Groovy Grader vs Easy Grade
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Groovy Grader
This app replaces traditional paper grading calculators with a flexible and convenient digital tool. It offers customizable settings for numerous questions and displays grades in various formats, enhancing classroom efficiency.
- Replaces paper grading calculators
- Configurable for hundreds of questions
- Grade display options (whole number/decimal)
- Shows number correct/wrong
- View multiple grades on screen
- Disable auto-dimming screen
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Do you need some peace, love and happiness in your classroom? If so you need Groovy Grader. Groovy Grader is an App designed to replace your “old school” paper grading calculator. Groovy Grader provides more flexibility, convenience and ease than other popular slide graders. It can be configured to work for 100's of questions and has the option to display the grade as a whole number or with one decimal place. Groovy Grader can show the number correct, the number wrong or both. Groovy Grader was designed with usability as a top priority. Unlike other competing Apps, Groovy Grader can view 50 or more grades on the screen at once. It also allows you to turn off the auto-dimming screen. There's no touching to scroll for the most common grades, or to turn the screen back on. Groovy Grader is optimized for iOS 12 and works great on iPhones, iPods, and iPads.
Easy Grade
Streamline your grading process with this tool designed to save you time. It offers flexible display options for grades, including rounding and half-points, and allows you to easily order grades by missed or correct answers.
- Order grades by questions missed or correct
- Display grades rounded to nearest whole number
- Display grades with first decimal
- Optional half-points grading
- Simplify grading for any number of questions
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Because good tests don’t always divide evenly. Features: • Sort grades by questions missed or correct. • Display grades as rounded to nearest whole number or with first decimal. • Optional half-points grading.
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Verdict
Groovy Grader and Easy Grade both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 93% of Groovy Grader's written reviews are positive against 70% of Easy Grade's. Groovy Grader also leads on ratings volume (47K vs 960) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Groovy Grader sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Easy Grade sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Groovy Grader against 4.9 for Easy Grade. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Groovy Grader has 47K ratings behind it against 960, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of Groovy Grader's written reviews are positive against 70% of Easy Grade's.
Groovy Grader ships an update every 6 weeks, Easy Grade every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Groovy Grader | Easy Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (47K ratings) | 4.9 (960 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.8% of reviews — better | 70.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 47K — better | 960 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 26.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dryrain Technologies LLC | Christopher Weems |
Customer experience
Groovy Grader
Easy Grade
Bugs and requests
Groovy Grader
Reported bugs
2 issues- App drains battery quickly
- Occasional crashes or freezes
Requested features
2 requests- Ability to save and switch between multiple profiles
- Option to show number of correct answers instead of just incorrect
Easy Grade
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Groovy Grader
- Pro Upgrade for 1 Year$4.99
Easy Grade
- Easy Grade Plus$0.49
