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Free tools for students

Free tools for students — word and character counters, percentage and date calculators, and unit and case converters. Fast, no sign-up, right in your browser.

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Free tools for the everyday jobs that come with studying — count the words and characters in an essay, work out a percentage, convert units for an assignment, and check the days between two dates. Each opens instantly and does its job, so you get the answer and get back to work.

Nothing to install and no account to create — open a tool, use it, close the tab. They work the same on a laptop in the library or a phone between classes.

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  • Online Notepad

    An online notepad that keeps markdown notes in folders, links them with [[double brackets]], and autosaves four tenths of a second after you stop typing.

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  • AI Text Summarizer

    Summarize a long article, an email thread, or a report down to a few sentences. Pick short, medium, or long; the AI model downloads once and then works offline.

    AIText
  • AI Paraphraser

    Paraphrase text four ways: formal, casual, shorter, or longer, with a small language model that does the rewriting on your own graphics card.

    AIText
  • Text Cleaner

    A text cleaner for pasted mess: pull the hard line breaks out of PDF copy, squash double spaces, thin the blank lines, and swap curly quotes for straight ones.

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  • Word & Character Counter

    A word counter that also tells you when you have run long. Words, characters, sentences and reading time, plus live checks against the 280, 160, 70 and 60-character caps that cut text off.

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  • Case Converter

    A case converter that answers ten ways at once: UPPERCASE, lowercase, Title Case, Smart Title Case, Sentence case, camelCase, PascalCase, snake_case, kebab-case, CONSTANT_CASE.

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  • Currency Converter (ECB rates)

    A currency converter built on the European Central Bank's daily reference rates: 30 currencies, cross-rated through the euro, with the publication date printed under every result.

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  • PDF to Word

    Convert a PDF to an editable Word .docx that keeps its columns, ruled tables, headings and pictures, or switch to Exact layout and pin every line to the coordinates the page gave it.

    Converters
  • Subtitle Converter & Sync Fixer

    Convert SRT to VTT and back, retime cues that drift out of sync, and fix the wording in an editable table of every line.

    Converters
  • Unit Converter

    A unit converter with 19 categories, from cm to inches and kg to lbs through pressure, torque and data rate. Pick two units and read the answer as you type.

    Converters
  • Morse Code Translator

    Morse code translator that runs both ways, on 54 characters of the international table, with a Play button that beeps the result at 15 words per minute.

    Converters
  • DOCX to Text

    Convert a .docx to text and keep only the words, with Word's fonts and spacing left behind. Copy the result or save a .txt that keeps the document's name.

    Converters
  • Excel to PDF

    Excel to PDF for a workbook someone only needs to read: tick the sheets worth sending, choose A4 or US Letter, portrait or landscape, and each sheet lands as its own page of selectable text.

    Converters
  • Markdown to PDF

    Markdown to PDF that keeps the text selectable and searchable. A4 pages, an 11pt body, code on a light grey panel, links still clickable.

    Converters
  • Number Base Converter

    Number base converter for binary, octal, decimal and hex, reading input written in any base from 2 to 36. BigInt math, so a 128-bit value converts exactly.

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  • Word to PDF

    Word to PDF without opening Office. Give it a .docx and you get back an A4 document with selectable text and links that still click.

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  • Scientific Calculator

    An online scientific calculator you write expressions into instead of tapping key by key: trig in degrees or radians, logs, powers, factorials, and exact answers like 2/3 + 3/4 = 1 5/12.

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  • Date Calculator

    A date calculator for questions like what date is 90 days from today. Add or subtract days, weeks, months or years, and get the weekday with the answer.

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  • Calorie Calculator

    A calorie calculator built on Mifflin–St Jeor: your maintenance number, the BMR under it, and loss or gain targets at 250 and 500 kcal, plus a date if you name a goal weight.

    Calculators
  • Age Calculator

    An age calculator that counts whole calendar months, so it answers 34 years, 2 months, 5 days, then repeats the same span in months, weeks and days.

