The default shared folder for group work and lecture slides.
The folders, docs, chats, calculators, and browser extensions that sit next to a study app. Prices checked 16 September 2026.
The default shared folder for group work and lecture slides.
The Drive equivalent when campus issued you Office 365.
Simple sync that still wins when Google sharing gets messy.
The Apple default for notes, scans, and laptop backups.
Wikis, databases, and class hubs in one doc.
The group essay window that never needs a version in the filename.
The calendar every other planner still has to talk to.
Collaborative LaTeX in the browser, with a campus licence if you are lucky.
The general assistant. It does not know your slides unless you paste them.
Long-context chat that is unusually careful with a uploaded PDF.
Google’s assistant, already sitting next to Drive and Docs.
AI that only answers from the sources you gave it.
A search box that returns answers with links, not a vibe.
The assistant that shows up inside Word, OneNote, and Edge.
xAI’s assistant, useful when you want a less cautious first pass.
Grammar and tone in the browser, with a student plan if you hunt for it.
The unofficial seminar: channels, files, and voice that email never was.
The lecture link you already know, with a 40-minute free ceiling on personal accounts.
Free practice for the subjects your course assumed you already knew.
A computational engine, not a chatbot that guesses the integral.
The graphing calculator that should replace the one in your bag.
Ask a PDF questions with citations back to the page.
Point the camera at a problem, then read the steps, not just the answer.
Free graphs, geometry, and 3D that schools already trust.
Typed step-by-step maths, now in the Course Hero family.
Daily language streaks, with Super removing the energy gate.
Interactive STEM courses with a daily lesson and a Premium wall.
Paraphrase and grammar tools, with a student Premium page.
The campus meeting app when the university already paid for 365.
The other lecture link, with a one-hour cap on a free personal account.
Save a paper, a PDF, or a catalogue record into Zotero with one click.
Highlight a page and drop Markdown into your vault, not a vendor silo.
Send a page into a Notion database instead of a pile of bookmarks.
Highlight a title or a citation and search Scholar without leaving the tab.
A green tab when a legal open-access copy of the paywalled paper exists.
Highlight and comment on the live web, including many PDFs, with a class group if you need one.
The blocker that still does the most on Firefox. Chrome only gets the Lite fork now.
A dark theme for sites that never made one, including PDFs in the tab.
A block list with a clock: these sites, these hours, no negotiation.
A daily minute budget for the sites you named. When it hits zero, they are gone.
Grammar and spelling in the browser, including languages Grammarly treats as an afterthought.
Translate a selection in-page. Better than the toolbar for coursework in a second language.
School Google in one colour, personal account in another, cookies kept apart.
D and S on any HTML5 video, including the lecture the LMS buried in a player.
Dual subtitles on YouTube and Netflix, plus a lookup that does not kill the playback.
Highlight the web and YouTube transcripts, then export the lines you marked.
A Safari-native content blocker for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, with a store listing you do not have to sideload.