Graphy Review 2024 (Formerly Spayee) – Is It Best For Indian Audience?

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About Graphy

Graphy (formerly known as Spayee) is a white-labeled learning management system that helps you create, market, and sell your courses online. It is an Indian LMS platform that was launched in 2018 by Spayee Labs Pvt Ltd, headquartered in Uttar Pradesh. 

Spayee was acquired by Graphy, a platform owned by Unacademy, in October 2021 for $25 million! Unacademy is India’s unicorn company with a valuation of over $1 billion!

Graphy was created with the aim to design a tech solution empowering the online education sector. Today, after three years of their commencement, they have over 2000+ course creators and 5 million active learners on their platform!

Graphy Pricing

First, let us look at the regular pricing of Graphy along with the features available on each plan. 

	Basic Plan	Pro Plan	Business Plan	Advanced Plan
Monthly Pricing	₹3207	₹6416	₹10999	₹18332
30-mins Onboarding Call	1	1	2	3
Admin Accounts	1	2	6	15
Live Class	300 students	500 students	2 concurrent live classes with 500 students	3 concurrent live classes with 500 students
White Labeled	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Active Learners	10k	20k	50k	100k
Apps	Common Android / iOS app	Common Android and iOS apps	Common iOS app, White labeled Android app	White labeled iOS and Android apps

Graphy comes at a pretty good price point and is not very expensive. All the basic features are available on all the plans. The best part is that you don’t have to pay any transaction charges on any plans.

Spayee AppSumo Deal

As of now, you can also get a lifetime access to Spayee on the AppSumo deal. You can definitely check it out!

Spayee is no longer available on AppSumo.

AppSumo Plans	Lifetime Pricing
License Tier 1	$79
License Tier 2	$149
License Tier 3	$299

Graphy Discount

If you are planning to get Graphy LMS for yourself, then I have an exciting discount deal for you. If you use my link to purchase any yearly plan from Graphy, you can get it at 20% discounted rates.

All you have to do is enter the coupon code KRIPESH20 and avail your offer! As of now, there’s a Lifetime deal running on Graphy as well. To know more about it, check out my Graphy Coupon Codes article.

Now, let us dive deeper into its features and functionalities!

Graphy Review Video

For video people, here’s my hands on experience with Graphy (formerly known as Spayee).

Admin Interface

The admin interface of Graphy looks decent and well organized. But unlike Teachable and Thinkific that offer easy to use and beginner friendly interfaces, users might experience a small learning curve on Graphy. 

You can manage all the controls from the left panel, including reports, course content, integrations, users, management, marketing, design, etc. 

Courses 

Course creation with Graphy is simple yet versatile. You can create unlimited courses and lessons. After creating a fresh course, you can add lessons through the Course Builder. Graphy platform supports a variety of comprehensive lessons. (Discussed in depth below. Keep reading!)

Graphy also lets you enforce rules for every course like:

• Sequential Learning – Students can only view lessons in a sequence.
• Complete Video Viewing – Students need to watch at least 90% of the video to start the next one. (This only applies for uploaded videos.)

These rules don’t apply to all courses. They are only useful for courses that follow a specific order and comprise interconnected lessons. 

For example, my course on setting up Hostinger hosting needs to be watched in a sequential order to understand every step well.

Types of Lessons 

In order to make your online courses informational as well as enjoyable for your students, it is important that your course creator provides sufficient types of lessons. 

Fortunately, Graphy does not disappoint us in this case! It offers a variety of lessons to improve the overall understanding of your students and provide them with more value.

Let us check out all the lessons available in Graphy.

PDF Lessons 

PDF Lessons are great when you want to provide textual content to your students. Graphy provides responsive PDF lessons that work well on all devices. 

You can upload upto 250 MB of PDF file from your local device or import it from Google Drive.

You also get good adjustment options. (I have discussed them under the Student Interface below!) 

Video Lessons

Video Lessons are useful for providing interactive learning content to your students. 

