Aula 0.1

Aula 0.1 (early access)

The first public version of Aula, a free and open-source study app for macOS, Windows and Linux. You give it your notes, slides and past exams, or just tell it what you want to learn, and it builds a course for that goal:
lessons, exercises that explain your mistakes, flashcards, mock exams and a tutor next to every exercise.

Early access. Aula is still being built and tested, so expect bugs and rough edges. Please don't rely on it alone
for an important exam yet, and let me know what breaks.

What's new

• Courses from a topic, an exam or your files (PDF, Word, PowerPoint, EPUB, web pages, photos of your notes). A team of
  agents reads your materials, plans and writes the course and double-checks the answers, and you can watch it work.
• A chat that shows its steps as it looks through your courses, searches your materials or prepares a quiz. Its
  answers cite the pages they come from.
• Your study platform (Canvas, Moodle, Classroom, Teams and more) stays signed in, school single sign-on included. Aula
  only reads from it.
• Your choice of AI: a Claude or ChatGPT subscription, a free model on your computer, or an API key from one of many
  providers, with a daily spending cap.
• Hand-drawn illustrations: 58 course icons and 44 companions drawn with a brush, each with a small animation, and a
  brush-painted app icon.
• Files are written atomically and flushed to disk, with backups. A damaged file is set aside instead of being
  overwritten.
• Automatic updates on macOS, Windows and the Linux AppImage, verified before they install (the .deb is updated by
  hand). On macOS, Aula goes back to the previous version if a new one doesn't start.

Install

System	Download	First launch
macOS 13 or later (Apple Silicon and Intel)	Aula-0.1.0-mac.dmg	Drag Aula to Applications. It isn't notarized yet: try to open it, then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway (on macOS 14 and earlier, right-click → Open).
Windows 10 and 11 (x64 and ARM)	Aula-Setup-0.1.0.exe	If SmartScreen appears: More info → Run anyway.
Linux x64	Aula-0.1.0-linux-x86_64.AppImage · Aula-0.1.0-linux-amd64.deb	chmod +x the AppImage and open it, or sudo apt install ./Aula-0.1.0-linux-amd64.deb.
Linux ARM64	Aula-0.1.0-linux-arm64.AppImage	chmod +x the AppImage and open it.

All the changes and known limitations are in the CHANGELOG.

Source code: the Source code archives of this release (tag v0.1.0) are the exact source of these installers,
licensed under the GNU AGPL v3.