What are the best web apps for students?

People on Linkstore rate Revisiondeck, FloHub and Retrace highly. Every app on this list was opened and checked by a person before it went live.

Are there free apps for students?

Yes. Revisiondeck, FloHub, Retrace and My Busy Book and 44 more are free to use or have a free plan. Revisiondeck and My Busy Book are completely free.

Do web apps for students need to be installed?

No. They all run in a web browser, so you can open one and start right away. FloHub, Retrace and My Busy Book can also be installed to a home screen or dock if you like.

How is this list ordered?

By rating: a weighted average of the ratings people leave on Linkstore, so a few early five-star ratings can't outrank a large, steady score. Nobody can pay to move up.

What are good free study apps?

Look at the free list for students. Flashcard apps, graphing calculators and full course libraries are often free, and many paid tools have a free plan that covers a semester.

All apps for students

48 best free web apps for students in 2026

Study tools that cost little or nothing: flashcards, math help, research and note taking, plus courses for learning something new. Everything runs on a school laptop or a library computer. This list only has apps that are free or have a free plan. Revisiondeck, FloHub and Retrace are where to start.

62 apps · 48 of the 48 here free or with a free plan · Updated October 2026

Free for students

Apps whose makers built them for this first, then the best rated.

1
Revisiondeck
RevisionDeck turns your class notes into flashcards, quizzes, and answers that cite the page they came from.
ProductivityNewFree
Open
2
FloHub
One calm place for your whole day — and a cat who actually gets it. Tasks, calendar, habits, notes and journal, guided by FloCat.
ProductivityNewFreemium
Open
3
Retrace
Record, replay, fork & share AI agent executions. See every LLM call, tool invocation, and error your agent makes — then debug and iterate in seconds.
Developer ToolsNewFreemium
Open
4
My Busy Book
15 calm, no-fail games for ages 2–5. No ads, works offline, 5 games free every day.
Learning5.0Free
Open
5
the places I have been
Keeping track of the more quirky places you've visited around the world.
LearningNewFree
Open
6
Fireflies
An AI notetaker that sits in on your calls.
AINewFreemium
Open
7
Manus
An agent that goes off and finishes a task.
AINewFreemium
Open
8
Elicit
Find papers and pull answers out of them.
AINewFreemium
Open
9
Consensus
Ask a question, get answers grounded in papers.
AINewFreemium
Open
10
edX
University courses you can audit for free.
LearningNewFreemium
Open
11
The Odin Project
A free, full curriculum for learning web development.
LearningNewFree
Open
12
roadmap.sh
Roadmaps for what to learn as a developer.
LearningNewFree
Open
13
HackerRank
Coding challenges, from warmups to interviews.
LearningNewFreemium
Open
14
Codewars
Short coding katas, ranked like a martial art.
LearningNewFreemium
Open
15
NeetCode
A curated set of coding interview problems.
LearningNewFreemium
Open
16
CSS Battle
Recreate a target image using only CSS.
LearningNewFree
Open
17
Flexbox Froggy
Learn flexbox by placing frogs on lily pads.
LearningNewFree
Open
18
Frontend Mentor
Real-looking UI challenges to build from a design.
LearningNewFreemium
Open
19
arXiv
A free archive of research papers.
LearningNewFree
Open
20
Goodreads
Track the books you want to read and the ones you did.
LearningNewFree
Open
21
The StoryGraph
Track reading, with recommendations based on mood.
LearningNewFree
Open
22
Semantic Scholar
Search academic papers and see what cites them.
LearningNewFree
Open
23
Typst
Typeset a paper in the browser, faster than LaTeX.
WritingNewFreemium
Open
24
Interfaces
A magazine about building interfaces: type, layout, motion.
LearningNewFree
Open
25
UI Skills
Curated skills for design engineers, from a11y to motion.
LearningNewFree
Open
26
Codrops
Tutorials and demos for web design and frontend craft.
LearningNewFree
Open
27
Material Design
Google's design system for Android and the web.
LearningNewFree
Open
28
StoriBuk
Your kid steps into the book. One weekly cartoon storybook starring your family — read aloud with words that glow. First story free — no card.
LearningNewFree
Open
29
Perplexity
Ask a question and get an answer with its sources linked.
AINewFreemium
Open
30
Craft
Notes and docs that look good with no effort.
ProductivityNewFreemium
Open
31
Keybr
Learn touch typing with lessons that adapt to your weak keys.
LearningNewFree
Open
32
freeCodeCamp
Learn to code with free lessons and projects.
LearningNewFree
Open
33
Overleaf
Write LaTeX documents online with others.
WritingNewFreemium
Open
34
Quizlet
Flashcards and study sets for school subjects.
LearningNewFreemium
Open
35
Chess.com
Play chess online, take lessons and solve puzzles.
GamesNewFreemium
Open
36
Wikipedia
The free encyclopedia anyone can edit.
LearningNewFree
Open
37
VisuAlgo
Watch data structures and algorithms run step by step.
LearningNewFree
Open
38
LeetCode
Practice coding problems and prepare for interviews.
LearningNewFreemium
Open
39
GeoGebra
Graphing, geometry and algebra tools in one app.
LearningNewFree
Open
40
Scratch
Make games and animations with blocks, no typing needed.
LearningNewFree
Open
41
Brilliant
Learn math, science and coding by solving problems.
LearningNewFreemium
Open
42
Exercism
Practice programming languages with exercises and mentor feedback.
LearningNewFree
Open
43
Duolingo
Learn a language in short lessons that feel like a game.
LearningNewFreemium
Open
44
Wolfram|Alpha
Compute answers to math, science and data questions.
LearningNewFreemium
Open
45
Learning Music
Learn the basics of making music right in the browser.
Music & AudioNewFree
Open
46
AFFiNE
Docs, whiteboards and databases in one workspace.
ProductivityNewFreemium
Open
47
Are.na
Collect links, images and notes into shared channels.
InspirationNewFreemium
Open
48
Desmos
A graphing calculator that makes math feel visual.
LearningNewFree
Open