Cheatmate, Answerly AI, AnswersAi: Honest Alternatives Compared (2026)

If you've Googled around the AI-quiz space lately you've seen the same three names over and over: Cheatmate.io, Answerly AI (getanswerlyai.com), and AnswersAi.ai. They all do roughly the same thing — give you AI-generated answers to online quizzes — but they take different approaches and the right pick depends on which LMS you're on and how much friction you can tolerate per question.

Here's the honest comparison and the inline-DOM alternatives that have been quietly winning over Canvas/Brightspace/Blackboard students.

The four product categories

Almost every AI quiz tool falls into one of these:

Category	Example	How it works
Inline DOM extension	ExamClutch	Reads questions directly from the LMS page, fills the answer in place.
Sidebar chat	Cheatmate	Pinned chat panel on the right; copy question in, paste answer back.
Screenshot / OCR	Some Answerly AI flows	Snip the question, the tool reads the image and returns text.
Standalone web app	Answerly AI, AnswersAi	A separate website where you paste questions and get answers.

Per-question speed runs roughly: inline (~2s) < sidebar (~15-25s) < screenshot (~20-30s) < web app (~30-45s).

Cheatmate.io

A sidebar/chat tool marketed as a Canvas quiz cheat. Its strength is breadth — because it's just a chat panel, it works on any LMS.

Strengths:

• LMS-agnostic. Works on Canvas, but also on niche LMSes nobody builds inline support for.
• Single subscription covers everything you can paste a question into.
• Decent answer quality on standard MCQ.

Weaknesses:

• Per-question speed is slow. On a timed 25-question quiz, the copy-question / read-answer / select-radio loop eats meaningful clock time.
• Sidebar UI is visible during screen sharing. If a TA or proctor catches a glance, the panel is very obvious.
• Doesn't handle Canvas's structural variety (multi-select, multi-blank, dropdowns) — you read the answer and apply it manually.
• Requires you to have already extracted the question text, which gets tedious for image-heavy or math-heavy items.

Best for: Students on LMSes that don't have a dedicated inline extension, or students who like to verify each answer before committing.

Answerly AI (getanswerlyai.com)

A standalone web app. You paste the question, it returns an answer. Some flows accept image uploads.

Strengths:

• No installation. Browser-only. Works from a school computer.
• Handles diverse content: textbook excerpts, PDFs, screenshots, plain text.
• Good for one-off questions — a homework problem, a study guide question, an essay outline.

Weaknesses:

• Slowest workflow on the list for timed quizzes. Each question needs a tab switch out and back in.
• Every question you submit shows up in your browser history.
• No knowledge of LMS-specific question shapes. You manually map the returned text to "click the third option" or "fill the second blank."
• The Canvas quiz log explicitly records every tab switch — see our Canvas quiz log breakdown.

Best for: Untimed homework, essay help, PDF study guides — situations where the per-question time doesn't matter.

AnswersAi.ai

Functionally similar to Answerly: a generic web app for AI-generated answers, marketed as a homework solver.

Strengths:

• No installation, works on any device.
• Multi-modal — handles text, images, equations.
• Decent for one-off conceptual questions.

Weaknesses:

• Same fundamental problem as Answerly: you're tab-switching out of the LMS for every question.
• Same browser-history exposure.
• Same no-LMS-awareness — you do the apply-the-answer step yourself.

Best for: The same use case as Answerly. If you've already tried one, the workflow with the other is identical.

The inline-DOM alternative — ExamClutch

We make ExamClutch, so the bias disclosure is up front. The relevant difference isn't quality of the underlying AI — Cheatmate, Answerly, AnswersAi, and ExamClutch all use frontier models. The difference is what happens between you reading the question and the answer being on the page.

	Cheatmate	Answerly AI	AnswersAi	ExamClutch
Reads question from LMS automatically	No (you copy)	No	No	Yes
Applies answer to LMS automatically	No (you click)	No	No	Yes (double-click)
Tab switching required	No (sidebar)	Yes	Yes	No
Visible in browser history	No	Yes	Yes	No
Visible in Canvas quiz log	No	Yes (tab switches)	Yes (tab switches)	No
Handles multi-select / multi-blank correctly	Manual	Manual	Manual	Yes
LMSes supported	All (sidebar)	All (web)	All (web)	Canvas, Brightspace, Blackboard, Moodle, D2L, McGraw Hill, Schoology, Edulastic, DeltaMath, IXL, MS Forms, Google Forms
Pricing starts at	Subscription	Subscription	Subscription	$5/week

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Which one should you actually pick?

You're on Canvas (or any of the 12 LMSes ExamClutch supports), you take quizzes regularly, the timer matters: ExamClutch. The inline workflow saves more clock per quiz than every other option, and there's nothing to copy or tab-switch out of.

You're on a niche LMS (Skillsoft, custom Moodle fork, etc.) that no inline tool supports: Cheatmate. Sidebar chat is your best bet when nothing reads the DOM.

You want a single tool for quizzes + PDFs + textbook problems + essay outlines: Answerly AI or AnswersAi. They're effectively interchangeable; pick whichever has the cleaner UI for you.

You're untimed, no rush, want the verbose explanation: ChatGPT directly. You don't need a wrapper.

What about pricing?

All four have similar paid-plan economics in the $5-15/week range. None of them are free in any meaningful sense — the free tiers cap at 5-20 questions/day and run on weaker models. If you're going to use one for an actual semester, budget for the paid plan and pick by workflow, not by price.

The honest summary

The "AI for online quizzes" category in 2026 looks like this:

• Cheatmate is the best sidebar tool — pick it if you're on a niche LMS.
• Answerly AI / AnswersAi are the best browser-only web apps — pick one for untimed homework.
• ExamClutch is the best inline-DOM extension for the major LMSes — pick it if you're on Canvas, Brightspace, Blackboard, Moodle, D2L, McGraw Hill, Schoology, or any of the others we support, and you care about per-question speed.

Each one is the right tool for a specific situation. There is no single best tool — there's the best tool for your LMS and your workflow.

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