The tools you go looking for at 11pm
8 things a student actually needs, none of which should ever have cost money. They run on your own machine, so there is no account, no upload, and no limit on how many times you use them. Install it and they keep working with no connection.
Citations
A bibliography without an account and without the ads.
a DOI → a reference02Grades and GPA
What you need on the final, and what your GPA really is.
your marks → the number you need03Scan to PDF
A photographed page, cleaned up into something submittable.
phone photos → a clean PDF04Flashcards
Notes into cards, with the study mode Quizlet charges for.
pasted notes → cards that return05Word counter
The count, and whether anyone can read it.
your essay → the count06Focus timer
The phone is busy being the timer, so you cannot be on it.
25:0007Revision planner
More time on the topics you are worst at, less on the rest.
topics → what to do today08Deadline planner
Not the deadline. The day it has to start.
due dates → start datesThe formatting rules are published. The arithmetic is arithmetic. None of this was ever scarce.
Citation sites want a login because they were bought by companies that sell subscriptions, and the tool became the doorway. Quizlet gates the study modes that work because study modes are what people will pay to get back. The paywalls in this corner of the web are on convenience, not on anything difficult.
Everything here runs inside the page you are reading, using your own processor, so it costs nothing to serve and there is nothing to meter. Your essay, your grades, your notes and your scanned pages never leave the device. Your work stays in your browser, which also means it does not follow you to another machine, and the site says so on every tool that saves anything.