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Medly AI vs Save My Exams

Save My Exams is built around revision notes and past papers. Medly is built for exam practice where every answer is marked.

Medly Team27 March 2026Updated 8 November 2026

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Save My Exams is a library of revision notes, exam questions and past papers written by teachers and examiners, with AI marking on selected courses. Medly gives you exam-style questions and marks every answer you write. Both are built for exam revision, but they put the weight in different places.

The short answer

Choose Medly if you want every answer you write marked, with feedback tied to your exam board's specification, and an AI tutor to work through questions with you. Choose Save My Exams if what you mainly want is revision notes and past papers across a wide range of subjects and boards.

How Medly and Save My Exams differ

	Medly AI	Save My Exams
Built for	Exam practice for GCSE, A-Level, IGCSE, IB, AP and SAT, matched to AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC, Eduqas, CCEA and CIE specifications	Revision notes, exam questions and past papers for GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level, IB and AP, across AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC, CIE, Eduqas and Oxford AQA
Where the questions come from	Thousands of exam-style questions across 14+ question types, written to exam board specifications and checked by teachers and examiners	Topic questions and past papers, with resources written by teachers and examiners
Marking	Every answer marked, with annotations showing where each mark was won or lost	Smart Mark on selected courses, unlimited on Premium, plus model answers
AI tutor	Works through questions with you and remembers what you've covered	Revision Note Chat and Exam Question Chat, plus Guided Study and Guided Practice on selected courses
Papers from elsewhere	Upload & Mark: upload a past paper you've done on paper and have it marked	Smart Mark marks answers to Save My Exams' own questions
Mock exams	Medly Mocks: free mocks set by examiners and sat nationwide, with grade boundaries and a results day	Mock exams on the Essential and Premium plans
Published trial	Randomised controlled trial in GCSE science: 22% higher post-test scores (details below)	Reports a survey of 1,917 students in September 2025, in which 97% of members said their grades improved
Free plan	5 marked questions, 20 tutor messages and 1 uploaded paper a day, plus lessons, notes and flashcards with no daily limit	A weekly allowance of revision notes, some exam questions, and unlimited past papers and flashcards
Paid plan	£24.99 a month or £180 a year	Essential £12 a month, £30 a quarter or £48 a year. Premium £25 a month, £60 a quarter or £96 a year, with a 7-day free trial

We checked Save My Exams' details on its own website on 1 November 2026, comparing standard prices and leaving out time-limited offers, and checked its survey figures on 8 November 2026. You can verify Save My Exams' details on its plans page, AI tools page, free access guide and page on whether Save My Exams is legit, which gives the survey figures.

What Save My Exams does well

Save My Exams covers a lot of ground. Its revision notes, topic questions, past papers and model answers span GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level, IB (Diploma Programme) and AP, across Maths, English, the sciences, the humanities and languages. Its resources are written by teachers and examiners.

The Essential plan gives unlimited access to notes, exam questions and mock exams. Premium adds unlimited Smart Mark on selected courses, model answers, Target Tests and PDF downloads. Smart Mark grades typed, drawn or uploaded handwritten answers against exam board mark schemes and shows where marks were dropped. Its chat tools answer questions about its notes and exam questions, Guided Practice adjusts question difficulty as you answer on selected courses, and a Strengths & Weaknesses tool highlights the areas you need to work on.

The free account is useful in its own right, with a weekly allowance of notes and unlimited past papers and flashcards.

Where Medly is different

Every answer marked

On Save My Exams, Smart Mark is available on selected courses. On Medly, every answer you write 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 each result feeds a mastery score for that topic, so Medly can suggest what to practise next.

You can type your answer or write it by hand. Write on the built-in canvas with a pen, eraser and text tools, and handwriting recognition reads it so it can be marked.

A tutor that remembers what you've covered

Save My Exams' chat tools answer questions about its own notes and exam questions. Medly's AI tutor works through a question with you when you're stuck, and it remembers what you've covered before.

Papers from elsewhere, marked

If you've done a past paper on paper, Upload & Mark lets you upload it and have it marked. The results feed into your mastery scores alongside everything else you do on Medly. Save My Exams' Smart Mark marks answers to its own questions.

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. Save My Exams includes mock exams on its Essential and Premium plans.

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

Save My Exams' free account gives a weekly allowance of revision notes, some exam questions, and unlimited past paper downloads and flashcards. Essential costs £12 a month, £30 a quarter or £48 a year. Premium, which adds unlimited Smart Mark on selected courses, costs £25 a month, £60 a quarter or £96 a year, with a 7-day free trial.

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 Save My Exams better for GCSE revision?

It depends how you like to revise. If you want to practise exam questions and have every answer marked against your board's specification, Medly is built for that. If you mainly want revision notes and past papers, across a wide range of subjects and boards, Save My Exams is.

Does Medly cover the same exam boards as Save My Exams?

They overlap. Medly covers AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC, Eduqas, CCEA and CIE across GCSE, A-Level, IGCSE, IB, AP and SAT. Save My Exams covers AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC, CIE, Eduqas and Oxford AQA across GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level, IB and AP. Medly also covers SAT, which Save My Exams doesn't.

Does Save My Exams have AI marking?

Yes, on selected courses. Smart Mark grades typed or handwritten answers to Save My Exams' questions against exam board mark schemes, and it's unlimited on Premium. Medly marks every answer to its own exam-style questions, and papers you upload, with annotations showing where each mark was won or lost.

Can I upload my own exam papers to Medly?

Yes. Upload & Mark lets you upload a past paper you've done and have it marked. Your results feed into your mastery scores, so work done away from Medly still shapes what it suggests next.

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