Gregator vs Brainmunk

Brainmunk and Gregator do the same basic job: you type a topic and get a course built from web research, with citations and quizzes. Pick Brainmunk if you want curated YouTube videos in each lesson, a course calibrated to your experience level, or more courses per month for $9.99. Pick Gregator if you want to see what kind of sources a course rests on, a course that is reviewed and revised automatically, and a tutor, narration and recommendations around it.

What Brainmunk does well

As of October 2026, Brainmunk's homepage says: "Type any topic. Brainmunk searches the web, structures the content, and writes you a full course with cited sources and videos." Its pitch is speed: "Build a course on anything in under a minute."

The homepage describes three steps:

• Tell it what to teach. You type a topic and your experience level, and Brainmunk says it calibrates the course to that level.
• It builds the course. Brainmunk searches the web, structures the content, and writes lessons with cited sources and curated videos.
• Learn at your pace. Lessons come with quizzes, and you can resume where you left off on any device.

Its example course shows "6 lessons, ~45 min, 18 cited sources." Its FAQ says every lesson is built with live web search and includes citations, shown inside the lesson.

Two features stand out. First, curated YouTube videos sit inside the lessons, which helps learners who want to watch a demonstration rather than read about it. Second, the experience-level setting lets a beginner and an expert ask for the same topic and get a different course. There is also "Ask Brainmunk," a chat you can open from any lesson, and a public Explore page of free mini-courses built by other learners.

Pricing is simple. The Free plan gives 3 courses, and the Premium plan gives 10 courses a month for $9.99. Both plans let you buy extra courses one at a time. If you cancel, Brainmunk says you keep every course you already generated.

How Gregator works differently

Gregator also starts from a topic. It plans a curriculum of 1 to 12 chapters, sized to the topic, each with an objective and 3 to 6 search queries. Research runs across seven search providers, including arXiv and Wikipedia. Gregator extracts up to 18 sources per chapter, from web pages, PDFs and tables, with at most 4 from one domain. Each chapter runs about 700 to 1,200 words and ends with key takeaways.

The differences are in what surrounds the text:

• Source credibility. Every source is classified for type (peer-reviewed, institutional, journalism, community) and evidence quality. The course shows a trust overview with the mix of source types, an evidence-quality label and counts of classified sources. Each chapter shows its source and peer-reviewed counts. Individual source scores are not shown.
• Citations. Inline footnotes after the claims they support, and a Sources list at the end of every chapter.
• Contested topics. When the planner marks a topic as contested, the research looks for criticism, and the writer is told to present each position and cite each side.
• Course review. An automatic review checks for redundancy, forward references, difficulty spikes, coherence gaps, and one-sided sources on contested topics. Flagged chapters are revised.
• Quizzes. Up to 5 multiple-choice questions per chapter, with an explanation for each option, and a final course quiz. Answers are graded on the server, and a wrong answer links back to the chapter section.
• Greg, the tutor. Greg reads your course, can search the course and the web, remembers what you tell it, and can offer a deep dive that adds a new chapter.
• Narration of every chapter on paid plans, progress tracking, and recommendations of what to learn next.
• Sharing and export. Public share links that anyone can read without an account, and Markdown export.

Gregator's limits: it is English-first, it researches the open web only with no uploads, and it has no PDF export or native mobile app.

Side by side

On price alone, Brainmunk Premium gives 10 courses a month for $9.99, and Gregator Starter gives 5. Gregator Starter adds narration of every chapter. Brainmunk's homepage does not list narration.

When to choose Brainmunk

• You want videos inside your lessons.
• You want the course pitched at your experience level.
• You make many courses a month and want the lowest price per course.
• You want to buy a single extra course instead of moving to a bigger plan.
• You like browsing courses other learners have made.

When to choose Gregator

• You want to see the kind of sources behind a course, such as how many are peer-reviewed.
• You want a course that is reviewed for gaps and repetition, and revised automatically.
• You want a tutor that remembers what you tell it and can add a deep-dive chapter.
• You want to listen to chapters as narration.
• You want quizzes that link back to the exact section you missed, plus a final course quiz.

Sources

• Brainmunk homepage, including pricing and FAQ
• Brainmunk Explore courses