It is half past ten and you are on slide 34 of a lecture you already sat through once. The step from the second line to the third makes no sense, your notes say nothing, and the friend who understands it is asleep. You could search the topic, but your course does it differently.
Max is an AI tutor built into Studyflash, and a dog. He has already read your uploads, your decks and your courses, so you can point at that step and ask. The answer comes back in your lecturer's notation, with your course's definitions, citing the page it came from.
What Max has already read
Your slides, handouts and notes
Upload the lecture PDF, a seminar handout or a photo of your handwritten pages, and Max reads them page by page. Pasted plain text works too, and he names the page an answer came from.
Your decks and courses
Your flashcards, quiz results and summaries are in view too, and you can attach one deck or a whole course to the conversation. Ask what a card means, or why the same one keeps coming back.
A photo of the exercise
Photograph a problem from a set, or a page of a book, and send it into the chat. Max works from the image itself, so your scribbles in the margin come with it.
Why your own course beats a general chatbot
A general chat window knows the subject as an average of everything written about it. Your course has one lecturer, one notation, one route from the definition to the worked example. Most of what is sold as an AI study assistant is a blank box you explain your module to first.
A tutor that makes you do the work
By default Max does not hand over the conclusion. He asks one focused question, or gives the smallest hint that gets you moving, and breaks a concept into steps when you are stuck. Getting there yourself is the part that stays. When you would rather be told, switch him to a direct style or a blunt one.
From the answer to something you can study
On Premium you can ask him for the material itself: flashcards on the topic you just worked through, a quiz to check it held, a summary, a mind map, a podcast, or a mock exam modelled on a past paper you upload. Cards he deals in the chat count as real reviews.
Reaching Max, by typing or by voice
He sits on your dashboard, inside every deck, and inside a study, cram or quiz session, so the question gets asked where the confusion is. On the web and in the app you can type it or say it aloud and hear the answer back.
Where this earns its place in a term
The physiology block in second-year medicine. Several hundred cards and one mechanism you cannot picture. Ask mid-session, get walked through it, rate the card, carry on.
An Erasmus semester in Bologna or Lisbon. The lecture runs in a language you are still learning. Upload the slides and ask about them in your own language.
Problem sheets in engineering or economics. Photograph the exercise and get pushed through the working, not handed a number you cannot reproduce in the exam.
What Max does not do
He does not search the web. Everything he says comes from your own material, so anything your course never covered sits outside what he can cite. He does not write a task-by-task plan either: put the exam date on a course and you get a countdown and a suggested number of new cards a day.
Free to start
Chatting with Max is unlimited on every plan, the free one included: no message cap, nothing to unlock. The free plan also carries a monthly allowance of AI generations. Asking Max to build material inside the chat belongs to Premium; the pricing page lists what each plan includes.
Questions and answers
Yes, on the web and in the app: you speak, he answers out loud, and his voice shifts with the teaching style you chose. In voice he says formulas in words.
Send a photo of the exercise and he pushes you through it a step at a time. On the web his formulas render as maths; in chat on your phone they arrive as raw notation.
He keeps a memory across sessions of what you misunderstand and the goals you set, and uses it next time. Open it in your settings and delete what you would rather he forgot.
All twenty-seven languages the app is offered in, German, French, Dutch, Italian and Polish among them. He replies in the language you wrote in.
He deals you cards to flip and rate, and single choice or true-or-false questions, and those ratings count towards your spaced repetition. While one of your own quiz questions is open he will help you think, but not eliminate the options.