Getting started

Understand what Algor does, create your account and find your way around.

Basics

Understand what Algor does

Algor turns your material into a complete, interactive study guide called a Set.

Instead of juggling separate apps for notes, flashcards and quizzes, Algor turns whatever you already have into one interactive study guide called a Set: a document, a recording, or even just a topic you type in.

The AI does the heavy lifting: it reads or researches the material and organizes it into sections and pages, ready to study.

Everything you can do in Algor happens inside or around a Set.

However you learn, it is already there

There is no single right way to study, and you do not have to adapt to the app. From the same material Algor can give you a concept map if you think visually, a summary or notes if you learn by reading, an audio overview if you prefer listening, flashcards if repetition works for you, and a quiz or an assessment if you only feel ready once you have been tested. You choose what to open, and you can switch whenever a topic is not sticking.

Each tool is good at a different moment of studying, so it helps to know when to reach for which:

ToolWhen it helps most
Interactive textFirst contact with a topic: you read the material rewritten clearly, and can highlight, annotate, listen or ask for an explanation right where you get stuck.
Concept mapSeeing the whole picture and how ideas connect, useful before starting and again right before an exam as a visual recap.
Summary and notesCutting a long chapter down to what you actually need to know, and revising when time is short.
Podcast and audio overviewStudying without reading: on the way to school, while walking, or whenever reading is tiring.
FlashcardsMemorizing definitions, dates, formulas and vocabulary, in short sessions repeated over several days.
Quiz and assessmentChecking whether you really know it, finding the gaps before the teacher does, and simulating the exam.
AI assistantGetting unstuck on a single passage: ask about your own material and get an answer that points back to it.

When learning works differently

Algor is a tool for everyone, and the same flexibility that lets anyone pick their favourite way of studying is what makes it genuinely useful when reading, attention or memory are the hard part. Nothing is hidden behind a special mode: the same Set already contains the format that works for you.

  • Dyslexia and reading difficulties: the audio overview lets you listen instead of reading, and the concept map replaces long paragraphs with short, connected nodes.
  • Other specific learning differences: summaries and notes reduce the amount of text to process, and when you create a Set you can ask for simple language and a schematic format so the material stays light.
  • Autistic students: a Set is always organized the same way, in sections and pages, so the structure is predictable and each study session can start from the same familiar place.
  • Attention difficulties: flashcards and quizzes break studying into short, active steps instead of one long session, and progress tracking shows what is left.
  • When you create a Set you can say who it is for (for example a student with dyslexia, or a specific school year), and the language and depth of the explanations adapt to that person.
  • When something is still unclear, the AI assistant answers questions about your own material, so you can ask again as many times as you need.
NoteThese are not separate features for a separate group: they are the same tools everyone uses. In a class, this means the same Set can be studied by everyone without anyone receiving a visibly different version.

What you can do from a Set

  • Review with flashcards and spaced repetition.
  • Test yourself with a customizable assessment.
  • Track your progress towards a goal.
  • Follow the progress of a whole group.
  • Ask questions to an AI assistant that knows your content.

Students and teachers

Algor is the same product for everyone, but the two most common ways of using it look different. As a student, you typically create a Set from your own notes or a topic and study it yourself. As a teacher, you create the material once, share it with your class, and then use the progress dashboard to see how the whole group (and each student) is doing, without having to grade everything by hand.

Create your account

Sign up, confirm your email and complete the guided welcome.

Creating an account takes a couple of minutes and unlocks everything Algor offers: your own Sets, your progress, and the ability to share material with others. The steps below are the same whether you plan to study on your own or to prepare content for a class.

The Algor sign up window with the Log in and Sign up tabs, the Google and Apple buttons, and the email and password fields of step 1 of 2.
  1. 1Sign up with your email address, with a Google account or with an Apple account. If someone invited you with a link, the invite code is recognized automatically.
  2. 2Confirm your email address. You receive a confirmation email; if it does not arrive, you can request another one from the same screen.
  3. 3Follow the guided welcome, a short path that helps you create your first material. You can skip it without losing access to the app.
  4. 4You land on the Home: from now on it is your starting point to create and find material.
NoteIn your profile you can set "Teacher" as your profession. It helps Algor personalize suggestions; it does not unlock different features.

Log in again later

Once the account exists, you get back in from the login page. The same account can have several social providers linked to it: Google, Apple and Facebook. If you sign in with one of them using the same email address as an existing account, that provider is linked to that account automatically, so you keep the same material, the same subscription and the same data. This also happens when an account created with email and password later signs in with Google, Apple or Facebook.

The one exception is email and password: it cannot be added later to an account born with a social provider. An account created with Google, Apple or Facebook cannot become an account with an Algor password.

Password recovery follows the method the account was created with. If it was created with email and password, you can reset the password from the link under the password field, even if you later linked a social provider. If it was created with Google, Apple or Facebook, there is no Algor password to recover: sign in through one of the linked providers, and recover that password with the provider itself.

NoteWith Sign in with Apple you can choose "Hide my email". In that case your Algor account is tied to an @privaterelay.appleid.com address, which is not your personal address: if you later look for your account by your usual email, you will not find it. Keep signing in through Apple.
The Algor login window with the Log in and Sign up tabs, the Google and Apple buttons, the email and password fields and the "Forgot your password?" link.

The Home is where you create new content and find everything you already made.

When you log in you land on the Home. The left sidebar (the bottom bar on phones) gives you access to the main areas.

The Home page on desktop, with the left sidebar (Home, Material, AI Assistant), the search field for your material, the "Create an Algor Set" button and the shortcuts for Mind map, Summary and Transcribe.
AreaWhat it contains
HomeCreate new content and see your recent material.
MaterialAll your Sets and files, organized in folders.
AI AssistantFree chats with the AI, not tied to a specific Set.

The AI Assistant in the sidebar is a general chat, separate from the one inside a Set. Use it when you have a question that does not belong to any material you created: ask it to solve an exercise, explain a topic or help you plan your study. You can start a new chat at any time and go back to earlier ones from the history.

The general AI Assistant with the question field, the New Chat button, the history and the shortcuts Solve an exercise, Explain a topic to me and Help me plan my study.