What is Kami?
Kami is trusted by over 40 million educators and students worldwide to enhance learning outcomes and save teachers time. Integrating with all major LMS, Kami empowers teachers with intuitive tools for differentiated instruction and AI-powered assessments for checking understanding and grading in seconds. Kami goes beyond basic annotation, equipping students with accessible, personalised learning experiences that cater to their needs. Inclusive accessibility features ensure every student, including those with special needs, can confidently contribute to group work and peer learning. Whether you’re streamlining your workflow or engaging students, Kami has everything you need for every student to succeed.
Educational Impact
Awards
The EdTech Impact Awards are based on independent, verified customer feedback, and recognise the top 10 solutions across each of our 13 impact metrics.
Top Student Attainment Tool
2025
Top Student Collaboration Tool
2025
Top School Money Saving Tool
2025
Top Teaching Efficiency Tool
2025
 Company | Business Name: Kami HQ Location: New Zealand Founded: 2013 |
| Age Range | 5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18, 19+ |
 Features | Online Annotation ToolsCollaboration ToolsDocument SharingInteractive LearningCloud-based SharingLms IntegrationInteractive ContentFeedback PersonalisationQuestions AiClass ViewInsightsReal Time MonitoringAccessibilitySped Accommodations And SupportsPdf Split And Merge |
 Languages | Afrikaans, English, German, Spanish; Castilian, French, Dutch |
 Accessibility | Robust features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy PolicyGDPR |
 Requirements | Available OfflineInternet - Low BandwidthInternet - High BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookDesktop - LinuxMobile - iPhoneMobile - iPadMobile - Android The Kami app and extension allows users to annotate documents offline, where changes are saved locally. |
 Set Up | Kami can be set up in less than a day. Full set up support is included in School and District plans. |
 Training | In PersonLive OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideos |
 Support | EmailFAQs/ForumKnowledge BasePhone Support |
| Home Learning | Parent Access School must create the account. |
 Tags | Online AnnotationCollaboration PlatformDocument SharingInteractive LearningCloud-Based PlatformLMS Integrated PlatformAI Generated AssessmentReal time monitoringReal time feedbackInsightsResource LibraryPDF Split and Merge |
Kami PricingPricing Plans FreemiumFree TrialPaid Subscription Basic plan: £0/year Teacher plan: £81/year School or District Plan: Custom  Optimised for a quick response | |
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from 25 Verified Reviews
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Pip
Digital Learning Lead
Used Kami weekly for 1-2 years
Dec 2024
Enhances Engagement and Meaningful Feedback “Kami’s versatile tools enable dynamic student engagement through real-time collaboration and personalised feedback. Its seamless integration with other platforms supports interactive learning while providing valuable insights for both students and teachers.”
Pip found Kami:
- Slightly saves school money
- Moderately reduces teacher workload
- Moderately increases student collaboration
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency
- Slightly improves attainment
Dec 2024
It is an incredible tool with which you can do a lot. Both for teachers and students. For teachers, it saves time and is efficient, I think of the split and merge tool, but also the classview in google classroom. For pupils, it is a tool that encourages pupil collaboration and is also very easy to use.
Kevin found Kami:
- Moderately saves school money“They save money with a Kami 3-year licences”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Classview is a great help, but also the split and merge tool”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“They can help each other in a document”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“It's a time saving tool”
- Slightly improves attainment
Dec 2024
Kami is one of the top 5 tools I wish I had had as a student and novice teacher. It provides content prosumption in layers, a sandbox of multiliteracies in action and progressive development.
Stella Maris found Kami:
- Significantly saves school money“Kami offers opportunities for everyone. It keeps free with Premium additional features.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Kami templates, graphic organizers and our personal design thinking skills contribute to reducing workload.”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Kami tools and features as well as its app smashing possibilities provide diverse options for student collaboration with monitoring, assessment, insights, reflection and feedback.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Our reflective practice with student and peer feedback showcased through Kami designs and features help us improve our praxis and student performances.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Through permanent PD training and feature updates, attainment is always a goal and a possibility for success with Kami assistive impact.”
Nov 2024
Kami is so versatile. There are so many existing resources that are classroom friendly. You can use your own resources and allow Kami's AI to convert them quickly. For administrative and management purposes, documents are user friendly and can easily be shared for signing. It has made many hours of work less and allowed me to be more efficient.
Therese found Kami:
- Slightly saves school money
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Workload is reduced as Kami has so many resources and ideas that you can be used easily in the classroom.”
