All features: study methods and tools for university
What can CleverSphere do, and what helps in your subject? Here you find every study method and tool with what it is for and which plan includes it. Much of it is free, some of it even without an account.
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Prepare your scripts
Your documents become study material
Scripts & modules
Free to tryUpload lecture scripts and slides (PDF) and sort them into modules with an exam date. Scripts in 25 languages, from French and Spanish to Chinese: everything made from them stays in the script’s language.
Good for: At the start: everything else builds on your scripts.
Free: 2 scripts · image pages with formulas/diagrams are read on Free too (up to 15 per script) · Plus: 50 per month · Pro: 100
AI summaries
Free to tryThe AI summarises a script in a structured way, with formulas and key terms, editable in your notes.
Good for: When you want an overview or a compact recap before the exam.
Free: 3 · Plus: as needed
Notes & handwriting
FreeType notes for each script or draw with a pen, annotate right in the PDF.
Good for: During the lecture and while working through the script.
Review
Recall and consolidate what you know
Flashcards with spaced repetition
Free to tryAI flashcards from your script; spaced repetition shows which cards are due each day.
Good for: A few minutes every day so definitions and facts stick for the long term.
Free: 20 AI cards per script · Plus: up to 120 · Pro: up to 200
Multiple choice
PlusAI quiz with four answers per question and an explanation, each round from another part of the script.
Good for: For quick checks in between and exams with a multiple-choice part.
Active recall
Free to tryThe AI asks a question from your script, you answer freely and the AI grades your answer.
Good for: When you want to check whether you can really put the material into your own words.
Free: 3 trial questions · Plus: as needed
Understand
Explain and organise the connections
AI tutor
Free to tryAsk questions about your script, even with a photo of your working, and get explanations based on your material.
Good for: When you are stuck or want something explained differently.
Free: 10 messages · Plus: 500 per month · Pro: 2,000
Feynman technique
Free to tryExplain a concept from the script in simple words; the AI shows you the gaps in your explanation.
Good for: For difficult concepts you want to understand rather than memorise.
Free: 3 trial questions · Plus: as needed
Mind map
PlusThe AI arranges the topics of a script as an expandable mind map.
Good for: When you want to see the common thread of a chapter.
Formula sheet + gap training
PlusNewCheat sheet with all key formulas of the script (symbols, when to use), printable, plus gap training.
Good for: Before the exam, to recall formulas with confidence. Without formulas: definitions and rules.
Practise for the exam
Like in the exam: calculate, check, solve
Practice exam with a grade
Free to tryAn exam simulation from your scripts in the style of your module, with a time limit, grade and model answers.
Good for: In the last weeks before the exam, to practise the real thing.
Free: 1 · Plus: as needed
Spot the mistake
Free to tryNewWorked solutions from your script with exactly one typical exam mistake: find the wrong step.
Good for: To learn to check your own solutions critically, in any subject.
Free: 1 set per week · Plus: as needed
Case studies
PlusA realistic case on the material of your script with a task, hints and a model answer.
Good for: For transfer and case tasks, e.g. in business, law or medicine.
Organic chemistry trainer
FreePractise organic chemistry reactions: find the product or reagent and plan syntheses in 2–3 steps, with structures and mechanisms.
Good for: In the first years of chemistry, biology, pharmacy and medicine, until the reaction types stick.
Free: unlimited basic reactions + 1 bonus reaction a day · Plus: over 150 reactions from OC 1 and OC 2, over 1,500 syntheses, SN1/SN2/E1/E2, exam mode and the AI tutor
Matrix trainer
Free to tryNewPractise linear systems, determinants, rank and inverses with your own row operations, hints and worked solutions.
Good for: In linear algebra and maths for engineering, computer science and economics.
Free: up to 3×3, no daily limit · Plus: also 4×4, inverses
Journal entry trainer
Free to tryNewBook business transactions with debits and credits yourself, every line checked, with calculation and reasons.
Good for: In bookkeeping and financial accounting in business and economics degrees.
Free: unlimited basics + 1 exam-level task a day · Plus: also cash discounts, depreciation and VAT, unlimited
Cost accounting trainer
Free to tryNewDo cost accounting yourself: contribution, break-even, cost-plus pricing, process costing, overhead rates, make or buy and variances, with worked solutions.
Good for: In cost and management accounting in the first years of business studies, especially before the exam.
Free: unlimited basics + 1 exam-level task a day · Plus: also overhead rates, quoted prices, decisions, machine hour rates and variances, unlimited
Economics trainer
Free to tryNewDo micro- and macroeconomics yourself: market equilibrium, elasticities, surplus, tax incidence, monopoly, the consumer optimum, cost curves, the multiplier, money creation and IS-LM, with worked solutions and the typical mistake.
