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    Duolingo

    Duolingo, Inc.

    The world's most popular language app, now AI-first with Video Call practice and AI-built courses.

    The gamified language-learning platform that has rebuilt itself around AI: its proprietary Birdbrain model personalizes exercise difficulty, generative AI authored the 148 new courses launched in a single day in 2025, and paid subscribers practice speaking through Video Call with Lily, an AI character that remembers prior conversations. Core learning stays free with ads; Super and Max subscriptions unlock the advanced AI features.

    Worth knowing

    Declared itself 'AI-first' in April 2025, then launched 148 AI-built courses at once — its first 100 took about 12 years.

    • language-learning
    • tutor
    • gamification
    • speaking-practice
  • View Speak details
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    Speak

    Speakeasy Labs

    AI language tutor built around speaking out loud, with real-time feedback.

    A language-learning app that puts speaking first: lessons are built around saying things out loud, with speech recognition grading your pronunciation and an AI tutor that holds open-ended conversation and adapts the curriculum to your goals. Covers English, Spanish, French, Korean, Japanese, Italian and Chinese, with 15M+ downloads across iOS, Android and the web.

    Worth knowing

    OpenAI's Startup Fund led its Series B and joined every round since; a $78M Series C in Dec 2024 made Speak a $1B unicorn.

    • language-learning
    • speech
    • tutor
    • education
  • View Gauth details
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    Gauth

    ByteDance

    AI study companion — snap a photo of any homework problem for step-by-step help.

    A photo-based AI homework helper from ByteDance covering math, science, and humanities. Students photograph a problem and get step-by-step explanations, voice-based tutoring via the AI Live Tutor, and whiteboard-style walkthroughs, with live human tutors available as an escalation. Free to use with limits; a Gauth Plus subscription unlocks unlimited solutions and faster answers.

    Worth knowing

    Launched in 2019 as ByteDance's Gauthmath, a photo math solver; it hit #1 in US education app downloads in Q3 2025.

    • homework
    • tutoring
    • math
    • students
    • +1
  • View Brisk Teaching details
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    Brisk Teaching

    Brisk Teaching

    AI Chrome extension that adds 20+ tools to the sites teachers already use.

    An AI assistant for teachers delivered chiefly as a Chrome extension that overlays tools onto Google Docs, Slides, and common education platforms. It generates presentations, quizzes, lesson plans, rubrics, and feedback in a few clicks, and offers a richer web experience for planning. The core extension is free, with a Pro plan and custom school and district pricing.

    Worth knowing

    Founded by ex-Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Seesaw leaders; raised a $15M Series A led by Bessemer in 2025.

    • teacher-tools
    • chrome-extension
    • lesson-planning
    • education
  • View Synthesis Tutor details
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    Synthesis Tutor

    Synthesis

    An AI math tutor for kids ages 5 to 11.

    A voice-driven AI math tutor aimed at children ages 5 to 11, covering the K-5 curriculum and beyond. It adapts to each learner with performance-based personalization, interactive courses, progress tracking, and spoken AI-guided feedback. Parents can set up profiles for several children under one subscription.

    Worth knowing

    Spun out of Synthesis, the games-based school that began as Elon Musk's Ad Astra program for SpaceX employees' kids.

    • math
    • tutoring
    • kids
    • k-5
  • View Quizlet details
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    Quizlet

    Quizlet

    Flashcards and study sets with the Q-Chat AI tutor.

    A study platform best known for flashcards and learning games, now layered with AI through Q-Chat, a conversational tutor that uses the Socratic method to help students reason toward answers. Quizlet Plus removes daily learning-round caps and unlocks AI tutoring plus Expert Solutions for explaining tough problems. The free tier remains usable with reduced limits.

    Worth knowing

    Its Q-Chat tutor launched as one of the first products built on OpenAI's ChatGPT and quizzes Socratically instead of revealing answers.

    • flashcards
    • study-tools
    • tutoring
    • students
  • View Khanmigo details
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    Khanmigo

    Khan Academy

    Khan Academy's AI tutor and teaching assistant.

    An AI-powered tutor and teaching assistant from Khan Academy that guides learners through math, science, coding, and the humanities. Rather than handing over answers, it uses Socratic prompts to push students toward their own reasoning. For teachers it drafts lesson plans, rubrics, and exit tickets aligned to Khan Academy's content library.

    Worth knowing

    Launched March 14, 2023 as an OpenAI showcase partner — the same day GPT-4 was released to the public.

    • tutoring
    • education
    • k-12
    • teacher-tools
  • View Kuraplan details
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    Kuraplan

    Kuraplan

    AI lesson planner for teachers — curriculum-aligned plans, units, and worksheets.

    Kuraplan is an AI lesson-planning tool for teachers: enter a subject, year level, and objectives and it generates curriculum-aligned lesson plans, unit plans, and worksheets in minutes. Its AI is tuned to national curricula (NZ, Australian v9, UK, NCEA, Canadian, Irish) rather than defaulting to US standards. A free tier covers the core planners plus 21 no-signup classroom utilities and a worksheet library; Pro is $9/month, with school and district plans.

    Worth knowing

    Built ANZ-first; its New Zealand lesson plans are designed to honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi).

    • teacher-tools
    • lesson-planning
    • worksheets
    • education
  • View StudyFetch details
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    StudyFetch

    StudyFetch

    Turn your course materials into AI flashcards, quizzes, and a tutor.

    A study platform that ingests a student's own materials — PDFs, slides, notes, audio, and video — and turns them into flashcards, quizzes, and summaries. Its Spark.E tutor is trained on those uploads to answer questions, generate practice tests, and explain concepts over chat or voice. A free tier offers limited chats and uploads, with paid tiers unlocking unlimited use and a live lecture assistant.

    Worth knowing

    Raised $10M (Owl Ventures, Google for Startups AI Academy); CEO Esan Durrani is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree.

    • study-tools
    • flashcards
    • tutoring
    • students
  • View MagicSchool AI details
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    MagicSchool AI

    MagicSchool AI

    AI platform of 80+ tools for teachers and students.

    An education platform offering more than 80 AI tools for teachers — lesson planning, worksheet and quiz generation, IEP drafting, and feedback — plus a separate set of student tools for writing feedback and tutoring. The free tier covers core planning tools for individual teachers, while paid plans add unlimited generations and Studio Mode. Enterprise plans bring district-wide access, admin dashboards, and SSO.

    Worth knowing

    Founded by ex-teacher and principal Adeel Khan; grew to 6M+ educators in two years and raised a $45M Series B.

    • teacher-tools
    • education
    • lesson-planning
    • k-12
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    Photomath

    Google

    Scan a math problem with your camera for step-by-step solutions.

    A mobile math app that solves problems scanned with a smartphone camera, using OCR and AI to recognize handwritten and printed equations from arithmetic through calculus. It returns detailed step-by-step explanations to help students learn the method, not just the answer. The free app handles many problems, while Photomath Plus adds animated tutorials and textbook solutions.

    Worth knowing

    Acquired by Google in 2023 but still shipped as a standalone app, it solves problems from a phone-camera scan rather than typed input.

    • math
    • homework-help
    • students
    • mobile