The best digital whiteboard in 2023

Present to colleagues, collaborate with clients or get students involved in classes, with the best interactive whiteboards

The best digital whiteboard, aka the best interactive whiteboard, will bring any presentation to life, and they're great for collaborating on projects too.

These large computer touchscreens mirror your laptop, tablet, or phone, making it easy to display your content. And you can use your fingers or a stylus to annotate it on the whiteboard itself – as can others.

In short, the best interactive whiteboard is the perfect way to pitch projects, brainstorm ideas, liven up business meetings, and get students involved in their classes. But they are expensive, so it's worth considering which one you buy very carefully.

Below, we've curated the best digital whiteboards on sale today, at a variety of sizes and prices. We'll explain what each one has to offer and give you the facts and figures you need to choose between them.

Samsung knows a lot about how to make reliable, user-friendly, and high-spec technology from the best tablets to the best Samsung phones. So it's no surprise that it's the manufacturer of the best digital whiteboard available today.

The Samsung Flip offers UHD picture quality, lets you write or draw on any background source, and allows up to four people to do so simultaneously. The display is beautifully responsive, and when using a stylus, very close to a real pen on actual paper.

You can connect it to your computer directly, using an HDMI cable, or use screen share over Wi-Fi with a supported device. You can rotate it to portrait or landscape mode while on the optional stand.

It's quick and easy to erase mistakes, using a finger or palm swipe. You can sync your personal devices for real-time content sharing. And any changes made on the Flip display will be mirrored on the connected device, and vice-versa.

In a business environment, the Flip can be used as a calendar, scheduler, note, or checklist board. Its internal memory stores your meeting in real-time, then lets you share all the notes via email, network, thumb drive, or printouts. Plus its reinforced lock system allows you to protect people from opening up confidential content by accident during a meeting.

If you're a teacher who wants your students to create collaborative art, it's great for that too. Brush mode recognizes a wide range of thicknesses, and there are even water and oil painting modes to create different styles and textures. You get a full vibrant color palette to play with and can mix colors too.

If 55 inches isn't big enough, there's a 65-inch variant that's otherwise the same device. Plus there's also an 85-inch, although that features some other differences too, so we've listed that separately at number 5.

Specifically aimed at the education market, the RP6502 supports up to 20 touch points, making it very versatile even when lots of students want to get involved. A built-in Floating Tool empowers teachers to write on top of any app, video, website, document, or image.

There's a handwriting recognition feature, a hands-free voice assistant, and a brush mode for creating art. And it comes with dual pens that each let you write or draw simultaneously with different colors.

More generally, BenQ RP652 has a lovely 4K display, offering up to 350 cd/m of brightness with a 1200:1 contrast ratio to aid visibility even on sunny days with the curtains open. It's the best digital whiteboard on our list for connectivity, too, offering a mammoth nine USB ports, along with three HDMI slots, an Ethernet port, VGA, and audio-in and audio-out.

Finally, the BenQ RP652 even features air quality sensors, which monitor temperature, humidity, PM 2.5, and CO2 concentration levels, to make sure your students are in the optimal environment to stay awake and focused.

If you need a digital whiteboard for your classroom or meeting room, but don't want a lot of hassle looking at instructions, we recommend the Vibe Interactive Smartboard. It couldn't be easier to set up, especially if you buy the dedicated stand too. Plus, on the whole, it's a very capable device.

The 10-point touch screen allows multiple people to interact with the screen simultaneously via touch or stylus, and the 8ms response time makes writing and drawing feel very natural. You can share the Vibe Canvas via email, third-party apps like Slack and Teams, or by scanning a QR code to send to your phone. And up to four users can share their screen wirelessly at once, via Airplay and Eshare, or by connecting in via HDMI.

If you're presenting in a huge room, such as an auditorium or large lecture theater, you'll probably want a bigger model than those we've covered so far. In this case, we'd recommend the largest version of the Samsung Flip (number one on our list), which has a screen diameter of 85 inches.

That's obviously a huge display, but the 4K resolution and 60Hz refresh rate mean you still get a detailed, smooth picture that allows even the people at the back to see everything clearly.

At this larger size, this model offers the high specs and clever tech of its 55-inch cousin, plus unlike the former, it also has a DP (DisplayPort) and an OPS I/F port. On the downside, the response time is just 6ms, compared with 8ms in the smaller version, but that's not really going to make much difference in practice.

The other main differences are that you can't rotate it between portrait and landscape (though at this size you wouldn't really want to), the mount color is Charcoal Black rather than light grey, and as you'd expect, it's also more expensive.

If you have a huge auditorium to fill and 85 inches isn't big enough for your needs, then how about a screen that's 98 inches in diameter? This enormous whiteboard screen offers 4K resolution (3840x2160p), and a 20-point multi-touch flat panel lets multiple users write or draw on it with their fingers or stylus pens.

Its VESA-compatible design allows for installation on a wall mount, or on an optional trolley cart. With a 45W stereo soundbar, featuring 10W stereo speakers and a 15W subwoofer, it delivers optimal sound too. The quad-core processor makes light work of the integrated myViewBoard annotation software and ViewBoard Cast streaming software. And the connectivity is off the charts, with multiple HDMI, VGA, RJ45, and USB ports.

Be warned: this is VERY expensive and will be overkill for most people. But if you want the biggest whiteboard you can get, then this will do the job very well.

If you want a digital whiteboard that's small, light, and easy to carry around, we recommend the DTEN.ME. This lightweight 27-inch multi-touch HD display has been made with a wide range of uses in mind, including making Zoom calls and as a second monitor, plus it works well as an interactive whiteboard too; as long as your audience is nice and close, of course.

At only half an inch thick, it couldn't be more portable. Its responsive, multi-touch screen is great for annotating content in real-time. And while you're limited for ports (just Ethernet and HDMI), the price is reassuringly low compared to most of the whiteboards on this list.

Plus, if you do a lot of videoconferencing, the DTEN ME is packed with enterprise-grade features, including three intelligent cameras to optimize your room view, eight array microphones for clear audio, and integrated stereo speakers.

Can't come near to affording the digital whiteboards we've mentioned thus far? Then here's a very cheap and inventive solution. The IPEVO CSW2-02IP IW2 doesn't come with an interactive screen but instead allows you to turn any flat surface into one, for the purpose of teaching or presentations. You will, however, need to supply a laptop and a projector separately.

The system is made up of three devices: an interactive pen, a sensor cam, and a wireless receiver. The Sensor Cam reads infrared signals emitted by the pen and sends that information wirelessly to the receiver, which your plug into your laptop's USB port. (Because it uses infrared signals, there's no need to connect anything to Wi-Fi.)

The IW2 comes with included software of its own, and it's also compatible with other applications, which you can control just as if you were on your laptop. It's very light and portable and works with a wide variety of projectors, including short-throw and ultra-short-throw projectors.

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Tom May is a freelance writer and editor specializing in art, photography, design and travel. He has been editor of Professional Photography magazine, associate editor at Creative Bloq, and deputy editor at net magazine. He has also worked for a wide range of mainstream titles including The Sun, Radio Times, NME, T3, Heat, Company and Bella.