Good for: In first-year micro- and macroeconomics for business and economics students, especially before the exam.
Free: unlimited basics + 1 exam-level task a day · Plus: also surplus, arc elasticity, tax incidence, deadweight loss and monopoly, unlimited
Chemistry trainer
Free to tryNewDo general chemistry yourself: molar mass, moles, concentration and dilution, pH of strong and weak acids, buffers, stoichiometry, limiting reagents and titration, with worked solutions and the typical mistake.
Good for: In first-year general chemistry for chemistry, biology, pharmacy, medicine and engineering.
Free: unlimited basics + 1 exam-level task a day · Plus: also stoichiometry, weak acids, buffers, limiting reagents and titration, unlimited
Genetics trainer
Free to tryNewSolve genetics yourself: Punnett squares (mono-, di- and trihybrid, incomplete dominance), blood groups, test crosses, X-linked inheritance, the genetic code, mutations, Hardy-Weinberg, gene linkage and pedigree risk, with worked solutions and the typical mistake.
Good for: In first-year genetics for biology, medicine, pharmacy and biochemistry, especially before the exam.
Free: unlimited basics + 1 exam-level task a day · Plus: also dihybrid crosses, X-linked inheritance, mutations, Hardy-Weinberg, gene linkage and pedigrees, unlimited
Read in a task (past paper import)
Free to tryNewUpload a photo of a task from a past paper or problem sheet: the AI reads it, our calculator solves it with every step, guaranteed correct. If no calculator fits, you get an AI worked solution without guarantee.
Good for: When you work through a past paper and want to check your workings.
Free: 1 import to try · Plus: 50 a month · Pro: 200 a month
Spectroscopy trainer
Free to tryNewPractise structure elucidation: double bond equivalents, ¹H and ¹³C NMR signals, n+1 splitting, IR bands, molecular ion and isotope patterns, then the structure from formula, IR and NMR. Every spectrum is computed from the structure.
Good for: In organic chemistry and analysis from the second semester of chemistry, biochemistry and pharmacy.
Free: unlimited basics + 1 exam-level task a day · Plus: also splitting, mass spectra and structure elucidation, unlimited
Derivatives & integrals
Free to tryNewWork out derivatives and integrals and type them in: power, product, quotient and chain rule, antiderivatives, substitution, integration by parts and limits. Every equivalent form counts, with worked solutions.
Good for: In first-year maths for business, engineering and science, especially before the exam.
Free: unlimited basics + 1 exam-level task a day · Plus: also product, quotient and chain rule, tangents, extrema, substitution, integration by parts and limits, unlimited
Statistics trainer
Free to tryNewDo statistics yourself: mean and spread, probabilities, distributions, confidence intervals, tests and regression, with worked solutions.
Good for: In statistics for business, psychology, medicine and social sciences, especially before the exam.
Free: unlimited basics + 1 exam-level task a day · Plus: also normal distribution, tests, regression, Bayes and chi-square, unlimited
Plan & keep going
Study plan, focus and motivation
Study plan & calendar
FreeEnter exam dates and get a study plan up to the exam; with Plus also in your own calendar.
Good for: At the start of term and as soon as the exam dates are fixed.
Study plan free · calendar sync with Plus
Focus timer & lo-fi
FreePomodoro timer (25/5) and lo-fi music right next to your material.
Good for: When concentrating is hard or you want to track your study time.
Study groups
PlusShare questions, material and dates with your fellow students.
Good for: When you study for an exam together.
Own groups with Plus or through your study streak
Study streak & rewards
FreeEvery study day counts: the streak unlocks more uploads, AI questions and, from 14 days, a 24-hour Plus pass.
Good for: To make regular studying a habit.
Write & organise
Papers, sources and grades
Term papers
ProAI outline, sources per paper and a submission checklist for term and seminar papers.
Good for: From finding a topic to submitting a written paper.
Citation generator
FreeAdd sources by DOI, ISBN or link and cite them in APA, Harvard, Chicago, MLA, DIN or German footnote style.
Good for: For every paper or thesis.
Grade calculator
FreeCalculate your ECTS-weighted average, German and Swiss grading scales, linked to your modules.
Good for: After every exam period and when you want to know which grade you still need.
Study tips
FreeShort, research-based guides to methods like spaced repetition, active recall or Pomodoro.
Good for: When you want to study more efficiently and know why a method works.
Start with your own script
Upload a script and try the study methods with your own material. Free, no credit card.
