Brainly

Brainly, Inc.
Company typePrivate
Website type
Educational technology
Available inHindi, English, Spanish, Portuguese (BR), French, Filipino (Tagalog), Turkish, Romanian, Russian, Polish, Italian, Indonesian, Ukrainian
FoundedSeptember 2009; 17 years ago (September 2009)
HeadquartersNew York City, United States
Kraków, Poland
Area servedUnited States, India, Poland, Brazil, Indonesia, Latin America, Spain, Portugal, France, Romania, Ukraine, Philippines
CreatorsMichał Borkowski
Tomasz Kraus
Łukasz Haluch
Key peopleMichał Borkowski (President of the Management Board)
IndustryEducation
Websitehttps://brainly.com/ https://brainly.pl/
Users15 million daily active users (2024)
Brainly
Stable release
For iOS:- Version 4.192.0 (October 21, 2025)

For Android:- Version 5.269.0 (October 20, 2025)

Operating systemiOS, Android
Size51 MB (Android)
WebsiteiOS Android
As ofFebruary 2022

Brainly is an education technology company founded in Kraków, Poland and headquartered in New York City.

History

The company was founded in 2009 in Poland by Michał Borkowski (the current chief executive officer), Tomasz Kraus, and Łukasz Haluch. Initially starting as a peer-to-peer platform where students can ask questions and answer them for other students, Brainly has since repositioned as an AI-based learning platform for homework help, test prep, and tutoring.

In January 2011, the company founded Znanija.com, a Russian language version of the platform.

In June 2016, Brainly acquired the US-based OpenStudy.

In January 2018, Brainly announced the acquisition of the video education start-up Bask to incorporate video features into its platform.

In 2020, the company saw a significant increase in its number of users, attributed to the global COVID-19 pandemic, from 150 million in 2019 to approximately 350 million in 2020.

In 2020, numerous users on the Art of Problem Solving website found that Brainly had compromised the integrity of the American Mathematics Competitions after posting the questions on its website along with the correct answers. This led to Brainly updating its honor code.

As of 2020, the company had raised approximately $150 million in funding from investors.

In 2023, Brainly implemented artificial intelligence (AI) features for the platform.

In 2024, Brainly released Test Prep, a tool that generates practice questions for exams.

In 2025, Brainly evolved from a community-led platform into a comprehensive AI Learning Companion, introducing agentic AI support for homework help, tutoring, test preparation, and active classroom participation in the US. Other countries remained community-led.

Features

Brainly supports searching for answers using photographs of questions. Brainly.com also allows users to compare Brainly answers with AI-generated responses from ChatGPT and Gemini within the platform.

Criticism

ToS;DR (Terms of Service; Didn't Read), a project which analyzes terms of services (ToS) and privacy policies of websites, ranks Brainly at grade D.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ravaglia, Ray (2024-01-23). "Brainly Evolving From Questions And Answers To AI Learning Companion". Forbes. Retrieved 2025-04-03.
  2. ↑ Salvi, Christopher (2024-11-20). "How AI Is Helping the Founder of Brainly Transform Online Education". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
  3. ↑ Petrovich, Liesha (2016-12-22). "With 80 Million Users, Poland-based Brainly is Changing Education". HuffPost. BuzzFeed. Archived from the original on 2016-12-23. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
  4. ↑ Noto, Anthony (15 June 2016). "Brainly banks on OpenStudy to improve education tech". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2025-05-15.
  5. ↑ Ravaglia, Ray. "Brainly Is Finding The Right Role For AI In Education". Forbes. Retrieved 2026-07-27.
  6. ↑ Degeler, Andrii (2014-03-17). "Crowdsourced School Homework: Brainly Plans to Teach the US". TNW. Archived from the original on 2014-03-21. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  7. ↑ "Brainly Acquires US Social Learning Platform, OpenStudy". EdSurge. 2016-06-14. Retrieved 2017-10-18.
  8. ↑ "Social Learning Platform OpenStudy Joins the Brainly Community". Yahoo! Finance. 2016-06-14. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  9. ↑ O'Hear, Steve (2018-01-25). "Brainly acquires Bask to add video to its peer-to-peer learning platform for students". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on January 25, 2018.
  10. ↑ Westerby, Nick (2020-11-26). "Education app becomes world's number one after surge in popularity caused by pandemic". Retrieved 2020-11-27.
  11. 1 2 "Brainly raises $80M as its platform for crowdsourced homework help balloons to 350M users". TechCrunch. 17 December 2020. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  12. ↑ Staff, eSchool News (2023-04-17). "Brainly Announces Beta Access to New AI Features, Developed with OpenAI's GPT-4 for Personalized Learning". eSchool News. Retrieved 2023-10-31.
  13. ↑ "Brainly unveils AI-powered test prep to boost student success". EdTech Innovation Hub. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
  14. ↑ "Brainly AI Learning Companion is the Tutor Students Need". Forbes.
  15. ↑ Kosman, Krzysztof (2025-10-02). "The Inside Story of Scaling Brainly Into the World's #1 EdTech App". 1000ideas. Retrieved 2026-10-15.
  16. ↑ noah (2025-03-31). "Introducing Smarter Homework Help, All in One Place". Brainly.com - The AI Learning Companion. Retrieved 2026-10-15.
  17. ↑ "Brainly -- Terms of Service; Didn't Read". ToS;DR. Retrieved 2022-04-01.