Disclosure: Socratic Solve is our app. Facts about Homeworkify come from court records, legal reporting and the notice still posted on its old domain; facts about other services come from their own websites and App Store listings, checked on October 12, 2026.
What happened to Homeworkify?
Homeworkify was a free website that unlocked Chegg's paywalled answers. Chegg alleged in court that students pasted a Chegg question link into the site and could read the solution without a Chegg subscription. Here's how it ended:
- November 18, 2022: Chegg sued the site's unnamed operators in federal court in Northern California (Chegg, Inc. v. Doe). Chegg alleged they scraped its solutions with free trial accounts and logged into paying subscribers' accounts with stolen passwords.
- November 7, 2023: Judge Charles Breyer granted a preliminary injunction that let Chegg take control of the Homeworkify domains. Days later the site moved from homeworkify.eu to homeworkify.st.
- July 26, 2024: the operators posted that all Homeworkify services were permanently unavailable, and that homeworkify.eu and homeworkify.st, their only domains, were permanently deleted.
- April 6, 2026: Chegg filed a notice of voluntary dismissal and the court closed the case.
So Homeworkify isn't down for maintenance or blocked by your school's Wi-Fi. It's closed, and it isn't coming back.
Are the new "Homeworkify" sites safe?
The shutdown notice answers this directly: "Other websites calling themselves Homeworkify are fake," and the operators warn they may infect your device with malware. Several unrelated sites use the name today, some rebranded as AI homework helpers. None of them is the original.
If you land on any site promising free Chegg answers, protect yourself:
- Never type your Chegg, school or Google password into it.
- Don't install a browser extension, app or "unlocker" it offers.
- Don't allow it to send notifications.
- Leave if it asks you to download something or finish a survey before showing an answer.
- Don't upload worksheets that show your full name, school or student ID.
There's also the academic side. Copying an answer into graded work counts as misconduct at most schools, wherever the answer came from.
Homeworkify alternatives compared
Homeworkify did one thing: it showed you someone else's answer. The alternatives below split that job into what you actually need, whether that's an answer key, an explanation or a person to ask.
| Alternative | What you get | Cost (US) |
|---|---|---|
| OpenStax | Free textbooks with answers to odd-numbered exercises | Free |
| Quizlet Expert Solutions | Step-by-step textbook solutions | High school free; college needs Quizlet Plus after a few |
| Chegg Study | Chegg's own solutions and expert Q&A | $15.99 in the app (period not shown) |
| Course Hero | Study documents, textbook solutions, Q&A | 5 free unlocks per 10 uploads, or Premier |
| Socratic Solve | Step-by-step explanation of your exact question, any subject | Free credits, then a subscription |
| Photomath | Step-by-step math from a photo | Steps for symbolic math are free |
| Brainly | Answers, plus live human tutors on the Tutor plan | Free with limits; Tutor from $29.99/month |
| Khan Academy | Free lessons and practice | Free |
| Free human help | Your school's tutoring center or a Reddit homework community | Free |
The best Homeworkify alternatives for what you need
If you need the answer key for your textbook
OpenStax is a nonprofit initiative of Rice University that publishes free, peer-reviewed textbooks you can read online or download as a PDF. In books like Calculus Volume 1, answers to odd-numbered exercises are in the Answer Key at the back, and worked examples show their answers right below the question. If your class uses an OpenStax book, start here. For other places answer keys turn up, see how to find answers to homework worksheets.
Quizlet Expert Solutions gives step-by-step solutions to textbook problems, written and checked by experts. Quizlet's help center says standard high school solutions are free; college textbooks allow a limited number free, and the rest need Quizlet Plus. Old Slader links now redirect to Quizlet's solutions pages.
If you want Chegg's answers, the legitimate way
Chegg Study is where Chegg says Homeworkify's answers came from. Its App Store listing describes a library of over 60 million solved homework questions plus 24/7 expert Q&A, with an average expert response time of 46 minutes. The in-app price is $15.99; the listing doesn't show the billing period.
