Using Flaevo

Get the Best Out of Flae: Modes, Settings and Pro Tips

17 July 2026 · 7 min read

Most people use about a fifth of what their study app can do. Flae, your AI tutor in Flaevo, is a good example — it can teach, quiz you, solve fast, listen to your voice, read a photo of your notes, and adapt to exactly how you like to learn. But only if you know where the switches are. Here's how to get the best out of Flae.

First, make Flae yours

The single biggest upgrade is telling Flae who you are. When you first open the tutor it asks a few quick questions, and you can change all of it any time under Settings, in the Preferences tab:

Your level and exam — JHS, SHS, University or Professional, and a target like BECE, WASSCE, IGCSE or ACCA. Flae pitches every explanation at the right level.
Your subjects — pick yours (or add your own), so examples come from what you actually study.
How you learn — choose the default explanation style: Real examples first, Step by step, Simple analogies, or Straight to the point. Flae will teach in that style every time.
Custom instructions — a free box where you can tell Flae anything, like "always use Ghanaian examples" or "keep answers short."

Set this once and every answer gets noticeably more useful.

Turn on the interactive modes

Also in Preferences, you can switch on the ways Flae keeps you active instead of just lecturing:

Checkpoint Quizzes — Flae drops in quick multiple-choice checks as it teaches.
Hands-on Challenges — coding or calculation problems to actually do.
Socratic Dialogue — instead of handing you answers, Flae asks guiding questions so you work it out.

These are what turn a normal chat into real practice. If you want to be pushed, keep them on.

Master the three modes

Next to the message box is a + button with three powerful modes. Knowing when to use each is the real trick.

Deep Thinking

For hard problems, turn on Deep Thinking. Flae slows down and reasons carefully, step by step, before answering — the way you'd want a patient teacher to work through a tough maths or physics question. Use it when a normal answer feels too quick or skips steps.

Task Mode

Task Mode is for when you want to learn something, not just read it. Flae ends every explanation with a "Your Turn" challenge and will not move on until you actually attempt it. Try to skip ahead and it gently sends you back to the question. Genuinely stuck? Just say "I'm stuck" and it gives a hint. This is the mode that makes things stick — use it when you're revising.

Homework Helper

Homework Helper is the opposite: it starts with the answer, fast, no lesson and no small talk — like a homework solver. Use it to check whether you got a question right or to get unstuck quickly. (Just remember: a fast answer helps today; to remember it for the exam, switch back and test yourself. More on that below.)

Task Mode and Homework Helper are opposites, so turning one on turns the other off.

Don't just type — talk or snap

Typing is the slow way to use Flae. Two faster options:

Voice — tap "Speak instead of typing" and just say your question. Great on the go, and Flae listens and replies.
Take Photo / Upload Image — snap a question from a textbook or a photo of your own notes, and Flae reads it and helps. Perfect for maths problems and diagrams you don't want to retype.

Beyond the chat

Flae isn't only a conversation. A couple of things people miss:

Zoom any visual — when Flae draws a function graph, a chart or a diagram, pinch to zoom and pan so the details are never too small.
Practice Pad — for coding questions, Flae can load code straight into a pad where you run and edit it.
Sync and history — on Pro, your tutor history syncs across your devices, and you can always export or clear it under Settings, in the Data tab.

The pro workflow

Here's how strong students actually chain it together:

Understand a topic with Flae — use Deep Thinking for the hard parts.
Test yourself on it with Task Mode until you can explain it without help.
Make it stick — turn your notes or that topic into flashcards and let spaced repetition bring it back before you forget it.

That last step is the difference between "I understood it" and "I still know it on exam day." If that idea is new to you, read our complete guide to studying smart and why active recall beats re-reading.

The takeaway

Flae rewards students who set it up and use the right mode at the right time: personalise it, keep the interactive modes on, reach for Deep Thinking on hard problems, Task Mode to revise, and Homework Helper to check work fast. Do that and it stops feeling like a chatbot and starts feeling like a tutor who actually knows you.

Haven't tried Flae yet? It teaches any subject, tests you until it sticks, and turns your notes into flashcards and quizzes you'll actually remember. Try Flaevo free