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