CleverSphere

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 try

    Upload 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 try

    The 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

    Free

    Type 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 try

    AI 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

    Plus

    AI 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 try

    The 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 try

    Ask 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 try

    Explain 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

    Plus

    The 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

    PlusNew

    Cheat 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 try

    An 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 tryNew

    Worked 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

    Plus

    A 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

    Free

    Practise 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 tryNew

    Practise 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 tryNew

    Book 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 tryNew

    Do 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 tryNew

    Do 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 tryNew

    Do 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 tryNew

    Solve 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 tryNew

    Upload 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 tryNew

    Practise 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 tryNew

    Work 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 tryNew

    Do 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

    Free

    Enter 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

    Free

    Pomodoro 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

    Plus

    Share 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

    Free

    Every 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

    Pro

    AI 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

    Free

    Add 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

    Free

    Calculate 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

    Free

    Short, 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.