Heddy
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How Heddy teaches, what it refuses to do, and how it compares.
Inside Heddy
18 articlesHow the app actually works — the hint ladder, the professors, the cards your own mistakes become, and the things it deliberately will not do.
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Heddy is live on the App Store — and here is what it refuses to do
Heddy is now on the App Store, free to download: eight AI tutors for KS3 who will not hand over the answer, and flashcards — KS3 and GCSE — that are free forever.
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The KS3 map behind Heddy: 1,452 concepts, and what has to come first
Heddy teaches from a mapped curriculum — 1,452 named concepts and 2,917 prerequisite links across eight subjects, from Year 7 to GCSE — not a generic chat window.
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Why there is no in-app purchase in Heddy
A child using Heddy can never spend money inside it. No upgrade button, no coin pack, no price on any screen they see. Here is what that costs us, and why we pay it.
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Again, Good, Easy — how grading a card in Heddy works
Three buttons, each showing the real interval underneath. How Heddy's review room schedules a card, why there are only three grades, and how to grade honestly.
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Eight tutors, one for every subject — who's inside Heddy
Heddy carries Mentor plus seven subject professors — Pi, Quill, Darwin, Curie, Newton, Harari and Mercator. Each teaches a different way. Here's who does what.
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Getting Heddy on your iPhone — App Store or straight from the web
Two ways to get Heddy: the App Store, or install heddy.app to your home screen. What each one gives you, what works offline, and what notifications do.
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Heddy or aitutors.me? Which of the two is for your family
Same tutors, two products. Heddy is the student's own door with no account; aitutors.me is the parent-provisioned service with a dashboard. How to choose.
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Is Heddy safe? A parent's guide to the app your teenager found
Your child downloaded an AI tutor app without asking. Here's what Heddy does, what it records, what it will never show you, and why the age floor is 13.
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Meet Heddy: the AI tutor app that won't give you the answer
Heddy is an iOS app with eight AI tutors who refuse to hand over the answer. Free flashcards, no signup to start, built in the UK for 13+ students.
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No signup, no parent, no download wall — how Heddy starts
Heddy opens without an account, an email, or a grown-up's permission. Here's what happens in the first thirty seconds, and what's happening underneath.
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Pi Turns explained: what's metered in Heddy, and what's free
Flashcards in Heddy are free and unlimited forever. Tutor turns are metered. Here's exactly how the meter works — and the three rules it can never break.
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The Atlas: ready-made flashcard decks you can adopt on day one
The Atlas is Heddy's library of pre-built decks — every KS3 subject, GCSE decks for Years 10–11, and the UK academic competitions. Adopt one and it becomes yours to review and edit.
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The carry moment: take a stuck flashcard straight to your tutor
The card you keep getting wrong can be carried to the professor who owns it, with the question already asked. It's the most important gesture in Heddy.
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The four-rung hint ladder: why Heddy never gives the answer
Heddy's tutors walk a four-rung hint ladder. The top rung is a worked similar problem, never your own answer, and there is no fifth rung. Here's why.
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What Heddy deliberately will not do
No streaks to lose, no paywall mid-session, no parent surveillance, no answer on demand. A list of the features Heddy doesn't have, and why each one is missing.
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Who is Heddy? A snowy owl who is a guide, not a mascot
Heddy is the snowy owl on the home screen. She notices the week you're having, routes you to a tutor, and is carefully not built to be your friend.
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Your first ten minutes with Heddy, step by step
Open the app, skip nothing, and get one real thing done. A walkthrough of the first ten minutes in Heddy — what to tap, in what order, and why.
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Your sessions become flashcards — free, unlimited, forever
Heddy turns the lesson you just had into spaced-repetition flashcards. They're free, unlimited, and reviewing them never costs a tutor turn. Here's how it works.
Heddy vs…
17 articlesHonest head-to-heads with the flashcard and AI-homework apps a UK student already has on their phone — including what each of them does better.
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Heddy vs Atom Learning: 11+ practice platform or KS3 homework tutor?
Atom Learning is an adaptive practice platform built around the 11+; Heddy is an AI tutor for KS3 homework. An honest comparison with dated prices, September 2026.
