🔊 Reading aloud and accessibility · 🏫 Classroom tools · ✅ Assessment and grading
Kami
By Kami (Kami Limited, also maker of Book Creator). Visit Kami
Desk research from the maker's own pages. Not yet tried by us. Checked 2026-10-24.
A web tool that turns PDFs, worksheets and other files into pages students can write, draw, type and talk on. Teachers hand out a document through Google Classroom, Canvas or Teams; students mark it up, record audio or video answers, and turn it in for grading. Built-in 'Understand' tools read text aloud, translate into 100+ languages and offer a dictionary, which helps students with disabilities and English learners. Schools usually buy it, but a free basic plan exists.
Our take: A practical school tool for marking up and turning in work, especially for kids who need read-aloud or translation; parents rarely need it at home.
| Ages it suits | grades K-12 (about 5-18), plus adults |
|---|---|
| What its terms say about age | Terms let a school, a teacher or a parent set up accounts for students; a parent buying for a child under 18 must give verifiable consent before the child can use it. The 'General Adult' account type is for people over 18. (terms) |
| Price | Free, with paid extras. Free Basic plan; Teacher plan $149 a year; personal Pro plan $12 a month or $85 a year; school and district plans priced by quote (USD, Oct 2026). |
| Works on | Web, Chromebook |
| Account | A school account |
| Ads | None |
| In-app purchases | None |
| The AI in it | Uses Google's Gemini models to help teachers auto-grade and build questions from text or images, and for its reading-support tools; Kami says submitted data is not used to train the models. |
What's good
- Read-aloud, translation and dictionary built in for every student
- Works with the classroom systems schools already use
- No ads, and states it does not train AI on submitted work
Watch for
- Mostly a digital-worksheet tool; learning depends on the teacher's materials
- Full features need a paid teacher or school plan
- AI auto-grading can miss nuance; teachers should check
Data and privacy
Kami says it shows no ads, does not sell or share data for marketing and hosts no third-party tracking cookies, and that it follows COPPA and FERPA for students under 13. Its AI features run on Google Cloud, and it says it does not use submitted data to train AI models. Read the privacy policy.
Does it work?
An Empirical Education correlational study paid for by the maker, covering 15,000+ students in Moreno Valley Unified, linked daily Kami use to a 4 percentile point reading gain (8 points for multilingual learners); correlational only, so it does not prove cause.
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Where these facts come from
- https://www.kamiapp.com/
- https://www.kamiapp.com/pricing/
- https://www.kamiapp.com/terms-of-service/
- https://www.kamiapp.com/privacy-policy/
- https://www.kamiapp.com/efficacy-research/
- Reviews on G2: https://www.g2.com/products/kami/reviews
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