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Understanding the Muscle System: Types and Functions

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Nev Trobaugh @nev_trobaugh

The muscular system is your body's movement powerhouse, controlling everything from your smile to your sprint. It consists... Show more

Muscular System
Related Combining Forms
Muscles: muscul/o, my/o, myos/o
Fascia: fasci/o
Tendons: ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o
Functions of Muscul

Muscular System Basics

Your body's muscular system serves multiple crucial functions. It holds your body upright, makes movement possible, and generates body heat to keep you warm. Additionally, muscles move food through your digestive system and help control blood flow throughout your body.

The muscular system consists of several key structures. Muscles are the primary components, composed of muscle fibers (long, slender cells). Fascia is connective tissue that wraps around muscle groups, while tendons connect muscles to bones. These structures work alongside the skeletal system to provide support, stability, and mobility.

Several common combining forms are used in medical terminology related to muscles muscul/o, my/o, and myos/o refer to muscles; fasci/o refers to fascia; and ten/o, tend/o, and tendin/o refer to tendons.

Quick Fact Your body contains over 600 muscles, making up about 40% of your body weight!

Muscular System
Related Combining Forms
Muscles: muscul/o, my/o, myos/o
Fascia: fasci/o
Tendons: ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o
Functions of Muscul

Muscle Structure and Types

Muscle fibers are long, slender cells that form the building blocks of muscles. They're wrapped in fascia, flexible connective tissue that envelops, separates, or binds together muscles while allowing movement. When muscles need to attach to bones, they use tendons—narrow bands of non-elastic, dense fibrous connective tissue.

Your body contains three distinct types of muscles. Skeletal muscles attach to bones, allow voluntary movement, and appear striated (striped) under a microscope. Smooth muscles (also called visceral muscles) line the walls of internal organs, controlling the flow of substances through them involuntarily. The myocardial muscle forms the walls of your heart, contracting and relaxing constantly without conscious control.

Each muscle type serves specific functions in your body. Skeletal muscles let you consciously control movements like walking or writing, while smooth and cardiac muscles work automatically to keep your internal processes functioning.

Remember This While you can consciously control your skeletal muscles, your smooth and cardiac muscles work automatically—imagine having to remember to keep your heart beating!

Muscular System
Related Combining Forms
Muscles: muscul/o, my/o, myos/o
Fascia: fasci/o
Tendons: ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o
Functions of Muscul

Muscle Movement

Muscles work through a process called innervation—stimulation by nerve impulses that cause muscles to contract (become shorter or thicker) or relax (return to original form). When the stimulation stops, the muscle relaxes.

Your body performs various movement types through muscle action. Flexion decreases the angle between bones, while extension increases it. Other movements include elevation (raising a body part), depression (lowering it), rotation (circular movement), and circumduction (moving the end of a limb in a circle).

Special movements include supination (rotating to face upward), pronation (rotating to face downward), dorsiflexion (bending upward), and plantar flexion (bending downward). These movements allow for the complex range of motion you experience every day.

Movement Mastery Muscles are named based on their origin, insertion, action, location, fiber direction, number of divisions, or size and shape—helping medical professionals precisely identify and discuss specific muscles.

Muscular System
Related Combining Forms
Muscles: muscul/o, my/o, myos/o
Fascia: fasci/o
Tendons: ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o
Functions of Muscul

Key Muscles and Functions

Your head muscles include the frontalis, which raises and lowers your eyebrows, and the temporalis and masseter, which help with chewing. In your trunk, the pectoralis major (chest), external and internal obliques (sides of abdomen), and rectus abdominis (front of abdomen) provide core stability and help with breathing.

The shoulders and arms contain several powerful muscles. The deltoid caps your shoulder, while the trapezius moves your head and shoulder blade. Your biceps brachii flexes the elbow, and the triceps brachii extends it—these opposing muscles work together for arm movement.

In your legs, the quadriceps femoris (group of four muscles on the front of thigh) and the hamstring group (three muscles on the back of thigh) control knee movement. The gastrocnemius forms your calf and helps with walking and running.

Athletic Edge Sports medicine physicians, physical therapists, and exercise physiologists specialize in keeping your muscular system healthy and functioning at its best—especially important if you're active in sports!

Muscular System
Related Combining Forms
Muscles: muscul/o, my/o, myos/o
Fascia: fasci/o
Tendons: ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o
Functions of Muscul

Muscular System Pathologies

Several conditions can affect your muscle fibers, fascia, and tendons. Fasciitis is inflammation of the fascia, while tendinitis refers to inflammation of tendons due to overuse. Fibromyalgia causes chronic pain and fatigue in muscle tissue, and tenosynovitis is inflammation of the sheath surrounding a tendon.

