A study app that knows what you know.
What cookie knows about you
cookie keeps a score for every topic you study, from every question it marks, every flashcard you rate and every past paper question you finish, with a flashcard counting half as much as a marked answer. That one record is what the rest of cookie reads: spaced repetition, the next question in a deck, the order of your flashcards, your revision plan, the assistant, and your tutor if you have one.
A sample student answers a question on rates of reaction, rates a flashcard on moles as Again and finishes a past paper question on electrolysis. After each one the score for that topic changes and the topics re-sort, weakest first. That record then decides when rates of reaction comes back, aims the next question at moles, puts moles cards first, gives the revision plan targeted sessions, tells the assistant the weakest topic and shows the same list to a tutor.
The scores in this demo are worked out from a sample student’s history by the same code the app uses.
Exam questions from your own material
Add notes or a past paper and cookie writes questions in the style of your exam, leaning towards the topics that are due or that you find hardest, then marks what you write with partial credit and a worked solution. Try a sample below: it takes about twenty seconds, nothing is saved and you do not need an account.
Flashcards that start with what you forget
Write cards yourself or have the AI write them from your notes, a document, photos, a web page or one of your question decks, with a mnemonic for the hard ones. Each card is scheduled with FSRS, the algorithm Anki uses, and studying weakest first starts with the topics your questions and cards say you know least.
Your Anki decks come in with their history and go back out whenever you like, and there are official decks for most courses.
Browse shared flashcardsA flashcard asks where aerobic respiration takes place. The answer, the mitochondria, is shown with a mnemonic, the card is rated Good and the demo says when it comes back. The next card comes from the topic the student is weakest at, and a panel shows the places cookie can make cards from with AI.
Past papers, marked and counted
Past papers, mark schemes, grade boundaries and specifications for GCSE, A-level and more, linked to the boards’ own copies and grouped by subject, with the notes, flashcards and question decks other students have shared for each exam. You can read all of it without an account.
You can do a board’s paper in cookie with a timer, mark it against the mark scheme and keep your score, so you can see how your grades move over time, and a past papers revision plan spreads your papers out before each exam. With an account you can have it marked with AI, and ask the assistant about a question as you go. Every mark goes into your topic scores, and the topics you dropped marks on can become a question deck. All of it is optional; the papers work the same without it.
A sample three-question chemistry paper is answered in the browser with a timer running. Mark with AI gives each answer a mark and a comment, the total comes to 6 out of 9, which is grade 6 on the sample boundaries, the score is added to a trend of earlier attempts and each question's mark goes into the score for its topic.
An assistant that already knows your weakest topic
Open a chat from any page, or press ⌘K (Ctrl K on Windows) to ask about the one you are on. Before it answers it reads your level, your exams, your predicted grades, your weakest topics and what is due, so you never have to explain where you are, and it can make flashcards, notes or a question deck, or change your plan, once you confirm.
Teacher mode gives hints and asks you questions before it gives an answer, so you work it out yourself, the way a good teacher would. It is optional, and each answer uses credits.
A student asks the assistant what to revise tonight. It checks their topic scores and what is due, and answers that moles is their weakest topic at 36% with 12 flashcards due. Teacher mode is switched on, and the next question gets a hint and a question back rather than the answer. Then the Ask box opens with Command K.
A revision plan that follows your exams and your weak spots
Pick your exams and when you can study, and cookie counts back from each exam date, putting in past papers whole, flashcards, and questions on your weakest topics, with breaks if you want them. A sooner exam and a weaker subject get more of the time.
Signed in, it can plan with AI from your grades and weakest topics, put your Cookie Tutoring lessons in and move a session out of a lesson’s way, and “What to do next” picks the next thing for you. The plan itself works without an account.
Make a revision planA sample week of revision fills in day by day, with past papers, flashcards and questions on the weakest topics. Chemistry, the sooner exam and the weaker subject, gets most of the time. A lesson with a tutor is booked on Thursday and the Chemistry session that was there moves to Friday. The plan can then be added to Google, Apple or Outlook calendars.
Notes that turn into practice
Write notes in Markdown, upload PDFs, Word and PowerPoint files to read in cookie, or have the AI write notes on a topic, and it explains the topics you find hardest with extra care. Add pictures, sound, video, drawings and widgets you can play with, such as a graph with sliders or a short quiz.
Any note can become flashcards or a question deck. Share yours, or read the official notes for your course without an account.
Browse shared notesA note on rates of reaction is written with a heading and three points. A graph widget appears and its temperature slider moves from 20 to 40 degrees, making the curve of gas given off rise faster. A drawing of two particles colliding is sketched in. Then Make flashcards offers three cards from the note to check before saving.
