--- title: "An AI history tutor with maps and pictures | DuckyHelper" url: "https://duckyhelper.com/subjects/history/" description: "An AI history tutor that shows the past: labelled pictures, maps and timelines you can explore, and sources read with you and cited. In the DuckyHelper Mac app." updated: "2026-10-09" --- Mac app # An AI history tutor with maps and pictures DuckyHelper is an AI history tutor that puts the past in front of you. Ask how the Wright brothers flew and Eddy draws the 1903 Flyer and labels the parts that mattered. Ask how the pyramids were built and you see the quarry, the ramp and the Nile in one picture. Maps, timelines and real sources, read with you and cited, fill in the rest. It is all in the DuckyHelper Mac app. [Download for Mac](https://duckyhelper.com/download/)[Meet Eddy](https://duckyhelper.com/eddy/) One question, shown ## Ask about the past. See it. History is easier to remember when you can picture it. Four questions our films ask, and what Eddy put on its desk. ### How did the Wright brothers fly? Eddy draws the 1903 Flyer over the dunes and its pointer labels the part that solved the hardest problem: wing warping, twisting the wing tips to steer and balance. Click any part of the picture to ask about it, like the engine or the twin propellers. Maps and timelines ## Where it happened, and when Ask when something happened and you get a timeline you can scroll, with its eras marked; tap an event to see its picture. Ask where, or for a route, and you get a world map you can pan, zoom and tap, with pins, highlighted countries and the route drawn on it. Both work in the Eddy tab and in the Mac pill. [Guide: maps and timelines](https://docs.duckyhelper.com/study/maps-timelines/) A map drawn for your question Eddy can also make a labelled map picture, like this one of the Thirteen Colonies with Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia marked. Click a colony to ask about it. Questions that use the map Ask Eddy to quiz you and a question can ask you to put events in order or match people to what they did. A wrong answer says why. Sources ## Read the source, not a summary of one Press Research (Cmd + E) and find an article or a book: Wikipedia, public-domain books from Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks, or your own class handouts. Eddy reads with you, quotes only paragraphs it actually read, and builds a short brief with numbered citations you can open. [Guide: research and reading](https://docs.duckyhelper.com/eddy/research/) Ask about one sentence Select a line in the reader and choose Ask Eddy, Explain or Save. Saved highlights stay with your account. Listen while you read Press Listen and Eddy reads the text aloud while each word lights up. Tap a word to pause and ask about it. Your textbook on screen (Mac app) Press fn and ask about the page you are reading in any app. Ducky sees it while the pill is open and points at the line it means. ## Write about history ### Thesis statements Turn a history prompt into one arguable sentence. ### Argumentative essays Claim, evidence and reasoning, paragraph by paragraph. ### Citing sources: MLA vs APA How to cite the sources you read for a history paper. ### All study guides Every subject's guides on duckyhelper.com. ## Ask Eddy Say one of these out loud. Eddy picks how to show it: words, a picture or the board. What started World War I? Show me Magellan's route What was the Silk Road? Put the causes of the French Revolution on a timeline [Download for Mac](https://duckyhelper.com/download/) ## How to use it [Guide: Your first lesson with Eddy](https://docs.duckyhelper.com/start/first-lesson/) ## Frequently asked questions ### Can an AI tutor help me study history? Yes. Ask a question out loud and Eddy explains it, then shows it: a labelled picture, a map with the route drawn on it, or a timeline you can scroll. It quizzes you afterwards so dates and causes stick. ### Are the pictures historically accurate? They are drawn to explain an idea, like how a ramp and sledges moved stone, not to replace a photo or a primary source. Check details that matter against a source: ask Eddy to look it up and it quotes and cites what it read. ### Can it read primary sources with me? Yes. Eddy's reader opens public-domain books from Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks, Wikipedia, and your own files. Select a passage to ask about it, or press Listen to hear it read aloud. ### Will it write my history essay? No. It helps you understand the history and plan your argument, and it asks you questions about your draft. The writing is yours. 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On a Mac. ### Art: perspective you can change, and paintings explained part by part An AI art tutor that shows how pictures work: perspective drawn on a picture you can change, paintings explained part by part, art history read with you. ## Keep reading ### Try Eddy: four things to say out loud in your first minute Try Eddy in the DuckyHelper Mac app: open the Eddy tab, press Talk to Eddy and ask one of these questions out loud. ### Eddy: the voice tutor in the DuckyHelper Mac app's Eddy tab Eddy is the voice tutor in the DuckyHelper Mac app: talk out loud and it teaches on a blackboard, with labelled pictures, quizzes and your own homework file. ### A timeline you scroll and a world map you pan, zoom and tap, with real pictures and sources Ask when or where something happened and DuckyHelper shows a timeline you can scroll or a world map you can pan, zoom and tap, with real pictures and sources. ### A picture made for your question, labelled as Eddy explains; tap any part to ask about it Ask Eddy to show you and a picture made for your question comes into focus, labelled as Eddy explains. Tap any part to ask about it, or change it. ### Wikipedia, books and science pages in a clean reader; Eddy quotes only what it read, with numbered sources Read Wikipedia, classic books and science pages with Eddy in a clean reader. Eddy quotes only paragraphs it read, with numbered sources, and reads aloud. ## Picture the past Get the Mac app, open the Eddy tab and ask your history question out loud. [See what it does](https://duckyhelper.com/features/) The Mac app needs Apple silicon and macOS 14 Sonoma or later. There is no Chromebook, Windows or web version right now.