The study app that asks before it explains.

Maben Study is a Mac app that reads your course once, plans every day up to each test, and starts every session with what you remember.

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The exam week plan in Maben Study: a column per day up to the exam, each with its flashcards, quizzes, recall blocks and practice exams.
11question types, including one where you find the mistake
10kinds of block a study session is built from
37%fewer output tokens on simple jobs, with the same result
0accounts and servers. Your work stays on your Mac

Starts with what you remember.

Most study tools begin by explaining. Maben Study begins by asking. You write or say everything you know about a topic first. Then it explains only what you missed.

Reads your course once.

Drop in whole folders. Text, OCR and transcription run on your Mac. The AI reads each file once and builds a map of topics, concepts, key points and flashcards you can edit. After that it works from the map, not the files.

A subject in Maben Study: its final exam and midterm with weights and grade forecasts, the concept map with mastery and priority per topic, and the imported course files.

A plan that keeps up with you.

Add each test with its date, weight and format, and the minutes you have each day. The plan is rebuilt from where you are every morning. Miss a day and its work spreads over the days that are left, instead of piling up the night before.

  • Exam weeks share your time by how close and how weak
  • A practice exam in the last three days, and light exam days
  • A grade forecast for every test
  • In your calendar, with a daily reminder
A quiz in Maben Study: an open answer scored 2 out of 4, with a mark and a comment for each point of the marking scheme.

Sessions that fit your day.

Tell it how long you have and how much energy you've got. It builds the session from ten kinds of block, from recall and worked problems to tutor chat and breaks.

  • Eleven question types, including find the mistake
  • Timed practice exams in your exam's format
  • A separate cram profile the night before

Light on your AI bill.

Bring a key from the provider you already use, or run a free local model. A paid key can have a monthly limit.

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What it does to keep costs down

Your files
Read on your Mac, so turning PDFs, scans and recordings into text costs nothing.
Grading
Open answers are graded together in one call instead of one call each.
Models
Each job goes to the cheapest model that's good enough for it, learned from your own results.
Caching
The shared part of every prompt in a session is read from cache, at about a tenth of the price.
Effort
Simple jobs ask the model to think less. Measured on a recall check, that cut output tokens by 37% with the same result.

Everything stays on your Mac.

Your course, your answers and your grades are yours. Only the text an AI feature needs goes to the provider you chose.

No account

There's no Maben account and no Maben server. Your files, notes and grades live in a database on your Mac.

Keys in the Keychain

API keys are kept in the macOS Keychain, and a paid key can have a monthly limit.

Local if you like

Turn on local models for material, and your course files never leave the Mac.

Try it before
your next test.

Signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens like any other app. Needs macOS 26 or later.

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