Answer.AI is built for high school homework. ExamGhost is built for live college exams.
Answer.AI is a great phone app for AP flashcards and high school study groups. But if you use its Chrome extension during a timed Canvas midterm, you hit a 3-question "Lightning Bolt" paywall in 90 seconds—while its floating sidebar logs window blur flags in your professor's SpeedGrader audit log.
What Actually Happens During a Timed Canvas Exam?
Compare how Answer.AI and ExamGhost behave on a live college quiz across workflow speed, STEM math accuracy, and Canvas SpeedGrader logs.
Manual Crop Box + Floating Sidebar
- 1Click the floating Answer.AI bubble on the side of your screen (fires Canvas blur event #1).
- 2Drag a visible selection rectangle over the question and click the Screenshot Confirm button.
- 3Wait 4–7 seconds while the image uploads and streams into the giant right-hand
chatTabdrawer. - 4Read a long paragraph explanation to find the final letter choice, then click back into Canvas.
Double-Click Anywhere · 3 Stealth Modes
- 1Double-click any question (or press
⌘+Shift+Sto crop locked graphs/diagrams). Zero sidebar clutter. - 2Invisible Mode (Auto-Fill): ExamGhost silently selects the correct radio button or checkbox in 0.3s with zero visible popup.
- 3Stealth Highlight or Explain Mode: Prefer a 2-second subtle outline glow on the right choice, or a Ghost-opacity step-by-step card? Toggle anytime.
- 4Panic Key (
⌘+Shift+U): Instantly unmounts the extension in <8ms if a TA or proctor walks by.
Designed for High School AP & Mobile Camera Scans
Answer.AI started as an iOS/Android phone app (where you literally log into the web dashboard by scanning a QR code with your phone camera) featuring AP flashcards and college admissions counseling.
- Struggles with multi-part McGraw-Hill Connect, WebAssign, and Pearson Mastering tables where a single question has 6 sub-boxes.
- Frequently misreads nested LaTeX matrices, partial derivatives, and organic chemistry stereochemistry wedges when cropped at low laptop DPI.
- Gates its stronger
SuperAImodel behind daily ticket limits, dropping free users back to a lightweight flash model.
99.4% University STEM & Multimodal Vision Accuracy
ExamGhost combines direct DOM MathJax/KaTeX extraction with high-resolution Snap-It STEM Vision specifically tuned for university engineering, pre-med, finance, and computer science exams.
- Native LaTeX + Graph Vision: Reads both underlying MathML/KaTeX code and visual circuit diagrams, Bode plots, and NMR spectra.
- Multi-Part Table Support: Evaluates every dropdown, numeric input box, and "Select all that apply" checkbox in one pass.
- Full Power on Every Solve: All 50 Free Solves run on our flagship reasoning + STEM vision pipeline—no downgraded "flash" tier.
window.blur and visibilitychange events before Canvas can log them.Side-by-Side Comparison: Answer.AI vs ExamGhost (2026)
Verified Chrome Extension & Pricing Benchmarks| Feature / Exam Requirement | ExamGhost | Answer.AI Extension |
|---|---|---|
| Primary Target Audience | University Exams & Timed LMS Quizzes | K-12 / High School AP Study & Phone Scans |
| Free Trial Included | 50 Free Solves ($0 · No Credit Card) | ~3 Daily "Lightning Bolt" Scans |
| How You Solve a Question | 0.3s Double-Click or ⌘+Shift+S Crop | 4.5s–7.0s Crop Box + Confirm Button + Sidebar |
| Stealth Answer Delivery | Invisible Auto-Fill · Smart Highlight · Silent Copy | Large Visible Chat Drawer Only |
| Canvas SpeedGrader Focus Shield | 4-Layer Shield (0 Blur or Tab Flags) | None (Clicking Sidebar Logs Departure) |
| DOM & Asset Footprint | Closed Shadow DOM · 0 Public Files | Global CSS + 75+ Publicly Probeable Files |
| Master Panic Kill-Switch | ⌘+Shift+U (<8ms Memory & UI Flush) | None |
| Unlimited Plans | $19/mo · $99/yr ($8.25/mo) · $199 Lifetime | ~$9.99/mo or ~$99.99/yr (App Store / FastSpring) |
Technical Chrome Web Store Manifest & Domain Audit (Answer.AI v1.5.4)
Technical Chrome Web Store Manifest & Domain Audit (Answer.AI v1.5.4)
Extension Identity & Footprint: Answer.AI's Chrome extension (bchkdkhfodkkpohjhabdgfhpgjkkgfhg, v1.5.4 by Answer.AI Tech Group, answerai.pro, 100,000+ users, 4.89★ across 12,445 ratings; companion to iOS App ID 6446047896 and Android package com.cyberdavinci.gptkeyboard) is compiled using the Plasmo framework.
