Five AI apps every student should use, beyond NotebookLM

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AI tools that help enhance student productivity and academic performance effectively.

Check out the top platforms that offer automated research, writing assistance, and personalized study aids.

These practical integration of AI simplifies complex tasks for modern learners.

Let’s acknowledge that AI is widely used, and it’s not necessarily a bad thing. When used as a tool, AI can be very helpful in certain situations, such as completing an assignment at the last minute or creating a group presentation. Well, student life can get quite hectic, so any tool that helps you reduce your workload isn’t detrimental at all. 

While popular tools, such as NotebookLM by Google, exist, many aren’t aware of even newer tools built exclusively for students. But worry not, as we’ve curated a list of all the free AI tools you, as a student, can use in your day-to-day life. Let’s have a look at them.

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Disclaimer: While AI tools are super handy, no doubt, we still wouldn’t recommend completely relying on them. It’s best to use them just as a “tool” and not more than that. The real learning experience is when you’re stuck and have to figure stuff out on your own.

Ryne

If you’re a self-learner, then you might have always faced a problem where finding solutions to your questions becomes very hard. Well, you’re definitely not alone, and that’s where this free AI tool, Ryne, comes in. While it’s a complete package that offers a lot of tools depending upon your needs, we specifically want to point out the chat feature. 

It helps you in finding the right answers for your questions, as it uses the latest Claude, GPT and Gemini models! While some of the pro features are locked behind a paywall, most of the features can be used for completely free, and trust me, they come in handy.

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Studygenie

Studying late for an exam and trying to watch every piece of content you can find on YouTube might not be the best approach. You can challenge yourself in a fun, interactive way. Well that’s where Studygenie comes into play. Instead of revising through your study material, it’s better to just upload it here. 

By doing so, you can let the website prepare a set of questions, which can then be used as a quiz. For every wrong answer, the AI will even explain why it’s wrong, hence helping you to learn even more. We definitely recommend you give it a try for your next exam! 

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PDF.ai

PDFs are everywhere! Be it your study material or even your question papers. Whenever you upload a PDF file to any AI chatbot, it just goes through with it and gives you a summary. To dig deeper, you often have to give a command, which is fine at first but gets annoying after multiple PDFs. And that’s where our next tool comes in. 

PDF.ai makes sure that it digs deep into all the corners of a PDF to find as much relevant information as possible. That’s because it has been exclusively built to serve this purpose. It even lets you chat with the document and find specific information, which otherwise may be tough to spot. While the service isn’t completely free, the free plan is adequate for limited usage.

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Gamma

Presentations are an essential part of student life. While preparing yourself to present is already challenging, you know what’s even tougher? Creating presentations that look appealing enough to get you those good grades. Now this is where our next tool, Gamma AI, will help you out. All you need to do from your end is just give a prompt about the topic you’re working on and basically tell the AI how you would want your presentation to look. 

After that, the tool will give out the results, and the best part is that you can even edit the presentations multiple times if you don’t like the result. You can make it as brief as possible while still keeping it appealing to look at. While the basic plan is quite limited, you can generate up to 8-10 presentations, which is good enough for most students. 

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Jenni

Creating research papers is definitely not everyone’s cup of tea. But if you have taken on that challenge, then there is just the right tool for you. Jenni AI helps you with any kind of research that you are working on. The main help that this tool provides is reading and writing your report, but more importantly, it also helps you in organising all your research data. 

This ensures you don’t miss any crucial information. Basic features such as support for PDFs are present, but it also supports essential features such as citations, and they help you choose different styles as well, depending on your preference. While the service is a paid one, the features offered in the free plan should be good enough for most users!

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With that said, this was our list of some of the AI tools that we found super useful for students. We hope that these tools assist you in your work and help you make your student life easy. For more such guides, keep on reading Digit.in.

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Madhav Banka

Madhav works as a consultant at Digit, covering news, branded and feature stories. He has been writing about tech and video games since 2020. While not busy working, you'll usually find him roaming around Delhi in hopes of getting good pictures, playing video games or watching films and F1 during weekends.

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