The tool below does that in the browser, with no account.
WeSolve+ reads the whole document and writes the questions for you
Upload your PDF, photograph your notebook, or point the camera. WeSolve+ writes questions from that material, explains why each answer is right, reads the chapter back to you as a podcast, and remembers every item you missed until you own it.
The tool below is a small browser-only tool and it is not WeSolve+: paste a few lines and text rules turn them into cards on the spot. The real app, the one that uses AI, is behind the link above.
Finished homework to revision
This is a browser-only tool, and that is all it isIt splits the text you paste by rule, and nothing else. WeSolve+ is a different thing entirely: it reads your whole PDF with AI, writes the reasoning behind every question, speaks the chapter back to you, and remembers what you missed so it can return it. Try the real app now, free!
This tool uses text rules, not AI, and it does not track anything. It converts a finished assignment into prompts with the answers hidden, which is the step almost nobody takes and the reason most homework is done once and thrown away. Your text stays in the browser and is never sent anywhere.
Two categories, and they solve different problems
One kind organises: deadlines, subjects, what is due when, sometimes shared with a class. The other kind answers: photograph a question and receive a solution. They are usually reviewed together and they have almost nothing in common, since the first is a scheduling problem and the second is a judgement about how much help is help. A third kind is worth naming because it is rarer and more useful: the one that turns finished work into revision. Homework is the best revision material most students will ever have, chosen by whoever writes the exam and pitched at exactly their level, and almost all of it is thrown away the day it is handed in.
Why the tracking system collapses
Entry cost is the variable that decides it. If logging an assignment takes more than about fifteen seconds, the system loses to a scrap of paper within a fortnight, and the fortnight is generous. The apps that survive share three properties: adding something takes one screen, the list is visible without opening anything, and nothing is required beyond a title and a date. Everything else, subtasks, tags, colour coding, priority levels, is a feature that makes the demonstration look good and the Tuesday evening worse. The research vocabulary for the underlying constraint is executive function, and the point of an external system is to spend less of it, not more.
What a tracking system actually has to do
Four things, and no more. Hold everything, because a system you do not trust gets checked against your memory and then abandoned. Show today, since a list of forty items produces avoidance rather than action. Survive a bad week, meaning it should still be usable after three days of neglect rather than requiring an hour of cleanup. And handle the long assignment, which is the one that actually goes wrong: an essay due in three weeks needs to appear before the last night, and no due date alone will do that. That last requirement is why Getting Things Done insists on a next action rather than a project name, and it is the single idea worth taking from task management into a school context.
The answer photographing kind, and the trade it makes
These are genuinely useful at one moment: you are stuck, it is late, and the alternative is submitting nothing. They are also the fastest way to arrive at an exam having practised nothing, because the step they remove is the step that teaches. The workable compromise is to use them backwards: attempt first in writing, then check, then redo the step you got wrong without looking. If your homework is graded, there is a second consideration and it is not optional, since submitting an answer you did not produce is what your institution defines as misconduct. That line is set out on the homework helper page in more detail.
The step after the deadline, which nobody takes
A problem set answered on Sunday and never seen again has taught you roughly one evening's worth. The same set, revisited three weeks later with the answers covered, is worth several times that, because the second encounter is retrieval rather than reading. This is the most reliable finding in the study literature and the least implemented in this product category: distributed practice beats massed practice by a wide margin, and the same total minutes spread across weeks beat one long evening. Paste the questions into the tool above when you finish them and you have the second encounter ready without writing anything new.
What the app adds once the sheet is done
Photograph the sheet, upload the PDF or take a camera shot and WeSolve+ reads it and writes explained questions from it, plus a card deck and a short audio recap. Questions you get wrong collect in their own list and come back on a schedule rather than when you remember them, which is the part a tracking app cannot do and a photographed answer certainly cannot. It runs at wesolveapp.com in any browser and as an App Store app on iPhone and iPad, free to begin. Figures on pricing.
Sources used on this page
- Homework
- Task management
- Getting Things Done
- Executive functions
- Procrastination
- Time management
- Distributed practice
- Spacing effect
- Academic integrity
- Worked-example effect
- Active recall
- Testing effect
- Spaced repetition
- Formative assessment
- Roediger and Karpicke, Test-Enhanced Learning (2006)
- Karpicke and Roediger, the critical importance of retrieval (2008)
- Cepeda et al., distributed practice meta analysis (2006)
- Cepeda et al., spacing and the optimal retention interval (2008)
- Dunlosky et al., improving students' learning (2013)
- What Works Clearinghouse, organizing instruction and study
- The Learning Scientists, retrieval practice
- Retrieval Practice, the research library
- Cloze test
- Anki manual, importing text files
- MDN, the textarea element
- MDN, the details element
- MDN, the Clipboard API
- W3C, the disclosure pattern
- WeSolve+ on the App Store
- Habit
- Self-control
- Planning
- Goal setting
- Calendaring software
| Kind | Good at | Fails at |
|---|---|---|
| Deadline tracker | Knowing what is due | The three week essay, unless it prompts earlier |
| Shared class list | Nobody missing the brief | Anything personal to how you work |
| Answer photographer | The stuck moment at eleven at night | Everything after that moment |
| Revision from finished work | The second encounter, weeks later | Reminding you the work exists |
| A scrap of paper | Entry cost of two seconds | Surviving the walk home |
Why do homework apps get abandoned?
Because entry cost exceeds the pain they remove. If logging an item takes more than about fifteen seconds, a scrap of paper wins within a fortnight.
What should a tracker actually do?
Hold everything, show only today, survive three days of neglect, and surface a long assignment before the last night. Everything beyond that is demonstration material.
Are answer photographing apps bad?
They are useful at the stuck moment and costly everywhere else, because the step they remove is the step that teaches. Attempt first, then check, then redo the part you missed.
What is the best thing to do with finished homework?
Keep it as revision. It was written by whoever sets your exam and pitched at your level, and almost everybody throws it away the day it is handed in.
Does this tool track deadlines?
No, deliberately. It converts finished questions into practice you can sit again, which is the step that is usually missing rather than the one that already has ten apps.
Is anything I paste uploaded?
No. The conversion runs in your browser and nothing leaves the page. Closing the tab ends it.
Last updated: 2026-08-15