Explain Everything
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The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free: a recording up to 20 minutes transcribes in full, a longer one is previewed, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, and credits never expire.
Interactive whiteboard for educators with voice-narrated lessons.
Best for k-12 teachers and tutors recording whiteboard explainers with synced voiceover. Pricing: subscription.
What it is
Explain Everything is an interactive-whiteboard tool from Promethean. Educators record lessons with voiceover, ink, and media; captioning is handled by importing exported video into a separate caption tool.
Watch out for: Captioning relies on platform features or post-export tools; not a transcription product.
What people actually do with Explain Everything-style transcription
The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.
Wire it into Make.comGoogle DriveEmergentNotionYouTubeAmazon S3
Features
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | None |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Explain Everything vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Explain Everything | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Products | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | Not verified | $6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free |
| Speaker identification | Not verified | Named in the summary, key quotes and chapters |
| Word timestamps | Not verified | Yes |
| Streaming | Not verified | No |
| Languages | — | 99 |
| Platforms | iOS, Android, Web, Windows, macOS | Web, API, MCP |
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Frequently asked about Explain Everything
How much does Explain Everything cost?
Explain Everything is a paid product. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.
Does Explain Everything work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
Explain Everything runs on iOS, Android, Web, Windows and macOS.
How do I get started with Explain Everything?
There is nothing to install — Explain Everything is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
What are the limitations of Explain Everything?
Captioning relies on platform features or post-export tools; not a transcription product.
Who is Explain Everything best for?
K-12 teachers and tutors recording whiteboard explainers with synced voiceover.
Is Explain Everything open source?
No. Explain Everything is a proprietary product from Promethean. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.
Who makes Explain Everything?
Explain Everything is made by Promethean.
What kind of tool is Explain Everything?
In this directory Explain Everything is filed under corporate l and d as a product.
What are the alternatives to Explain Everything?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/explain-everything-alternatives comparing Explain Everything with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Explain Everything-style transcription without running it myself?
Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.
How is Whipscribe different from Explain Everything?
Explain Everything is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.
What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of Explain Everything?
$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.
Where is the Explain Everything category heading?
Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.
Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.
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