Chiamaka Eze
Head of Learning Science
Former university lecturer. Designs how Nkọwa explains, quizzes and spaces your revision.
@chiamaka.teaches
AI study engine · built in Nigeria
Snap your notes. Get the explanation, the quiz and the plan.
Nkọwa reads a photo of handwritten lecture notes or a past-question paper, maps every concept, quizzes you with worked explanations, predicts what the examiner will set and plans each day until your exam. Any course, any campus.
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Live demo · the real engine
Turn one lecture into a full study pack.
Pick a sample or paste your own notes, set your exam date, and generate. Watch every stage of the pipeline and the raw model output, then take the quiz: your mastery map updates with every answer.
You've used all 5 free notes this month.It's a demo, so keep going — orget Scholar for unlimited notes →
Samples
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Add a photo of handwritten notes or a past-question paper. Nkọwa transcribes it and builds the pack from the photo plus anything typed above. Compressed on your phone first to save data.
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How it works
From a crumpled handout to exam-ready in three steps.
No templates to fill. Nkọwa reads what your lecturer actually taught, then teaches it back to you until it sticks.
01 · CAPTURE
Snap or paste
Photograph your notes, a classmate's handout or last year's question paper. Blurry, slanted and photocopied is fine. Or paste typed notes.
02 · UNDERSTAND
Nkọwa reads and maps it
Handwriting OCR, topic segmentation and a concept graph that shows how every idea connects, with a summary you can revise from.
03 · PRACTISE
Drill until exam day
A quiz that explains every answer, the questions most likely to come out, and a day-by-day plan counting down to your paper.
Reads real handwriting
Trained on biro-on-ruled-paper notes, board copies and photocopied handouts from Nigerian lecture halls. Keeps formulas and subscripts intact.
OCR · 96.8% word accuracy*Concept maps
See the whole topic at once: what's core, what depends on what, and which nodes you still don't know.
8–12 concepts per lectureQuizzes that explain
Distractors built from common student mistakes. Every answer comes with the working, so a wrong answer still teaches you something.
Easy → tough examinerExam predictor
Ranks likely questions with marks, from your lecturer's emphasis and the style of past papers in your department.
likelihood + marksCountdown study plan
Pick your exam date and get a realistic plan that fits the days left, builds from basics and leaves the night before light.
compresses to any deadlineCourse packs for class reps
Scan once, share with the whole class. Everyone gets their own quiz and plan, and you see which topics the class is struggling with.
Campus planUnder the hood
A tutor model, a handwriting model and a guardrail that checks its work.
Every pack is grounded in your own notes. Answers that can't be traced back to what you uploaded are flagged before you see them.
Handwriting OCR96.8%word accuracy on 2,400 student note pages
Quiz validity98.1%questions rated correct by lecturer reviewers
Latency p5011.4 sphoto to full study pack on 4G
Privacy0notes used to train models. Yours stay yours.
* Illustrative internal benchmarks from the preview build (Sept 2026). Not independently audited.
Built for Nigerian campuses
Designed around the phone in your pocket, the data in your bundle and the handout everyone photocopied.
Low-data mode
Photos are compressed on your phone (about 180 KB a scan) and packs are cached for when the network drops.
Blurry handouts welcome
Deskews, de-noises and reads faded photocopies, margin scribbles and board-copy shorthand.
Explained your way
Ask for explanations in Nigerian Pidgin, Igbo, Yoruba or Hausa. The exam terms stay in English.
Any course, any level
From 100L GST to final-year pharmacology. Matches the style of questions your department sets.
Students
The study partner that's awake at 2 a.m. before your test.
What students in our preview cohort told us after their first semester with Nkọwa.
"I snapped my BCH 201 notes the night before test. The quiz asked me the Lineweaver–Burk question almost word for word."
"Our lecturer's handwriting is legendary. Nkọwa read it better than I can, and the study plan actually fit my timetable."
"As class rep I share one course pack with 180 people. It costs everyone almost no data."
"Elasticity didn't make sense until I asked for the explanation in Pidgin. Then it just clicked."
Testimonials are from fictional students, written to illustrate the product.
48knote pages scanned in preview
31campuses with active students
+14points average quiz improvement in 2 weeks
186 KBmedian data per scan
Illustrative preview-cohort figures.
Pricing
Priced for a student budget.
Start free. Upgrade when exams get serious. Pay in naira by card, bank transfer or USSD.
Free
Try it on this week's lectures
₦0forever
- 5 notes a month
- Summary, concept map and quiz
- Typed or pasted notes
- 1 study plan at a time
Scholar
For students with exams coming
₦2,500/ month
- Unlimited notes
- Photo scans of handwriting and past papers
- Predicted exam questions
- Study plans to every exam date
- Pidgin, Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa explanations
Campus
For class reps and departments
₦1,500/ student / month
- Everything in Scholar for every seat
- Shared course packs for the whole class
- Class-wide weak-topic dashboard
- Minimum 20 seats
No card required to start. Scholar includes a 7-day free trial. USD shown at about ₦1,550 = $1 for reference; you're billed in naira.
Team
The people building Nkọwa.
A small team that has sat in the same lecture halls, photocopied the same handouts and stayed up for the same exams.
Tunde Bakare
ML Engineer
Builds the handwriting OCR and language models that read your notes.
@tunde.builds
Halima Musa
Community & Campus Lead
Works with class reps and departments to bring Nkọwa to new campuses.
@halima.oncampus
Chiamaka, Tunde and Halima are illustrative team profiles.
FAQ
Questions students ask us.
Will it read my lecturer's handwriting?
Usually, yes. Script-OCR is trained on handwritten student notes, board copies and photocopied handouts. Where it isn't sure of a word it marks it, and you can fix it before generating the pack.
Which courses does it work for?
Any course with notes: sciences, engineering, law, social sciences, GST. It works best when the photo or text includes definitions, formulas or worked examples, because that's what exams test.
Is this cheating?
No. Nkọwa is a revision tool. It explains and tests what you've been taught; it doesn't sit your exam or write your assignments. Lecturers on our Campus plan use it to set practice work.
How much data does it use?
About 180 KB per photo after on-device compression, and roughly 20 KB for the study pack itself. Packs you've opened stay on your phone, so revision works when the network drops.
Are the predicted questions guaranteed to come out?
No one can promise that. Predictions are ranked from your lecturer's emphasis in the notes and the style of past papers, so they're a strong guide to what to practise first, not a leak.
Are my notes private?
Yes. Your notes and photos are never used to train our models, and you can delete them at any time. Shared course packs on Campus are visible only to students in that pack.
Your next exam has a plan.
Join the waitlist for the Android app and offline packs. We'll tell you when Nkọwa reaches your campus.