Course Hero is the other big answer library, now owned by Learneo. Its free route is uploading your own study documents: every 10 accepted uploads earn 5 unlocks, each good for 30 days. Premier includes up to 30 unlocks, all textbook solutions and up to 40 questions.
If you're stuck on one problem and want it explained
Socratic Solve is our app. Take a picture of a printed or handwritten question, or type it, and you get a step-by-step solution with rendered math notation in math, physics, chemistry, biology, history and more. Every question is saved to a searchable history tagged by subject, so you can review before a test. It works in 20+ languages on iPhone, iPad (iOS 16+) and Android.
Limitations: it explains your question; it doesn't have textbook answer keys or human tutors. It's a newer app with a 4.8 App Store rating from only 6 ratings. Free credits get you started, and regular use needs a subscription ($6.99 a week, $14.99 a month or $49.99 a year in the App Store). Socratic Solve is independent and isn't affiliated with Chegg or Google.
Photomath, made by Google, solves math from a photo. Google's help center says step-by-step solutions to symbolic math "will always remain free of cost." It's math only.
Google Lens, in the free Google app, lets you photograph a question to find explainers, videos and web results for math, science, history and more. The results vary in quality, and there's no saved history.
If you want a real person
Brainly is free with limited features. Brainly Plus costs $9.99 a month or $39.99 a year in the App Store, and Brainly Tutor, which adds live human tutors available 24/7, costs $29.99 a month or $95.99 a year.
For free human help, r/HomeworkHelp on Reddit is a community where students post problems for others to help with; read its rules before you post. The best free option is often your own teacher's office hours or your school's tutoring center, because they know exactly what your class expects.
If you need to learn the whole topic
Khan Academy is a nonprofit with 840+ free courses, from arithmetic to linear algebra, plus biology, chemistry, physics, economics and history. Its AI tutor, Khanmigo, costs $4 a month or $44 a year for learners, and Khan Academy says its content library will always stay free.
How to learn from a worked solution instead of copying it
Whatever you use, the goal is to solve the next problem yourself, including the one on the test. This routine takes about ten minutes:
- Try first. Give the problem five honest minutes and write down where you got stuck.
- Read one step at a time. Cover the rest of the solution and guess the next step before you look.
- Name the rule. For every step, say which formula or idea it uses.
- Redo it with new numbers. Change the values and solve it without looking.
- Check the answer. Use a second method, units or a quick estimate.
Example: a physics problem
Problem: A car starts from rest and accelerates at 3.0 m/s² for 8.0 s. What is its final speed, and how far does it travel?
- List what you know: starting speed 0, acceleration a = 3.0 m/s², time t = 8.0 s.
- Final speed: v = v0 + at = 0 + 3.0 × 8.0 = 24 m/s.
- Distance: d = v0t + ½at² = ½ × 3.0 × 8.0² = 96 m.
Check: the speed rises steadily from 0 to 24 m/s, so the average speed is 12 m/s. Over 8.0 s that's 12 × 8.0 = 96 m, the same answer.
The trap: multiplying the final speed by the time (24 × 8.0 = 192 m) treats the car as if it went 24 m/s the whole way. It didn't, so the answer is double the real distance. The average-speed check catches it.
Your turn: change the numbers to 2.5 m/s² for 10 s. If you get 25 m/s and 125 m without looking back, you've learned the method, which a copied answer never gives you. For more problems like this, see our physics problem solver guide.
Which Homeworkify alternative should you use?
- Your textbook is open in front of you: check OpenStax or Quizlet Expert Solutions for its answer key first.
- You're stuck on one problem: Socratic Solve for any subject, or Photomath for math.
- You specifically want Chegg's answers: Chegg Study is the only legitimate way to get them.
- You want a person: Brainly Tutor, r/HomeworkHelp, or your teacher and school tutoring center.
- You need to understand the whole unit: Khan Academy.
Whichever you pick, follow your school's academic integrity policy, and use answers to check and understand your own work.
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