Uptime gives five minutes a highlight reel. Tomo gives it a next chapter.
Uptime turns books, courses, podcasts, and documentaries into five-minute Knowledge Hacks you can watch, read, or listen to. Tomo uses the same pocket of time for one level in a course built from your prompt. One lets you collect bright ideas, while the other makes each small session lead somewhere.
Same five minutes. One Hack, or one step in a longer path.
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What Uptime gets right
A Hack moves through an introduction, three key insights, and a conclusion. You know exactly what will fit between two calendar alerts.
Read the text, listen to the audio, or tap through a visual story. Some days you have headphones. Some days you have one thumb and a bus stop.
Save a quote, insight, or action as a Spark, sort it into a Board, then revisit it through spaced-repetition flashcards. Uptime does more than wave goodbye after the summary.
If you want a sharp five-minute tour of a book, podcast episode, documentary, or course that already exists, use Uptime. It is especially good when you want to listen or tap through the key ideas before deciding what deserves more time.
Where Tomo fits instead
Tomo lays out sections, units, and levels that build on each other. You can see where you are going, which is handy when your usual study plan is 19 open tabs.
Type something oddly specific, like how Roman concrete survived seawater. Tomo builds from your curiosity, so you do not need to find the right Hack first.
Quizzes keep asking you to pull ideas back out of your head. Hearts, feedback, and XP make the practice feel like progress, not homework wearing a fake moustache.
The course waits where you left it. Come back for one five-minute level, keep your streak, and move toward a finish line instead of another saved link.
Uptime vs Tomo, honestly
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| Uptime | Tomo | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting point | Browse Hacks from books, courses, podcasts, documentaries, and creators | Type any topic you want to learn |
| Learning unit | One five-minute Hack with key insights | One level inside a larger generated course |
| Learning path | Individual Hacks and curated Collections | Sections, units, and levels built in sequence |
| Ways to consume | Broader choice: text, audio, and tappable visual stories | Interactive text lessons and quizzes |
| Recall tools | Sparks, Boards, and spaced-repetition flashcards | Frequent quizzes with immediate feedback |
| Daily pull | Five-minute Hacks and a streak | Five-minute levels, streaks, hearts, and XP |
| Topic coverage | Shaped by its library and available source material | Works even when your topic has no obvious book or course |
| Free access | One Uptime-selected Hack each day on the free plan | A free plan that never expires |
Use Uptime to sample an idea from a creator. If one Spark grows into a full-blown rabbit hole, type it into Tomo and keep going. Your home screen can handle the teamwork.
Questions people actually ask
What is the difference between Uptime and Tomo?
Uptime usually starts with an existing book, course, podcast, documentary, or creator Hack and gives you the key ideas in five minutes. Tomo starts with a topic you type and generates a structured course with units, levels, and quizzes.
Is Tomo better than Uptime?
It depends on the job. Uptime is better when you want a quick, polished overview of existing media, especially in audio or visual-story form. Tomo is better when you want to follow a topic beyond the highlights and practice it across a course.
Can Uptime make a course on any topic?
Not in the same on-demand way. Uptime lets you search its library of Hacks and Collections. Tomo's core action is typing a topic and getting a new structured course on it in about two minutes.
Is Tomo free compared with Uptime?
Both offer free access. Uptime's free plan gives you one Hack chosen by Uptime each day. Tomo has a free plan that never expires, with Tomo Pro available if you want the extras.
Can I use Uptime and Tomo together?
Absolutely. Use Uptime to discover the key ideas from a book or podcast. When one idea deserves more than five minutes, turn the topic into a Tomo course and learn it level by level.
Give your next five minutes a destination.
Type a topic. In about two minutes, Tomo builds the course. Then do one five-minute level today.