🥚 Meet your study pet

The study pet app that levels up as you study

Upload your notes and GeniusPal turns them into a scored quiz, and on a paid plan the same questions also run as flashcards or as written active recall. Your study pal sits beside you the whole way, earning XP every time you finish a round.

  • Ready in under a minute
  • 100 levels to climb
  • Your files stay private

Tap the study pal to say hello.

Give your pet something to work with

What should your study pettest you on?

Hand over the chapter, the handout, or the slides you are revising from. Your pal reads all of it and turns it into questions drawn from your own course rather than a generic bank.

Your source

Add what you are studying

Questions per set

Bigger sets read more of your document. Included with Tryout, Student, and Genius.

Past paperWe can match its style

Upload a past paper on its own and we work out how it asks: the topics it keeps returning to, whether it wants an option picked or an answer written, how hard it pitches, and the words it uses to ask. Your notes still supply every fact and every answer, and nothing from the paper is copied into your questions.

The difference shows up most in written practice, which comes with Tryout, Student, and Genius. Multiple-choice wording moves much less.

You can add one once your first set is ready.

An estimate from one paper, never a prediction of what your exam will ask.

  • 2 study sets free
  • Private by default
  • No card required

Sample output

Biology sample

How does your study pet test you?

One biology lecture, worked three ways. Your pal scores the quiz on any plan, and adds the other two modes on Tryout, Student, or Genius.

Sample question

Lecture 6 · Cellular respiration

Question 3 of 10

Which organelle produces most of a cell’s ATP?

  1. ANucleus
  2. BMitochondrion
  3. CRibosome
  4. DGolgi apparatus

Correct!

Mitochondria use cellular respiration to convert energy from nutrients into ATP.

From your notes
Most of the cell’s ATP is generated by oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria.

Why this question counts

  • Wrong answers you’d actually consider. Every distractor is a real organelle from the same lecture, so guessing does not work.

  • A reason, not just a verdict. Each answer explains why it is right, so a miss turns into something you learned.

  • Traceable to your material. Where a passage backs the answer, we quote it word for word from your own file.

How does a study pet app work?

  1. 1

    Upload what you are studying

    Drop in lecture notes, a PDF, or a chapter. Your pal reads the whole file, so there is nothing to retype.

  2. 2

    Study with your pal beside you

    Each upload becomes a set you take as a scored quiz, and a paid plan runs the same questions as flashcards and as written active recall too, so one file covers all three ways you revise.

  3. 3

    Level up together

    Finishing a round is worth 4 XP. Enough rounds and your pal climbs a tier, all the way to Level 100.

✨ Built for the long haul

Why students stick with it

  • A buddy that studies your material

    Questions come from the file you upload, not the open web, so your pal tests what your class actually covered.

  • It redrills what you got wrong

    Missed questions come back in a focused review round, so your weak spots get the practice instead of the things you already know.

  • Three ways to study, one upload

    Quiz, flashcards, and written active recall all run off the same generated set, so you never upload the same notes twice.

  • A pal that is yours

    Kit your study pal out from the Locker, then watch it wear the result while you work through a set.

🎮 Built to keep you studying

Your study pal levels up with you

Every finished round is worth 4 XP. These are the bands you climb through on the way to Level 100.

  1. Beginner
  2. Developing
  3. Intermediate
  4. Advanced
  5. Elite

Then dress it from the Locker

Cosmetics are cosmetic only. Nothing here is pay-to-win, and nothing here changes how your study sets are generated.

  • 6Outfits
  • 9Hats
  • 4Glasses
  • 7Things to hold

Comparing your options first? Read our roundup of the best AI tutor apps for students.

Frequently asked questions

What is a study pet app?

A study pet app gives you a companion character that grows when you study. In GeniusPal the studying happens on your own material: it reads the notes or PDF you upload and turns them into a set you take as a scored quiz, with flashcards and written active recall over the same questions on a paid plan, then tracks what you got wrong and brings it back. The difference between that and a chat assistant is who does the thinking: a chat assistant hands you an explanation, while a study buddy makes you produce the answer yourself, which is the part that actually builds memory. It also gives the work a face. Your pal levels up as you finish rounds, which turns a revision session into something with visible progress attached. The boundary is that it will not do your assignment for you, and everything it asks you comes from material you supplied.

Is the study pet app free?

Yes, and the buddy part of it is free permanently. Your pal, its XP, its levels, its prestige badges, and every outfit, hat, and prop in the Locker cost nothing on any plan, so a free account and a paid one see an identical character doing identical things. Nothing about your companion is a currency or an upsell. What is metered is the study material it quizzes you on. The Free plan writes 2 sets with no credit card, given once for the account rather than refilled monthly. Student then costs $14.99 a month for 100 sets, and Genius $59.99 annually under a fair-use ceiling of 1000 a month. Both stretch a set from 10 questions to 30 and add the flashcard and written recall modes alongside the quiz. Sets you generated while on Free stay in your account for good, and your pal keeps every level it earned from them.

What happens to my study pet if I stop studying?

Nothing bad. Your pal never goes hungry, never gets sick, and never loses a level, because XP in GeniusPal only ever goes up. A week away, or a whole summer, and your pal is waiting at exactly the level you left it, wearing whatever you last equipped from the Locker. That is a deliberate break from pet apps that punish a missed day, since guilt is a poor reason to open your notes and tends to end with the app deleted. What does move is your calendar streak, which counts consecutive days you studied and starts again after a gap. That record of recent habit is the only thing that resets, and your pal keeps every level. Your pal also only grows from study you actually finished: a round earns 4 XP once every question in a set of at least 3 is graded, so there is no way to level it by tapping.

How does my study pal level up?

Finishing a study round earns your pal 4 XP, and enough XP moves it up a level. The set has to have at least 3 questions and you have to grade every one of them, which stops a two-question set being farmed for easy XP. Levels run from 0 to 100 and are grouped into prestige bands, each with its own badge, so there is always a visible next rung rather than an endless bar. The rule exists so that levelling tracks study you actually did. A round you abandon halfway earns nothing, and redrilling only the handful of questions you got wrong is below the 3-question bar, so it improves your recall without moving the bar. Levelling is also entirely free: XP, levels, and badges work the same on every plan, and no amount of money moves your pal up faster.

Can I change how my study pal looks?

Yes. The Locker holds outfits, hats, glasses, and things for your pal to carry, and whatever you equip is what you see while you study. Every item is purely cosmetic: none of them affect your generation limit, the questions you get, or how quickly you level up. Your pal is rendered live in 3D rather than as a fixed picture, so it wears your choices in every pose it makes, from waving on the landing page to sitting with you through a round. Nothing in the Locker is behind a paywall or a currency, so a free account and a Genius account open exactly the same wardrobe. The single boundary is that there is one pal rather than a roster of characters to choose between, so what you are changing is how your pal is dressed.

How does this compare with other study apps?

Plenty of them are free, and several are better at things GeniusPal does not do. We went through the field: the best free AI tools for students, and the best study apps for college students.

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