nova

The AI learning companion

Your learning journey. Your own way.

A smarter way to understand concepts, build study habits and track your learning progress.

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Free for students. No credit card.

Features

Everything you need to learn, shaped around you.

Four tools that work as one. NOVA plans the week, explains the material, checks what stuck and shows you the progress.

Personalized Study Plans

NOVA maps your exam dates, course load and energy to a weekly plan that adapts when you fall behind or pull ahead.

  1. MonLight reactions
  2. TueCalvin cycle
  3. WedRespiration
  4. ThuFlashcards

Smart Notes

Paste a lecture or a chapter and get notes that keep the ideas that matter, with the key lines surfaced for fast review.

Practice Quizzes

Short quizzes generated from what you just studied. Every wrong answer comes back later as a question you can actually learn from.

Question 3 of 8

Where does the Calvin cycle take place?

  • Thylakoid membrane
  • Stroma
  • Cytoplasm

Progress Tracking

See mastery build topic by topic, with a clear view of what is solid, what is slipping and what to review next.

Biology mastery, up 9% this week

  • Photosynthesis91%
  • Cell respiration64%
  • Genetics42%

Your dashboard

One calm place for everything you're learning.

Your subjects, your study rhythm and your next exam sit side by side, so you always know what matters today and why. NOVA reads the whole picture and tells you what to do next.

Subject mastery

Where your understanding stands right now

  • Biology78%
  • Calculus64%
  • World History91%
  • Spanish52%

Study time this week

11h 40m across five subjects

Biology midterm

In 18 days, on Thursday 14 March

82%exam readiness
  • Cell respiration reviewTomorrow
  • Full practice paperSunday
Insight from NOVA

Your Calculus scores dip on word problems that involve rates of change.

NOVA suggests two 20-minute sessions on rate-of-change stories before Thursday's quiz, then a 10-minute recap in the evening, when your recall has been strongest. Spanish can wait until the weekend without slipping your plan.

Based on 46 graded practice questions

Everything updates as you study. No manual logging, just NOVA keeping score.

How it works

From overwhelmed to on track in three steps.

NOVA does the planning so you can spend your time on the material itself.

  1. Tell NOVA what you're studying

    Add your courses, the exam dates that matter and how you learn best: by diagrams, by practice questions or in short bursts. Setup takes about two minutes, and NOVA only asks for what it needs to plan.

    • Exam dates
    • Learning style
    • Weekly hours

  2. Follow a plan that adapts every day

    Each morning NOVA rebuilds your day around what's due and what you missed yesterday. Skip a session and the material moves forward into a free slot instead of piling up on Friday night.

    • Re-plans nightly
    • Built from your quiz results
    • Blocks of 45 min or less

  3. See what's sticking and what needs work

    Every quiz and flashcard updates a mastery map for each topic. You can see which ideas have held up, which are fading, and the ten-minute review that will fix each gap before the exam.

    • Mastery by topic
    • Weak spots flagged
    • Next review scheduled

Why NOVA

Built for how students really learn.

Most study apps reward speed. NOVA is designed around understanding, steady habits and the fact that every student takes a different route to the same exam.

Adapts to you

NOVA starts from what you already know and what your exam covers. Your plan changes when your results do, so you never study a topic you have already mastered.

Explains, not just answers

Every hint walks through the reasoning behind it. You leave with an understanding you can reuse on the next problem, not a worked answer to copy.

Habits over cramming

Short daily sessions, gentle streaks and reminders that fit your timetable. Consistency builds up, and NOVA never guilt-trips you for missing a day.

Your data stays yours

Your notes, quiz history and progress are private to your account. You can export or delete everything at any time, and we never sell student data.

Every session
Your plan is re-balanced after each study session, quiz and review.
Reasoning first
Hints show the steps behind an answer before the answer itself.
Private by default
Your study data is never used to train models or shown to anyone else.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

The short version of what students ask us most. If your question is not here, we read every message.

Still stuck? Write to hello@nova.study and a real person will reply within a day.

Is NOVA free?
Yes. NOVA is free for students with no credit card required. The free plan includes your personalized study plan, smart notes and practice quizzes. NOVA Plus adds unlimited quizzes and larger file imports at a student price, and you can stay on free for as long as you like.
Which subjects does it support?
Maths, the sciences, languages, history, literature, economics and computing, from GCSE and A-level material through to first-year university. If a subject has a clear syllabus or a set of course notes, NOVA can build a plan for it.
How does it personalize my plan?
NOVA starts with a five-minute diagnostic to find where you are strong and where you are not. After that, every quiz and review updates your plan. It schedules harder topics when you are likely to remember them best and shortens sessions when your week gets busy.
Can I import my own notes and slides?
Yes. Upload PDFs, Word and PowerPoint files, Google Docs, or photos of handwritten notes. NOVA turns them into summaries, flashcards and quiz questions that match your own material, and you can remove any file at any time.
Is my data private?
Your notes and progress belong to you. Everything is encrypted in transit and at rest, your content is never used to train models, and we do not sell personal data. You can export or permanently delete everything from settings in a few clicks.
Does it work with school or university courses?
Yes. Paste or upload your course outline or syllabus and NOVA aligns your plan to its topics and assessment dates. Your school or university cannot see your activity unless you choose to share a progress summary.

Get started

Start learning the way that works for you.

NOVA builds your study plan around how you actually learn, then adapts it every time you practise, review and finish a quiz.

Free for students. No credit card.

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