AI tools for students

Every tool here is reviewed for one thing: whether a student can actually get value from it. Filter by category, cost or the task you need to get done.

16 tools

Language courses with feedback from a community of native speakers on written and spoken exercises

Codeium

Coding Free plan

Free, fast AI autocomplete and chat for students who want a no-cost coding assistant

Getting a quick, evidence-based read on what the research says about a claim

Cursor

Coding Free plan

AI-assisted coding in a full code editor built around chat and autocomplete

Elicit

Research Free plan

Automating literature reviews by extracting answers from many papers at once

AI pair programmer built into your editor that autocompletes code, explains unfamiliar codebases, and can run autonomous "agent mode" tasks across multiple files.

Vocabulary building through spaced repetition using clips of real native speakers

A Google research assistant that answers questions using only the sources you upload.

An AI search engine that answers questions and cites the sources it used.

Writing, running, and getting AI help on code entirely in the browser with no setup

Reading dense academic PDFs with an AI chat assistant alongside the text