StudyFetch vs Coursity: Lots of Study Tools in One App, or One Tutor for Your Course

StudyFetch and Coursity start from the same idea: upload your syllabus and slides once and study from your professor's material. I build Coursity, and on paper the two are closer than I'd like.

StudyFetch puts lots of study tools in one app: flashcards, quizzes, practice tests in MCAT or NCLEX format, audio recaps, games and a tutor, on the web and on your phone. Coursity is one tutor for your course. You can import the course from supported course sites with an extension you install yourself, and Coursity sends the syllabus due dates to Google, Apple or Outlook. Both track topics, so the choice comes down to whether you want the range or one focused tutor.

When I looked at StudyFetch, it felt all over the place to me: too many features, and I didn't like the idea of pre-made study guides, because they felt like they could go stale. That's my taste, and it's why I lean toward the focused kind.

I haven't put the same problem through both tutors, so I can't say which explains it better. Everything below comes from each company's own pages, listed at the bottom.

Last checked: October 1, 2026

StudyFetch's course-site link goes through your school, and Coursity's doesn't

On StudyFetch, you bring material in by uploading files (PDF, Word, PowerPoint, text and images), connecting Google Drive, pasting a YouTube or Quizlet link, or photographing handwritten notes with your phone. Upload a syllabus and its calendar fills in your exam and class dates. Its page for teachers lists integrations with Canvas, Blackboard, Schoology, D2L Brightspace and Google Classroom, which a school sets up. For a student on their own, the upload docs say the LMS option "generates an email template you can send to request LMS integration."

Coursity's import is a Chrome extension you add yourself, Coursity Capture, with no email to your school. Open the course's Content page, click the Coursity button, click Import. The files, pages and links come over, slides and PDFs are converted, links stay organized by module, and the syllabus is detected and used to draft the course structure. Some files may still need uploading by hand. If your school hasn't connected StudyFetch, that's fewer steps than downloading each file from your course site and uploading it again, though if your professor already shares everything through Google Drive, StudyFetch's Drive import gets you most of the way there.

The extension works on course sites at the vendors' own addresses (Canvas at instructure.com, Brightspace, Moodle on moodlecloud.com, Blackboard, Google Classroom, Schoology and itslearning). If your school runs its course site at its own address, upload the files directly for now.

StudyFetch puts lots of study tools in one app

Its Study Plan lays out the topics to cover in Cram, Standard or Comprehensive mode and marks each topic Covered or Mastered as you pass short assessments. Set an exam date and it books study sessions on the calendar, and an Insights page breaks down your strengths and weaknesses by topic. Coursity also tracks mastery by topic, so they match here, at least as described.

Citations are close too. Coursity's tutor cites the slide or page it drew on, and StudyFetch's help docs say its tutor, Sparky, will "cite the exact source location," down to the page. Its quiz questions link back to their source, and if your file doesn't cover something, Sparky says so.

StudyFetch can also record a lecture in class and turn the transcript into notes. It makes flashcards in five formats with spaced repetition built in, quizzes with five question types, and practice tests in formats like "MCAT passage sets, NCLEX select-all, AP free response." It turns notes into audio, podcasts and songs included, and it takes Anki decks for flashcards.

And StudyFetch is on your phone: web, iOS and Android, synced, plus a tutor you can text over iMessage without logging in. If most of your studying happens on a bus or in the ten minutes before a lab, that probably settles it.

StudyFetch is also a lot bigger. Its home page says "8M+ Users worldwide," and on October 1 its App Store listing showed a 4.8 rating from 14K ratings and advertised "Support for 20+ languages." Coursity has no flashcards or phone app, it works in English only, and nobody has reviewed it anywhere yet.

Can StudyFetch put your deadlines on Google Calendar?

For study sessions, yes. StudyFetch's privacy policy says that if you connect Google Calendar, "we read your existing events to find the times you are free and to schedule around them, and we create, update, and delete the study events you ask us to place on your calendar." Its site doesn't mention Apple Calendar or Outlook, or the syllabus due dates themselves going out to Google. What it does describe is a nudge from the iMessage tutor, which will "check in a few days before your next test and nudge you on the chapters you haven't studied yet."

Coursity sends out the syllabus due dates. It reads them from your syllabus and publishes them as one calendar subscription that works in Google, Apple or Outlook, so they sit in whichever calendar you already check. The evening before each one you get an email and an SMS, and that's on the free plan too.

StudyFetch's terms let it train AI on your uploads, with exceptions

Section 30 of StudyFetch's Terms of Service says "any data, content, or other materials that you upload... may be used by the Company to train, test, and improve the artificial intelligence," and that StudyFetch "may retain and use training datasets, model parameters, and other improvements... even after such User Contributions are deleted." The same section makes an exception for data that comes in through Google services, including Google Drive, Docs and Calendar: StudyFetch says it doesn't use that data to "develop, train, test, or improve any artificial intelligence or machine learning model." Its home page FAQ, under "Is my data private and secure?", says your materials "are never sold, and are only used to generate study tools for your own account."

Coursity's terms say "We don't sell your content or use it to train models for other users," and its privacy policy says your materials and study data "power your own tutor" and that "we don't sell them, and we don't use them to train AI models for other people." The tutor's answers come from Anthropic's Claude models through Anthropic's API, and the policy says Anthropic doesn't use API content to train its models. On deletion, it says your data stays as long as your account does. Deleting a course removes its materials, chats and progress, and deleting your account is completed within 30 days, with backups aging out on a rolling basis after that.

StudyFetch Premium is $96 a year on iOS, and Coursity Pro is $79 a semester

StudyFetch's support page says getting started is free, and its schedule maker page says you can "build your first week without paying up front." The prices it publishes are on its App Store listing, and those are Apple's in-app prices: Premium is $19.99 a month, $29.00 a quarter or $96.00 a year.

StudyFetch's Terms say plans renew automatically unless you cancel, and that fees aren't refundable except where the law requires, though StudyFetch may issue refunds or credits at its discretion, for example for billing errors. Cancelling takes effect when the current subscription period ends, with no refund. Its refund help page says a customer who forgets to cancel "won't be eligible for a refund."

Coursity is free to start with no card. Free includes the whole tutor for 14 days and up to 2 courses, then about 20 tutor replies a week. Pro is $19.99 a month or $79 a semester (one payment for 4 months) for about 300 replies a week, Plus is $9.99 a month or $39 a semester for about 150, and there's no trial. Coursity's terms say you can cancel anytime and the cancellation takes effect at the end of your billing period, after which the account returns to free and nothing is deleted. They don't mention refunds. At StudyFetch's App Store prices, the monthly Pro and Premium plans cost the same. Over a year, StudyFetch's $96 plan costs less than a year of either Coursity plan.

Both are free to start, so try them on the same syllabus

Upload the same syllabus to Coursity and StudyFetch and see which one you keep opening.