With Air Sketch, your iPad becomes a wireless whiteboard! Air Sketch allows you to project PDF and PowerPoint documents onto a computer using a local network. This application can be used for the boardroom, classroom, and all types of presentations. Your iPad can be used to project onto projectors without using wired connections.

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What Users Love About the App

“Excellent program. I used it for multiple classes during the pandemic. I paid for the pro version, because the developers deserve it, but I use the free version since that is all I need.”

“The free version is understandably limited in features, but it really works! I would not hesitate to buy the full version if I found myself in a presentation setting. It works on Safari and Google Chrome really well, even on Linux and Windows.”

“Love the simplicity of this free app. It frees me from the podium! I had no trouble opening my Dropbox PDF stack in Airsketch (just clicked on the export button in Dropbox).”

“I learned about this app from a colleague of mine who used it when making a presentation of his research in my graduate class. I have just started to use it myself and find it to be a great tool for teaching. I would highly recommend it. If you are using PowerPoint, you can make instant notes on your slides, as they are bing projected, to help your students focus on relevant aspects of the presentation. Before Air Sketch, I used to raise the screen (where my PowerPoint was being projected) to go to the blackboard (behind the screen) and use chalk to explain specific points or expand on equations, etc. No need to do that anymore. The white board is right there and you can switch to it from your PowerPoint very easily to make additional notes for the students as questions come up during lecture. This app is easy to use and tremendously helpful. I have recommended it to all my colleagues who have iPads. Thank you.”

“What a perfect way to have a wireless interactive whiteboard for my classroom! Now that we have the ability to use a picture as the background this is truly a great tool. One feature request would be to email out PDFs of the screenshots we capture using the snapshot feature. I plan to use screen recording software on my Windows pc to make narrated tutorials for my students and parents. Using Jing software from TechSmith (free) this works great! Keep up the great work on this app.”

What Users Dislike About the App

“I can’t imagine ponying up any cash for the upgrade when this can do nothing but draw a black line on a page and erase it. No storage, no superposition, nothing. Worthless!”

“Really cool, just can’t use a wifi connection that needs a password. If you were able to this app would be much better.”

“I was excited about this app, installed it as soon as I found it. My hope was to open a presentation saved as a PDF and annotate. Unfortunately, I found no way to do this. The description on the App Store seems to indicate I can do this, but I am not finding an “open in” menu that includes Air Sketch. I noticed that almost all the reviews are very old.”

“One small addition I’d like would be the ability to delete all (or some) of the saved screens in the folder without having to swipe each one separately. That would make this a perfect program.”

“When it works, it’s great, but it frequently freezes or disconnects. I am using this as a whiteboard during Screencastify videos for remotely teaching my math class. It will lag behind and then stop connecting to my Mac. Every time I want to use it, I have to delete and reinstall the app because it is completely unresponsive on my iPad Pro. If I could simply open it and connect, it would be the greatest thing ever, but it it just too unreliable. Unfortunately, I haven’t found anything better.”