Free tools for students

Lets you experience a website the way someone with a disability would.

The server runs on solar power. It goes offline when it's cloudy.

A list of every end-of-the-world prediction that was wrong.

Trace how English, Hindi, and 400+ other languages all came from one ancestor.

Shows how far you've traveled through space since you were born.

Research papers and preprints in social sciences and humanities.

Digital library of academic journals, books, and sources.

Database of biomedical and life sciences literature.

Detailed book summaries and analysis platform.

Education Resources Information Center with journal articles and reports.

Math solver with step-by-step explanations for complex problems.

Professional network for scientists and researchers to share papers and results.

Open access repository of scholarly articles in physics, math, computer science, and more.

Study guides and summaries for literature and more.

Platform for sharing academic research papers.

Global time, calendar, and date calculators for everyday use.

Gamified math learning platform for children.

Convert units across categories like length, weight, temperature, and more.

AI-powered academic paper search engine.

Aggregator for millions of open access research papers.

Online planetarium to explore stars, constellations, and planets.

Meta-search engine for finding books across online stores.

Free educational games for kids covering math and reading.

Text-to-speech tool for converting written text into spoken audio.

Gamified language learning using fill-in-the-blank practice.

KeepTrack is a powerful, open-source tool for tracking satellites in real time. It offers users an intuitive interface to monitor over 37,000 satellites and space debris objects, providing detailed information about their orbits and operators. The platform includes advanced features like sensor simulations, breakup event visualizations, and debris pattern analysis. Designed for accessibility, it requires no installation and supports educational use, mission planning, and public outreach....

Look up any US House member and see exactly how they voted.

University courses and certificates from institutions around the world.

Educational site with games, videos, and facts for children.

A retired math teacher has built full-blown math lessons for every grade, from 1st to 12th, and includes AP math lessons — all for free, relying only on donations.

HanbokStudy.com is an innovative online platform designed to enhance language learning through detailed sentence analysis. Originally developed for Korean, it now supports multiple languages, offering comprehensive grammar breakdowns, cultural insights, and pronunciation guides. Utilizing AI technology, HanbokStudy.com links related words and patterns, facilitating a deeper understanding of sentence structures. Users appreciate its instant analysis features and have suggested additional...

ManualsLib is a website that provides millions of PDF manuals for a large collection of devices, from game consoles to cars, you can find something in here to help you understand your piece of technology better.

OpenStax is a website that offers a list of educational textbooks completely for free.

A free database mapping the networks between powerful people and organizations in business and politics. Look someone up and see all their connections visualized.

Songsterr is a collection of user-created tablature for guitarists to freely search and play for themselves. All the tab sheets have a playable guide that you can listen to which makes it easier to learn the songs. Songsterr can become a guitarist's secret weapon for learning hundreds of songs quickly. Songsterr is available as an IOS and Android app which both support offline tabs so you can take your tabs anywhere to perform.

Clinical participant retention tool to help retain women participants in clinical trials, a demographic historically underrepresented.

The Noba Project is an open-access platform that provides free, high-quality psychology textbooks and educational materials. It aims to make psychology education accessible to students and educators worldwide by offering textbooks written by leading experts in the field. Users can access comprehensive textbooks, individual chapters, or custom-built learning modules on various psychology topics. The platform is widely used by educators to build or supplement course materials, and students can...

LibriVox is a volunteer-driven platform that provides free audiobooks of public domain works. Volunteers from around the world narrate and record books, making classic literature, poetry, and non-fiction accessible in audio format. The site offers a wide range of genres and languages, allowing users to download or stream these recordings for free. Since all the works are in the public domain, the books are primarily older titles, often literary classics. It's a great resource for anyone...

8,000 real letters written by ancient Romans, all translated and searchable.

Math games, lessons, and puzzles for children.

Nonprofit providing coding lessons and resources for students.

Coding lessons and games for kids to learn programming.

Interactive simulations for physics, chemistry, and other sciences.

Interactive science experiments and demonstrations for students.

Interactive explanations and simulations that teach complex ideas.

Chronological collection of future predictions and technological forecasts.

Database for discovering and studying exoplanets and astronomy data.

European Space Agency’s portal for data, APIs, and developer resources.

Live satellite imagery with storm tracking and weather overlays.

Popular trivia platform with quizzes on geography and general knowledge.

3D globe showing real-time wind, temperature, and ocean currents.

Language learning platform with email-based lessons and vocabulary.

AI-assisted language learning through reading and listening immersion.

Online community offering creative courses in art, design, and crafts.

Free online university lectures and courses from top schools.

Spaced repetition flashcard system for efficient memorization.

AI-powered language learning with video clips from native speakers.

Adaptive flashcard learning platform based on cognitive science.

Site challenging misconceptions with engaging facts and stories.

A charming, beginner-friendly site that teaches the basics of HTML and web coding. Great for kids or absolute beginners getting their first taste of web development.

Desmos.com's calculator is a great tool for anyone in high school or university who is studying any subjects related to maths. The online graphing webpage will take any function you give it and display a clean graph. You can zoom in and out of the graph as much as you want and there is a helpful mathematical keyboard at the bottom of the screen to input more complex function symbols.

Book and article summaries for professionals.

Trivia quiz website with thousands of quizzes across topics and subjects.

Turn any song into chords instantly and learn how to play it.

A voice-first app that lets India's 340M+ women save and invest by simply speaking in their own language with no forms, no jargon, no English required. Starting from just ₹50, Azaadi puts real financial tools in the hands of every woman in Bharat, wherever she lives, whatever language she speaks.

Visual tool to compare country and state sizes side by side.

Interactive map tool that lets you compare the real size of countries.

A curated collection of free educational and cultural resources: online courses, e-books, lectures, films, audiobooks, and language lessons from top universities and institutions.

Google's collection of interactive music experiments. Make songs with shapes, visualize harmonics, play with rhythm — perfect for learning music fundamentals.

Randall Munroe's legendary webcomic about science, math, language, and love. Hover over each comic for a hidden alt-text punchline.

The definitive interactive guide to electronic music genres. Listen to samples, read histories, and trace the evolution from Detroit techno to future bass.

Daily geography puzzle — find a path between two countries by naming the countries in between. Shareable results, streak tracking.

Computational knowledge engine — solve equations, plot functions, convert units, look up chemical compounds, analyze data. Like Google but for computation.

Compare cities and regions on dozens of statistics — population, income, density, education. Which metro area has more people? Test your intuition.

Directory of open access scientific and scholarly journals.

Visualization software for abstract algebra. Explore symmetry groups, Cayley diagrams, and multiplication tables interactively. A mathematician's playground.