Capture & Grade
Point the camera, press capture, type a name. It reads the handwriting off the page — no scanner, no upload step.
For teachers with stacks of marking
Point a camera at a page.
Point a camera at a page.
Get it marked.
Gradey reads handwritten student work straight from a photo, marks it against your rubric or answer key, and files the result in your gradebook — with per-criterion feedback you can actually hand back.
Runs on your own machine · Your own API key · Grades stay on your computer
1 photo
No scanner, no app for students to install, no special paper. A webcam or your phone camera on the page.
Your rubric
It marks against the criteria you already use — not a generic score it invented.
Overnight
Queue a stack of PDFs, press start, go home. It keeps grading while you sleep.
What's inside
Everything between the stack of papers and the gradebook
Gradey isn't only a marker. It's the rubric editor, the roster, the queue, the gradebook, the reports, and now the staffroom.
Upload & Grade
A queue you can leave running overnight. One PDF per class, each with its own rubric and page count. Press start and walk away.
Rubrics
Build reusable rubrics with criteria, points, and what full credit looks like. Import one from a Word doc in any layout, or start from an ESL preset.
Answer keys
For objective tests. Import a key from Word — or hand Gradey the blank test and let it work out the answers, then check them before they count.
Gradebook
Grade levels, classes, weighted categories, class-wide curves, per-student summaries, and export to Word or Excel.
Classroom
Behaviour points, attendance registers, and a private per-student log of what's been discussed with each family.
Knows who wrote it
Optionally let Gradey read the student's name off the page and match it to your roster — and work out which class they're in.
Handwriting only
Tell it to ignore the pre-printed worksheet — instructions, questions, headers — and transcribe only what the student actually wrote.
History & reports
Every graded paper kept with its transcription, marks and feedback. Export a marked-up report per student or per assignment.
How it works
Three steps, then it's out of your hands
01
Set up your rubric once
Write it in Gradey, or import the Word document you already use. Attach the exam paper itself if you want it marking against the questions as originally worded.
02
Capture the work
Photograph each page, or queue a PDF of the whole class. Press Enter after each name and keep moving — capture never waits for grading.
03
Review and hand back
Marks land in the gradebook with per-criterion feedback. Read them, adjust anything you disagree with, export the reports.
It reads, then it marks — two separate steps.
Transcription and grading are deliberately split, so messy handwriting is a
reading problem to solve once rather than something that derails the marking.
You can see the transcription it worked from on every graded paper.
New
A staffroom that isn't a group text
Gradey now includes real-time chat for your team — so the conversation about a student happens in the same tool as their marks, not in a personal messaging app on someone's phone.
- Direct and group chats, with your own contact folders — "Grade 3 Team", "Maths Dept"
- Share files, photos and video — a page of work, a worksheet, a marking guide
- See who's online, who's typing, and what's been read
- Emoji and GIFs, because staffrooms are not solemn places
- Invite-only: your admin issues codes, so no one wanders in
Where things live
Student work stays on your machine
On your computer
Photos, rubrics, gradebooks and reports are stored locally, under your own user account. Uninstalling Gradey never deletes them.
Your own API key
Grading uses an AI key you supply and control. There's no Gradey account in the middle, and no per-seat licence.
Chat on your server
Staff chat runs on a server your school controls, not a third-party messaging platform. You hold the data and the invite list.
Pages are sent to your chosen AI provider to be read and marked — that's how the grading works. Check that against your school's data policy before rolling it out.
Questions
The things teachers ask first
Does it actually read handwriting?
Yes — that's the core of it. It transcribes the page first, then marks the transcription against your rubric. You can see the transcription it used on every graded paper, so when a mark looks wrong you can tell immediately whether it misread the writing or misjudged the answer.
Do I have to trust the grade it gives?
No, and you shouldn't hand marks back unread. Gradey produces a mark and per-criterion feedback; you review and change anything you disagree with before it counts. Answer keys it generates from a blank test are flagged for review by default, because nothing in them came from you.
What does it cost to run?
Gradey itself is a program you install. Grading calls an AI provider using your own API key, so you pay that provider directly for what you use. Reading a text-based document costs nothing extra — it only spends a vision call when there's genuinely a photo or scan to read.
What do I need to run the chat?
A small server your school controls. It's a single service behind HTTPS and it holds the accounts, messages and shared files. Registration is invite-only — the first account is the admin and issues codes to everyone else.
Which platforms does it run on?
The desktop app is Windows. The chat also runs in any modern browser, so colleagues on other machines can still join the conversation.
Get your evenings back
Install Gradey on your Windows machine, point it at your rubric, and put the first stack through it tonight.
Windows 10 or 11 · 64-bit · about 250 MB installed