Works with what you already do
Any PDF as a paper
Open a mock or a worksheet PDF, time it and mark it, with your own grade boundaries if you have them. On Android you can share a PDF straight to cookie.
Your own calendar
Add your school timetable or a calendar file and the revision plan leaves that time alone.
Take it with you
Download a flashcard deck for Anki, or your notes as a zip, whenever you like.
Learn as much as possible, in as little time as possible
Every question should be hard enough to teach you something and easy enough to get somewhere with. We call that the ramp, and it is a plain description of how cookie’s spaced repetition adapts to what it knows about you.
The AI does the drilling, the marking and the bookkeeping so that the people who teach you can spend their time teaching, and teacher mode makes it give hints rather than hand over answers. It is here to help them rather than to replace them.
Where the ramp idea comes from
Learning at your own difficulty edge, which Andrej Karpathy calls “the ramp”, was a real inspiration for cookie. He is building on the same idea with Eureka Labs.
Clip from Dwarkesh Patel’s conversation with Andrej Karpathy; the full episode and transcript are at the link above. Shown here with thanks to both, as a citation and an inspiration. Neither of them has endorsed cookie.
Find a tutor, or become one
We look for tutors at top universities and interview everybody ourselves. Lessons run over video and a shared whiteboard, and every tutor and student gets cookie free.
- A tutor you work with sees what cookie knows: your topic scores weakest first, and the papers and notes you share.
- They can set questions, flashcards, past papers and notes as homework, and see how it went.
- Lessons and your revision plan sit in one calendar, and cookie work can go on the lesson whiteboard.
Free guides and tools
Plain guides for students and parents to the exam years and to applying to university, including Oxford and Cambridge, each with the official pages to check it against, and calculators that run in your browser without an account.
- For parentsMocks, results day, options and what the grades mean.
- University and OxbridgeUCAS, personal statements, interviews and admissions tests.
- How to reviseSpaced repetition, past papers and a revision timetable.
Grade calculatorExam timetablesGrade statisticsUCAS points calculatorPersonal statement counterAll guides and tools
Who it’s for
Frequently asked questions
What is cookie?
cookie is a revision app that keeps track of what you know. You add your own notes and it writes full exam-style questions from them and marks your answers the way an examiner would, and you can also study flashcards, do past papers, keep notes, make a revision plan and ask an assistant. Every answer, card and past paper question adds to a score for its topic, and spaced repetition brings each topic back just before you would forget it, so your time goes on what you have not learned yet. The marking is done by AI, so a mark is a guide you can challenge.
How does cookie know what I know?
Every question you have marked, every flashcard you rate and every past paper question you mark and put under a topic adds to a score for that topic. A flashcard counts half as much as a marked answer, because remembering a card is weaker evidence than answering an exam question. That record decides when each topic comes back and which topic a deck’s next question leans towards, puts your weakest topics first when you study flashcards, gives them more time in your revision plan and is what the assistant reads when you ask it something. A tutor you work with sees the same list, and you can see it yourself on your Progress page.
How does spaced repetition work?
cookie keeps track of how well you answer each question and brings it back around the time you would start to forget it: sooner if you got it wrong or found it hard, later if you got it right. So you spend more time on what you are still learning and less on what you already know.
What exam boards and exam types does cookie support?
Any board or exam your material covers, because cookie writes its questions from the notes or past papers you give it. There are also hundreds of ready-made public decks for GCSE, A-Level, IB, AP, Scottish Highers and many other UK and international boards and entrance exams, and official flashcards and notes for most of the courses we list.
Do you have past papers and grade boundaries?
Yes. The "Past papers" page links free past papers, mark schemes and examiner reports straight to the exam boards' own websites, for GCSE, A-level, the Scottish qualifications, IGCSE and university admissions tests. Each course also has its grade boundaries for every year the board publishes them, in our own tables next to the papers, so you can mark a paper and see the grade it would have got. If you want to, you can also do a paper in cookie with a timer, mark it against the mark scheme and keep your score. With an account you can have it marked with AI, and ask the assistant about a question as you go. The marks go into your topic scores, and you can turn the topics you dropped marks on into a question deck. Many courses have a practice deck on cookie too, for when you run out of papers.
Browse past papers and grade boundariesCan I see everything for my subject in one place?
Yes. The "Subjects" page lists every subject cookie has anything for, and each subject lists its exams by level and exam board. An exam’s page has its past papers and mark schemes, grade boundaries and specification, and the notes, flashcards and question decks other students have shared for it, all of which you can read without an account, with a way to find a tutor as well. A subject appears there as soon as people start sharing things for it.
Browse subjectsIs cookie free?