Other muscular conditions include atrophy (wasting away of muscle tissue), myalgia (muscle pain), and myocele (herniation of a muscle through torn fascia). More severe conditions include myolysis (degeneration of muscle tissue), myorrhexis (muscle rupture), and rhabdomyolysis (death of muscle fibers).

Chronic fatigue syndrome affects multiple body systems and significantly reduces physical and mental activity. Adhesions are abnormal bands of fibrous tissue that hold structures together, limiting movement and potentially causing pain.

Health Alert Sarcopenia, the age-related loss of muscle mass, strength, and function, affects many older adults but can be slowed through regular strength training and proper nutrition.

Muscular System
Related Combining Forms
Muscles: muscul/o, my/o, myos/o
Fascia: fasci/o
Tendons: ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o
Functions of Muscul

Muscle Tone and Movement Disorders

Muscle tone refers to the normal tension in your muscles that maintains posture and enables smooth movement. Abnormal muscle tone includes atonia (lacking tone), dystonia (impaired voluntary movement), and hypotonia (diminished tone). Ataxia describes poor coordination during voluntary movements.

Movement disorders include several recognizable conditions. Spasms are sudden, involuntary contractions, while myoclonus refers to jerking movements (like singultus, or hiccups). Intermittent claudication causes leg pain during exercise that's relieved by rest.

A contracture is a permanent tightening of muscles, tendons, and other tissues, reducing elasticity and limiting movement. This occurs when elastic tissue is replaced with non-elastic tissue, often due to injury or prolonged immobility.

Daily Impact Have you ever experienced a muscle cramp? That painful, involuntary contraction is just one example of how muscle disorders can temporarily affect even healthy individuals.

Muscular System
Related Combining Forms
Muscles: muscul/o, my/o, myos/o
Fascia: fasci/o
Tendons: ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o
Functions of Muscul

Neuromuscular Diseases

Myasthenia Gravis is a chronic autoimmune disease affecting the neuromuscular junction, causing weakness in voluntary muscles. The immune system mistakenly attacks the connection between nerves and muscles, disrupting normal function.

Muscular Dystrophy encompasses a group of about 30 genetic diseases characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of skeletal muscles. Unlike neurological disorders, muscular dystrophy directly affects the muscles without impacting the nervous system. Two common forms are Duchenne muscular dystrophy, primarily affecting boys who may be unable to walk by age 12, and Becker muscular dystrophy, which is similar but less severe.

Repetitive stress disorders result from repeated motions, including compartment syndrome (compression of nerves and blood vessels due to swelling) and myofascial pain syndrome (chronic pain affecting muscles and fascia where "trigger points" develop). These conditions are increasingly common in our technology-focused society.

Hope Note While conditions like muscular dystrophy have no cure yet, advances in gene therapy are showing promise for future treatments that might slow or even reverse muscle degeneration.

Muscular System
Related Combining Forms
Muscles: muscul/o, my/o, myos/o
Fascia: fasci/o
Tendons: ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o
Functions of Muscul

Common Muscle and Joint Injuries

Rotator cuff injuries affect the shoulder and include impingement syndrome (inflammation of tendons), rotator cuff tendinitis, and ruptured rotator cuffs that occur when tendons weaken and tear. These injuries are common among athletes and people who perform repeated overhead motions.

In the wrist and arm, carpal tunnel syndrome involves inflammation and swelling of tendons passing through the carpal tunnel, putting pressure on the median nerve. Ganglion cysts are harmless fluid-filled sacs that commonly appear on the outer wrist surface, while epicondylitis (tennis elbow) causes inflammation around the elbow.

Foot problems include heel spurs (calcium deposits in the plantar fascia) and plantar fasciitis (inflammation of the fascia on the sole). Common sports injuries include sprains (stretched or torn ligaments), strains stretchedortornmuscles/tendonsstretched or torn muscles/tendons, and shin splints (muscle tears from the tibia).

Prevention Power Many muscular injuries can be prevented with proper warm-up, stretching, and technique. Don't underestimate the importance of these preparations before physical activity!

Muscular System
Related Combining Forms
Muscles: muscul/o, my/o, myos/o
Fascia: fasci/o
Tendons: ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o
Functions of Muscul

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Dec 3, 2025

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Understanding the Muscle System: Types and Functions

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Nev Trobaugh

@nev_trobaugh

The muscular system is your body's movement powerhouse, controlling everything from your smile to your sprint. It consists of muscles, fibers, fascia, and tendons working together to provide body movement, generate heat, and assist with various internal functions. Understanding this... Show more

Muscular System
Related Combining Forms
Muscles: muscul/o, my/o, myos/o
Fascia: fasci/o
Tendons: ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o
Functions of Muscul

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Muscular System Basics

Your body's muscular system serves multiple crucial functions. It holds your body upright, makes movement possible, and generates body heat to keep you warm. Additionally, muscles move food through your digestive system and help control blood flow throughout your body.

