Unacademy
Competitive-exam and skills learning
The Four Mismatches · Unacademy
System-native
For a student in India, the country it was built for.
LanguageFits
Teaches in the classroom languages of India.
- The maker lists: Hindi, English, Portuguese
- Classrooms in India use: Hindi, English
DeviceFits
Works on a phone, what most students in India use.
Independence: our publisher builds learning products too. We never review or score its products, and no tool pays to be listed or to rank higher — how we assess fit.
What it does
What the AI actually does — 'UNA', an in-app AI mentor, answers doubts step-by-step, generates class summaries and surfaces key video timestamps.
Why it was built — Turned individual star educators into a scalable live-class marketplace across competitive-exam categories.
Who built it
- Company
- Sorting Hat Technologies Pvt Ltd
- Founders
- Gaurav Munjal · Hemesh Singh · Roman Saini
- HQ / origin
- Bengaluru, India
- Founded
- 2015
- Model
- B2C
- Exam systems
- UPSC · JEE · NEET · GATE · ESE
- Languages
- English · Hindi
- Pricing
- Freemium; Unacademy Plus / Iconic subscriptions (India-priced)
We record durable facts only — no funding-raised or user-count figures. Unverified fields are marked [TBD] rather than guessed.
Where it sits
Unacademy is on the Learning Tools Index, in exam prep & regional platforms, built in India.