AI tutor for GCSE, IB & A-Level

Tutoring that fitsthe way you think.

Not just answers. Root teaches the why and remembers how you learn. And now its Academic Manager runs your studying: keep-up, revision and test-prep sessions, planned around your real week.

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Grades 6–12
  • Maths
  • Sciences
  • English
  • Humanities
  • Languages
  • Computer Science
  • + anything else (photography, marketing, gardening…)

Built around your syllabusGCSE · IGCSE · A-Level · IB MYP · IB DP · AP · US Common Core

Planner Mode

Root manages your schedule

Half of studying is arguing with yourself about what to study.

  • Builds your study week around your real availability, then drops a keep-up session in for each class — re-explaining whatever was shaky that week
  • Schedules your revision, and when a test lands it builds the run-up from your actual gaps
  • Analyses you behind the scenes — slip in maths, and it messages you with extra maths sessions
  • You just show up.
Root Tutor

Teaching that fits you

You’d rather stay confused than ask the same question twice.

  • Learns which explanations actually work for you, and switches angles when you’re stuck to make it click
  • Walks through your mistakes with you until you can prove you’ve got it
  • Builds a picture of how you learn, session after session
  • No two students are taught the same.
Revision

Pick up a unit where you left it

When exam week comes around, Unit 1 feels like a stranger.

  • Keeps your whole year’s history — what you struggled with in each unit, and what finally clicked
  • So it can recap the year from your own past mistakes in minutes, starting with what you’re most likely to need
  • Quick recap, weak-spot drill, full review — or just the topics you pick
  • Don’t restart. Resume.
Test Prep

Marked like the real exam

You don’t find out how you actually score until it counts.

  • Mock tests in your exam board’s style, marked question by question
  • Shows you the exact words that won or lost each mark
  • Then turns your missed marks into your next study plan
  • See where your marks go — before the real exam.

New · Planner Mode

Meet your Academic Manager.

Tell Root your classes and your week. From then on it runs your studying: sessions scheduled around your real availability, each class kept in rotation, and when a test lands, a full run-up built from the gaps it has seen. It remembers your week, checks in first, and asks before changing your schedule. You just show up.

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What’s inside Root

Four modes. One picture of you.

Planner Mode

Show up. It’s already planned.

  • Builds the schedule around your availability, not the other way round
  • Weekly keep-up and revision rotation per class, sized to your month
  • Spots a class that needs more attention and proposes the fix
  • If it needs to add, drop or move a session, it asks you first
  • Test run-ups sized from your real work: gaps found, foundations first
  • When time is tight, it shows you what to prioritise

A run-up, built for you

1Foundations: quadraticsthe gap that unlocks the most marks
2Formula practiceyour pace, your availability
3Past questionsthe styles your board asks
4Mock runpitched above the real one
🚩Maths test · Friday 21st

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Watch Root tutor, test, revise, and remember — across one student’s real study session.

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Why Root is different

Not another generic AI. Six things a chatbot doesn’t do for you.

Diagnoses the root, not the answer

  • Finds the missing step beneath a mistake
  • Then fixes that, so the topic sticks

Learns from your confusion

  • When you get stuck, Root uses it to try a clearer route
  • Its explanations sharpen the more you use it

Remembers you, and the whole unit

  • Keeps what clicked, what you’ve mastered, what needs work
  • Pick up any session where you left off

One place, one picture of you

  • Keep up, get ahead, revise and prep
  • All working from the same memory of how you learn

Revision timed by memory science

  • Brings topics back for another go, spaced out
  • Instead of leaving revision to exam week

Practice papers from your syllabus

  • Built from your exact spec, not generic sheets
  • Marked with examiner-style feedback

Pricing

Four plans. No surprises.

Start free — no card needed. Upgrade when you’re ready to go deeper. Cancel anytime — no questions, no guilt.

Free

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★ 5-day free trial of everything

Everything unlocked free for 5 days — then keep going free, forever. No card.