The muscular system consists of several key structures. Muscles are the primary components, composed of muscle fibers (long, slender cells). Fascia is connective tissue that wraps around muscle groups, while tendons connect muscles to bones. These structures work alongside the skeletal system to provide support, stability, and mobility.

Several common combining forms are used in medical terminology related to muscles: muscul/o, my/o, and myos/o refer to muscles; fasci/o refers to fascia; and ten/o, tend/o, and tendin/o refer to tendons.

Quick Fact: Your body contains over 600 muscles, making up about 40% of your body weight!

Muscular System
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Muscles: muscul/o, my/o, myos/o
Fascia: fasci/o
Tendons: ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o
Functions of Muscul

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Muscle Structure and Types

Muscle fibers are long, slender cells that form the building blocks of muscles. They're wrapped in fascia, flexible connective tissue that envelops, separates, or binds together muscles while allowing movement. When muscles need to attach to bones, they use tendons—narrow bands of non-elastic, dense fibrous connective tissue.

Your body contains three distinct types of muscles. Skeletal muscles attach to bones, allow voluntary movement, and appear striated (striped) under a microscope. Smooth muscles (also called visceral muscles) line the walls of internal organs, controlling the flow of substances through them involuntarily. The myocardial muscle forms the walls of your heart, contracting and relaxing constantly without conscious control.

Each muscle type serves specific functions in your body. Skeletal muscles let you consciously control movements like walking or writing, while smooth and cardiac muscles work automatically to keep your internal processes functioning.

Remember This: While you can consciously control your skeletal muscles, your smooth and cardiac muscles work automatically—imagine having to remember to keep your heart beating!

Muscular System
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Fascia: fasci/o
Tendons: ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o
Functions of Muscul

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Muscle Movement

Muscles work through a process called innervation—stimulation by nerve impulses that cause muscles to contract (become shorter or thicker) or relax (return to original form). When the stimulation stops, the muscle relaxes.

Your body performs various movement types through muscle action. Flexion decreases the angle between bones, while extension increases it. Other movements include elevation (raising a body part), depression (lowering it), rotation (circular movement), and circumduction (moving the end of a limb in a circle).

Special movements include supination (rotating to face upward), pronation (rotating to face downward), dorsiflexion (bending upward), and plantar flexion (bending downward). These movements allow for the complex range of motion you experience every day.

Movement Mastery: Muscles are named based on their origin, insertion, action, location, fiber direction, number of divisions, or size and shape—helping medical professionals precisely identify and discuss specific muscles.

Muscular System
Related Combining Forms
Muscles: muscul/o, my/o, myos/o
Fascia: fasci/o
Tendons: ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o
Functions of Muscul

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Key Muscles and Functions

Your head muscles include the frontalis, which raises and lowers your eyebrows, and the temporalis and masseter, which help with chewing. In your trunk, the pectoralis major (chest), external and internal obliques (sides of abdomen), and rectus abdominis (front of abdomen) provide core stability and help with breathing.

The shoulders and arms contain several powerful muscles. The deltoid caps your shoulder, while the trapezius moves your head and shoulder blade. Your biceps brachii flexes the elbow, and the triceps brachii extends it—these opposing muscles work together for arm movement.

In your legs, the quadriceps femoris (group of four muscles on the front of thigh) and the hamstring group (three muscles on the back of thigh) control knee movement. The gastrocnemius forms your calf and helps with walking and running.

Athletic Edge: Sports medicine physicians, physical therapists, and exercise physiologists specialize in keeping your muscular system healthy and functioning at its best—especially important if you're active in sports!

Muscular System
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Muscles: muscul/o, my/o, myos/o
Fascia: fasci/o
Tendons: ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o
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Muscular System Pathologies

Several conditions can affect your muscle fibers, fascia, and tendons. Fasciitis is inflammation of the fascia, while tendinitis refers to inflammation of tendons due to overuse. Fibromyalgia causes chronic pain and fatigue in muscle tissue, and tenosynovitis is inflammation of the sheath surrounding a tendon.

Other muscular conditions include atrophy (wasting away of muscle tissue), myalgia (muscle pain), and myocele (herniation of a muscle through torn fascia). More severe conditions include myolysis (degeneration of muscle tissue), myorrhexis (muscle rupture), and rhabdomyolysis (death of muscle fibers).

