Comparison

Chegg sells you the answer. That is useful once and expensive twice

Chegg's own site leads with round the clock homework help. That is accurate: a subscription that gets you a worked solution when you need one, which solves the eleven at night problem. What it does not solve is being able to do it yourself in May.

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Short answer

Chegg is worth it at the moment you are stuck and out of options. It does nothing for the exam three weeks later, and that is not a flaw, it is the product.

WeSolve+ is built for the second one, from material you already have, and the tool below is the free entry to it.

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.

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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.

The set you already own

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 solve anything. It takes questions you already have and hides the answers, so there is something to attempt. If what you need right now is the worked solution, a paid library is the honest answer and this is not it. Your text stays in the browser and is never sent anywhere.

The same problem, two sequences
StepLook up firstAttempt first
Time spent tonightFive minutesTwenty five minutes
Problem set submittedYesYes
Step you missed identifiedNoYes, that is the output
Reproducible in MayUnlikelyLikely
Institutional riskReal if gradedNone
What comes back laterNothingThe step, on a schedule

What the subscription actually buys

Two things, and they are worth separating. A library of worked solutions tied to published textbooks, which is what the study side is built around, and a route to ask a question that no library covers. The first is a lookup and the second is a service with a queue. Both are legitimate purchases at the moment you are stuck. The subscription model is also worth noticing, because it changes the incentive: value is measured in how often you come back needing something, not in whether you stopped needing it.

The moment it earns its money

You have attempted the problem, you are stuck on one step, and it is late. Reading a full worked solution at that point is genuinely effective, and not just as a rescue: the worked example effect is one of the better replicated findings in instructional research, and it says that studying a complete solution beats unaided struggling when the material is new. So this page is not going to tell you that looking up an answer is always wrong. It is going to tell you the condition: attempt first, in writing, then look.

The moment it costs you, and it is invisible

Used the other way round, as the first move rather than the last, it removes the step that teaches and leaves the feeling that you understood. That gap does not surface until an exam, which is why it is expensive twice: once in money and once in a mark you find out about later. There is also the institutional line, which does not care how you got the answer. Submitting a solution you did not produce is what universities define as academic dishonesty, and this has been an active area of enforcement rather than a theoretical one.

The habit that converts a lookup into learning

One rule, and it is mechanical rather than moral. After reading the solution, close it and redo the problem from a blank page. If you cannot, you did not learn it, you recognised it; that gap is the whole point and it takes two minutes to test. A second habit is worth adding: write down which step you missed, not which problem you missed. Problems do not repeat, steps do. Both of these are just retrieval applied to a solution you have already seen.

What WeSolve+ does with the same problem set

Photograph the sheet or upload the file and it returns explained questions built from that material, plus a deck and a short spoken recap. Explained means the reasoning is attached to the item, so you can check the method rather than trusting a final number. Questions you miss are held back and returned later, which is the part a lookup has no mechanism for. It does not hold a library of solutions to published textbooks and is not trying to build one. Free to start on the web and on iPhone, counted by file. Figures on pricing.

Both, in the right order

A paid library is a reasonable thing to own if your course sets problems whose solutions are not published anywhere else. The order that works is attempt, then look up, then redo from blank, then keep the step you missed somewhere it will come back. The order that fails is look up, copy, move on, and it fails silently. This page is not arguing that you should never buy an answer; it is arguing about where in the evening you should buy it.

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Is Chegg worth paying for?

At the moment you are genuinely stuck and out of options, yes. As a first move it removes the step that teaches, and the cost of that shows up in an exam rather than on the invoice.

Is using it cheating?

Reading a solution to understand a method is not. Submitting a solution you did not produce is what institutions define as academic dishonesty, and it does not matter where the answer came from.

What is the right way to use a worked solution?

Attempt first in writing, then read, then close it and redo the problem from a blank page. If you cannot redo it, you recognised the solution rather than learning it.

Does WeSolve+ have textbook solutions?

No, and it is not building a library of them. It reads material you provide and writes questions from it, which is a different product with a different purpose.

What should I record when I get something wrong?

The step you missed, not the problem you missed. Problems do not repeat in an exam; steps do.

Does this page's tool solve anything?

No. It hides the answers in questions you already have, so there is something to attempt. If you need the worked solution itself, a paid library is the honest answer.

Last updated: 2026-08-15