--- description: Learn more about Simbi price, benefits, and disadvantages for businesses in New Zealand. Read verified software reviews and find tools that fit your business needs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: Simbi Pricing, Reviews & Features - Capterra New Zealand 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Assessment Software](/directory/31117/assessment/software) > [Simbi](/software/1030047/simbi) # Simbi Canonical: https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/1030047/simbi Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/1030047/simbi?page=2) > Simbi is a responsive reading assessment platform that doubles reading fluency in just three months. > > Verdict: Rated **4.4/5** by 17 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses Simbi? K-5 Educational Organizations, Schools, and Parents of Early Readers. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.4/5** | 17 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 3.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Jugaad Ventures ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: CA$99.00 - **Pricing model**: Per User (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Bulk-purchase pricing is available for educational organizations with more than 10 educators using Simbi. - **Target Audience**: 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Canada ## Features - Reporting/Analytics - Scoring - Test/Quiz Creation ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - Phone Support - Chat ## Category - [Assessment Software](https://www.capterra.co.nz/directory/31117/assessment/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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When assigning students a book to narrate, they are able to access their assignments at home and record themselves reading, thereby allowing me the unique opportunity to listen in when it fits between our online classes. The "Tell Me" feature is valuable in allowing me to create and pose questions for students specific to the text they've read, which has really helped with building and assessing students' reading comprehension skills. In addition to these features, Simbi also provides data on students' accuracy and reading rate, making it very easy to identify areas for celebration and targets for setting new reading goals. The icing on the cake is that I can leave feedback for students quickly and easily by recording audio after any page they've read or the "Tell Me" activity, so the feedback is constructive and meaningful. Thank you for developing this reading platform\! > > **Cons**: I've only encountered a few hiccups since exploring Simbi this year. Occasionally, the emailed link to a new assignment was not directing students (or me, when emailed an assignment completion notification) to the assignment when clicked. However, the Simbi tech team has worked to correct this error and it rarely happens anymore. Additionally, the student dropdown list won't always load after clicking on an assignment. I have to sometimes locate the assignment recording for a student by finding the student first, then accessing their activity feed. In that sense, the ease of use could be bumped up a little (but these minor inconveniences definitely do not outweigh the pros of using Simbi). One feature that would be nice to see in Simbi is the ability to click on a word in the running record and have the audio recording jump to that word. Taking that one step further, it would be nice to have the option to change the colour-coding/scoring of a word read by clicking on it and selecting an option. For example, if Simbi marked a word as being read incorrectly, but I listen to it and hear that it is actually correct, I'd like to be able to click that word and change it to show as correct (which would also then be adjusted in the overall accuracy rating). > > The program's overall ease of use is a huge time-saver (always a plus for busy teachers) and I can't say enough about the helpful Simbi team. Having used many other reading platforms prior to this one, I can conclusively say that Simbi is a top-runner in its designs and features that it offers, and the platform I will continue to use for as long as possible. ----- ### "Simbi Review" — 4.0/5 > **Haley** | *3 May 2022* | Education Management | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: How easy it is for the students to navigate through the website. I also love how it does the assessment and I can listen to the students reading. > > **Cons**: The amount of glitches the system has and how it does not always record their voices even when they have pressed record. ----- ### "Simbi Review" — 4.0/5 > **Emily** | *5 May 2022* | Education Management | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10 > > **Pros**: I love the variety of books, including Canadian and Indigenous authors. The platform is simple and fairly easy to navigate. It also seems quite easy to set tasks for students and to observe their progress. > > **Cons**: The platform is painfully slow. I'm not sure if its a school issue or a website issue. There is no iPad app, and the website has been glitchy and difficult to click around on when using it on an iPad. We use this app during Daily 5, where students only have 25 minutes for the station. Logging on to laptops is too time consuming so we need to use iPads. The kids have found the filter options the most finicky. The options show up very small and are hard to press. > > I think this application has a lot of potential. Unfortunately we haven't been able to make use of all that it has to offer because of the processing speed and glitches. I hope we can sort it out to that students have a positive experience with the interface. They love the content and the idea of narrating but haven't truely been able to use those features yet. ----- ### "Review of Simbi for online reading platform" — 4.0/5 > **Karyn** | *3 May 2022* | E-Learning | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: I like the selection of books and the levelled readers, l like the narration feature and read to self, I like that others can hear finished recordings so that students all over the world can benefit from hearing different readers > > **Cons**: The updating of the "amount of total books" is off. When a student reads a book (for example) it isn't reflected immediately in the group total. Makes is less motivating when we're (as a group) trying to reach 100 books read (for example) and a child reads a book in class, then it's not reflected in the tally right away when we look up the total on the online platform. I find some elements to be confusing to understand, and I would like another tutorial. > > Overall, I love simbi.io as a good choice with a lot of variety of levelled readers that are engaging and a good fit for my students. They love reading simbi books and ask to use the classroom ipads often. My issues with it are more on the "timing" side - I wish that the books read were displayed in "real time" so students could be motivated immediately by seeing the number of class read book total increase right away. Also - the leaderboard seems to be "off" too reflecting that some students have read more than others, but this number isn't accurate? ----- ### "Experiment in Fluency" — 5.0/5 > **Christine** | *10 May 2022* | Education Management | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: I like the selection of books non-fiction and fiction. I also love the different series. I like that I can have students narrate so that I can track fluency and reading at the same time. > > **Cons**: Students report having problems narrating. Also having problems narrating and then the software stops them in the middle of reading. Sometimes their are glitches and the student gets a message that they have read the book or book completed when they didn't read it or only read a few pages. This can be super frustrating and as you know we want to make reading easy without glitches as it can be hard to get students to read at all. ----- Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/1030047/simbi?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/1030047/simbi) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | ----- ## Structured Data