Graphy lets you directly paste video links from YouTube, Vimeo, SproutVideo, DailyMotion or other video platforms. You can also embed video code from platforms like Loom, Vadootv, Sendspark, etc. 

If you are with the AppSumo deal, you cannot upload videos. They do provide unlimited bandwidth, but it’s of no use since you cannot upload videos.

Audio Lessons

Graphy lets you upload audio lessons up to 200 MB in size that can be easily played on their web-based audio player.

File Upload

File Uploads can come in handy when you want to provide some downloadable content like PDFs, infographics, documents, etc to your students. 

You can upload files up to 250 MB in size on their File Uploads lesson. However, you cannot view the file without downloading it. 

Text Lessons

Graphy offers versatile text-based lessons. 

Along with text, you can effortlessly embed iFrames, add images, links, HTML code, embed videos, tables, twitter posts, and more! It also offers good text formatting options.

However, you cannot upload audio or video files. They can only be embedded as links.

Link Lessons

Link lessons are helpful if you want to embed an entire web page into your course lesson. 

All you need to do is specify the page URL and it will be automatically embedded.

Assignments

If you wish to collect assignments from your students, this feature would interest you. 

As an instructor, you can specify instructions for your quiz and even upload media, (E.g. assignment questions.) 

Students can download it and then upload their assignments after they are done. The maximum file upload size is 100 MB.

Quiz Lessons 

I found the Quiz Lessons of Graphy the most interesting and interactive. It supports 5 question types to better evaluate a student’s understanding. 

Quiz Questions include:

• Single correct answer
• Multiple correct answer
• Match the column
• Numerical/ fill in the blanks
• Subjective questions

Out of all the online course platforms I have tested and reviewed, the Quiz Creator of Graphy looks the most advanced and interactive. 

You can also tinker with additional settings like:

• Adding explanations for the right answer
• Setting a time limit to the quiz
• Deducting marks for wrong answers
• Limiting the number of retakes
• Setting a passing percentage
• Arranging questions by topic
• Randomizing the questions 

SCORM Lessons

Graphy also lets you import SCORM packages within your online course. You can upload zip files of up to 250 MB in your lessons. 

Honestly, I have never used it before. But if you use Scorm lessons, you can take advantage of this feature with Graphy LMS!

Live Class

With Graphy, you can even conduct live classes by integrating services like Zoom Meeting, Zoom Webinars, and YouTube Live Streams. 

You can also enable live chat and upload a thumbnail for your live session. 

But you know what’s the best part? There’s no limitation on the number of students. So, you can seamlessly add unlimited students to your live sessions at a time!

Previously, there were some minor issues with conducting Live classes via Zoom. The issue thas been resolved now and you can find a smooth teaching experience.

Live Test

Now, a new lesson type has been added in Graphy where you can conduct live tests with your students. With this feature, your learners can simultaneously give the same test and it will be submitted automatically after the set time interval.

Forms

Graphy also lets you create simple forms using labels, radio buttons, check boxes, number field, date field, text fields, text areas, file upload button, etc. 

These are helpful if you need to collect details or conduct some surveys or quizzes with your students! 

Drip Content 

The Drip Content feature is helpful when you want to schedule every lesson of your course on specific days. 

When creating a new course, Graphy offers two types of content scheduling:

Enrolment-Wise

You can specify the number of days from the student’s enrollment, after which a lesson is available. So, every new student will receive content as per his/her enrollment date. 

Fixed Date-Wise

You can specify pre-defined dates on which lessons will be available.

Whatever option you choose will apply to all lessons under that course. You can also set email reminders, so the learner is notified when a new lesson is available. 

Overall, the admin interface looks decent, but I wasn’t much impressed with it. They can definitely make some more improvements in their design and offer color-coded snippets for coding, just like Teachable course platform!

Pricing Options

Student Pricing

Student Pricing refers to the plans you can offer to your student for purchasing your online courses. Graphy lets you create 3 types of Student Pricing plans. 

• Free Plan: Under this plan, you can offer courses to your students making no payments!