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Heddy vs Edumentors' Emma: two AI tutors, very different roots
Emma is the AI tutor from Edumentors, a human-tutoring company. Heddy is a KS3 app with seven professors. A careful September 2026 comparison.
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Heddy vs Learn with Fred: two UK AI tutors that guide, not tell
Learn with Fred is a UK AI tutor for ages 7 to 16 with a parent dashboard. Heddy is a KS3 app with no parent view. An honest September 2026 comparison.
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Heddy vs Medly AI: KS3 study companion or GCSE exam practice?
Medly is an exam-practice and AI-marking platform aimed at GCSE and beyond. Heddy is a KS3 tutor that won't give the answer. An honest comparison, September 2026.
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Heddy vs Seneca Learning: a free course platform and an AI tutor compared
Seneca is a free UK revision platform built on courses and quizzes; Heddy is a tutor that won't give the answer. An honest KS3 comparison, September 2026.
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Heddy vs Third Space Learning's Skye: two AI maths tutors, two buyers
Skye is Third Space Learning's voice-based AI maths tutor sold to schools; Heddy is an AI tutor app for students. An honest comparison as of September 2026.
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Heddy vs ChatGPT for homework: what a general assistant does better, and where a tutor won't budge
ChatGPT is better than Heddy at most things a student might want. Here is the honest list, and the narrow thing a tutor does that a general assistant structurally cannot.
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Heddy vs AnkiMobile: the most powerful, and the most demanding
AnkiMobile is the most capable spaced-repetition app on iOS and asks the most of you. Heddy asks nothing and gives you a tutor. Who each one is really for.
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Heddy vs Brainscape: confidence ratings, or a tutor on the card
Brainscape asks you to rate your confidence 1–5 on every card. Heddy asks three questions and gives you a tutor when a card won't go in. An honest comparison.
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Heddy vs Gauth: every subject solved, or one subject taught
Gauth answers homework across every subject from a photo. Heddy teaches seven and refuses to answer. What each is good at, and what each costs you.
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Heddy vs Khanmigo: two AI tutors that both refuse to answer
Khanmigo is the closest thing to Heddy in principle — a Socratic AI tutor that won't just give answers. Where the two genuinely differ, from someone who built one.
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Heddy vs Knowt: free flashcards, or free flashcards with a tutor
Knowt gives away what Quizlet charges for and imports your old sets. Heddy gives away cards too, and adds eight tutors. Where each one actually helps.
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Heddy vs Photomath: the answer in four seconds, or the method
Photomath photographs a maths problem and shows the worked solution. Heddy refuses to. An honest comparison of the fastest app and the one that teaches.
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Heddy vs Question.AI: a solver that's free, or a tutor that's slow
Question.AI answers homework across every subject for free. Heddy won't answer anything. An honest look at what a free solver costs you by June.
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Heddy vs Quizlet: a tutor with cards, or the world's card library
Quizlet has millions of ready-made sets and no one to explain them. Heddy has eight tutors who write your cards and take them back. An honest comparison.
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Heddy vs RemNote: notes that become cards, or lessons that do
RemNote turns your own notes into flashcards inside one powerful workspace. Heddy turns your tutoring sessions into cards. Which fits a school student better.
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Heddy vs Socratic by Google: a name, and a method
Socratic by Google finds you resources for a photographed question, free. Heddy is actually Socratic — it asks you questions back. Where each one helps.
Revise smarter
8 articlesRetrieval, spacing and routines: the revision methods the research backs, made practical for an 11–14-year-old.
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A realistic revision timetable for Year 8
A little-and-often revision timetable for a 12 to 13-year-old: 20 to 30 minute blocks, mixed subjects, real breaks and slack. With a sample week you can copy.
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Active recall for 11 to 14 year olds: how to do it at home
What active recall is, why it beats rereading for Years 7 to 9, and six ways to do it at home with paper, a parent, or flashcards.
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How to make flashcards that actually work
A good flashcard asks one question with one answer. Here is how to write cards that test recall, with before-and-after examples for KS3 maths, science and history.
