Our most accessible update yet: MapleMind in any browser, free every day

Since version 1.0 launched, we’ve shipped a steady stream of updates without really announcing them: a full web app, a rebuilt free plan, verified parental consent, a redesigned app from end to end. This post is the announcement. It’s also an explanation of the goal behind all of it: cost, device and language shouldn’t decide which Canadian students get help with their schoolwork.

What’s in this update

MapleMind is a Canadian AI tutor for Grades 1 to 12 in every province, in math, science, English, French and social studies, with step-by-step homework help, practice and provincial exam prep. This update brings it to more students, on more devices, more often.

What	Before	Now
Where it runs	The iPhone and Android apps	Those, plus the full app in any web browser at app.trymaplemind.ca (since July 16, 2026)
The free plan	A monthly allowance	A daily one, with lessons, quizzes and practice exams included
Children under the age of consent	Parental consent	Verified parental consent before any AI feature, with the parent as the account holder
Cost to start	Free, no credit card	Unchanged

Today the free plan gives each account 4 learning activities and 30 tutor messages a day; children whose accounts one parent manages share one daily count. MapleMind Pro, with no daily limits, is CA$9.99 a month or CA$49.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial.

Underneath those rows sits the work we never announced. The app is faster, and the tutor’s answers stream more steadily, without stalling partway through an explanation. Setting up an account works in all 14 languages, so a newcomer parent can do it in the language their family speaks. Math and diagrams display cleanly in lessons, Pro can be bought in the browser, and every screen was redesigned. It’s the work that makes the first five minutes simple for a nine-year-old and trustworthy for their parent.

Why the free plan renews every day

Learning is a daily habit, not a monthly event. Under the old plan, a student who used their month’s allowance in the first week waited weeks for more, which is backwards from how studying works. Short, regular practice is what builds lasting memory (more on that in how to use AI to study for exams), and a free plan should work with that pattern, not against it.

There’s an access argument too, and it’s the one we care about most. Most private tutors in Canada charge $30 to $80 an hour, according to biller.ca’s 2026 rate guide⁠ (opens in a new tab), which quietly sorts kids by what their family can afford. A free plan that renews every day means a student with no budget can still show up every afternoon, ask real questions about their own curriculum and take a practice quiz.

Why a web app matters for access

The students who most need tutoring are the least likely to have a device of their own. An app from an app store assumes a personal phone or tablet, room to install it and a store account. A browser assumes almost nothing. Since this update, all of MapleMind (tutoring, homework help, practice and exam prep) runs free at app.trymaplemind.ca⁠ (opens in a new tab) on:

• school Chromebooks, standard in many Canadian classrooms;
• library and community-centre computers, with nothing to install, and chats and progress cleared from the computer at sign-out;
• shared family laptops, one account per student, kept in step with the phone apps;
• older computers: anything that runs a modern browser.

Digital equity in education is usually discussed as a hardware problem. Software choices matter just as much: every requirement a product drops (a download, a device, a credit card) widens who can use it. Dropping all three at once is why we call this our most accessible update yet.

How to start in under two minutes

No sales call, no demo, no download.

1. Open the web app. Go to app.trymaplemind.ca in any browser: a school Chromebook, a library computer or a shared laptop all work.
2. Create a free account. Sign up with an email address, or with Google or Apple. No credit card is needed.
3. Pick your province and grade. Lessons, practice and exam prep follow your province’s curriculum, from Grade 1 to Grade 12.
4. Start learning. Ask a homework question, start a lesson or take a practice quiz.

What didn’t change: the guardrails

Making a product much easier to reach only helps if the safeguards come with it, so none of them were loosened.

• Guided mode is on from the start. It teaches the idea and works a similar example instead of answering the assigned question. A student on their own account can turn it off in Settings; on an account a parent holds, only the parent can turn it off, or let the student choose. It’s why teachers can allow MapleMind where they’d ban an answer engine.
• Verified parental consent for young children. Children under 13 (14 in Québec) need a parent’s verified consent before any AI feature, and the parent holds the account.
• Built in Canada. We don’t sell personal information, there are no ads, feeds or autoplay, and its reminders can be turned off in Settings. The sooner a child gets the help they need and gets back to being a kid, the better the tool has done its job.
• 14 languages, the tutor included. The tutor explains, teaches and gives feedback in the language the student chooses: English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, Korean, Portuguese, Tagalog, Punjabi, Urdu, Somali, Vietnamese or Amharic. For newcomer families, that’s often the difference between using the help and giving up on it.

The bigger picture

Safe AI tutoring is becoming something governments fund, and they’re moving in the direction this update takes. The UK’s AI Tutoring Tools Pioneers Programme funds companies to design AI tutors with teachers for up to 450,000 disadvantaged pupils a year, with safety standards written in and national benchmarks being built “to check AI tools are accurate, age appropriate and safe for pupils to use”. Estonia gave about 20,000 Grade 10 and 11 students an AI learning app through AI Leap in January 2026. Canada’s AI for All strategy funds AI literacy and teacher training.

The principles they share (tutoring for the students who can’t afford it, the curriculum students are taught, safety standards up front, and AI that supports teachers rather than replacing them) are the ones MapleMind is built on. Canada doesn’t yet have a public AI tutoring programme, so we’ve built the closest thing we can as an independent Canadian company: an AI tutor that follows each province’s curriculum, with a free plan that renews every day. When public benchmarks for AI tutors arrive, we’d welcome being measured against them.

For educators, school boards and community organizations

The surest way to reach the students this update is for is through the people who already serve them.

• Teachers and school boards: guided mode, the provincial curriculum and Canadian privacy law are the point of the product, and the web app works on the Chromebooks you already have. You can ask us about a pilot.
• Non-profits and community organizations working with newcomer or lower-income families: ask us about a pilot for the students you serve, and tell us who you’re helping.
• People working on AI in education, in Canada or anywhere: we’re a company in Edmonton working on the safe, curriculum-based end of this technology, and we’re glad to share what we’re learning.

Sources

1. GOV.UK, 450,000 disadvantaged pupils could benefit from AI tutoring tools⁠ (opens in a new tab), January 26, 2026. Checked October 30, 2026.
2. GOV.UK, Edtech and AI companies invited to help build safe AI tutoring tools for disadvantaged pupils⁠ (opens in a new tab), April 16, 2026. Checked October 30, 2026.
3. Incubator for AI (i.AI), Education⁠ (opens in a new tab). Checked October 30, 2026.
4. TI-Hüpe (AI Leap Foundation, Estonia), Starting in late January, AI Leap’s learning application reaches thousands of students⁠ (opens in a new tab), 2026. Checked October 30, 2026.
5. Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, Canada’s National Artificial Intelligence Strategy: AI for All⁠ (opens in a new tab), modified June 8, 2026. Checked October 30, 2026.
6. biller.ca, Tutoring Rates in Canada (2026): Tutor Prices Per Hour⁠ (opens in a new tab), updated September 16, 2026. Checked October 30, 2026.

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