Frequently asked questions

StudyGrasp is a course-grounded study assistant. You ask a question by typing or by voice, and it answers using your course's own materials or your own uploaded notes, showing which materials it used.

Yes. StudyGrasp is always free: no paywall and no credit card.

Yes. Students create a free account with a username and a password of 8 or more characters, plus an optional display name and optional email, and then log in. That is how your study progress, chat history and study sets are saved for you.

Yes. After signing up you can upload files, paste text, import a public web link or record a lecture, and it becomes a private study set that only your login can see. You can delete it any time.

PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Markdown and text files, up to 8 MB per file. You can also paste text, import a public web link, or record a lecture with your browser's speech recognition. Each student can have up to 6 study sets.

Not yet. Scanned or image-only PDFs and audio or video files are not supported, because there is no OCR and no server-side transcription. Use text-based files, paste a transcript, or record with your browser's speech recognition instead.

No. There is no AI language model behind it. Answers are assembled from your own materials and the course notes, and they always cite them so you can check the source.

It is designed to say so plainly when the course materials do not cover something, instead of guessing and presenting it as part of your course.

You can see your own progress and chat history. Instructors and staff can see student-level progress and class-level insights about what students ask and where course content is missing. Content you upload is visible only to your login.

Yes. In the app you can download all of your data and delete your account and data yourself.

Questions are scanned and personal details such as emails, phone numbers and ID numbers are redacted before storage. Passwords are stored hashed and sessions use secure cookies. Chat history is kept 180 days by default. See the privacy page for details.

No. For graded work, StudyGrasp is designed to give hints and guide your thinking rather than final answers, and it supports a course's academic-integrity policy.

Study guides, flashcards (with Quizlet and Anki export), quizzes, practice tests and timed mock exams, notes and mind maps, audio recaps, a study plan and a grade calculator. Common prompt tiles and suggested next questions help you decide what to ask.

Features that need a language or speech model are not connected yet: essay grading and rubric feedback, turning lecture video and audio (MP3, MP4 and YouTube links) into study sets, reading scanned pages and photos (OCR), a step-by-step problem solver, open-ended tutor conversations, paraphrasing and grammar fixes, study in 20+ languages, and generated explainer videos and lecture summaries. Everything else works today and is always free.

Three demo courses: FIN 301 Corporation Finance (15 lessons, 4 exams) in a Penn State inspired setup, CS 101, an intro to computer science course with Python modeled on ODU CS 115, and BIOL 3010 Genetics and Molecular Biology, built from public University of Virginia course pages. You can also study from your own content.

No. StudyGrasp is an independent project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by The Pennsylvania State University, Old Dominion University or the University of Virginia. The look is Penn State inspired only.