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How to revise for KS3 exams: a plan for Years 7 to 9
How to revise for KS3 exams in Years 7 to 9: a short, repeatable routine built on testing yourself, spacing it out, and fixing what you get wrong.
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Interleaving and mixed practice for Year 8 maths
Interleaved practice mixes question types instead of repeating one. Why mixed maths feels harder, how it helps, and a sample mixed set for Year 8.
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Revising the week before an exam, without cramming
A calm seven-day plan for the final week before a school exam: what to revise, how long, why sleep beats a late night, and what to do the night before.
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Spaced repetition explained for parents: a plain-English guide
Spaced repetition in plain English: why forgetting is normal, how reviewing just before you forget works, and what a sensible schedule looks like for Years 7 to 9.
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Why rereading and highlighting don't work, and what to do instead
Rereading, highlighting and copying notes feel productive but rate poorly in research. Here is why, and five better revision techniques for Years 7 to 9.
KS3 for parents
8 articlesWhat Years 7 to 9 actually involve, how to help without doing the work for them, and how to spot trouble early.
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AI and homework: what parents should know
Is AI homework help cheating, and is an AI tutor safe for children in the UK? The difference between answer-givers and tutors, plus a parent checklist.
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Does KS3 matter for GCSE? What Years 7 to 9 set up
Yes, KS3 matters for GCSE: Years 7 to 9 build the foundations each subject relies on. Here is what carries forward, what shows up late, and how to act early.
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Exam stress in KS3: signs to look for and what to do
How to tell ordinary exam nerves from stress that needs help in Years 7 to 9, what to say at home, and who to contact: GP, school, Childline, YoungMinds.
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How much homework is normal in KS3? Years 7, 8 and 9
England has no national rule on homework time that we could find: schools set their own policy. What is typical in Years 7 to 9, signs it is too much, and what to do.
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How to help with homework without giving the answer
A practical parent script for helping with KS3 homework without doing it for them: questions to ask, when to stop, and what to say to 'I don't get it'.
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Screen time and study apps in KS3: a healthy routine
How to use study apps without screen-time guilt: what UK guidance says, phone-free study blocks, protecting sleep, and telling productive use from passive scrolling.
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What is Key Stage 3? A plain-English guide for parents
Key Stage 3 is Years 7, 8 and 9 in England, ages 11 to 14. What is taught, how it differs from primary, and why there are no national KS3 SATs.
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Year 6 to Year 7 transition: a parent's guide to the move up
How to prepare your child for secondary school: what really changes in Year 7, practical and emotional prep, and how to handle the first half-term.
KS3 subject by subject
8 articlesMaths, English, science, history and geography in Years 7 to 9: what is taught, where children get stuck, and how to help at home.
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How to revise KS3 science: a method that actually sticks
A practical method for revising KS3 science: retrieval on key terms and diagrams, reasoning through practicals, fixing misconceptions, and flashcards that work.
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KS3 English: how to help with reading and writing at home
What KS3 English asks of pupils (inference, analysis, accurate writing) and how to help at home without writing or rewriting their work for them.
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KS3 geography: places, maps and data skills, and how to help at home
What KS3 geography covers, from places and processes to maps, Ordnance Survey grid references and data, plus everyday ways to practise and help at home.
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KS3 history: how historical thinking is built, and how to help without feeding dates
What KS3 history covers, how causes, significance and source skills are built and assessed, and how to help at home without just supplying dates.
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KS3 science: what biology, chemistry and physics cover, and how to help at home
What KS3 science actually covers across biology, chemistry and physics, the misconceptions that trip up 11 to 14 year olds, and how to help without doing the thinking.
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Year 7 maths: what children learn and how to help at home
What Year 7 maths usually covers, the three places children get stuck (fractions, negatives, first algebra), and how to help without doing it for them.
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Year 8 maths: what children learn and how to help at home
What Year 8 maths usually covers (ratio, percentages, algebra, angles), where pupils slip, and how to help at home without handing over the answer.
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Year 9 maths: laying the foundations for GCSE
What Year 9 maths usually covers as it leads into GCSE (Pythagoras, graphs, brackets, proportion), where pupils stall, and how to help at home.