Chronic fatigue syndrome affects multiple body systems and significantly reduces physical and mental activity. Adhesions are abnormal bands of fibrous tissue that hold structures together, limiting movement and potentially causing pain.

Health Alert: Sarcopenia, the age-related loss of muscle mass, strength, and function, affects many older adults but can be slowed through regular strength training and proper nutrition.

Muscular System
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Muscles: muscul/o, my/o, myos/o
Fascia: fasci/o
Tendons: ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o
Functions of Muscul

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Muscle Tone and Movement Disorders

Muscle tone refers to the normal tension in your muscles that maintains posture and enables smooth movement. Abnormal muscle tone includes atonia (lacking tone), dystonia (impaired voluntary movement), and hypotonia (diminished tone). Ataxia describes poor coordination during voluntary movements.

Movement disorders include several recognizable conditions. Spasms are sudden, involuntary contractions, while myoclonus refers to jerking movements (like singultus, or hiccups). Intermittent claudication causes leg pain during exercise that's relieved by rest.

A contracture is a permanent tightening of muscles, tendons, and other tissues, reducing elasticity and limiting movement. This occurs when elastic tissue is replaced with non-elastic tissue, often due to injury or prolonged immobility.

Daily Impact: Have you ever experienced a muscle cramp? That painful, involuntary contraction is just one example of how muscle disorders can temporarily affect even healthy individuals.

Muscular System
Related Combining Forms
Muscles: muscul/o, my/o, myos/o
Fascia: fasci/o
Tendons: ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o
Functions of Muscul

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Neuromuscular Diseases

Myasthenia Gravis is a chronic autoimmune disease affecting the neuromuscular junction, causing weakness in voluntary muscles. The immune system mistakenly attacks the connection between nerves and muscles, disrupting normal function.

Muscular Dystrophy encompasses a group of about 30 genetic diseases characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of skeletal muscles. Unlike neurological disorders, muscular dystrophy directly affects the muscles without impacting the nervous system. Two common forms are Duchenne muscular dystrophy, primarily affecting boys who may be unable to walk by age 12, and Becker muscular dystrophy, which is similar but less severe.

Repetitive stress disorders result from repeated motions, including compartment syndrome (compression of nerves and blood vessels due to swelling) and myofascial pain syndrome (chronic pain affecting muscles and fascia where "trigger points" develop). These conditions are increasingly common in our technology-focused society.

Hope Note: While conditions like muscular dystrophy have no cure yet, advances in gene therapy are showing promise for future treatments that might slow or even reverse muscle degeneration.

Muscular System
Related Combining Forms
Muscles: muscul/o, my/o, myos/o
Fascia: fasci/o
Tendons: ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o
Functions of Muscul

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Common Muscle and Joint Injuries

Rotator cuff injuries affect the shoulder and include impingement syndrome (inflammation of tendons), rotator cuff tendinitis, and ruptured rotator cuffs that occur when tendons weaken and tear. These injuries are common among athletes and people who perform repeated overhead motions.

In the wrist and arm, carpal tunnel syndrome involves inflammation and swelling of tendons passing through the carpal tunnel, putting pressure on the median nerve. Ganglion cysts are harmless fluid-filled sacs that commonly appear on the outer wrist surface, while epicondylitis (tennis elbow) causes inflammation around the elbow.

Foot problems include heel spurs (calcium deposits in the plantar fascia) and plantar fasciitis (inflammation of the fascia on the sole). Common sports injuries include sprains (stretched or torn ligaments), strains stretchedortornmuscles/tendonsstretched or torn muscles/tendons, and shin splints (muscle tears from the tibia).

Prevention Power: Many muscular injuries can be prevented with proper warm-up, stretching, and technique. Don't underestimate the importance of these preparations before physical activity!

Muscular System
Related Combining Forms
Muscles: muscul/o, my/o, myos/o
Fascia: fasci/o
Tendons: ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o
Functions of Muscul

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The app is very easy to use and well designed. I have found everything I was looking for so far and have been able to learn a lot from the presentations! I will definitely use the app for a class assignment! And of course it also helps a lot as an inspiration.

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This app is really great. There are so many study notes and help [...]. My problem subject is French, for example, and the app has so many options for help. Thanks to this app, I have improved my French. I would recommend it to anyone.