    Calculators
  • GPA & Grade Calculator

    A grade calculator with four switchable modes: GPA on the 4.0 scale, CGPA to percentage, a weighted class grade, and what you still need on the final.

    Calculators
  • Bill Splitter & Tip Calculator

    A bill splitter for one check or a whole trip: tip, tax, who paid what, and the shortest list of transfers that squares everyone up.

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  • BMI Calculator

    A BMI calculator that puts your reading on a 15-to-40 scale beside the WHO cut-offs, then works backwards to the weights that count as healthy at your height.

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  • Date Difference Calculator

    Days between two dates, with the same span given in weeks, in years and months, and in business days once your own holidays come out.

    Calculators
  • Percentage Calculator

    A percentage calculator that answers four questions on one page: X% of a number, X as a percent of Y, the increase or decrease between two figures, and what a price drops to after a discount.

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  • AI Image Upscaler

    AI image upscaler that enlarges a photo 2× or 4×, or works back from the exact print size you type in. Rebuilds detail instead of stretching pixels.

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  • AI OCR — Image & PDF to Text

    Extract text from an image or a scanned PDF, using a neural engine that reads 50 scripts and copes with a page shot at an angle.

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  • Document Scanner — Photos to Clean PDF

    Scan paper with a phone camera and get back a straight, readable multi-page PDF: auto edge detection, per-page looks, a stain eraser, optional searchable text.

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  • Chat with PDF

    Chat with a PDF in ordinary words. Answers cite the page and show a snapshot of the passage they came from.

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  • Crop PDF

    Crop a PDF by dragging a box or typing margins in millimetres. Fit to content finds the ink, sideways pages are cut on the right edge, and any page can keep its own box.

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  • PDF to Text

    Extract text from a PDF the moment it lands, copy it or save a .txt named after the file, and see which pages are scans with no text to give.

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  • Rotate PDF

    Rotate PDF pages 90° or 180° and download a file that opens the right way up in every reader. Turn all of them or just a few.

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  • AI Vocal Remover — Split Vocals & Instrumental

    A vocal remover that splits a song into two stereo tracks, the voice on one and the instrumental on the other, using Deezer's Spleeter model.

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  • Audio Visualizer

    An audio visualizer that splits whatever's playing into 1,024 frequency bands and draws each one as a bar, updated every frame.

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  • Voice Recorder

    A voice recorder with a real pause: hold the take, breathe, carry on into the same file. Live input meter, a mic picker when you have more than one, and M4A, WAV, Opus or FLAC out.

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  • Tone Generator

    A tone generator that sounds the moment you press Play: type or slide to any frequency, sweep 20 Hz to 20 kHz, or play white, pink and brown noise.

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  • AI Audio Transcription

    Audio transcription with Whisper. Drop in a recording and get editable text, plus SRT and WebVTT carrying timestamps, from any of four model sizes.

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  • Text to Speech

    Text to speech two ways: the voices your device already has, or a 13-voice English model that hands you a file.

    AIAudio
  • Remove Background Noise from Audio

    Remove background noise from audio with DeepFilterNet, a speech model that runs on your device. Hum, fans and hiss drop away, the voice stays, and the clean take saves as M4A, WAV, Opus or FLAC.

    AIAudio
  • Audio Speed Changer

    Change audio speed anywhere from 0.5x to 2x: drop a track to 0.75x for a slowed edit, or lift it to 1.5x for nightcore. Pitch follows the speed. Exports as M4A, WAV, Opus or FLAC.

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  • BPM Counter

    BPM counter with two ways to get an answer: analyze an audio file, or tap the beat out yourself. File detection always lands between 90 and 180 BPM.

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  • Audio Reverser

    Reverse audio end to end and hear it play backwards, then save the flipped clip as M4A, Opus, WAV, or FLAC. Sample rate and pitch stay exactly where they were.

