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AI tools for teachers
Practical tools for planning lessons, creating resources and making everyday teaching easier. Most offer a free plan.
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Brainly
Free plan + paidHomework help with step-by-step explanations from AI and a community of learners and experts.
Brainscape
Free plan + paidSmart flashcards that use confidence-based repetition, with AI to create cards from notes.
ChatPDF
Free plan + paidUpload any PDF, get an instant summary and ask questions about it in plain language.
Coconote
Free plan + paidRecords lectures and turns them into notes, transcripts, flashcards and quizzes.
Connected Papers
Free plan + paidCreates a visual graph of papers connected to any study, so you can see a whole research area at a glance.
Teaching guideFree plan
Opens the tool's own website in a new tab.
Consensus
Free plan + paidAn AI search engine that answers your questions using only published research papers.
Desmos
FreeA free graphing calculator and maths activities that make maths visual and interactive.
Elicit
Free plan + paidAn AI research assistant that finds, summarises and compares academic studies for you.
Gauth
Free plan + paidSnap a photo of a homework question and get step-by-step explanations in many subjects.
GeoGebra
FreeFree interactive maths tools for graphing, geometry, 3D and ready-made learning activities.
Research & study
Explore art, history and culture from museums worldwide, with AI-powered experiments and games.
Teaching guideFree to use
Opens the tool's own website in a new tab.
Google Lens
FreePoint your camera at anything to search, translate, copy text or learn about it.
Google Scholar
FreeGoogle's free search engine for academic papers, books and theses, with citation tools.
Teaching guideFree to use
Opens the tool's own website in a new tab.
Humata
Free plan + paidAsk questions about your PDFs and documents and get answers with highlighted sources.
Jenni AI
Free plan + paidAn AI writing assistant for essays and research papers that suggests next sentences and adds citations.
Julius
Free plan + paidAnalyse data and create charts by asking questions in plain English, no coding needed.
Knowt
Free plan + paidTurns your notes, PDFs, slides and videos into flashcards, quizzes and practice tests for free.
Liner
Free plan + paidAn AI search and research assistant that gives answers with reliable, clickable sources.
Litmaps
Free plan + paidVisual maps of research papers that help you discover and track related literature.
Mathway
Free plan + paidSolves maths problems from basic arithmetic to calculus, statistics and chemistry.
Mendeley
FreeA free reference manager to organise papers, annotate PDFs and create citations.
Mindgrasp
PaidUpload documents, videos or lectures and get summaries, notes, flashcards and quizzes.
NotebookLM
Free plan + paidUpload your notes, PDFs or videos and get summaries, quizzes, mind maps and podcast-style audio.
Paperpal
Free plan + paidAI writing help for academic papers, theses and research work: grammar, language and citations.
Photomath
Free plan + paidSnap a photo of a maths problem and see clear, step-by-step solutions and explanations.
Quizlet
Free plan + paidFlashcards, practice tests and study games, with AI to turn notes into study sets.
R Discovery
Free plan + paidA personalised feed of research papers based on your interests, with audio summaries.
RemNote
Free plan + paidNotes and flashcards in one place, with AI that turns your notes and PDFs into practice.
ResearchRabbit
Free plan + paidDiscover related research papers and authors through visual maps, starting from one paper.
Scholarcy
Free plan + paidTurns long articles, reports and papers into short summary flashcards with key points.
SciSpace
Free plan + paidRead, understand and chat with research papers; it explains confusing parts in simple words.
Scite
Free plan + paidShows whether other research supports or contradicts a paper, so you can judge claims better.
Semantic Scholar
FreeA free AI-powered search engine for millions of academic papers, with quick one-line summaries.
Teaching guideFree to use
Opens the tool's own website in a new tab.
STORM (Stanford)
FreeA free research tool from Stanford that writes Wikipedia-style articles with citations on any topic.
Teaching guideFree to use
Opens the tool's own website in a new tab.
StudyFetch
Free plan + paidTurns lecture notes, slides and recordings into flashcards, quizzes and an AI tutor.
Symbolab
Free plan + paidA step-by-step maths solver and practice tool for algebra, calculus, geometry and more.
Turbolearn AI
Free plan + paidRecords lectures or reads videos and PDFs, then creates notes, flashcards and quizzes.
Undermind
Free plan + paidA deep research search engine that reads hundreds of papers to find exactly what you need.
Wolfram Alpha
Free plan + paidA computational engine that gives accurate answers for maths, science, data and unit conversions.
Zotero
FreeA free tool to collect, organise and cite your research sources in any citation style.