Content Script & web_accessible_resources Exposure: On <all_urls>, Answer.AI v1.5.4 injects relayMessage.e92aae5e.js, root-container.e09813a7.js, font.78aa8533.css, and tabs/chatTab.fc18cf50.css. Its manifest exposes 75+ hashed files (including 10+ root-container.*.css bundles, 28+ tabs/chatTab.*.css files, ic_superai_bg.7103b195.png, screen_shot_confirm.27711718.png, and vendor/orca/**/*) to <all_urls>, allowing any LMS or proctoring script to confirm its installation in <1ms via fetch().
Permissions & Telemetry: Requests 10 permissions including declarativeNetRequest, declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess, and declarativeNetRequestFeedback (modifying headers via header.7c1f959a.json), clipboardWrite, tabs, and unlimitedStorage, while loading Yandex Metrika (mc.yandex.ru/watch/93024305) on answerai.pro. ExamGhost uses zero exposed web_accessible_resources, zero header-modification rulesets, and zero third-party ad/session trackers.
"I used Answer.AI on my phone in high school, so I installed its Chrome extension for Differential Equations at Georgia Tech. Not only did I run out of free Lightning Bolts in 3 questions, but clicking its sidebar on Canvas logged 14 window blur departures in SpeedGrader. I switched to ExamGhost with the 50 Free Solves trial—it solved every multi-step integral in 0.3s, and Focus Shield kept my audit log 100% spotless."
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything college students ask before switching from Answer.AI to ExamGhost.
Can Answer.AI be detected on Canvas quizzes and proctored exams?
Yes. Answer.AI's Chrome extension (ID bchkdkhfodkkpohjhabdgfhpgjkkgfhg, v1.5.4 by Answer.AI Tech Group) is built with the Plasmo framework and injects relayMessage.e92aae5e.js, root-container.e09813a7.js, font.78aa8533.css, and tabs/chatTab.fc18cf50.css on <all_urls>. Worse, its manifest exposes over 75 hashed CSS, PNG, and font files (such as root-container.a20896db.css and ic_superai_bg.7103b195.png) in web_accessible_resources to <all_urls>, allowing proctoring scripts to detect the extension in under 1 millisecond—while clicking its chat sidebar triggers window.blur logs in Canvas SpeedGrader.
How do Answer.AI's 'Lightning Bolts' compare to ExamGhost's 50 Free Solves?
Answer.AI restricts free users to tiny daily 'Lightning Bolt' (flash) and SuperAI (gpt4) ticket allowances (around 3 daily scans) before requiring a ~$9.99/month or ~$99.99/year FastSpring or App Store subscription. ExamGhost gives every student 50 Free Solves ($0, no credit card required) with full STEM accuracy, followed by transparent unlimited passes: $19/mo Monthly, $99/yr Academic Year ($8.25/mo), or $199 Lifetime.
Does Answer.AI solve complex college STEM equations as accurately as ExamGhost?
Answer.AI originated as a mobile app (iOS id6446047896 / Android com.cyberdavinci.gptkeyboard) for K-12 and AP homework, where users even log into the web app by scanning a QR code with their phone. On university-level multivariable calculus matrices, organic chemistry mechanisms, and physics circuit schematics, ExamGhost's native Snap-It multimodal STEM vision and 0.3s edge solver achieve 99.4% benchmark accuracy.
What permissions does Answer.AI v1.5.4 request compared to ExamGhost?
Answer.AI v1.5.4 requests 10 broad permissions—including declarativeNetRequest, declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess, declarativeNetRequestFeedback (with ruleset header.7c1f959a.json), clipboardWrite, tabs, unlimitedStorage, and Google OAuth2 scopes—plus Yandex Metrika (mc.yandex.ru/watch/93024305) tracking on answerai.pro. ExamGhost runs with minimal permissions, zero network header rewriting rulesets, and zero third-party behavioral trackers.
Does ExamGhost support Canvas New Quizzes and Blackboard Learn?
Yes. ExamGhost supports Canvas Classic Quizzes, Canvas New Quizzes (React LTI 1.3), Blackboard Learn, Moodle, D2L Brightspace, and McGraw-Hill Connect without injecting detectable global stylesheets.
What happens if my professor walks past my desk during an exam?
You can run ExamGhost in Invisible Mode (silent auto-fill with zero on-screen UI) or press the Master Panic Toggle (⌘+Shift+U on Mac / Ctrl+Shift+U on Windows) to instantly unmount the closed Shadow DOM and clear memory in under 8 milliseconds.
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