Ani's Review of the Homework Picture App

Homework pic, also known as HwPic, was created and founded by Tiklat Issa, a full-time dental student at USC’s Ostrow School of Dentistry. The app is an online tutoring application designed to predominantly help high school or undergraduate students. The app is available to both iPhone and Android users.

How it works is, you take a picture of the question you are having trouble with (only one question per submission) and you send it into the app at which point it is received by professional tutors who will solve the problem in detail. The tutors will email you an answer with a complete explanation within roughly 5-20 minutes. HwPic can answer questions related to Algebra, Algebra 2, College Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Pre-Calculus, Calculus and many more Math & Science subjects. The application also offers tutors who will grade essays for grammar and spelling.

There are roughly 7 tutors on the other end of the app responding to the roughly 60-100 questions a day that the app receives. Issa is one of those tutors responding to the questions. On top of all his dental work, he makes sure to find time to reply to pending questions. Once tutors have replied to your question you will receive a text message notifying you that you have an email with the picture answer. However, the text messages can be stopped if you wish.

The application is free to download however you must either earn your “knowledge points” or purchase them. Knowledge points are basically your currency used to send in more questions.

Pricing for the knowledge points range from $1-50 and each question depending on the subject will cost a certain number of percentage points. One dollar for instance, will get you 100 knowledge points, two will get you 225 points and five will get you 600 points. You can, however earn 50 knowledge points by referring a friend or rating the application. In regards to cost for subject matter, one Algebra point will cost 86 knowledge points, Algebra 2 is 94 points and Geometry is 96 points.

New users all start with 150 free knowledge points. And according to the reviews, users seem to be responding well to the service. The average rating for the app is a 4.4 based on the 2,137 reviews. The app has about 10,000-50,000 installs.

I downloaded the app, and it is extremely user friendly and visually appealing. They make it very easy for users to navigate through the options.