Ace your assignments, summarise research papers, build study plans, and learn faster with these verified-free AI tools built for academic success.
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AI search engine with cited sources.
Perplexity is an AI-powered search engine that gives direct answers with real-time web citations. Free tier offers unlimited basic searches and access to GPT-4o Mini.
AI research assistant for papers.
Elicit searches and summarises academic papers automatically. Find relevant studies, extract key findings, and build literature reviews without reading every paper. Free tier: 5,000 credits/month.
AI article summariser for students.
Scholarcy reads research papers, reports, and book chapters and creates interactive summary flashcards. Free browser extension available with daily summaries.
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AI tutor by Khan Academy.
Khanmigo is Khan Academy's AI tutor powered by GPT-4. It guides students through math, science, and coding with Socratic questioning — never just giving answers. Free for students in US.
AI quiz generator from any content.
Quizgecko instantly generates quizzes, flashcards, and study notes from any text, PDF, video, or URL. Free tier: 10 questions per quiz, 3 quizzes/month.
Homework helper by Google.
Socratic is a free Google app that uses AI to help students understand homework across subjects. Snap a photo of any question and get step-by-step explanations.
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Google's multimodal AI assistant.
Gemini handles text, images, and code with Google-scale knowledge. Free on gemini.google.com with Gemini 1.5 Flash.
Safe, helpful AI assistant by Anthropic.
Claude excels at nuanced writing, long-document analysis, and coding. The free tier on claude.ai gives access to Claude 3 Haiku.
The world-leading AI chatbot by OpenAI.
ChatGPT answers questions, writes essays, summarises documents, and codes—all in a conversational interface. Free tier uses GPT-3.5.
Affordable AI writer for blogs and emails.
Rytr produces blog posts, emails, product descriptions, and SEO meta in 30+ languages. Free tier: 10,000 characters per month.
AI copywriting for marketing teams.
Copy.ai generates ad copy, product descriptions, blog intros, and email sequences. Free tier includes 2,000 words per month.
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Chat with any PDF document.
Upload a PDF and ask questions about it in plain English. ChatPDF extracts, summarises, and explains your documents instantly.
All-in-one PDF toolkit with AI.
SmallPDF provides 21 PDF tools—compress, convert, merge, e-sign—plus an AI assistant for summarisation. Free: 2 tasks/hour.
AI document translation tool.
DocTranslate translates PDFs, Word files, and PowerPoints while preserving the original formatting. Free: 2 files/day.
Research paper AI assistant.
Humata reads academic papers and legal documents, then answers detailed questions with citations. Free: 60 pages/month.
AI PDF reader and summariser.
PDF.ai lets you upload multiple PDFs and ask cross-document questions. Free tier: 1 PDF at a time, unlimited questions.
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Best-in-class AI language translator.
DeepL provides nuanced, context-aware translations in 31 languages — widely considered more accurate than Google Translate. Free tier: 500,000 characters/month via API.
Free AI translation by Google.
Google Translate supports 133+ languages with text, voice, image, and document translation. Fully free with no limits on the web app. Powered by Google's Neural Machine Translation.
Simplify and translate complex text with AI.
Simplish uses AI to simplify complicated documents into plain English and translates them simultaneously — great for legal, medical, and technical content.