A visual learning partner for the web

See difficult ideas take shape.

Turn videos, articles, code, and web pages into editable visual lessons while you learn.

See how it works
Alongside building a visual explanation of why seasons happen.
“Why do seasons happen?”Built step by step on the canvas.

Learn beside the material itself

YouTube GitHub Web pages

Understanding happens on the canvas.

Alongside stays with the source and turns a question into something you can inspect, interrupt, and change.

  1. Bring the source

    Open Alongside beside a video, article, pull request, or web page.

  2. Ask naturally

    Start broad, interrupt, or focus on the one part that still feels unclear.

  3. Watch it unfold

    Alongside builds the explanation progressively on an editable canvas.

  4. Make it yours

    Pause, edit, revisit the lesson, or keep following your next question.

One canvas. Any subject.

Start with the question you actually have. Alongside chooses the visual form that helps explain it.

Alongside lesson comparing Earth tilted toward and away from the Sun during different seasons.

Earth science

Why do seasons happen?

The tilted axis changes sunlight angle and day length as Earth moves around the Sun.

Alongside lesson mapping Silk Road trade from Asia through Central Asian hubs to Europe and Africa.

World history

How did the Silk Road connect regions?

A route diagram links Asia, Mediterranean Europe, and Africa through oasis and port hubs.

Alongside lesson showing transformer input vectors, attention, normalization, and next-token probabilities.

Computer science

How do transformers work?

Tokens move through attention and repeated processing blocks toward a next-token prediction.

The explanation stays in your hands.

Pause the lesson, move the pieces, ask a follow-up, and return when you are ready.

  • ProgressiveSee the reasoning develop instead of receiving a finished wall of text.
  • EditableThe result is a working canvas, not a flattened answer.
  • ConnectedLearn beside the page, video, or code that prompted the question.

About Alongside

What is Alongside?

Alongside is a visual learning partner that turns questions about what you are viewing into editable explanations on a shared canvas.

How does Alongside work?

Open it beside supported source material, ask a question, and watch the explanation develop. You can pause, edit the canvas, and ask follow-ups.

What can Alongside help explain?

Use it for ideas across science, history, economics, technology, and other subjects where a diagram or sequence makes the mechanism easier to see.

Do I need the Chrome extension?

The extension connects Alongside to the page you are learning from. You can still visit the web app directly to open saved lessons.

Bring your next question.

Alongside will help you see how the idea fits together.