Yes. The free plan has a daily and a monthly allowance of credits for the things the AI does, such as writing and marking questions, making flashcards and notes and answering in the chat, so you can use cookie without paying anything, and the Pro plan is there if you want to do more. Studying your flashcards, doing and marking a past paper yourself, writing your own notes and making a revision plan without the AI use no credits.
How do credits work?
Generating a question and having it marked each cost a few credits, as do flashcards and notes written by the AI and each answer from the assistant, and your plan gives you a monthly allowance with a daily cap. The allowance itself never changes. What a question costs depends mostly on how much source material it is written from, so a short topic PDF costs the least and a very large deck a little more, which means smaller, focused decks go slightly further. There is no page limit on the free plan, and a full set of past papers costs only a little more per question than a short one.
Can I cancel Pro, and do I get money back?
Yes. You can cancel at any time with the Cancel Pro button on your account page, and you keep Pro until the end of the month or year you have paid for. For 14 days after you subscribe, and again after each yearly renewal and after the first payment that follows a free period, you can instead end Pro straight away and get back the part you have not used. Because Pro gives you its credits at the start, we go by whichever you have used more of, the days or the Pro credits, and the cancel window shows you both before you choose. Credits you bought separately are kept.
Pro in detailCan I use cookie for homework I have already been set?
Yes. If you already have the question, from a textbook, a worksheet or your tutor, add it to a deck instead of generating one: type it in, or photograph it and cookie reads it in for you. It is marked the same way, with partial credit and a worked solution, and counts towards your mastery, your predicted grade and your review schedule like any question cookie wrote. A photograph is only used to read the question in, and is deleted straight afterwards.
How is cookie different from a flashcard app?
cookie has flashcards as well, written by the AI from your notes or by you, and you can bring your decks from Anki. What a flashcard app cannot do is ask you something new: cookie also writes multi-part exam-style questions from your own material and marks what you actually write, with partial credit, an exam-style score and a worked solution, and both count towards how well it thinks you know each topic.
Does cookie mark answers like a real examiner?
It marks your answer against a mark scheme it writes alongside the question, giving partial credit the way a real exam does, with a worked solution and feedback on what to improve, and you can ask it to explain where the marks went as a nudge, a step at a time or a full worked answer. The marking is done by AI and AI can be wrong, so you can challenge any mark and a tutor can review it. Treat a cookie score as a guide rather than a promise of your real result.
Why are there two scores on a marked answer?
The exam-style score is your marks out of the total on that question's own mark scheme, so it is the one to compare with a real paper. The quality grade, out of 5, is the AI's broader view of how well you understood the topic, and spaced repetition uses it to decide when the topic comes back, sooner if you struggled and later if you did not. They measure different things, so they will not always agree, and that is expected.
What does the assistant do, and what is teacher mode?
With an account you can open a chat from any page, or press Command K (Ctrl K on Windows) to ask about the page you are on. It knows your level, your exams, your predicted grades, your weakest topics and what is due, so its answers fit you, and it can make flashcards, notes or a question deck or change your plan once you confirm, with an Undo afterwards. Teacher mode, which is on for students unless you turn it off, gives hints and asks you questions before it gives an answer, so you work it out yourself. It is optional, each answer uses credits, and it is AI, so it can be wrong.
Can I keep my notes in cookie?
Yes. Notes are pages you write in Markdown, in folders, with pictures, sound and video, drawings, and interactive widgets such as a graph with sliders, a step-by-step or a short quiz. You can upload PDFs, Word and PowerPoint files and read them in cookie, have the AI write notes on a topic, and turn a note into flashcards or a question deck. Notes can be shared publicly, and there are official notes for many courses that anyone can read without an account. The free and Pro plans have different storage limits, which the pricing page lists.
Browse shared notesCan cookie make me a revision timetable?
Yes. Planning counts back from your exam dates and spreads past papers, flashcards and questions over the days or the times you can study, giving more time to the exam that is sooner and the subjects you find hardest, and it works without an account. Signed in, it can use your grades and weakest topics, plan with AI, put your Cookie Tutoring lessons in and move sessions out of their way, and give you a calendar link for Google, Apple or Outlook that updates when the plan changes.
Make a revision planIs cookie meant to replace teachers and tutors?
No. cookie does the parts a computer is good at: writing practice questions, marking them quickly, keeping track of what you know and planning around it. A teacher or tutor can see the same record, set questions, flashcards, past papers and notes from it and spend lessons on what is weak, and teacher mode makes the AI behave more like a teacher, with hints before answers. We also run Cookie Tutoring, where lessons are with a person over video and a shared whiteboard, and cookie was built by a Cambridge Engineering student who uses it to revise.
Cookie TutoringStart with a free account
No card needed, and you can upgrade whenever you want more practice each day.