Socratic
Photo a question, get explanations
We publish a full Four-Mismatches fit assessment for the student-facing exam tools first. For this one, the facts below are what we have verified — run the Four Mismatches Test on it yourself for your own students.
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What it does
What the AI actually does — OCR reads a photographed question; a model predicts which concepts will help and surfaces targeted videos, definitions and steps.
Why it was built — Students stuck on a specific question need the exact right explanation fast, not a generic web search.
Who built it
- Company
- Socratic (Google)
- Founders
- Chris Pedregal · Shreyans Bhansali
- HQ / origin
- New York City, USA
- Founded
- 2013 (app 2016)
- Model
- B2C
- Ownership
- Acquired by Google (2018); later folded into Google Lens
- Languages
- English
- Pricing
- Free
We record durable facts only — no funding-raised or user-count figures. Unverified fields are marked [TBD] rather than guessed.
Where it sits
Socratic is on the EdTech AI 100 map, in study & homework help, built in United States.