Aicademy vs Seneca vs Save My Exams

Seneca and Save My Exams are two of the most trusted names in UK revision, and for good reason. Between them they cover most GCSE and A-level specifications with free interactive courses, examiner-written notes and a huge bank of past papers. If the exact topic you need is already in their catalogue and mapped to your board, they are hard to beat.

Aicademy takes a different approach. Instead of serving a fixed library, it generates a lesson, quiz and flashcard deck for whatever you type in, shaped to how you learn. This piece is about when that matters and when it does not. We checked prices against each provider’s public site in July 2026, linked at the end.

The fundamental difference: curated vs generative

Seneca and Save My Exams are excellent when the exact course or paper you need already exists in their catalogue and matches your board. Aicademy generates a lesson for anything you ask, shaped to your profile, and can work from your own material. One is a carefully built library; the other is a generator. That single distinction explains almost every difference below.

Feature comparison

Three tools, three philosophies. The table makes the trade-offs concrete.

Where Aicademy differs

Four things follow from being generative rather than curated:

• It generates, it doesn’t just serve. Type any topic, or upload a document, and you get a new lesson, quiz and flashcard deck. You are not limited to topics someone has already built.
• You can study your own material. Upload class notes, a textbook chapter or a PDF and Aicademy builds study content grounded in it. Neither incumbent turns your own material into lessons.
• A tutor that explains, at £4.99. Aica is a conversational tutor with the context of your lesson. Seneca’s Amelia sits on its top £14.99 tier; Save My Exams marks answers but does not tutor back and forth.
• Shaped to how you learn. Set your level, tone and preferred examples once and every lesson reflects it. Fixed courses give everyone the same explanation.

Where Seneca and Save My Exams win

Both are established for good reasons, and for many students they are the better choice. An honest comparison has to say so.

Seneca has a genuinely unlimited free tier across a huge range of exam-board-mapped courses, it is strong for science with interactive, gamified recall, and teachers like it for setting and tracking homework.

Save My Exams has 40,000+ past papers and mark schemes that Aicademy does not offer, concise examiner-written notes that follow the specification closely, Smart Mark for AI marking against exam-board criteria, and consistently strong reviews with a focus on exam technique.

Pricing compared

The clearest gap is the AI tutor line: a conversational tutor plus generated study material is £4.99/mo on Aicademy, versus £14.99/mo for Seneca’s Amelia tier.

Which should you pick?

Pick Aicademy if you want lessons generated for your exact topic, shaped to how you learn, with a tutor and self-scheduling revision. Pick Seneca for free, interactive courses mapped to your board and gamified recall for science. Pick Save My Exams for examiner-written notes, past papers and mark schemes to sharpen exam technique.

They also work well together: plenty of students use Save My Exams for past papers and Aicademy to drill the topics they keep getting wrong. You can try Aicademy free and generate a lesson on your weakest topic in a couple of minutes.

And to be honest about the obvious: Aicademy is our own app, so treat our recommendation with that in mind. We have tried to judge it on the same points as Seneca and Save My Exams, including where they are the better choice, and cited every price so you can check it yourself.