- Moderately increases student collaboration“Students like to engage with the resources shared with them. Many enjoy the tools that Kami has and enhances learning.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Kami's AI function can make hours of hard work minimal. It quickly assists in adapting other resources.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Learners increase engagement. This increases understanding and thus attainment.”
Nov 2024
It keeps evolving, so can only get better!
Matt found Kami:
- Significantly saves school money“It allows for notes to be given to students as a .pdf so that they can be opened on any device, and don't then need to be printed.”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Being able to write and talk at the same time, then give out a link to the lesson notes saves time for me going over topics again for those who have missed the lessons”
- Moderately increases student collaboration“I have been issuing assignments on Kami, and this allows them to be changed as a whole, should a student not understand the question, I can add in pointers from discussions in class”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency
- Slightly improves attainment
Nov 2024
It is a really straight forward, simple and effective platform to use. It was clearly designed with a busy teacher in mind.
B found Kami:
- Significantly saves school money“I trialled the free and premium versions which meant I didn't have to use a lot of school money used to buy additional learning resources”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“The ways in which it can quickly reformat pdf documents is fantastic. So much time saved this way.”
- Moderately increases student collaboration
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“It's clear that it was designed for the busy teacher in mind so that you can (1) easily access and reformat learning resources that are pdf (2) quickly provide feedback on student work - including the option to do this as an audio (3) links to my Google account”
- Slightly improves attainment“While this is more challenging to prove, it does help to streamline the learning procress and student engagment.”
Nov 2024
Jeremy found Kami:
- Slightly saves school money
- Moderately reduces teacher workload
- Moderately increases student collaboration
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency
- Moderately improves attainment
Nov 2024
Google Content Manager-DCTP 12 found Kami:
- Significantly saves school money“Paper less. All digital.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Make question”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Intergrate with GC and canvas”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Have AI generate”
- Significantly improves attainment“Sharing talk best practic of digital using KAMI”
Nov 2024
Great tool to use in a wide range of applications. Features are excellent for helping learners with ALN to be able to fully access online learning.
Rich found Kami:
- Significantly saves school money“Reduced need for printing of worksheets”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Able to easily set assignments to multiple learners”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Great online tool, able to have multiple learners work together in one document”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency
- Significantly improves attainment
Nov 2024
Kami is our 'go to' PDF editor, with tools that are simple for all ages to understand, but complex enough to meet the needs of all school users.
Gayle found Kami:
- Slightly saves school money
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Makes it very easy to share and mark work online, rather than dealing with photocopying and paper marking”
- Moderately increases student collaboration“Online collaboration on a document is easy!”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency
- Slightly improves attainment
Genevieve
IT Manager, Computer and NST Teacher
Used Kami daily for 1-2 years
Nov 2024
Kami is a game-changer. The combination of powerful features like Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text, text recognition, and AI-assisted writing has made Kami an invaluable asset. Its versatility and ease of use have significantly enhanced my overall productivity and creativity.
Genevieve found Kami:
- Significantly saves school money“Kami's many features means that we just need to one app to do so many different things.”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Kami has significantly transformed our educational processes. Its suite of features, particularly Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech, and AI-Generated Questions, has proven invaluable in catering to diverse learner needs and streamlining our workflow.”
- Moderately increases student collaboration“Our students just love that they can collaborate on a document together and they can all have a chance to add their ideas.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Kami has reduced my paperwork and administrative tasks, enhanced my collaboration and feedback with my students, and it has helped me get data-driven insights to keep improving my teaching.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Kami is accessibile and Inclusive in that my students who struggle with reading and writing have the option to use the Text-to-Speech and the Speech-to-Text. It also helps me to differentiate my work for my students.”
Kristof
pedagogical it coordinator
Used Kami weekly for 7–12 months
Nov 2024
Een geweldige tool dat perfect kan ingezet worden in het buitengewoon onderwijs. Ook de eenvoudige koppeling met Google Classroom is geweldig!
Kristof found Kami:
- Moderately saves school money“Je kan eenvoudig papieren werkbundels omzetten naar interactieve digitale opdrachten in Kami.”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Kami bevat een grote bibliotheek met sjablonen.”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Opdrachten kunnen eenvoudig aangepast worden aan het niveau van onze leerlingen. Dit verhoogt de motivatie aanzienlijk.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Een zeer uitgebreide bibliotheek met sjablonen, eenvoudige interface met zeer bruikbare features.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Kami biedt eenvoudig de mogelijkheid om elke opdracht aan het niveau van de leerling aan te passen. Dit verhoogt de leerprestaties van onze leerlingen.”