You can also limit the course access till:

• A fixed date
• Specific number of days
• By maximum watch time

A good practice is to first release shorter courses for free and then offer a more detailed course on the same topic for a price!

• One-time Payment: One time payment means that the student can get access to your entire course by paying the amount at once. 

Graphy lets you set a one-time pricing and limit the access to your course:

• Till a fixed date
• Till a specific number of days after purchase 
• By maximum video watch time

• Recurring Subscription: Recurring subscription means that a student can access your courses by paying for them on a weekly/monthly basis. 

You can set a fixed amount to be paid by the student and also tinker with additional functions like:

• Charging a setup fee
• Including a free trial
• Limiting the number of payments
• Stopping course access after all the payments are made. 

Payment Options 

Graphy’s USP is probably its diverse payment options. It supports 14 different currencies including Indian Rupee, US Dollar, Dirham, Euro, Pound, etc.

All you need to do is select a currency. The payment methods would be displayed accordingly. 

For example, if you choose the Indian Rupee, you will find 9 payment options including Stripe, PayU Money, Instamojo Razorpay, Paytm, etc that you can connect with Graphy by entering your secret key. 

You can also create GST invoices, modify checkout messages, invoice settings, tax details and a lot more.

Graphy is one of the rare LMS platforms where you get to see so many options for payment gateways. And because it is an Indian company, it supports maximum options for Indian users.

Therefore, I feel Indians should definitely check out Graphy! 

Student Interface

The student interface looks decent and easy to use. When you log in through your student account and go to a particular course, it displays the course progress on top of the lessons. 

You can visit my demo course to experience the student interface yourself. I have created this demo course just for the testing purpose.

Types of Lessons

Video Lessons

Video Lessons are played automatically when the student clicks on the lesson.

However, the auto-play functionality can be stopped from the Admin settings.

PDF Lessons

PDF options are quite good. You can zoom in/out, switch to full screen view, and jump to the previous/next page. 

Audio Lessons

Audio tracks play well, but the interface of Audio lessons can be improved. 

Text Lessons 

Text Lessons support a wide variety of functions. 

All the media and embeds including images, tables, video embeds, twitter embeds, html codes, etc are displayed well on the student interface. 

Quiz Lessons

The Quiz Lessons look really impressive and colorful. 

Before starting the quiz, you can see the attempts remaining and all the 5 types of quizzes are very interesting!

Overall, the student interface offers a good quality of lessons that help maximize online learning. If you want to get the feel of the student interface, you can check out my free demo course on Graphy!

Security Features

To ensure an all-round security of your online courses and your admin account, Graphy offers lots of security features.

• Device Login Limit: Lets you restrict the number of devices a student can use to access your online course.
• 2FA: Introduces a second step of user verification while an admin logs in to their account.
• Downloads Limit: Lets you decide how many times a student can download any media/file.
• Dynamic Watermarking: Displays the students’ email, phone number, and the page URL over PDFs and videos. This helps in analysing which student is screen recording your content. 
• Video Encoding: Lets you decide the video qualities that a student can watch your videos in. However, Graphy does not let you upload videos on the AppSumo plan, which makes this feature unusable for us.
• DRM Encryption: The video content on Graphy remains encrypted when it is stored an transmitted to the users. This ensures that only the real authorized users can access the video content.

Content Management

Content Management comprises a variety of functions. For example,

• Courses – Shows you a list of all the courses you have created
• Packages – Lets you offer multiple courses together as a bundle
• Asset Library – Displays a list of all the media and files uploaded on Graphy
• Question Bank – Stores all questions used in quizzes under every course. 
• Quiz Reviews – Helps the instructor manually check and assign marks for subjective quizzes
• Assignments – Helps the instructor check and assign marks for submitted assignments
• Live Classes – Shows details of every live class conducted on your platform
• Ratings & Reviews – Allows learners to submit ratings on your courses

User Management

Under the Users tab, you can easily add, remove, and manage new learners, admin, instructors, affiliates, and subscribers. The interesting part is that you can manually add learners by entering that name, email, phone number, and setting a password for their account.

