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

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

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

An AI-powered calendar and task manager that automatically schedules your to-dos around your existing meetings.

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.

A paraphrasing and summarising tool aimed at writers and students.

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