The AI tutor that watches you work.
Elara reads the math you write by hand on iPad, then teaches like a great tutor would — asking the right questions, checking every step, never just giving the answer.
Built for grades 6–12 · Algebra, Geometry, Pre-Algebra & more.
The problem
Most AI tutors just give the answer.
Type in a problem, get a finished solution. But answers handed over on a plate don't build understanding — they replace it. Real learning happens in the working, in the wrong turns, and in being asked the right question at the right moment.
“The best tutors don't give answers — they ask the right questions.”
How it works
From blank canvas to real understanding.
Four simple steps that mirror how you'd work with a great tutor sitting beside you.
Pick a subject & mode
Choose a topic and whether you want to Learn a concept or Practice problems. Elara sets up the session around it.
Write by hand
Solve on the canvas with Apple Pencil, just like paper. No typing, no clunky equation editors — infinite space to think.
Elara reads & responds
It sees your handwriting as you work and tutors you step by step in the chat beside the canvas.
Check your work
Tap “Check My Work” for targeted, step-level feedback and hints — Elara pinpoints exactly where a step went wrong.
Features
Everything a great tutor does — on your iPad.
Elara is built around how students actually work: by hand, one step at a time, with guidance exactly when it's needed.
Learn or Practice, your call.
Learn mode has Elara walk you through a topic step by step. Practice mode serves problems and coaches you as you solve — you pick how you want to work.
It actually sees your handwriting.
Real-time recognition turns your Apple Pencil strokes into math Elara understands — no typing, no LaTeX, no fighting an equation editor.
Check My Work, step by step.
Not a red X. Elara pinpoints where a step went wrong and asks a question to get you unstuck, with hints available on demand.
Your notebooks, your topics.
Per-course notebooks with page tabs — each page is a topic in a clean binder. Everything you do is saved automatically.
A tutor that remembers you.
Onboarding sets your grade, courses, and goals. Elara calibrates difficulty and shores up weak prerequisites first — remediation-first and adaptive, so you build on solid ground.
Approach
Socratic tutoring, not an answer machine.
Three principles shape every interaction with Elara.
Natural Input
Apple Pencil on an infinite canvas. You work the way you always have — on paper — with room to think and rework.
Real Understanding
Elara reads your steps and verifies the math symbolically, so it understands what you did — not just the final number.
Guided Discovery
Questions and hints that lead you to the answer yourself, building intuition that sticks long after the session ends.
On your own
With Elara
You decide how much help you get.
Settings let you tune when hints appear and how Elara guides you — including a “Nudge, don't solve” mode that keeps the thinking with you instead of handing over the answer.
Subjects
Built for real coursework.
Elara covers the courses students are actually taking — with more on the way.
Roadmap
Where Elara is headed.
An honest look at what's shipping now and what's coming. Aspirational, but grounded.
- Handwriting recognition
- Learn & Practice modes
- Check My Work
- Per-course notebooks
- Chat tutoring beside the canvas
- Full guided topic lessons
- Adaptive problem generation
- Progress & mastery tracking
- Daily review & streaks
- More subjects, including Calculus
- Inline feedback drawn on the canvas
- Parent & teacher insights
- Spaced-repetition review
Under the hood
Built by
Pranav Kandikonda
I'm an AI engineer who wanted tutoring that teaches like a person, not a search box. Elara is my attempt to build the tutor I wish I'd had — one that watches how you work, meets you in your own handwriting, and guides you to the answer instead of handing it over.
Learn math the way you actually do it — by hand.
Free during beta · iPad + Apple Pencil.