However, the password is displayed as plain text in the learner’s email. Graphy can work on applying encryption here.

In case if you have used a contact form within your course, the details of all the students would be visible under Subscribers. As an admin, you can import and export the entries, and view details of every user from the Actions button.  

Bulk Import and Export Students

In case you already have a student base and wish to switch to Graphy, you can use their Bulk Enroll feature to transfer all your students into the Graphy platform.

All you need to do is download their excel sheet template, fill in your students’ details, and import the CSV file back into Graphy. Simple, isn’t it?

Similarly, you can also use the Bulk Export feature to download a list of all your students as well.

User Engagement

Forums

The ability to create forums is a very innovative feature offered by Graphy. Any person who signs up on Graphy can leave comments or add a post in your forum. 

Additionally, you can also block specific words in users’ posts and enable reviewing posts before publishing them. Forums would be beneficial for starting general discussions on a topic or getting your students’ doubts cleared.

Course Discussions

Graphy offers a comment box under every lesson where students can leave their doubts, feedback, and opinions. 

The comment box offers basic formatting options. You can even insert links and images to make your comment more interesting. 

Web Push Notifications

Using the Web Push Notifications feature, you can easily send personalized notifications to students of your choice. All you need to do is create a New Campaign and choose your target audience.

Then you can enter your message and choose where you want your message to be displayed. Graphy also lets you upload images and set a timing to send your message. 

You can either:

• Immediately send the notification
• Schedule it to a specific date and time
• Or add it as a recurring message to appear on specific intervals

They also have a Mobile Push Notifications feature and an SMS feature (recently added), which is available on their mobile apps. However, in order to use their SMS feature, you need to complete some formalities first.

Design

The site builders and page builders of Graphy are highly customizable. Let’s check out what we can achieve with them.

Website Builder

With Graphy’s website Builder, you can either customize pre-designed site pages or build new pages from scratch using sections.

The site builder features 2 free themes – Light and Dark. These are quite limited, though. I hope to see more themes on Graphy in the future!

Below it, you can see a list of pages like Home page, Landing page, Checkout page, About us, Refund page, FAQ page, Privacy Policy, etc. These can be edited in a visual editor as per your requirements.

Landing Page Builder

Landing page is the first thing your students see when they view your course. The landing pages of every course can be edited from the Course Settings. 

Graphy is super flexible with editing landing pages. It offers 25+ sections like Profile, Curriculum, Price tag, Feedback, Coming soon, Features, Testimonials, Contact, Video content, Image, etc.

You can build an attractive landing page using these sections. It also lets you edit the text, background, color, themes, brand logo, custom scripts, SEO, and more!

Though these sections are fantastic, I also wish they had a countdown timer and more options to upsell my courses!

Mobile Apps

It supports mobile apps for iOS and Android devices. From the settings, you can select the basic settings that you wish to implement in your apps.

If you wish to set up an Android app, it would be better to contact their customer support for additional help.

Languages

Graphy supports 8 languages including English, Hindi, Spanish, French, Portuguese, etc.

Marketing

Blogs 

Blogs can be a powerful way of marketing your online courses and sharing regular updates with students. 

The Blog editor of Graphy LMS is highly customisable. You can build your blog from a collection of 25+ sections including slider, video, forms, course feedback, pricing, skills, FAQ, Contact Us, and more! 

Coupon Codes

Coupon codes are interesting ways of attracting more customers to your product! Graphy lets you generate unique coupon codes in bulk. 

All you need to do is select a course and specify the code text, validity, and the number of codes required.

Finally, you can also check out some additional settings like:

• Specifying the discount percentage
• Setting a maximum discount value
• Setting a minimum cart value on which the code will be applied
• Specifying how many times the code can be used

In my opinion, this feature will surely help you have more control when offering discounts! The best part is this feature is also available on the Basic plan!

Wallets and Credits 

Every user that signs up on your platform is assigned a virtual wallet on Graphy. As an admin, you can issue credits that the students can use to purchase your courses.

