7 Secret AI Tools for Students That Are Better Than ChatGPT (2025 Guide)
To be truthful, we all are in love with ChatGPT. It is the cheat code in the past couple of years. It has rescued us all whether we are writing an email at 11pm to a professor or skimming through a 50 page PDF.
However, the reality of the matter is that, in 2025, you will be lagging behind when using ChatGPT alone.
Being a tech enthusiast, I have been testing dozens of new AI tools in the past few months, and I made a realization. ChatGPT is a generalist, a master of nothing. It is mediocre at all, and excellent at nothing. In certain tasks, such as writing Java code, writing a research paper, or writing a slide deck, specialized tools are available that put ChatGPT to shame.
These are the 7 "secret" AI tools that I feel every student should add to his or her toolkit this year. And the best part? The majority of them possess strong free versions.
Performance Artificial Intelligence (The "Truth" Engine)
You have ever used ChatGPT to write an essay and discovered it was fabricating a bogus fact? We refer to them as hallucinations and they have the potential of bringing down your grades.
Why it is better: Perplexity is such that it had a genius child with Google and ChatGPT. It does not just guess the answer, it uses the live internet in real-time. When you pose it a question, it provides you the answer and with the sources in form of small numbers that you can click on.
Best: When you require the real citations in research papers.
Presenter Wizard (Gamma App).
I would spend hours adjusting the text boxes in power point and struggling with font sizes. Never again.
Why it is superior: Gamma is magic all the way through. It is as easy as typing something like: Create an 8 slide presentation on the history of Cloud Computing and then it creates a beautiful and professional slide deck in less than 60 seconds. It has pictures, design, and text that has been unraveled in a perfect manner.
Best: When it comes to last minute presentations, which require professional appearance.
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Neural networks (Blackbox AI The Coders Best Friend)
Keeping in mind that a large number of those reading this are into coding (I can see you, Java and SQL learners!), this is one that cannot be compromised.
Reason why it is better: ChatGPT trains on general internet text thus the code often becomes obsolete. Blackbox is developed to suit developers. You may also paste a screenshot on your error message and it will examine the picture to locate the solution. Surprisingly, it works with intricate reasoning.
Best Suited: Code debugging and completing program tasks quicker.
Consensus (The "A+" Researcher)
When you are working on a thesis or serious project, a blog post is not something that will be accepted by your professor. What they desire is peer reviewed science.
Why it is superior: Search Consensus is a search engine that will only consider scientific research papers. When you ask the question, Does listening to music help studying?, it analyzes real research and provides you with a Yes/No brief according to findings, and not opinion.
Best: Thesis level research and serious research.
Otter.ai (The Lecture Saver)
It has happened to us all, you sit in a class and after 5 minutes of spacing out, your professor is talking about the final exam and you have missed it.
Why it is superior: Otter is not a chatbot, it is a smart recorder. It listens to your lecture and reads the audio aloud and translates it into text in real time. It even isolates the various speakers. You can simply search after class using keywords such as Homework or Exam and you will have what was actually said.
Best when: Students have difficulties in making quick notes.
Quillbot (The Fluency Fixer)
There are those times when you know you have a good idea, only that sentence does not sound so good. Or perhaps you feel like your essay is too close to one that you read.
The reason it is better: ChatGPT writes the text on the blank, whereas Quillbot is a master of text rephrasing. You type in your text and it reforms to sound either more formal, simple or creative and nothing changes. It is a necessary device in the prevention of unintentional plagiarism.
Best to use: Polishing essays and bettering vocabulary.
Socratic by Google (The Homework Helper).
It is a hidden treasure, particularly to the visual learners who have to study Math or Chemistry.
Why it is superior: You do not even have to type. It is just necessary to make a photo of a math problem or a chemical equation. The AI of Google is used by Socratic to deconstruct the problem into stepwise instructions. It does not only provide you with the answer, it educates you on how to answer it.
Best: Maths, Physics, and Chemistry home work.
Final Thoughts
AI will never be used to get a robot to do all your work, but it will release your time to be able to get down to learning the difficult stuff.
Perplexity would be the first tool that you need to download today, should you download just one item on this list. It will forever transform the manner in which you search the web.
Which of them have you used? Please tell me in the comments below!
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