The best StudyFetch alternatives in 2026

StudyFetch turns your course material (slides, lectures, class notes, PDFs and videos) into flashcards, quizzes, practice tests and notes. Live Lecture records a class and writes notes while you listen. Sparky, its AI tutor, answers questions about your material, and a Study Plan builds a schedule up to your exams, with a cram mode.

StudyFetch says getting started is free, and that paid plans unlock more generations and longer files. Its App Store page lists Premium at $19.99 a month, $29 a quarter or $96 a year, plus calls with the tutor sold by the hour: $7.49 for one hour, $25 for five. The app is on iPhone and iPad (iOS 17 or later), the site works in a browser, and it mentions Android. No Mac app is listed, and we couldn't open a pricing page on its site.

We make Koi, so read this with that in mind. Every fact about another app comes from its own site or app store page, checked October 21, 2026. We didn't run tests.

• Premium is $19.99 a month in the App Store, and tutor calls cost extra by the hour.
• They want a real Mac app for long study sessions, not a browser tab.
• They want reviews spaced over weeks. StudyFetch's pages don't mention spaced repetition.
• They'd rather their lectures and notes stayed on their own computer.
• They want their notes to be documents they can edit, export and keep.

From each app's own site or app store page, checked October 21, 2026.

1. Tap Fn + ⌃, or click Record on Koi's dock, and pick In person.
2. Koi listens through your Mac's microphone and writes down what's said, on your Mac, as it goes.
3. Stop it when the class ends. The page asks whether to summarize it.
4. Say yes. The transcript's words go to Koi's AI, which adds a summary, the key points, flashcards and what the class was told to do.
5. Click the Study pill over the flashcards and work through them. Come back when they're due.

Say no, and nothing from the recording leaves your Mac. Ask your lecturer before you record, and check your school's rules: Koi doesn't announce itself to the room. More in how to record a lecture on a Mac, or on recording with Koi.

Sparky is a voice tutor: StudyFetch's App Store page calls it a voice-to-voice AI tutor you can talk with on any topic, and it can build a study plan from what you upload. Longer calls are sold by the hour.

Koi's Study mode is a switch, in Settings under Koi or in the menu bar. With it on, a call with Koi teaches rather than answers: Koi looks at the problem on your screen, circles the step that went wrong, and asks what you'd try next. It keeps a page called “What I got wrong” with a flashcard for each miss. Your voice and, unless you turn it off, a picture of your screen go to the AI provider while the call lasts. See our guide to an AI tutor that sees your screen.

StudyFetch, Knowt, RemNote and Gizmo work from what you upload to them, and keep it in your account so it's on every device. Koi writes a recording down on your Mac and keeps the sound, the transcript and the notes in a page there, with no sync. Only the words go to Koi's AI, and only when you ask for notes. Study notes from a file send its words, up to 120,000 characters, and are kept only in the new page.

• A voice tutor and a study plan on your phone? Stay on StudyFetch.
• Free study modes, with a little AI? Knowt.
• Notes, cards and lecture recording on every device? RemNote.
• AI quizzes with streaks? Gizmo.
• Shared sets? Quizlet.
• Free spaced repetition for years? Anki.
• Lectures written down on your Mac, notes and cards from them, and a tutor that sees your screen? Koi.

See Koi's study tools and the plans.