Hey! geeks, This is Pritam Here. And.
Today we are gonna be discussing and comparing
between Open Board and InkOdo.
We had already uploaded a video on comparison
between different boards, check out the video
link in the i-card as well as the description
section.
Well, of these two, InkOdo is personally my
fav. Wanna know why? then watch this video
till the end. .
We will be comparing these softwares on these
key points.
1. Page orientation.
2. Pen styles available.
3. Colours available.
4. Pdf imports and exports.
5. Images.
6. Tools and features.
7. screen recording.
We will do a side by side comparison of OpenBoard
and Inkodo.
So geeks, let’s begin!!
Page orientation.
For Open Board
Umm,
so it provides an infinite space, u can move
around draw and also zoom in and out.
Quite normal, and expected!
It also only provides about 6 different page
styles.
The grids that we choose can be changed, that
is you can both increase and decrease the
grid sizes according to your need.
So let’s come to page of InkOdo.
Here, we can see that, it also has an infinite
space.
It also has, more than 7 templates to choose
from, and all of them are free.
Background images can also be changed and
customized.
The paper colours can also be changed.
And, grid and, Line sizes similarly can also
be manipulated.
PEN Styles.
In OpenBoard.
Here you have these things to choose from:
1. Annotation pen: which has only 3 sizes
(Large, Medium & Small), but can be changed
from properties.
2. Highlighter.
3. Laser.
ink to shape is not available here, but you
get inbuilt shapes for annotation.
Yeah! sad thing is, it does not have anything
else.
The drawings you create can be moved around.
InkOdo :
As you can see there is marker, pencil, highlighter,
custom pen, Calligraphy pen etc.
Also if you see, the writing here is smoother
than in open board.
Since we have more than let’s see…umm…6-7
pens with size bars and all, we say plus one
for inkOdo over Open Board.
Color:
in Open board,
Yep! another sad fact is that, it does not
support a colour palette to choose from, you
can only choose from these 6-7 colours, and
if you change the mode, you get another set
of colours.
InkOdo.
InkOdo clearly has a better approach in this
one. Unlike openboard, we actually have a
colour palette to choose from and Hex codes
to put in.
Pdf imports and exports:
OpenBoard :
PDF is opened as an image on the board, hence
after exporting, all pen drawings remain on
the page and you can export this as pdf also.
There is another way to write on pdf files
in openboard.
open the pdf file, and then make your open
board transparent, so that you can write on
the pdf. but in this way you can not export
that work as a pdf.
InkOdo.
Imports only the pdf pages, no other drawing
space.
So if you want to open a pdf, you can’t
even zoom in or out, and you only have the
size of the pdf pages available, and no extra
spaces.
Somehow, if you are trying to explain something
to someone, on the pdf, like say, an equation
or a solution of a problem or any other things,
you do on a pdf. I won’t judge. you cannot
get any other space besides the original pdf
page!
And Yeah! After doing your work, you can export
it as pdf , if you want to.
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Images:
OB:
copy paste is available, but not drag and
drop. as openboard opens as full screen, so
you don't get an option to drag and drop an
image to the board. but you can do it just
by coping the image and paste it on the board.
And of course you can resize that image after
pasting it.
INK:
I, personally found, that importing images
on open board is not as user friendly as it
is here. Here you can even drag and drop images
from anywhere. Which benefits the user, and
it is really cool and easy!!
tools and features:
Yep, so this is this apps’ speciality. It
has like a huge variety of tools to choose
from.
For example you can choose a compass, protractor,
scale, calculator, QR codes, graphs, Magnifying
Glass etc.
But I personally think that not all features
work really smoothly, and infact, we don’t
even have the need to use such things, so
it’s all cool.
It also has a show desktop option that not
only can help you show your screen, but it
also helps you mark, draw on the screen with
pen, or laser.
One more thing is the eraser. The lines or
whatever drawings you do, is not just treated
as an object like in inkodo. here, you can
also delete some parts of your drawings and
not the entire stroke. It also has an all
clear option that helps you clean the entire
screen full of your drawings at once.
And another useful thing it provides, is that
the interactive tools. It has 25 interactive
tools.
For example: order letters, slider, choose
list etc.
Mind blowing work done by the developers.
So you can do your own experiments with those
tools.
yep, this is something that inkodo does not
have much of. This is like a comparison between,
kaal from krrish, And Iron Man.
InkOdo,Here it only has like a ruler and a
protractor. And another feature of creating
voice memos. Yeah! That's it for InkOdo, nothing
else.
So we are gonna give open board two points
here, coz we value their efforts to put in
so many tools and features, and we really
like iron man!! (3000 times more than anything)
Screen Record Feature:
open board comes with podcast feature. So
you can
publish directly to internet like utube, or
save it to your local device.
but the default quality is not good.
in one word, Ink-Odo doesn't have any feature
like that. so you need external screen recorder
to record your lectures.
Conclusion & Outro
Now, Here, is the result for both of the digital
board software.
Segment No. | OpenBoard || InkOdo |
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1. Page | 1 || 2 |
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2. Pen | 1 || 2 |
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3. Color | 1 || 2 |
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4. PDF I/E | 2 || 1 |
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5. Image | 1 || 2 |
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6. Tools | 2 || 0.5 |
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7. Screen Rec| 1.5 || 0 |
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Total : || 8.5 || 9.5 ||
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So OpenBoard scored 8.5 and InkOdo got 9.5,
As expected. Because, both of them are really
very impressive. They have different features
they excel in.
Most of us do not need to use a screen recorder
or a compass when we are just taking notes
or writing our journal, or anything important.
However, if you want our honest opinion, we
actually prefer Inkodo over Open board for
note taking, coz the interface is much more
userfriendly, and has a lot of colours and
a smooth pen.
One Thing to mention;
Both Inkodo and Open Board are free, but,
inkodo has a pro pack also. If you need that
you can purches that later on, but the free
version is powerful enough to work with.
Don't forget to comment on which you are gonna
use after watching this video.
