Medly AI vs StudyFetch

StudyFetch turns your lecture slides, recordings and notes into flashcards, quizzes and lessons with its AI tutor, Sparky. Medly gives you exam-style GCSE and A-Level questions and marks every answer you write. Both use AI, but they start from different places.

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 StudyFetch if you want to turn your own course materials into study tools, such as lecture slides and recordings at university.

How Medly and StudyFetch differ

We checked StudyFetch'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. StudyFetch 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 StudyFetch's support page, practice tests page, research page and App Store listing.

What StudyFetch does well

StudyFetch is built around your own material. Upload PDFs, PowerPoints, lecture recordings, YouTube videos or images of notes, or type a topic, and it makes flashcards, quizzes, summaries and lessons. Its AI tutor, Sparky, teaches from those materials by voice or chat, with Socratic and Essay Coach modes.

It grades quiz answers instantly with explanations, and its Essay Grader gives AI feedback on essays. Practice tests can be whatever length you choose and include short- and free-response questions. A Live Lecture Assistant takes notes during live lectures, and there's a study plan with a cram mode. StudyFetch says it has more than 8 million users. Its research page includes a survey of 1,019 students from winter 2024 and a spring 2025 pilot study with students at Auburn University.

Where Medly is different

Questions written for your exam

StudyFetch's questions come from whatever you upload or type. It offers exam-style formats for US exams such as AP, MCAT and NCLEX, and doesn't list UK exam boards. 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

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. StudyFetch uses handwriting as source material: you can upload images of your notes to make study tools.

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. StudyFetch's practice tests are generated from your materials, at a length you choose.

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

StudyFetch is free to start. Its website doesn't list prices. On the UK App Store, Premium costs £19.99 a month, £29 a quarter or £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 StudyFetch better for GCSE revision?

It depends where your revision starts. 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 study tools made from your own slides, notes and recordings, StudyFetch is built for that.

Is StudyFetch aligned to UK exam boards?

It doesn't list UK exam boards. StudyFetch builds study tools from your uploads or a topic you type, and its exam-specific formats are for US exams such as AP, MCAT and NCLEX. Medly's questions are written to AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC, Eduqas, CCEA and CIE specifications.

Does StudyFetch mark written answers?

It grades quiz answers instantly with explanations, and its Essay Grader gives AI feedback on essays. Medly marks every answer with annotations showing where each mark was won or lost, tied to your board's specification.

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