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Updated 11/02/2026 · next update 12/01/2026

AI Study Tools Industry Report, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▼ Shrinkingbut visits are up 7.2% over the last six months

Visits, year on year, without Symbolab
-20%
Visits, last six months
+7.2%
Name searches vs October 2025
-18%

Every key number on the AI study tool market for October 2026, dated and sourced, so you can quote it. The 149 sites I measure got about 180 million visits from Google, 21% more than a year ago, and the five most-visited sites took 81.2% of them.

Below: every figure in one table, the most-visited sites, who grew and who shrank and what I expect for November 2026.

Published 2 November 2026. Data from DataForSEO, Tranco and Ahrefs · free to quote with a link · not a ranking

AI study tool industry report: the key numbers for October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 149 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

1Every figure in one table

Measure

  • Search visits a month, all tracked sites, worldwide
    Value
    179,815,090
    Period and basis
    October 2026; +20.9% year on year, -6.2% month on month
  • Search visits a month, United States
    Value
    47,667,415
    Period and basis
    October 2026; +43.9% year on year
  • US share of worldwide search visits
    Value
    26.5%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Brand-name searches a month, US, all counted brands
    Value
    9,008,830
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -18.0% against October 2025
  • Brand-name searches a month, worldwide
    Value
    27,846,050
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -15.7% against October 2025
  • Searches a month for “ai study tools”, US
    Value
    6,600
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Searches a month for “ai study tools”, worldwide
    Value
    14,800
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Referring domains, all tracked sites
    Value
    815,309
    Period and basis
    October 2026; first reading, no year-on-year figure yet
  • Share of worldwide visits held by the five most-visited sites
    Value
    81.2%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Share held by the ten most-visited sites
    Value
    88.6%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Tracked sites on Google's first page for “ai study tools”, US
    Value
    2
    Period and basis
    October 2026; positions 1 to 10
  • Tracked sites ranking anywhere for “ai study tools”, US
    Value
    2
    Period and basis
    October 2026; any position checked

Brand-name searches leave out Almanack, Andy, CourseAI, ESAI, Gibbly, Jungle, Kiwi, Lanes, Langua, Sapere, Socratic, StudyTools and TeachAI: the name is shared with an ordinary word or another product.

2How many people visited

In plain words: These sites got more visits from Google than a year ago (+21%), and October 2026 was a weaker month than September 2026 (-6%). Symbolab, which takes 57.2% of all the visits, gained more visits on its own than the whole market gained in a year. Without it, visits would be down 19.5% on a year ago instead of up 20.9%.

WorldVisits a month to AI study tool sites, worldwide

050M100M150M200MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 26180M
Low 117MHigh 192MAverage 162M
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Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.

Miles explains

Judge this line on the year, not the last dot: visits are 21% above a year ago, and 6% below the September 2026 high. One site winning or losing a ranking can swing a single month a lot.

3How many people went looking

People typed a site’s name into Google 18% less often than in October 2025 (-18%). That is the loyalty number: nobody types a name by accident.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

05.0M10M15M20MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 269.0M
Low 3.6MHigh 11MAverage 7.6M
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US searches a month for the counted brand names, summed. Google Ads data via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Miles explains

Name searches are the number I trust most. They are down 18%, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows fewer people coming back on purpose.

4Where the visitors live

About 27 of every 100 visits come from the United States. Outside the US I measure 7 countries one by one; the largest is India.

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

012.52537.550Nov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 2626.5
Low 20.8High 27.1Average 24
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    19,556,438
    Share of the measured countries
    38%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    13,819,519
    Share of the measured countries
    26.9%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    10,820,588
    Share of the measured countries
    21%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    3,710,416
    Share of the measured countries
    7.2%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    1,851,241
    Share of the measured countries
    3.6%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    891,780
    Share of the measured countries
    1.7%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    801,292
    Share of the measured countries
    1.6%

Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the biggest single market, but only about 27 in every 100 visits. India alone is 38% of the countries measured outside it.

5The most-visited sites

Symbolab gets the most visits, Grammarly expand-6 is the name people search for most, and MindKo Accounting AI Solver holds Google’s first position for “ai study tools”. The five most-visited sites take 81.2% of all visits.

By worldwide search visits

By US brand-name searches

Miles explains

The five most-visited sites take 81.2% of all visits. When one of them gains or loses a big ranking, the whole market total moves with it.

6Who grew and who shrank

The fastest grower in a year was EduBrain.AI (+663%); the steepest fall was at Socratic (-100%). Big swings are usually one site winning or losing one Google ranking.

Growing

  • EduBrain.AI
    A year ago
    50,513
    Now
    385,353
    Change
    +663%
  • Loora
    A year ago
    5,438
    Now
    26,749
    Change
    +392%
  • Taalhammer
    A year ago
    20,282
    Now
    57,753
    Change
    +185%
  • Memrise
    A year ago
    1,087,296
    Now
    2,784,651
    Change
    +156%
  • RemNote
    A year ago
    27,474
    Now
    59,454
    Change
    +116%
  • Talkio AI
    A year ago
    5,567
    Now
    11,572
    Change
    +108%
  • Speechling
    A year ago
    406,706
    Now
    814,723
    Change
    +100%
  • MathGPT
    A year ago
    2,831,796
    Now
    5,647,228
    Change
    +99%

Declining

Worldwide search visits, October 2026 against a year earlier; sites with at least 5,000 visits a year ago.

To cite this report: RankDude, “AI Study Tools Industry Report, October 2026”, published 2 November 2026, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/ai-study-tools/industry-report. Figures are estimates from the sources named beside them.