Nov 2024
As an educator, I'm always looking for new ways to improve my teaching. I started using Kami during the Covid pandemic and have found it particularly useful for second language classes. Kami is a versatile tool and has been helpful in meeting the different learning needs of our students. One of the best things about Kami is that it allows us to easily incorporate audio, video, and visuals into assignments. This has been a game-changer, especially for students who struggle with traditional text-based learning. For example, I can add audio recordings of instructions or explanations for my auditory learners, embed videos that show the language being used in real-life situations, and use visual tools like highlighters and annotations to help visual learners grasp grammar and vocabulary. Plus, Kami is very easy to use! I highly recommend it to any language teacher.
Lise found Kami:
- Slightly saves school money
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Kami's annotation tools allow for quick and efficient feedback of student work. Teachers are able to provide comments, suggestions, and audio feedback directly on their work, eliminating the need for handwritten corrections. The digital workflow streamlines the grading process and saves valuable time!”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Students can work on the same Kami document simultaneously, whether they're in the classroom or doing remote work. This can be used to brainstorm ideas, collaborate on projects, and provide peer feedback in real-time.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“I like that Kami allows teachers to add audio or video comments as annotations. This is particularly helpful for language learning, where teachers can assign tasks tp allow students to practice pronunciation, provide explanations, or offer feedback in an engaging way that also saves time and makes things more efficient. It is also an efficient and easy way for teachers to set-up peer review activities!”
- Significantly improves attainment“Allowing students to better understand the content by adding in multimedia supports as well as dictionary and editing tools, students are able to achieve higher results.”
Sean
Teacher
Used Kami weekly for 1-2 years
Nov 2024
Sean found Kami:
- Significantly saves school money“Use less”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Ease all of us”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Pupils discuss the comments we gave as teacher”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“We can use class view to see all paper”
- Significantly improves attainment
Nov 2024
Because I LOVE Kami, I use it everyday and I see the impact it has on education!
Claudia found Kami:
- Slightly saves school money
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“It takes HOURS of work away. It's effiecient and help you organize the workload effectively.”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“students can work on the same document at the same time, while supervise and scaffolded by the taecher. This positively helps students developing soft and digital skills while learning.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“The templates offer an amazing starting point. Every teacher Can them modify them in seconds and use them in class”
- Significantly improves attainment“Multi-level students can all benefit from the use of Kami, they don't feel shy in front of the paper. Multimedia tools embedded in Kami are so easy to use and students can really use creativilty and their sdelf expression while answering questions and working on a task.”
Nov 2024
Kami is a tool that increases learner engagement. The learners love using it . I use it extensively for completing documents and working collaboratively with management on larger projects. I think our school uses it so much, there would be an outcry if we discontinued our license.
Jenny found Kami:
- Moderately saves school money“There are many templates that can be used. We use many features that help with completing of documents, there are paid products that cost a lot more.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“It is easy to control learner work when they work on a Kami document in Google classroom. The marking is done by the time the learners leave the classroom.”
- Moderately increases student collaboration“It depends how you set up the document. Learners could all work on the same document or they can have their own to work on. When they work on the same document they get ideas from other students, or it may prompt them to think differently.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“We use Kami for our end of term schedules. Many teachers can work on the same document electronically. It is easy to fix mistakes, no need to print entire documents.”
- Significantly improves attainment“When learners use Kami they are active participants in the lesson and not passively receiving knowledge. My learners love using our chromebooks to work on Kami... they are more engaged in lessons and less off task.”
Nov 2024
Kami is easy to use and administrate. Their Support team is great
Zita found Kami:
- Slightly saves school money“It has help us to save on printing costs and time teachers spend setting up worksheets and assignment”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Teacher spend less time marking and setting up assignments”
- Moderately increases student collaboration“Students are more expressive and find it easier to collaborate”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Teachers have less marking to do and the can focus on the students more”
- Slightly improves attainment“Students are trying harder to reach their targets”
Nov 2024
Marika found Kami:
- Slightly saves school money
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“It's great how I can create teaching resources with Videos, which is fab. The students love it and it saves me time.”
- Moderately increases student collaboration“The students really enjoy working on a document at the same time.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Being able to provide instant feedback to students with annotations or voice notes is a game changer. It saves so much time!”
- Slightly improves attainment
Nov 2024
Dharmini found Kami:
- Moderately saves school money
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“I’ve been testing Kami in my classroom, and it’s been a huge help in managing my workload. It streamlines lesson prep by letting me create interactive resources with videos, images, and audio in no time, freeing up hours that I used to spend planning. The real-time collaboration tools are equally impressive, allowing me to give students instant feedback on their work through annotations and voice notes. It’s made a real difference in reducing stress and improving efficiency, and I’m excited to share it with the rest of the team—I think it could ease everyone’s workload significantly!”
