Best AI tools to study and learn
Tutors, study helpers and explainers for students and curious minds.
13 tools, ranked by how well reviewers rate them, how much people are talking about them this week, and how easy they are to start with. Filter by price, skill or device →
NotebookLM
Same family: Gemini
Asking questions about your own files, like PDFs, class notes, or reports, and getting answers based only on them.
Perplexity
Quick answers with links to sources, so you can check where facts came from.
ChatGPT
Everyday help with almost anything: questions, emails, plans, ideas, and pictures. Its voice mode lets you just talk.
Elicit
Students and researchers who need to sort through many research papers quickly.
QuillBot
Rewording sentences, summarizing, and citations for school, or for writing in a second language.
Consensus
Quickly checking what science says about a question, like 'Does creatine help memory?'
Hindsight 1.0
Memory for AI assistants that developers build. It lets them remember each user and learn from past mistakes instead of repeating them. Version 1.0 came out Oct 13.
Lathoa
A math app for kids where the AI makes mistakes on purpose, so kids learn by catching them. Clever.
replica-skill
Free Claude add-ons that study an app, rebuild your own version, test it, and fix what users complain about.
ai-system-design
A step-by-step course on designing AI products. For engineers learning the ropes.
atguigu-note
Course notes, in Chinese, on building with AI and 'vibe coding'.
Gakku
An AI writing coach for school-age kids. It talks them through their ideas and gives feedback as they write, rather than writing for them. Works on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android.
audio-ai-field-guide
A beginner-to-expert guide to how voice and audio AI works, from transcription to voice assistants.