Best Education AI tools, matched to your use case and budget
26 Education tools in our graveyard are still alive and taking signups. Below they're sorted two ways — by the job you're hiring them for, and by what you can afford per month. Anything we've confirmed dead, abandoned or absorbed is listed at the bottom so you don't waste an afternoon on it.
Pick by what you're trying to do
Use cases are matched against what each tool actually claims to do, not its marketing tier.
Automating repetitive work
Workflows, triggers, batch jobs and anything you'd rather never do by hand again.
Brisk Teaching
🟢ActiveBrisk Teaching is an AI-powered education platform and browser extension for teachers. It helps create instructional materials, provide writing feedback, adjust reading levels, and perform other classroom workflows.
Turnitin Feedback Studio
🟢ActiveAn education platform for checking text similarity, reviewing possible plagiarism, grading assignments, and giving feedback. It combines Turnitin’s similarity report with online marking and feedback workflows.
Creating content and assets
Drafting, generating, designing and producing something a human ships.
Duolingo Max
🟢ActiveDuolingo Max is Duolingo’s top subscription tier, adding generative-AI learning features to the app. It launched with Roleplay and Explain My Answer and later added Video Call with the character Lily.
Khanmigo
🟢ActiveKhan Academy’s AI-powered tutor and teaching assistant supports guided student learning, lesson planning, assessments, rubrics, and classroom preparation. It is built using OpenAI technology and integrated with Khan Academy.
Brisk Teaching
🟢ActiveBrisk Teaching is an AI-powered education platform and browser extension for teachers. It helps create instructional materials, provide writing feedback, adjust reading levels, and perform other classroom workflows.
Turnitin Feedback Studio
🟢ActiveAn education platform for checking text similarity, reviewing possible plagiarism, grading assignments, and giving feedback. It combines Turnitin’s similarity report with online marking and feedback workflows.
Understanding data and customers
Search, research, analytics, summarisation and sentiment — turning noise into a decision.
Turnitin Feedback Studio
🟢ActiveAn education platform for checking text similarity, reviewing possible plagiarism, grading assignments, and giving feedback. It combines Turnitin’s similarity report with online marking and feedback workflows.
Carnegie Learning MATHia
🟢ActiveMATHia is Carnegie Learning’s adaptive mathematics software for middle school and high school students. It provides individualized practice, step-by-step guidance, and progress data for teachers.
DreamBox Math
🟢ActiveDreamBox Math is an adaptive online mathematics program for K–8 students. It adjusts lessons using learner interactions and gives educators curriculum-aligned instruction, progress data, and classroom reporting tools.
SchoolAI
🟢ActiveSchoolAI is an AI platform for K–12 classrooms that lets educators create monitored student chat spaces, provide individualized activities, and review insights from student interactions. It also offers teacher productivity tools.
Helping a team work together
Shared workspaces, support inboxes, meetings, handoffs and internal knowledge.
ALEKS
🟢ActiveALEKS is an adaptive, web-based learning and assessment system for mathematics, chemistry, statistics, and related subjects. It uses Knowledge Space Theory to identify what a learner knows and select subsequent topics.
Khanmigo
🟢ActiveKhan Academy’s AI-powered tutor and teaching assistant supports guided student learning, lesson planning, assessments, rubrics, and classroom preparation. It is built using OpenAI technology and integrated with Khan Academy.
Ello
🟢ActiveEllo is an AI-assisted reading tutor for children. Its mobile app listens as a child reads aloud, offers support when needed, and provides access to decodable stories and personalized reading practice.
Loora
🟢ActiveLoora is an AI-powered English speaking coach delivered through mobile apps. It provides conversational practice, pronunciation and grammar feedback, vocabulary support, and personalized sessions available on demand.
Building software
Code, APIs, infrastructure and everything with a terminal somewhere behind it.
Turnitin Feedback Studio
🟢ActiveAn education platform for checking text similarity, reviewing possible plagiarism, grading assignments, and giving feedback. It combines Turnitin’s similarity report with online marking and feedback workflows.
DreamBox Math
🟢ActiveDreamBox Math is an adaptive online mathematics program for K–8 students. It adjusts lessons using learner interactions and gives educators curriculum-aligned instruction, progress data, and classroom reporting tools.
Pick by budget
Based on the lowest recorded entry price. Vendors change pricing constantly — treat these as a shortlist, then confirm on the vendor page.
26 live Education tools have no pricing on record yet: Duolingo Max, ALEKS, Khanmigo, Brisk Teaching, ELSA Speak, Turnitin Feedback Studio, Carnegie Learning MATHia, Ello, Knewton Alta, Loora, Speak, StudyFetch.
Don't bother: Education tools that are gone or going
Still ranking in Google, still linked in listicles, no longer worth your card details.
- Socratic by Google🔴Shutdown / Dead
Google's Socratic support page states that the app was discontinued on September 30, 2024. Its former homepage now redirects to that notice.
- Gradescope🟡Acquired / Merged
Turnitin acquired Gradescope in October 2018. Gradescope remains available as a Turnitin product, so “acquired” describes its ownership rather than a shutdown.
- Photomath🟡Acquired / Merged
Google completed its acquisition of Photomath in May 2023 after European Commission clearance; Photomath continues to operate as an available app and service.
- Quizlet Q-Chat🔴Shutdown / Dead
Quizlet’s Help Center states that Q-Chat was retired after June 30, 2024. The former product URL no longer presents Q-Chat as an available standalone study experience.
- Fishtree🟡Acquired / Merged
Fishtree was acquired by Follett in 2018. Contemporary reporting said its technology would be integrated into Follett products; the original Fishtree website no longer presents a standalone product.