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I think it’s very much worth it and you’ll end up using it a lot once you get the hang of it and even after looking at others notes you can still ask your Artificial intelligence buddy the question and ask to simplify it if you still don’t get it!!! In the end I think it’s worth it 😊👍 ⚠️Also DID I MENTION ITS FREEE YOU DON’T HAVE TO PAY FOR ANYTHING AND STILL GET YOUR GRADES IN PERFECTLY❗️❗️⚠️

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Not only did it help me find the answer but it also showed me alternative ways to solve it. I was horrible in math and science but now I have an a in both subjects. Thanks for the help🤍🤍

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The app's just great! All I have to do is enter the topic in the search bar and I get the response real fast. I don't have to watch 10 YouTube videos to understand something, so I'm saving my time. Highly recommended!

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Greenlight Bonnie

Android user

I found this app a couple years ago and it has only gotten better since then. I really love it because it can help with written questions and photo questions. Also, it can find study guides that other people have made as well as flashcard sets and practice tests. The free version is also amazing for students who might not be able to afford it. Would 100% recommend

Aubrey

iOS user

Best app if you're in Highschool or Junior high. I have been using this app for 2 school years and it's the best, it's good if you don't have anyone to help you with school work.😋🩷🎀

Marco B

iOS user

THE QUIZES AND FLASHCARDS ARE SO USEFUL AND I LOVE THE SCHOOLGPT. IT ALSO IS LITREALLY LIKE CHATGPT BUT SMARTER!! HELPED ME WITH MY MASCARA PROBLEMS TOO!! AS WELL AS MY REAL SUBJECTS ! DUHHH 😍😁😲🤑💗✨🎀😮

Elisha

iOS user

This app is phenomenal down to the correct info and the various topics you can study! I greatly recommend it for people who struggle with procrastination and those who need homework help. It has been perfectly accurate for world 1 history as far as I’ve seen! Geometry too!

Paul T

iOS user

The app is very easy to use and well designed. I have found everything I was looking for so far and have been able to learn a lot from the presentations! I will definitely use the app for a class assignment! And of course it also helps a lot as an inspiration.

Stefan S

iOS user

This app is really great. There are so many study notes and help [...]. My problem subject is French, for example, and the app has so many options for help. Thanks to this app, I have improved my French. I would recommend it to anyone.

Samantha Klich

Android user

Wow, I am really amazed. I just tried the app because I've seen it advertised many times and was absolutely stunned. This app is THE HELP you want for school and above all, it offers so many things, such as workouts and fact sheets, which have been VERY helpful to me personally.

Anna

iOS user

I think it’s very much worth it and you’ll end up using it a lot once you get the hang of it and even after looking at others notes you can still ask your Artificial intelligence buddy the question and ask to simplify it if you still don’t get it!!! In the end I think it’s worth it 😊👍 ⚠️Also DID I MENTION ITS FREEE YOU DON’T HAVE TO PAY FOR ANYTHING AND STILL GET YOUR GRADES IN PERFECTLY❗️❗️⚠️

Thomas R

iOS user

Knowunity is the BEST app I’ve used in a minute. This is not an ai review or anything this is genuinely coming from a 7th grade student (I know 2011 im young) but dude this app is a 10/10 i have maintained a 3.8 gpa and have plenty of time for gaming. I love it and my mom is just happy I got good grades

Brad T

Android user

Not only did it help me find the answer but it also showed me alternative ways to solve it. I was horrible in math and science but now I have an a in both subjects. Thanks for the help🤍🤍

David K

iOS user

The app's just great! All I have to do is enter the topic in the search bar and I get the response real fast. I don't have to watch 10 YouTube videos to understand something, so I'm saving my time. Highly recommended!

Sudenaz Ocak

Android user

In school I was really bad at maths but thanks to the app, I am doing better now. I am so grateful that you made the app.

Greenlight Bonnie

Android user

I found this app a couple years ago and it has only gotten better since then. I really love it because it can help with written questions and photo questions. Also, it can find study guides that other people have made as well as flashcard sets and practice tests. The free version is also amazing for students who might not be able to afford it. Would 100% recommend

Aubrey

iOS user

Best app if you're in Highschool or Junior high. I have been using this app for 2 school years and it's the best, it's good if you don't have anyone to help you with school work.😋🩷🎀

Marco B

iOS user

THE QUIZES AND FLASHCARDS ARE SO USEFUL AND I LOVE THE SCHOOLGPT. IT ALSO IS LITREALLY LIKE CHATGPT BUT SMARTER!! HELPED ME WITH MY MASCARA PROBLEMS TOO!! AS WELL AS MY REAL SUBJECTS ! DUHHH 😍😁😲🤑💗✨🎀😮

Elisha

iOS user

This app is phenomenal down to the correct info and the various topics you can study! I greatly recommend it for people who struggle with procrastination and those who need homework help. It has been perfectly accurate for world 1 history as far as I’ve seen! Geometry too!

Paul T

iOS user