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

AI study tool market, 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 vs September 2026
-6.2%
Name searches vs October 2025
-18%

Every month I measure Google visits to the 149 AI study tool sites I track, and how often people search for them by name. In October 2026 they got about 180 million visits, 21% more than a year ago but 6% fewer than in September 2026.

Below: who grew fastest (one site is up 663% in a year), who sits highest on Google, where the visitors live and what comes next.

Data from DataForSEO, Tranco, Chrome UX Report and Ahrefs · not a ranking

AI study tool market: the key numbers for October 2026

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

  • The tracked sites got 179,815,090 visits from Google in October 2026, 21% more than a year ago and 6% fewer than in September 2026. 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%.
  • “ai study tools” gets about 6,600 US searches a month. People searched the site names 9,008,830 times in the US in September 2026, 18% less often than in October 2025.
  • 2 tracked sites are on Google’s first page for “ai study tools”; the highest is MindKo Accounting AI Solver at position 1. Symbolab is the most-visited site.
  • 26.5% of visits came from the US (22.3% a year ago), then India, Canada and United Kingdom. The five most-visited sites took 81.2% of all visits.

1How many visits

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%.

Visits, October 2026
179,815,090 (+20.9% on a year ago, -6.2% on September 2026)
US visits
47,667,415 (+43.9% on a year ago)
24-month peak
191,730,485 in September 2026

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.

2How 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, because nobody types a name by accident.

Searches for "ai study tools"
6,600 a month in the US, 14,800 worldwide (12-month average)
Name searches, September 2026
9,008,830 in the US (-18.0% since October 2025), 27,846,050 worldwide

USSearches a month for "ai study tools", United States

05.0K10.0K15.0K20.0KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 266.6K
Low 1.3KHigh 12.1KAverage 6.5K
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

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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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Most searched by name, US

Ordered by US searches for the brand name in September 2026. A measured order, not a ranking.

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.

3Who is on Google's first page

2 tracked sites are on Google’s first page for “ai study tools”, and MindKo Accounting AI Solver holds the first position. Being on that page is the biggest single thing that decides how many visits a site gets.

Ordered by US Google position for “ai study tools”, then Tranco rank. A measured order, not a ranking.

Site

  • MindKo Accounting AI Solver
    Google US
    1
    Tranco
    2,015,661
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 111,957
    Search visits
    11,130
  • StudyAITool
    Google US
    5
    Tranco
    –
    Move in 41 days
    –
    Search visits
    1,121
  • Grammarly expand-6
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    323
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 244
    Search visits
    21,845,704
  • Duolingo
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    467
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 1
    Search visits
    6,319,046
  • Wolframalpha
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    5,780
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 137
    Search visits
    3,277,487
  • Turnitin
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    6,076
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 935
    Search visits
    1,307,200
  • Kahoot's AI features
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    6,501
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 6,016
    Search visits
    9,396,003
  • Articulate 360
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    7,712
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 70
    Search visits
    105,868
  • Speechify
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    11,881
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 656
    Search visits
    586,667
  • Gradescope
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    12,385
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 36,220
    Search visits
    204,559
  • Wayground (formerly Quizizz)
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    12,777
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 1,997
    Search visits
    906,438
  • Babbel
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    13,682
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 553
    Search visits
    880,128
  • AMBOSS
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    14,257
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 3,389
    Search visits
    414,442
  • Anki
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    14,728
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 425
    Search visits
    619,329
  • Busuu
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    18,619
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 10,660
    Search visits
    1,466,079

Source: DataForSEO (US Google positions) and Tranco, October 2026. First 15 of 149 sites shown.

Miles explains

No tracked site sits high on Google for “ai study tools”, so most visits here come from people who already know the names.

4Who grew, who faded

Biggest gain in October 2026: StudyX (+172%); biggest loss: Khanmigo (-35%). Year-on-year growers are on the demand page.

Biggest moves in October 2026

Up this month

Down this month

Brand demand, since October 2025

Searched more

  • Neural Consult
    Oct 25
    1,300
    Sep 26
    5,400
    Change
    +315.4%
  • Voxy
    Oct 25
    3,600
    Sep 26
    9,900
    Change
    +175.0%
  • Diffit
    Oct 25
    368,000
    Sep 26
    673,000
    Change
    +82.9%
  • to teach
    Oct 25
    1,900
    Sep 26
    2,900
    Change
    +52.6%
  • MyStudyLife
    Oct 25
    5,400
    Sep 26
    8,100
    Change
    +50.0%
  • Praktika
    Oct 25
    2,400
    Sep 26
    3,600
    Change
    +50.0%

Searched less

Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

5Where the visitors live

About 27 of every 100 visits come from the United States.

US share of visits
26.5% (22.3% a year ago)
Largest outside the US
India, Canada and United Kingdom
US share of "ai study tools" searches
45%

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

6Links and ratings

The tracked sites had 815,309 referring domains between them in October 2026; this is the first reading, so there is no year-on-year figure yet. The average Domain Rating is 48. Grammarly expand-6 has the strongest link profile at DR 90.

By Domain Rating (Ahrefs)

By referring domains

Source: DataForSEO and Ahrefs, October 2026.