14 AI study tools for high schoolers (flashcards, NotebookLM, quizzes)

Upload notes, slides, PDFs or video links and it answers only from them, with citations. Makes study guides, flashcards, quizzes and audio overviews. Stricter rules apply under 18.

Free, official SAT practice built with the test's makers. After a practice test, a link sends your teen to lessons on exactly what they missed.

The official app for the digital SAT and PSAT, with free full-length practice tests in the same format as test day. Take one timed test early, then again a week before the real one.

Flashcards, games and practice tests, with AI that builds study sets from notes. Huge library of sets made by other students. Make your own sets when you can.

Watch for: Q-Chat tutor ended in June 2025; student-made sets can contain errors.

A free-leaning Quizlet alternative: AI makes flashcards and quizzes from notes, PDFs or lecture videos, and it imports Quizlet sets. Many of its features are free to use.

Watch for: Skim AI cards before a big test; some definitions come out wrong.

Turns PDFs, videos and notes into flashcards and quizzes with spaced repetition and a game-style lives system. Over a million public decks. Works on phones for quick review.

No AI, but the gold standard for spaced repetition, loved by medical students. Free on computers and Android; the iPhone app is paid. Takes setup.

Flashcards with confidence-based repetition: rate how well you knew it, and it shows weaker cards more often. Clean and simple. Good for vocabulary and dates.

Ask it to quiz you on a chapter and it asks one question at a time, checks your answer and explains what you missed. Paste in your own notes so it quizzes on what your class covered.

Watch for: Can invent facts. Quiz from your own notes when possible.

Step-by-step explanations with built-in quizzes, images and videos. Pairs well with NotebookLM. Ask it to quiz you one question at a time and to wait for your answer before explaining the right one.

An experiment that turns a textbook chapter into an interactive text, narrated slides, an audio lesson and a mind map, adjusted to grade level and interests.

Watch for: An experiment; features and availability change.

Type a topic and it builds a short interactive lesson with pictures, vocabulary and check-yourself questions. Good for a quick primer before class. Then read the real source.

Watch for: An experiment; you must sign up first.

Free graphing, scientific and test-style calculators. Many state tests and the SAT use a Desmos calculator, so practice with it. Learn its shortcuts well before test day.

Checks math, chemistry and physics answers and shows plots. Step-by-step solutions need the paid student plan. Use it to check a finished problem set, not to fill it in, and look at the plots to see why an answer makes sense.