You can use this feature to create credit codes or partner with your affiliates!

Refer and Earn 

The Refer and Earn program of Graphy is quite simple and straightforward. Every student is given a unique referral code for promoting your online course.

When others purchase the course using that referral code, the student earns credits points.

These credit points can then be used by the student for buying more courses on your platform. 

You can customize the program so even the referee can earn credit points when they sign up or make their first transaction. Additionally, you can also set a validity period for the credit points. 

Affiliates

I really liked the Affiliates feature of Graphy, where you can allow your students and other users to become affiliates to your courses. 

Every user who promotes your courses and brings in more sign ups is assigned a percentage of the commission.

If you need more customization, you can:

• Limit the affiliate program to specific courses
• Set a commission percentage
• Set the number of days for which the affiliate link will remain active.

Related Products

This feature is like the Upsells feature found in Teachable or Thinkific but is nowhere near as advanced. You can find the Related Products option under Course Information.

It helps you specify a course that would be displayed when a user is purchasing the current course. You can also enable the ‘Suggest in Cart’ feature and add a custom message along with it!

Integrations 

Graphy partners with a range of services to make sure you have all the tools to create the best online courses!

You can find the following 3rd party integrations on Graphy. 

• For Analytics: Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel
• For Videos: Vimeo, SproutVideo
• For Live sessions: Zoom
• For Logistics: Pickrr
• For Marketing: Fomo, Zoho CRM
• For Email Marketing: MailChimp
• For Transactional Emails: Mailgun 
• For Automation: Zapier, Pabbly Connect
• For OTPs: Fast2SMS, MakeMySMS, SMSFresh, SMSPrima, etc.

I really appreciate the diversity of services supported by Graphy. But it lags with email marketing and transactional mail services. I hope they integrate with more email marketing services in the future.

Webhooks

Webhooks are used for connecting two services or applications together. You can connect automation services like Pabbly Connect or Integrately with Graphy using webhooks.

However, this feature is only available in the AppSumo Tier 3 plan. (If you are looking for a platform that supports lots of integrations, webhooks, and API functions, you can check out Acadle course creator!)

Custom Domain

Graphy allows you to create a white labelled LMS platform for your students. This means that you can use your company’s branding in your online courses.

It lets you add a custom domain with Cloudflare or CNAME mapping. 

Additionally, you can also white label your online platform by adding your own brand logo and colors to give your courses a more professional feel!

Certificates

Certifications are an inevitable and attractive part of online courses. Students love getting rewards, and certifications are one way to do that!

Graphy offers a certificate template you can customise to some extent. You can upload custom images, backgrounds, and texts on the certificate to give it a personal touch! 

It offers basic formatting options along with the ability to change the font type, color, and size. If you’re more inclined to technical stuff, you can even edit the HTML code of the certificate as per your requirements!

I liked how Graphy lets you decide a completion percentage and a minimum passing percentage for a course/quiz. A student is eligible for the certificate if he/she qualifies for that criteria.

But I really wish to see more certificate templates on Graphy! 

Email Templates

By default, Graphy has pre-designed email templates for various student events like welcome emails, forgotten password emails, content availability emails, live class emails, etc. They automatically send these emails to the students.

The templates can be edited, but you cannot customize these templates according to your preference. Mailing students separately is also not possible. However, you can send them WhatsApp messages if they have added their mobile number!

Course Analytics

For keeping a track of your students’ progress, you can check out the User details under the learners tab. 

You can also view the Reports tab to find detailed reports on sales, transactions and daily usage.

Customer Support

Graphy offers a decent Email Support and Live Chat support for its users. 

But their Live chat support is not very consistent. Sometimes I received quick responses but at other times, I had to wait for their replies. (I personally like the quick and helpful live chat support of Acadle LMS.)

They also have a knowledge base where they have discussed lots of topics. However, it’s not deep, so you won’t find the solution to all your problems on their knowledge base.  

Finally, they also have a blog with informative articles around LMS platforms and how to grow your online courses.

