Verified reviewer

Civil Engineering

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

Openboard

Good and I am much satisfied. I suggested this to all my colleague

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Digital canvas is good. Ease of use and good handwriting. Can be used for digital painting if interested

Cons:

Glitters are not available.difgicult to export notes in pdf format.it takes time and often the software gets crashed

Margaret A.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2021

Open board

I have been using this application for teaching during these corona days and it is an effective teaching materials. I love this application.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Best way to teach the student. It is similar to the conventional blackboard which is much more better possibilities for teaching. It has different colours of pen and contains facilities to include slides and figures and also can be recorded.

Cons:

It doesn't contain figures like circles and triangle. It would be better if audio facility is incorporated.

Fernando R.

Verified reviewer

Primary/ Secondary Education

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2021

Mi aliado en mis clases escolares

Para mi a sido fantástico, me ha servido demasiado para mis clases.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Tener a la mano Open Board, es tener la posibilidad de tener un tablero EXTRA que no se pierde, que puedo mirar el tablero de atrás o de adelante las veces que sea. Es una super ayuda con el lápiz,. Me parece genial poder ver un documento o guía de trabajo y resaltar partes de ella, es fundamental.

Cons:

Le faltan muchos recursos didácticos, AGREGAR BIbmoji hoy es fundamental para los chicos, Agregar más aplicaciones interactivas, Integrar geogebra, o programas de este tipo, Kahoor, Quizizz, etc AGREGAR UN CRONOMETRO SIEMPRE EN PANTALLA es vital para controlar el tiempo.

Reasons for choosing OpenBoard

Es gratis y es fundamental para el tema escolar

Rinnet F.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2021

Openboard