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.

24 tools

A browser-based design tool with templates for presentations, posters and reports.

OpenAI's conversational AI assistant, used for explanation, drafting and brainstorming.

Claude

Studying Free plan

Anthropic's AI assistant, often used for working through long documents and detailed explanation.

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

Elicit

Research Free plan

Automating literature reviews by extracting answers from many papers at once

Automatically joining calls to record, transcribe, and summarize discussions with searchable highlights

Turning an outline or prompt into a designed slide deck or document in minutes

Gemini

Studying Free plan

Google's AI assistant, integrated with Google's own products.

Digital handwritten note-taking with AI-powered search, organization, and math and handwriting recognition

An academic writing workspace that links drafting, a source library and citations, with claims traced back to your sources.

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

Automatically transcribing and summarizing lectures, meetings, or study group discussions in real time