  • 60 messages a week
  • 2 study units at a timePaid plans unlock unlimited units
  • 2 test papers a week
  • 25 revision messages a week
  • Upload 2 files per unitRoot reads them once and remembers
  • Full personalisation engine
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Pro

$18.99per month

Everything a regular student needs to excel.

  • 600 tutor messages a weekResets every Monday
  • 7 mock papers a weekAuto-marked with per-question feedback
  • 120 revision messages a weekFinds what you’re forgetting and re-tests it
  • Unlimited study units
  • Upload 8 files per unitBring your slides, notes, and past papers
  • Progress tracking & study plans
Start with Pro

Scholar

$34.99per month

High limits all round — for serious terms and exam season.

  • 1,000 tutor messages a weekGenerous headroom for heavy weeks
  • 14 mock papers a week
  • 225 revision messages a week
  • Upload 15 files per unit
  • Everything in Pro
Go Scholar

Mastery

$74.99per month

The highest limits Root offers — for homeschool and all-day study.

  • 1,400 tutor messages a weekBuilt for all-day study
  • 28 mock papers a week
  • 350 revision messages a week
  • Upload 30 files per unitA whole year of notes and papers
  • Priority during exam season
  • Everything in Scholar
Go Mastery

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Real students

Why students stick with Root.

I really struggle with my confidence with my tutor. If I don’t understand something and ask for help, most of the time I still don’t understand after the explanation — but I’d rather stay confused than ask a second time. Root fixed this for me. I could ask as many times as I wanted with no judgment, and every time Root gave me a new way of thinking about the problem. What surprised me most is the more I used Root, the better the explanations got.

Beta student, Grade 10

IB MYP

For parents

Less than one hour of tutoring. Available every day of the month.

Cost

Pro is $18.99/month — about half of one hour with a human tutor, available every day of the month.

Privacy

Your student’s sessions are private. Nothing is shared with teachers or parents unless they choose to export it. Account and data can be deleted in one click.

No commitment

Free plan gets 60 messages a week — no card needed. Paid plans cancel in one click; no fees, no questions.

Questions

What students actually ask.

How is Root actually different from ChatGPT?+

ChatGPT opens a blank chat every time and gives you the answer. Root saves the moment you got stuck, works out why the explanation didn't land, and re-teaches it differently next time. It builds a profile of how your brain learns, so every session starts ahead of the last instead of from scratch.

Which subjects and exam boards does Root support?+

Maths, sciences (physics, chemistry, biology), English, humanities (history, geography, business, economics), languages, and computer science. Root supports the major UK and US frameworks — GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level, IB MYP, IB DP, AP, and US Common Core — and adapts question style to whichever you're sitting.

What grade levels is Root for?+

Root is built for secondary school students — grades 6 through 12 (Years 7–13 in UK terms). Younger than that and you usually don't need a tutor; older than that and the syllabus gets too specialised for any one tool.

Does it work on my phone?+

Yes. Root is a web app — open it in any phone browser, no install needed. You can also have answers read out loud if you’d rather listen. Most students study on their phone.

Does Root have streaks or rewards?+

Yes, quietly. Root tracks a weekly study streak and grows a tree on your dashboard as you master topics — it's there to keep you consistent, not to turn studying into a game. No pop-ups mid-session, no noise.

Will my parents see what I'm studying?+

No, by default. Your account is private. If you want them to see progress, you can share a weekly summary from Settings — but nothing is shared automatically.

Can parents track progress?+

Optionally. Each student account can email a weekly progress summary (units worked on, mastery levels, areas still developing) to a parent address — student decides whether to enable it. No surveillance dashboard, no scary keyword alerts.

Do I need to pay to try it?+

No. The free plan gets you 60 messages a week, plus two practice papers — enough to find out if it clicks for you. No card needed to start.

Can I cancel anytime?+

Yes — one click in your billing portal. You keep access until the end of the period you've already paid for. No cancellation fees, no questions.

Is my work private?+

Your sessions stay tied to your account only. You can download all your data as a file or delete your account completely from Settings at any time. Stripe-secured payments; we never see your card.

Your first session

Stop memorising.
Start understanding.

Take your first session free. Two minutes to set up — no card — and Root starts learning you from question one.

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