Medly AI vs Mindgrasp

Mindgrasp turns lectures, videos, documents and audio into notes, flashcards, quizzes and practice tests. Medly gives you exam-style GCSE and A-Level questions and marks every answer you write. Both use AI, at different stages of studying.

The short answer

Choose Medly if you're preparing for GCSE, A-Level, IGCSE, IB, AP or SAT exams and want questions written to your exam board's specification, with every answer marked. Choose Mindgrasp if you have hours of lectures, readings or recordings to turn into notes and quizzes, for example at university.

How Medly and Mindgrasp differ

We checked Mindgrasp's details on its own website and its UK App Store listing on 7 and 8 November 2026, using standard prices and leaving out time-limited offers. Mindgrasp doesn't list prices on its website, so its prices are the in-app prices on the UK App Store. You can verify them on Mindgrasp's home page, study tools page, practice test page and App Store listing.

What Mindgrasp does well

Mindgrasp accepts a wide range of formats: PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoints, images, audio and video files, YouTube and Vimeo links and article links. It can also record live. From those it makes notes, summaries, flashcards, quizzes and timed practice tests, in more than 20 languages, and a Chrome extension connects it to learning platforms such as Canvas and Blackboard.

Its AI Tutor answers questions about what you've uploaded. Quizzes are scored with explanations, with adjustable difficulty and progress tracking. The AI Grader gives feedback and an estimated score on essays and short answers, and can mark against a rubric you supply. Mindgrasp also reads photos of handwritten notes and homework, and says more than 5 million students use it.

Where Medly is different

Questions written for your exam

Mindgrasp builds its material from what you upload, so how closely it matches your exam board's specification depends on those materials. Medly's questions are written to AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC, Eduqas, CCEA and CIE specifications and checked by teachers and examiners, across more than 14 question types, from multiple choice to 6-mark extended responses and essays.

Every answer marked

Mindgrasp's AI Grader estimates a score for essays and short answers. Each answer you write on Medly comes back annotated, showing which marking points you hit, where marks were lost and what to change. The marking is tied to the specification points and assessment objectives for your board, and every result feeds a mastery score for that topic, so Medly can suggest what to practise next. If you're stuck, the AI tutor can work through the question with you, and it remembers what you've covered before.

Handwritten answers, marked

You'll sit most of your exams on paper, so Medly lets you practise that way. Write your answer on the built-in canvas with a pen, eraser and text tools, and handwriting recognition reads it so it can be marked. If you've done a past paper on paper, Upload & Mark lets you upload it and have that marked too. Mindgrasp reads photos of handwritten notes and homework to build study material from them.

Mocks run like the real thing

Medly Mocks are free mock exams set by examiners and sat by students across the country at the same time. They come with grade boundaries, a results day and a percentile showing where you sit in the cohort. Mindgrasp's practice tests are timed and generated from your own material.

Does Medly raise marks?

In a randomised controlled trial in GCSE science, students using Medly for 30 minutes a week for four weeks scored 22% higher on the post-test than classmates revising the same topic in their usual way, adjusted for where they started. That's 2.56 more marks out of 35 across 644 students, an effect size of 0.33.

The trial was designed, randomised and analysed by WhatWorked Education with Professor Steve Higgins of Durham University. You can read our summary of the trial or the paper on arXiv.

Price

Mindgrasp lets you start with a free account. Its website doesn't list prices. On the UK App Store, Scholar costs £12.99 a month or £99.99 a year, and Premium costs £14.99 a month or £129.99 a year.

Medly's free plan includes 5 marked questions, 20 AI tutor messages and 1 uploaded paper a day, with lessons, notes, textbooks and flashcards that have no daily limit. Medly Mondays unlock unlimited practice in one subject from 9am on Monday to 9am on Tuesday. You don't need a card to sign up. Full access costs £24.99 a month or £180 a year and covers every subject on Medly.

Frequently asked questions

Is Medly or Mindgrasp better for GCSE revision?

It depends what you're starting from. If you want exam questions written to your board's specification, with every answer marked, Medly is built for GCSE and A-Level. If you want notes and quizzes made from lectures and documents you already have, Mindgrasp is built for that.

Is Mindgrasp aligned to UK exam boards?

Not directly. Mindgrasp builds notes, quizzes and tests from what you upload, and doesn't have its own exam board question bank. Medly's questions are written to AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC, Eduqas, CCEA and CIE specifications.

Can Mindgrasp help with exam practice?

Yes, from your own material. It generates quizzes and timed practice tests from what you upload, and its AI Grader gives feedback on essays and short answers. Medly gives you thousands of exam-style questions written to your board's specification, with every answer marked.

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