Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Explain
Open education with crowdsourced blackboard videos
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Explain launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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explanations.app▲102Low-cost group tutoring made possible by blackboard videos
2024 · its alternatives →
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I've used blender for more than a decade and now ask myself what the best way to teach it would look like. Video generally seems the best format to explain how to solve a specific problem, but its not exactly great for larger collections of small bits of information – like blender shortcuts. This is why I made this video/text hybrid website from scratch. If you're a blender user or have experience in teaching others, I'd be very happy to hear your thoughts on it. I'm also posting this here because I assume many of your are professional web developers. I'm a learning hobbyist and…
2024 · hollisbrown.github.io · its alternatives →
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Learn to overcome procrastination with 5 min videos, and go to bed happy
2021 · deprocrastination.co · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I watch A LOT of educational YouTube videos but wasn't forgetting a good chunk of the details because I was only really passively watching. So I made a tool that generates quiz questions/flashcards from YouTube videos, and uses spaced repetition like Anki or Duolingo to keep it in memory. Let me know if you find it cool/useful (or terrible ) or if you want to know a bit about the details!
2024 · platoedu.org · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone! I’m the founder of Explanations (https://explanations.app). I’m building a website where students can get college level math & physics help for 1/10th the cost of private tutoring. You’d type a question, and your teacher replies by drawing a Youtube/KhanAcademy-style video; and this happens asynchronously throughout the week. When I was studying at MIT, I often had to wait 40-60 minutes in line just to get 5 minutes of “help” from a TA - when I needed 1-2 hours. I understood that TAs can’t spend all their time helping me. That’s understandable. But what made…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Scrimba Explain▲325Ask any question, get a video back instantly
Aug 2026 · scrimba.com · its alternatives →
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notclass▲234I've been working on this for a few days now. The goal is to create a library of the best free educational content available and to build personalised learning paths for each user, using only free resources and at no cost to the user. Let me know what you think.
2025 · notclass.com · its alternatives →
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A whiteboard video making tool with 10,000+ drawings 🖊
2017 · animaker.com · its alternatives →
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Classroomies▲148Watch Stanford CS & Startup lectures together
2018 · classroomies.com · its alternatives →
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30sec Learn▲27Monetizable skills as vertical video courses
2023 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Turn any YouTube playlist into a course in 5 minutes
2024 · everlearns.com · its alternatives →
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Uncubed▲129Free video tutorials from hot tech companies
2016 · uncubedstudios.com · its alternatives →
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Turn any prompt into a narrated whiteboard explainer videos!
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Build real-time interactive virtual classroom with ease
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, I appreciate that HN is probably not my target audience but I just recently launched my own video training course on Windows 10 for beginners and non-techies and would love to get some brutally-honest but constructive feedback from the HN community (e.g. are the course videos too long, too boring, too techie, too pointless etc?). https://www.WindowsKnowHow.com There are around 10 sample videos available for free on the homepage, but you can also sign up for a free 7-day trial (no credit card required) and gain access to the entire course (60 videos) by signing up here:…
2019 · its alternatives →
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Videofork.co▲80Create explainer videos & GIFs for your startup
2021 · videofork.co · its alternatives →
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Interactive online whiteboard with voice chat and recording
2018 · whiteboard.explaineverything.com · its alternatives →
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011.video▲83Article to video - Text to video - Webpage to video
2021 · 011.video · its alternatives →
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