- Moderately increases student collaboration“I’ve been testing Kami, and one of the features I love is how it encourages student collaboration. Students can work together on the same document in real time, adding their ideas and feedback while I guide them with comments and annotations. It’s made group work much more interactive and productive.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“I’ve been testing Kami, and it’s helped me quickly prepare interactive lessons and provide instant feedback to students with annotations or voice notes. It saves so much time and keeps the learning process smooth and engaging!”
- Moderately improves attainment
Tony
Digital Learning Technologist
Used Kami monthly for 1-2 years
Nov 2024
Its a great product - its just yet another tool that is a 'must have'
Tony found Kami:
- Slightly saves school money
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Our online English team have saved tons of time by being able to annotate students submitted work”
- Slightly increases student collaboration
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency
- Slightly improves attainment
Oct 2024
Very user friendly and useful
Toby found Kami:
- Moderately saves school money“Saving on paper and printing costs”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Use as an instant, annotation friendly resource creator.”
- Moderately increases student collaboration“Students can share and work on the same document.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Recorded verbal feedback”
- Significantly improves attainment“Students can work on feedback to improve capabilities”
Oct 2024
I have never had an opportunity to work with anything as useful as Kami. I can only say that I have been extremely lucky to get introduced to this software and will keep using it as it just makes my teaching life a real pleasure.
Ile found Kami:
- Significantly saves school money“The printing budget shrinked significantly”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Integration with Google Classroom has had a huge impact on my teacher's workload. I don't have to prepare lessons and can deliver them better than if I have spent hours creating a PPT myself.”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Student can peer assess sharing links, EAL can use the the reader or the dictionary to clarify the meaning of the tasks, SENDs can use the different overlays, reader, high deffinition zoom, video content etc, to make their learning journey easier and more efficient.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“I teach maths to students of very different abilities and have to differentiate a lot. Eg: In the same lessson, sometimes I need to teach the properties of shapes to some students and Cosine theorem to others, with Kami this is very much possible with amazing effciency.”
- Significantly improves attainment“A very big proportion of students get the properties of shapes very easy and A level students benefit from being able to go back to the teaching slides and review the same material all over again.”
Oct 2024
Kami is an excellent free solution for editing, splitting and merging PDF documents as well as a classroom tool.
Pete found Kami:
- Moderately saves school money“The ability to distribute worksheets digitally reduces printing costs.”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Marking work is significantly more efficient when using Class view to access all assigned work simultaneously.”
- Slightly increases student collaboration
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Reduced time spent photocopying and finding submitted work to mark.”
- Slightly improves attainment
Oct 2024
As a school that uses Chromebooks, Kami has quickly become an indispensable tool in our teaching toolkit. Kami allows our teachers to easily annotate, highlight, and provide feedback on student work, making the learning experience more dynamic and engaging. The ability to draw, comment, and highlight directly on PDFs has streamlined our workflow, significantly reducing the need for paper-based tasks. Kami’s intuitive interface ensures that both teachers and students can use the platform with ease, promoting a more efficient and collaborative learning environment. Kami can edit worksheets, help with reviewing student submissions, or engaging in group projects, Kami has proven to be an huge asset in our digital classroom. We highly recommend it to any school looking to enhance their digital learning strategy.
Damien found Kami:
- Slightly saves school money
- Moderately reduces teacher workload
- Moderately increases student collaboration
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency
- Slightly improves attainment
Oct 2024
Kami is a great resource and pupils and staff have benefited from the tools, resources and accessibility tools that we have used so far. We also know that there are more functions, that with further training we will be able to utilise to support our teaching and learning. The training team is great and have patiently supported the range of proficiency levels within our school.
Gifty found Kami:
- Significantly saves school money“Reduction of printing costs for learning resources and documents to be signed. Reduction of time creating adapted resources for different learning needs.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Teachers are able to quickly create quizzes from resources that they already have and resources within the Kami library. Teachers are able to quickly give verbal feedback on work submitted by pupils. Teachers save time using the split and merge function to create tasks and resources for their pupils.”
- Moderately increases student collaboration“Pupils have worked on projects within the same document collaboratively and it is great that they are only allowed to make changes to their own work - so no accidental disappearing of work!”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Teachers are able to see all of their pupils work on one page, so they are able to easily mark and do gap analysis.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Pupils are engaged, effective verbal feedback is given promptly which enables misconceptions to be picked up quickly. Teachers are able to use the questions function for formative assessment which allows teachers to quickly adapt teaching and planning to fill any gaps that are identified.”