Every category has a cautionary tale. Strip away the study-tool framing and Mindgrasp's headline features read "upload and get answers": a dedicated AI Homework Helper page lets you photograph a problem or upload an assignment and receive step-by-step solutions.
That is a homework-solving business in a study-tool costume, and it is the only F we gave out across eight tools. We do not say that lightly, so here is what it rests on.
Mindgrasp AI
Summaries and flashcards, behind a homework-solving front door
- Price
- $12.99/mo$99.99/yrup to $14.99/mo, $131.99/yr
- Free
- No free optionSubscription required, per its App Store listing
What you get
- An AI Homework Helper that solves a photographed or uploaded problem
- Summaries and flashcards from uploaded documents
- An advertised timed practice-test generator
- Open-ended question types, though how they are graded is undocumented
Beats Akono at
- It will produce a worked solution to an assignment faster than you can
- The summarise-and-flashcard functionality is competent
- It handles video lectures as an input, which several tools here do not
Where it falls short
- The headline feature answers the question instead of asking you one
- No free tier. Its App Store listing states a subscription is required
- No pricing page. /pricing, /plans and /price all return 404
- Cancellation is email-only, effective within 7 business days, and refunds are excluded
- A low-2-star Trustpilot rating dominated by billing complaints, plus an active BBB file
Akono
A tutor with no answer button anywhere in it
- Price
- €11.99/mo€59.88/yr
- Free
- Free trial3 days, card required
What you get
- No photo solver and no step-by-step answers, at any tier
- Your slides and notes become a course with chapters
- Sessions where you produce the answer before anything is explained
- Checkpoints and practice exams timed to your exam date
Beats Mindgrasp AI at
- There is no photograph-your-homework feature at any tier, under any name
- The tutor asks and evaluates rather than supplying an answer
- It tracks understanding per concept and keeps it open until you resolve it
- The price is published, and the trial is 3 days before any charge
Where it falls short
- It will not solve your assignment for you. That is the design
- No free tier, and the 3-day trial requires a card
- No video-lecture input
- It plans across weeks, so a same-night cram is not what it is for
How Akono is different from Mindgrasp AI
Mindgrasp's front door answers the question for you. Behind it there are summaries and flashcards, which are fine, plus an advertised practice-test generator no independent review has confirmed works as described.
Nothing tracks what you misunderstood, and reviewers describe it resetting to blank every session.
That is the difference, and it is a difference in what the tool is for. Mindgrasp removes the work. Akono is the work.
A homework helper
Mindgrasp AI
You answer
You photograph the problem instead of attempting it.
What happens
It returns a step-by-step solution.
Next time
The same, and the exam is the first time you try it yourself.
A tutor that makes you produce it
Akono
You are stuck
There is nothing to photograph and nothing to paste.
What happens
You get a question narrow enough to attempt, not a worked solution.
In between
Whatever your attempt exposes gets taught on the spot.
Next question
Aimed at the same gap. The answer stays something you produce, every time.
At a glance
Mindgrasp AI
vs
Akono
Getting worked solutions to assignments
Best for
Building the skill the exam tests
Upload or photograph a problem, receive a solution
Core mechanic
You produce the answer, and the tutor works from what you produced
$12.99 to $14.99/mo, $99.99 to $131.99/yr
Price
€11.99/mo or €59.88/yr
None. Subscription required per its store listing
Free
3-day trial, card required
Email only, within 7 business days, no refunds
Cancellation
Cancel in-app during the trial
Resets each session, per reviewers
Weak spots
Per concept, kept open until resolved
Who should pick which
These are not really the same kind of product, so the honest question is what you want the tool to do: finish the assignment, or make you able to.
Pick Mindgrasp AI if
- You want an AI to produce worked solutions to your assignments
- Your bottleneck is finishing the coursework rather than passing the exam
- You work primarily from video lectures
- You have weighed the billing complaints and accept them
Pick Akono if
- You want a tool built around producing answers rather than receiving them
- You want the cancellation terms visible before you enter a card
- You want what you misunderstood to still be tracked next week
- You are studying for an exam rather than a submission deadline