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

Structured, practical language courses built by language teaching experts, aimed at real conversation skills

Brilliant

Math Free Trial

Interactive, visual courses in math, science, and computer science built around active problem-solving

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

Duolingo's top subscription tier, adding AI-powered Video Call conversation practice and Roleplay scenarios on top of the core gamified language course.

Elicit

Research Free plan

Automating literature reviews by extracting answers from many papers at once

Gemini

Studying Free plan

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

A Socratic AI tutor that guides students toward answers instead of just giving them, built on Khan Academy's curriculum

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

An all-in-one workspace with AI built in for writing, summarizing, and searching across your notes, docs, and connected apps.

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

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