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  • Spreadsheet Compare

    Compare two Excel or Google Sheets ranges by pasting them side by side. Changed cells light up, added rows go green, removed rows red.

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  • Markdown to HTML Converter & Live Preview

    Markdown to HTML with the rendered page beside the source. Pipe tables, 36 highlighted languages, Mermaid diagrams, and a markdown.html download.

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  • Text/Code Diff Checker

    A text and code diff checker that goes down to the word: edited lines show only the parts that actually changed, and the comparison exports as a unified .diff.

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  • Countdown to Date

    Countdown to any date. How many days until a birthday, a holiday or a deadline, counted down to the second.

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  • Countdown Timer

    Countdown timer with quick presets and an alarm that keeps beeping until you stop it. Set anything up to 99:59:59 and the tab title tracks the time left.

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  • Pomodoro Timer

    A pomodoro timer with a task list. Twenty-five minutes of focus, five off, a long break every fourth round, and every finished session counted against what you're working on.

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  • Alarm Clock

    An online alarm clock for any time you type, or one of eight common wake-ups: four sounds, a five-minute snooze, a fullscreen bedside face, and it survives a refresh.

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  • Stopwatch

    An online stopwatch that counts in hundredths, records laps into a Lap/Split/Total table, exports them as CSV, and runs from the Space and L keys.

    Time
  • Time Difference

    A time duration calculator for the gap between two clock times. Enter start and end, take off an unpaid break, and read it as 8h 0m, 8.00 decimal hours, or 480 minutes.

    Time
  • Week Number

    The ISO 8601 week number for today or any date you pick, with the day of the year, the weeks left in it, and that week's Monday and Sunday.

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  • AI Vocal Remover — Split Vocals & Instrumental

    A vocal remover that splits a song into two stereo tracks, the voice on one and the instrumental on the other, using Deezer's Spleeter model.

    AIAudio
  • AI Audio Transcription

    Audio transcription with Whisper. Drop in a recording and get editable text, plus SRT and WebVTT carrying timestamps, from any of four model sizes.

    AIAudio
  • AI Text Summarizer

    Summarize a long article, an email thread, or a report down to a few sentences. Pick short, medium, or long; the AI model downloads once and then works offline.

    AIText
  • AI Paraphraser

    Paraphrase text four ways: formal, casual, shorter, or longer, with a small language model that does the rewriting on your own graphics card.

    AIText
  • Text to Speech

    Text to speech two ways: the voices your device already has, or a 13-voice English model that hands you a file.

    AIAudio
  • Remove Background Noise from Audio

    Remove background noise from audio with DeepFilterNet, a speech model that runs on your device. Hum, fans and hiss drop away, the voice stays, and the clean take saves as M4A, WAV, Opus or FLAC.

    AIAudio
  • AI Image Upscaler

    AI image upscaler that enlarges a photo 2× or 4×, or works back from the exact print size you type in. Rebuilds detail instead of stretching pixels.

    AIImage
  • AI OCR — Image & PDF to Text

    Extract text from an image or a scanned PDF, using a neural engine that reads 50 scripts and copes with a page shot at an angle.

    AIImage
  • Chat with PDF

    Chat with a PDF in ordinary words. Answers cite the page and show a snapshot of the passage they came from.

    AIPDF

Frequently asked questions

What are the best free tools for students?

A word counter for essays, a percentage calculator for grades, case and unit converters for assignments, and a date-difference calculator for deadlines — all free and usable in your browser with no sign-up.

Do I need to sign up or install anything?

No. Every tool runs in your browser and opens instantly — there's no account, no download, and no setup.

Can I use these tools on my phone?

Yes. They're built to work the same on phones, tablets, and laptops, so you can count words or run a calculation wherever you're studying.

Is my work kept private?

Yes. Most of these tools run entirely in your browser, so your essays, notes, and numbers stay on your device — and each tool's badge shows exactly how it handles your data.

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