How Avery works
A study coach built around your class
Avery organizes your studying around the course you're actually taking: your textbook, your syllabus, your instructor's problem sets. It coaches you through the material in three stages, from learning it to being ready for the exam.
Last updated October 26, 2026. Avery is beta software, so features may change. The FAQ has the details.
Getting started
- Add your class. Name it, and add the syllabus if you have one: your instructor's, a reference syllabus Avery provides, or your own.
- Add your materials. Upload your digital textbook, lecture notes and problem sets. No file of your book? Pick one from Avery's library of openly licensed textbooks.
- Choose what to study. Pick a week of the syllabus from a dropdown, or check several weeks before a midterm. Or choose specific topics, or type your own. Avery remembers what you've done and picks up where you left off.
Three stages of studying
- Learn the materialAvery checks the prerequisites a topic leans on and gives you a short catch-up where you're rusty, then explains the topic from your book.
- Work problemsStart with your assigned problems. Avery coaches, checks your work, and spots the reasoning that's tripping you up. Ask for more problems like the ones you missed.
- Prepare for the examTake quizzes and practice exams matched to your instructor's style, as many times as you like, with feedback on every miss. Flash cards cover the terms and formulas.
The stages are meant to be done in order, but you're in control: jump to any step, or go back and forth as you need.
Hints, not answers
Avery's tutor coaches you toward the answer instead of handing it over. Its hints-only mode holds back the final answer and walks you to it, for the times you need to be able to do the problem yourself.
It also checks your work and points out the faulty mental model or reasoning pattern behind a wrong answer, so you fix the cause and not just the problem in front of you.
Answers you can check
Avery answers from the sources you choose: your uploaded course materials, the openly licensed library books, or both. Each answer cites the passage it came from and links to it in your materials. When the source is a lecture video, the link opens at the moment being cited.
Material from other classes is kept separate and only used when you select it, so a reference book for one class doesn't quietly shape answers in another.
More than a chat window
- Prerequisite catch-up. Research points to a common reason students struggle in STEM courses: not remembering what they learned in earlier ones. Avery identifies the prerequisites each topic depends on and gives short, targeted tutorials where you need them.
- 17 built-in tools open beside your work, including SymMath for step-by-step algebra and calculus, a grapher, the periodic table, unit conversion, vectors and free-body diagrams, molarity, Punnett squares and codons, and statistics and lab-data fitting.
- Enhancements: for some topics in supported courses, interactive simulations you can manipulate to build intuition before you start on problems.
- Progress by topic, so you can see what you've covered and where you're still thin.
- A study planner across all your courses, with assignments and exams in one place, so you can decide where your time goes each week.
- Spanish and Simplified Chinese, as well as English. Study content Avery generates is written in your language; your textbook and notes stay as they are. A few features still answer in English.
Built for intro STEM courses
Avery has course-specific support for introductory chemistry, biology, physics and calculus. It also works for other courses whose answers are facts or equations. It isn't a writing coach, so it isn't suited to essay-based courses, though you can still add those courses' deadlines to your study calendar.
Try Avery
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