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Study Buddy

An open-source AI personal tutor that runs entirely on your computer — private by design, bring your own model.
Study Buddy desktop interface

What it does

Topic in, tutor out

Type any topic and pick an education level from elementary through graduate.

Grounded teaching

Searches the web, reads real sources, and teaches from them — not from memory alone.

Interactive quizzes

Conversational follow-ups and quiz-style prompts to check your understanding as you go.

Bring your own notes

Paste in slides, excerpts, or your own materials and the tutor will work them in.

Local or cloud

Use Ollama for fully offline tutoring, or plug in OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or Groq.

Fresh every session

No persistent knowledge base. Each session is fast, focused, and forgettable by design.

How it works

Type a topic

Pick the subject and the education level you want the tutor to pitch the explanation at.

It searches the web

Study Buddy queries DuckDuckGo, fetches the most relevant pages, and reads them.

It summarises & grounds

Sources are condensed to fit your model’s context window, then handed to the tutor.

You learn & quiz

The tutor explains, asks follow-ups, and adapts to where you’re stuck.

Study Buddy tutoring session