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Type a topic or a question, or drop in a PDF. Periplus writes a course on it, with quizzes and flashcards along the way.

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Explore documents, build courses, and make learning last

Linked lessons

Linked lessons

Lessons link to related ones. Open two side by side, or follow the graph to see how they connect.

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Courses

Courses

Type a topic and get a full course, chapter by chapter. Any lesson can branch into a new course.

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Your library

Your library

Everything you've opened is saved here. Search it, sort it, come back whenever.

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Flashcards and quizzes

Flashcards and quizzes

Any lesson turns into them. They come back on a schedule, right before you'd forget.

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Listen to your course

Every chapter of your course becomes a podcast episode. Press play and keep learning when you can't sit down to read.

  • An episode for every chapter

    Two hosts talk through the lessons of your own course, so you can keep learning on a walk or a commute.

  • Read along

    Captions follow the voices word by word, and the full transcript is one tap away.

  • Raise your hand

    Ask a question out loud. The hosts answer it, then pick up where they left off.

Building the Pyramids

Start with a question

Then follow the links and test yourself along the way.

Pick a topic

Anything from quantum physics to gardening.

Renaissance Art

Masterpieces and techniques of da Vinci

Ancient Egypt

Culture, religion and achievements

Follow the links

Every document links to related topics. Follow what interests you

Explore connections

Test yourself

Lessons include maps, worked math, flashcards and quizzes.

Interactive learning

Side by side with ChatGPT

Both can explain anything. Here's what you get on top of the explanation.

Periplus
  • Lays out the whole course for you, chapter by chapter
  • Quizzes and exams test you as you learn, so gaps show up early
  • Flashcards bring ideas back right before you would forget them
  • Maps, diagrams and images inside the lesson
  • Everything you've learned sits in one library, and new courses pick up from there
ChatGPT
  • Makes you the teacher: you decide what to learn and in what order
  • You read the answer and move on. Nothing checks whether it stuck.
  • What you read today fades by next week, and you lose the chat
  • A wall of text in a chat box
  • Your learning ends up scattered across old chats you can't find

Common questions

Quick answers before you start.

A full course on it, with chapters that build on each other. You read the lessons at your own pace, and quizzes and exams help you remember them. It lives in your library, so you can come back tomorrow and keep going.

Yes. You can create courses and take quizzes on the free plan, and you don't need a credit card. If you hit the limits, Premium removes them.

ChatGPT is a conversation. Periplus is a course, with lessons in the right order and exams that show what you missed. When you want to dig into a detail, every lesson has its own chat.

Yes, on Premium. Give Periplus a lecture or a paper and it builds the course around your material. You can also just chat with the PDF and ask it questions.

Yes. Every chapter of a course can play as a podcast episode, with two hosts talking through its lessons. You get captions and a transcript, and you can ask the hosts a question while you listen.

More than a raw chatbot. Periplus checks lessons for hallucinations before you see them, and deep research on Premium pulls in web sources you can open yourself.

Yes. Pick your language at signup or change it in settings, and everything Periplus generates will be in it.

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