Free online toolsfor students

Online Student Tools is a free collection of calculators and checkers for the parts of academic work that come up constantly: checking a word count against a limit, figuring out how many pages a draft will run, calculating a GPA, working out what score you need on a final, formatting a thesis correctly, citing a source, or measuring something on screen. None of it requires an account, and none of it is hidden behind a paywall.

The tools are grouped into four areas. Writing tools cover the drafting stage: counting words, estimating pages from a word count, and checking formatting against a thesis or paper's requirements. GPA and grade tools cover the academic-record side: calculating a grade in one class, rolling that into a semester or cumulative GPA, and converting to or from the ECTS scale used across much of Europe. Citation tools generate references in fourteen styles, from APA and MLA through to more specialized formats like Bluebook and NLM. Measurement and geometry tools include a calibrated on-screen ruler and a virtual drafting compass.

Each group is built as a workflow rather than a set of unrelated pages. A word count feeds naturally into a page estimate, which feeds into a formatting check, which feeds into a citation. A grade in one class rolls into a GPA, which converts to ECTS for students applying abroad. The tools link to each other at the point where that connection actually matters, instead of leaving you to hunt for the next step.

Where a tool works with your own text or files, like the word counter or the thesis checker, the processing happens in your browser rather than on a server. Nothing you type into those tools is uploaded anywhere. Where a result is an estimate rather than a fixed fact, such as a page count that depends on formatting, or a GPA-to-ECTS conversion that varies by institution, the tool says so directly rather than presenting a guess as a certainty.

The site is aimed at anyone doing academic work with a deadline and a set of formatting or grading rules to follow: undergraduates, graduate students, and high school students working on assignments, theses, and applications. It's maintained by a small team, and new tools and guides are added as they're built and tested, not before.