Exam Gorilla launches AI quiz app for notes, PDFs and photos

Exam Gorilla is now live on the App Store and Google Play, giving students from Grade 1 through college a way to turn their own notes, PDFs and textbook photos into practice tests. The app aims to make studying more targeted by tying every answer back to the exact page that proves it.

Why it matters: - Exam Gorilla pushes AI study tools toward source-based learning, not generic quiz generation. - The app is designed to help students practice on the exact chapter, handout or note set their teacher assigned. - Every answer links back to the page sentence that supports it, which can reduce guesswork and make review more reliable. - The app is aimed at a wide range of learners, from Grade 1 students to college, SAT, GRE and finals prep.

What happened: - Exam Gorilla launched on the App Store for iPhone and iPad and on Google Play for Android. - The app turns students’ notes, PDFs and photos into practice tests in minutes. - Students can add textbook pages, worksheets, handouts or handwritten notes and generate quizzes from them. - Founder Himanshu Batra said the app is built so every question comes from the student’s own pages and every answer shows where it came from.

The details: - Exam Gorilla writes five question types: multiple choice, true or false, fill in the blank, matching and short answer. - The app adjusts wording and difficulty to the student’s grade level. - Supported use cases include Grade 1 reading, high school science, college finals, SAT practice, GRE prep and entrance exams. - Gogo, the app’s study-buddy gorilla, reads the selected pages and writes the quiz. - Students can choose how many questions they want and can set a timer for exam-style practice. - The app scores the test, awards up to three stars and lists which pages to review again. - The app supports Practice mode with instant feedback and Real Test mode with a timer, a Mark for review button, a question grid and automatic submission when time runs out. - Missed questions go into “Practise your misses” for spaced review. - Exam Gorilla includes up to 150 questions in a test. - The app is free to download and includes free questions for trying a full practice test. - More information is available in the company's announcement.

Between the lines: - Exam Gorilla is positioning itself as a Quizlet alternative for students who want exam-style practice instead of flashcards alone. - The app also competes with general-purpose AI tools like ChatGPT by removing the need for prompts, pasted text and manual answer checking. - The emphasis on page-level proof suggests a focus on trust, especially for parents, teachers and younger students. - The product design leans toward safety and control, with no ads, a grown-up check for purchases and settings, and optional sign-in. - Files stay on the device, which may appeal to families and schools that want tighter privacy control. - The app also allows users to report questions as wrong, confusing, not from their pages or not OK for kids.

What's next: - Families can use the app for weekly homeschool quizzes and page-by-page review. - Teachers and tutors can build quizzes from handouts, readings and lecture notes for class or one-on-one sessions. - Students can use Real Test mode and spaced repetition to prepare for larger exams over time. - Exam Gorilla’s cross-device support means signed-in users can move between iPhone, iPad and Android.

The bottom line: - Exam Gorilla is betting that students want AI that quizzes from their own material, not the internet at large.