AtomAI: AI Study Helper - Chat, Summarize PDFs & Generate Flashcards

AI study assistant in your side panel. Screenshot any question, summarize PDFs, write essays and generate flashcards instantly.

AtomAI is a free AI study assistant that lives in your browser's side panel, right next to whatever you are working on. Screenshot a question from any webpage, summarize a PDF, draft an essay, or turn your lecture notes into flashcards - without ever switching tabs or copy-pasting into another chatbot. KEY FEATURES: 🚀 Powered by GPT-5.6: Built on OpenAI's latest models. Everyday questions run on GPT-5.6 Luna for fast answers, and Premium unlocks GPT-5.6 Sol for deep step-by-step reasoning on your hardest problems. ❓ Instant Answers from Anywhere: Screenshot any part of a webpage, or highlight text and click "Ask AI" - get an explanation without leaving the page. ✍️ Overcome Writer's Block: Draft essays, generate outlines, improve your own writing, and paraphrase complex sentences. 📚 Summarize PDFs & Textbooks: Turn dense documents into clear summaries, then ask follow-up questions answered from the document itself. 🧠 Create Instant Study Sets: Automatically generate flashcards, multiple-choice quizzes and matching games from any PDF or Word document. 🎨 A Canvas for Real Work: Essays, code, tables and diagrams open in a panel beside the chat where you can refine them, step back through versions and export to Word, Excel, an image or a source file. 📊 Diagrams You Can Actually Follow: Ask for a flowchart, mind map, concept map or timeline and AtomAI draws it - and when a process or a hierarchy is easier to see than to read, it draws one without being asked. 🔬 Research Mode (Premium): For the questions worth more than one answer - AtomAI searches the web several times over, weighs what it finds, and cites every source. 💭 Memory You Switch On: AtomAI can remember what you are studying and how you like your answers - only if you turn it on, and one click deletes everything it saved. 💬 Generous Free Plan: A real free tier with no credit card required. Usage refreshes automatically, so you can keep studying. DETAILED FEATURES: 🌐 Ask Anything, Without Leaving the Page Stuck on a concept? Open the side panel and ask. AtomAI's screenshot tool lets you select any part of a webpage, online textbook or diagram and get an explanation instantly - ideal for maths problems, chemistry diagrams and code snippets that are painful to type out. Highlight any text on any site and "Ask AI" appears right there. Attach images, PDFs and Word documents to any question, and get answers with properly formatted maths, code blocks and tables instead of a wall of text. Dictate a question instead of typing it, and when you are researching a topic AtomAI suggests the next question to ask, so one answer leads to the next without you having to think of the wording. 🎨 A Canvas for Anything Worth Keeping When AtomAI writes something substantial - an essay, a code file, a table, a diagram - it opens in a dedicated Canvas beside the chat instead of scrolling away in the conversation. The canvas fills in live as the answer is written. Ask for "a shorter intro", "add a section" or "fix this function" and it updates in place, almost instantly, without regenerating the whole thing. Every refinement is saved as its own version, so you can jump back at any time, and anything can be exported: documents to Word, tables to Excel, code to a real source file, diagrams as an image, plus Markdown and plain text. 📊 Diagrams, Not Just Descriptions Some things are far easier to see than to read. Ask AtomAI to draw a flowchart, a mind map, a concept map, a timeline, an org chart, a decision tree or a step-by-step process and it appears in the Canvas beside the chat. You do not have to ask, either: when the answer to an ordinary question has a shape to it - a process with branches, a cycle, a hierarchy of topics, the stages of a reaction, how a system fits together - a diagram is drawn alongside the written explanation rather than instead of it. Drag it around, zoom into any part of it, or open it full screen when it gets big. Refine it by asking, exactly like an essay: "add a step after that", "split that branch in two", "turn it top to bottom". Then download it as an image to drop straight into an essay, a presentation or a revision poster. 📝 Effortless Writing Assistance Four writing tools that cover an entire assignment: Create a full draft from a topic with control over tone, format, length and referencing style; Improve text you have already written; Review a draft for structure and argument before you submit; and Paraphrase any passage while keeping the meaning. Export straight to Word, or send a draft into Chat to keep refining it. Premium adds writing-style matching from a sample of your own work, plus the ability to attach source documents for the AI to write from. 📰 Read & Understand Faster Upload a PDF and get an automatic summary the moment you open it. The document sits side by side with the conversation, so you can check every answer against the page it came from. Questions are answered from the document itself, not from general knowledge - the fastest way through a reading list, a research paper or a dense textbook chapter. Your files stay in your account, ready to come back to. 🔍 Study Smarter, Not Harder Turn lecture notes, a PDF or a Word document into a complete study kit in one step. AtomAI generates flashcards automatically, then lets you revise them three ways: classic flashcards, a multiple-choice quiz, or a matching game - with scoring and progress tracking as you work through a set. Study sets sync to your account across every device. 🔬 Research Mode, for the Questions Worth It (Premium) Most questions want one good answer. Some want an afternoon of reading, and those are the ones Research is for. Turn it on before you ask, and AtomAI breaks your question into the parts that have to be answered first, searches the web for each of them, searches again on whatever those results raise, and only then writes. Facts and figures are attributed to the source they came from as you read, the answer ends with the list of what it actually used, and anything it could not establish is named plainly instead of being filled in with a guess. Where sources disagree it says so and explains which is better supported. Research always thinks at the highest reasoning setting, and because it is a dozen model calls rather than one it uses more of your Premium allowance - so it arms itself for your next message only, tells you what it will cost before you send, and switches back off once you have asked. 🗂️ Chats You Can Actually Find Again Every conversation is saved and searchable, and you can organise threads into groups you drag into whatever order suits you. Pin the chats you keep coming back to and they stay at the top of your history however many new ones you start, and any conversation can be exported to Word. Edit any message you sent or regenerate any reply - not just the most recent one - and everything after it is replaced, as you would expect. Share a conversation as a read-only link when a worked answer is worth passing on: shared pages are hidden from search engines unless you allow it, never include your uploaded files, and can be revoked at any time. 💭 Memory, Off Until You Turn It On AtomAI can remember useful details between chats - what you are studying, how you like your answers, the tools you work in - so you stop reintroducing yourself every conversation. It is strictly opt-in: memory is never enabled by default, you are asked once, and dismissing that prompt keeps it off for good. It saves only what you tell it, never sensitive information or credentials, and turning it off in your profile menu permanently deletes everything it has saved. ⚡ Ultra AI, Research, Web Search & Image Generation (Premium) Turn on Ultra AI to send your hardest questions to GPT-5.6 Sol, which reasons for longer before answering - the difference shows on multi-step maths, tricky code and research questions. You control how long it thinks, from instant replies to maximum effort on a problem worth the wait. Premium also unlocks Research mode for questions that need several rounds of searching rather than one answer, live web search inside Chat for anything needing current information, AI image generation directly in a conversation, and several times the usage of the free plan. WHY ATOMAI? ✅ Free to start - no credit card required ✅ Works as a side panel on any website, or as a full web app at getatom.ai ✅ One account across Chrome and the web app ✅ Memory is opt-in, sharing is off by default, and both are reversible in one click ✅ Built for students: essays, problem sets, revision, research and exam prep Perfect for university and high school students, researchers, and lifelong learners who want an AI homework helper, essay writer, PDF summarizer and flashcard maker in one extension. Install AtomAI and get your first answer in seconds.