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Talkpal
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI language coach offering conversational practice with real-time feedback across 130+ languages.

1.5M visits/mo9.9K saves
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Brilliant
✓ verifiedFreemium

Interactive learning app with an AI tutor for math, coding, science and data-visual, adaptive lessons for all ages.

2.6M visits/mo
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Semantic Scholar
✓ verifiedFree

Free AI-powered academic search engine indexing 236M+ papers, for researchers wanting semantic literature discovery and an augmented reader.

7.9M visits/mo13K saves
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ParakeetAI
✓ verifiedFreemium

Real-time AI interview assistant that transcribes questions and generates answers, marketed as undetectable on screen share.

1.2M visits/mo5.4K saves
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Up Learn
✓ verifiedPaid

AI-personalized online A Level and GCSE courses for UK students, backed by an A*/A grade guarantee or money back.

1.6M visits/mo
Pricing

No public pricing

Free trial available

No public pricing

No public pricing

No public pricing

GCSE Combined Science: from £49.99/month
Up Master (2028 access): £694.98 one-time for a single subject
Up Core (2028 access): £549.98 one-time for a single subject
Up Master monthly: £99.99/month pay-as-you-go
Up Core monthly: £74.99/month pay-as-you-go

Free trial available

Core features
  • Conversational practice with AI tutors
  • Real-time personalized feedback and corrections
  • Dialogue, sentence, word, call, photo, and debate modes
  • Voice interaction with natural AI voices
  • Grammar courses and language certificates
  • 130+ languages on web, iOS, and Android
  • Personal AI tutor (Koji)
  • Visual, interactive lessons
  • Adaptive practice based on mastery
  • Courses in math, CS, science and data
  • Gamified streaks, levels and daily goals
  • iOS and Android apps
  • AI-powered semantic search across 236M+ papers
  • Semantic Reader for augmented, contextual paper reading
  • Free public API for paper search and metadata
  • Author and topic discovery
  • Citation graph exploration
  • Beta program for new features
  • real-time question transcription
  • AI answers with a choice of GPT or Claude models
  • coding interview support
  • resume-based personalization
  • knowledge base uploads
  • invisible during screen share
  • AI meeting notes
  • Interactive video lessons mapped to specific exam boards
  • AI diagnostic algorithm for personalized revision
  • Detailed progress tracking across the curriculum
  • Guided exam-question walkthroughs
  • 24/7 online tutor support via chat
  • A*/A grade guarantee with money-back policy
  • 3-day free trial with no payment details required
Use cases
  • Self-learners practicing conversational fluency
  • Business teams training employees in new languages
  • Students supplementing classroom language education
  • Learning math and coding by doing
  • Getting adaptive tutoring outside class
  • Building STEM intuition
  • Daily skill practice
  • Researchers searching scientific literature across disciplines
  • Developers building applications on top of scholarly data via the API
  • Students exploring citation networks for a topic
  • Librarians and academics needing free literature discovery tools
  • getting live answers during job interviews
  • coding interview assistance
  • meeting note-taking
  • A Level students preparing for AQA, Edexcel, OCR, or Cambridge International exams
  • GCSE students studying Combined Science
  • Students wanting AI-personalized revision instead of generic textbooks
  • Schools looking to boost student attainment with a supplementary platform
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