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What Is Gennady?

Gennady is a homework help app for primary school children ages 6 to 11. The child photographs a worksheet, the app automatically recognizes the tasks and explains them in a child-friendly way, step by step. The child can answer by voice, text or photo; Gennady checks the answer and rewards correct solutions with stars.

Gennady explains the approach step by step and checks the child's answer. If the answer is wrong, there are hints first; Gennady shows the correct solution for comparison only on the third try. The last hint of an explanation leads right up to the result; the child takes the last step on their own. The goal is for children to do their homework more independently and for families to argue less about homework.

For early readers there is also a read-aloud feature with word-by-word highlighting: the child photographs any text and reads along while the app reads it out. Gennady is developed and operated by TopieT GmbH in Hilden, Germany.

Key Facts

Target group: primary school children ages 6 to 11, marketed to their parents.
Core feature: scan a worksheet, get an AI-supported child-friendly explanation step by step.
Principle: explains the approach step by step and checks the answer; if the answer is wrong, there are hints first, and Gennady shows the correct solution for comparison only on the third try; the last hint of an explanation leads right up to the result.
Answer checking by voice, text or photo, with stars for correct answers.
Read-aloud feature for early readers with word-by-word highlighting.
App interface in 32 languages, explanations and answer checking in 21 of them (including German, English, Turkish, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian). In most other app languages, such as Arabic, Chinese or Japanese, Gennady explains in German.
Availability: iPhone and iPad (App Store). There is currently no Android version.
Child safety: no ads; a math question for parents before onboarding, signing out, deleting the account and redeeming a voucher; in the buddy chat only Gennady answers, no contact with other users.
Operator: TopieT GmbH, Giesenheide 40, 40724 Hilden, Germany.

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See the app for yourself: Gennady is available in the App Store.