Pros of Graphy

1. Indian Payment Options

Graphy offers 9 payment options for the Indian users, including Stripe Payments, Razorpay, Paytm, Instamojo, etc. This makes it a great option for Indian users. 

2. Excellent Course Options

You can offer more value to your students with a variety of lessons, including video and audio lessons, PDF lessons, assignments, live classes, quizzes, forms, and more!

3. Advanced Drip Scheduling

Graphy offers advanced dripping functions for your content. So you can schedule your content after specific days of a student’s enrollment or release every lesson on a particular date.

4. Excellent Marketing Functionality

Graphy offers lots of marketing features like bulk coupon code generator, blogs, Affiliate program, Refer and Earn program, etc, online wallets and credit system, etc. 

5. Good Basic Plan

The Basic plan of Graphy offers all the essential features including unlimited courses, videos, and storage space, along with 300 live class students and 10k active learners! This is good for beginner online instructors!

6. Helpful Call Support

Graphy also offers a helpful call support for the Indian users where you can get all your queries resolved with ease.

7. DRM Encryption on Videos

Graphy ensures that the video content is stored in encrypted format and only authorized users are able to play the video content from their platform.

Cons of Graphy

1. No Coding Lessons

Graphy does not support coding lessons yet. I hope they implement it in the future! 

2. Average Page Builder

The Landing Page Builder of Graphy needs some improvements. I hope they add the countdown timer and upsell options on it soon! 

3. No In-Built Emails

Graphy doesn’t support emailing as of now. This feature is still under development. I hope they bring it soon!

Graphy Alternatives 

1. Thinkific

Thinkific is a beginner friendly and affordable LMS solution. It offers the secure stripe payments options along with zero transaction fee on all plans! The only downside is its lack of coding lessons.

2. Teachable

Teachable is a suitable option if your primary focus is promoting and selling your courses. It offers advanced marketing tools, along with coding lessons and an impressive bulk coupon generator.

The downside of Teachable is its higher transaction fee!

3. Acadle 

Acadle is an easy-to-use LMS platform that supports webhooks, API, and Integrations! It offers fast customer support and bulk coupon codes.

However, you won’t find any coding lessons, video playback, and subscription options on Acadle.

4. Learnyst

Learnyst is another popular LMS platform that offers a variety of Indian payment options and a 0% transaction fee. Along with that, it also offers secure DRM Encryption to safeguard your online courses from piracy and a feature-rich free plan for beginners.

However, the lack of coding lessons along with a complex and buggy interface are some of its downsides. The pricing plans of Learnyst start from ₹3499/month. By using my link, you can get a 25% off on all paid plans of Learnyst. (Use coupon code: KRIPESH25)

Should you use Graphy?

Graphy course platform brings great features to the table at affordable rates! It is more fine-tuned and focused on the Indian audiences, which is why you will find lots of Indian payment options, GST invoices, call support, etc on this platform. 

Therefore, if your audience is of Indian origin, you should definitely look at Graphy’s Annual plan.

If we compare Graphy with its alternatives, I would recommend using Acadle only when you need webhooks and gamification features. 

Graphy is a more established and promising tool with a bright future. Even though it is not as established as Thinkific or Teachable, it is a complete value for your money at the price point it’s being offered.

Now that it is backed by a reliable platform like Unacademy, you can definitely trust this LMS platform!

Conclusion 

Graphy LMS, loaded with hundreds of impressive features, looks like a very affordable option for beginners and professional instructors and content creators.

It is especially suitable for the Indian audiences because you get a variety of Indian payment options on Graphy.  

Have you used any LMS platforms before? Well, what do you think about Graphy? Let me know in the comments section below. 

If you are wondering how the Graphy course creator looks and functions, you can go through my demo course to get a better idea.  

Anyway, this is Kripesh signing off! Hope you found this review helpful. You can join my Newsletter to stay updated with the latest articles and reviews. 

I’ll be back with more interesting stuff soon. Till then, keep learning. See you in the next one!