Whether you need help turning your scribbled notes into something readable or creating study guides, flash cards, or quizzes, the latest AI tools can help turbocharge your learning.

Having trouble deciding which app is right for you? Here’s how they stand out as educational helpers.

Chatbots like Gemini, ChatGPT, Copilot, and Claude can help you create personalized study schedules. Upload your weekly schedule along with your macroeconomics syllabus, for example, and ask the app to make a customized study plan that lets you take weekends and Thursday nights off. The apps will suggest when to get started on big papers and projects—and when to kick your studying up a notch ahead of midterms.

Star students: Gemini can put your custom study plan right into your Google calendar. ChatGPT can send you push notification reminders.

Prerequisites: To connect Gemini to your Google Calendar, tap the Apps button in settings and toggle on the Google Workspace integration. ChatGPT enables push notifications when using the o3 and o4-mini models.

Sample prompt: Upload your syllabus and class schedule, then enter “Make a customized study plan that lets me take weekends off, prepares me for tests, and tells me when to get started on papers.” From there, tell Gemini “Add this schedule to my Google calendar,” or tell ChatGPT “Send me automatic reminders.”

Create custom flash cards from your class notes that you can export to view in your web browser. Want to study up on general info, like state capitals or elements of the periodic table? Just ask the apps to generate that on the fly.

Star students: Claude offers a slick interactive option. Just share your notes on anatomy and physiology, for example, and Claude will create a mini app—known as an Artifact—that you can tap through.

Prerequisites: In Claude’s settings, tap Tools and toggle on Artifacts.

Sample prompt: “Create interactive flash cards based on the notes I uploaded.”

Generate a multiple-choice quiz based on your notes.

Star students: Copilot, Goodnotes, and Notability make their quizzes interactive—tap to pick the right answer—and tell you how you scored. You can also ask about anything you got wrong and request another test focused on just the material you need to brush up on.

Prerequisites: In Copilot, make sure your chat is in “Quick response” mode at the bottom of the page. In Goodnotes and Notability, you’ll see the option appear in the AI menu if a note has enough content.

Sample prompt: “Create a quiz on carbon bonds in organic chemistry.”

Snap a photo of your handwritten notes to convert your class scribbles into text.

Star students: The digital notebooks Goodnotes and Notability are a convenient way to capture and convert your writing, especially on iPad. In Goodnotes, just select the Lasso, circle your writing, and tap it to see the option to convert to text. In Notability, you can access the Handwriting Conversion feature in the main menu.

Prerequisites: You’ll need a subscription to Goodnotes and Notability for unlimited conversion.