Phone-camera math solver that reads handwritten or printed problems and returns step-by-step solutions.
What it is good at
Its handwriting recognition is the best in the category and works on a photo of a textbook page or a student's own paper, which is why adoption is near-universal whether or not faculty sanction it. The free tier already includes steps, so no paywall protects your assignments.
Use it for
Photographing a deliberately wrong worked solution and having students identify where its method diverges from the error. Generating worked examples in multiple solution methods for the same equation to teach method selection. Having students solve by hand, then compare and write one sentence on why their method differed.
Where it falls short
READ THIS BEFORE DESIGNING HOMEWORK: Photomath solves the standard developmental, algebra and precalculus set, free, from a photo, in seconds. Any unproctored problem set is now an answer lookup and completion-credit homework measures nothing. The realistic responses are low-stakes formative homework with points moved to proctored work, required written justification of each step, and problems it handles badly — multi-step word problems with extraneous data and find-the-error items. It gives no signal when its OCR misreads an exponent.
Cost and capability details last verified Sep 20, 2026. Pricing in this category moves fast — confirm on the vendor’s own page before committing a course to it.
Used in
Mathematics: The single most important entry here for assessment design, not for adoption.
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