Free lessons from 33 short courses
Every lesson from Pathwise's pre-built courses, free to read. Each takes about 12 minutes. In the app, the same lessons come with practice, reminders timed before you forget, and a path built around your own goal.
Art, design and photography
- Game Design Basics
Every lesson opens on a short narrated video, then takes apart how real games work: rules, loops, challenge, feel and rewards, until you make a small game of your own on paper.
- Photography Basics: Phone or Camera
How light becomes a photo and how to take better ones with the phone in your pocket or any camera, with an animated diagram in every lesson that you step through.
- Visual Design Fundamentals
Why some pages look right and yours don't, and the handful of decisions that fix it.
Business
- Negotiation: Get a Better Deal
Every lesson opens on a short narrated video, then teaches one move you can use the next time you ask for a raise, buy a car, rent a flat or settle a disagreement.
- Start a Small Business
Go from an idea to paying customers: test it cheaply, price it right, keep cash flowing and win your first buyers.
Career
- Land the Job You Want
From knowing what you want to a signed offer: CV, applications, networking, interviews and negotiation.
Cooking
- Cooking Fundamentals: Heat, Flavour and Technique
Learn why recipes work, so you can cook well without one.
Digital life
- Stay Safe Online
Protect your accounts, money and privacy: passwords, two-step login, scams, public Wi-Fi, backups and more.
Focus and productivity
- Deep Focus: Get Important Work Done
Why your attention slips, and a simple system to plan, start and finish the work that matters.
Health
- First Aid Basics
Every lesson opens on a short narrated video, then walks you through what to do in the first minutes of an emergency: stay safe, call for help, and keep someone going until help arrives.
- Nutrition Basics: Eat Well, Simply
Every lesson opens on a short narrated video, then teaches what's actually in your food, how to read a label, and how to build a balanced plate on any budget.
- The Science of Sleep
How sleep actually works, and what to change tonight to get more of it.
History
- Turning Points in History
Twelve moments when the world changed direction, and the thinking habits that let you judge the next one.
Languages
- Everyday English Conversation
The real phrases people use to greet, order, ask, disagree and tell a story, for anyone who knows the grammar and still freezes.
Maths and data
- Mental Math: Calculate Fast in Your Head
A dozen small techniques, each backed by real maths, that replace the phone calculator for the numbers you meet every day.
- Statistics and Data Literacy
The handful of ideas you need to read the numbers in news and reports without being fooled, each one drawn as an animated diagram you step through.
Mind and emotions
- Understanding Your Emotions
What emotions are for, why stress and worry take over, and practical, evidence-based ways to handle them.
Money
- Personal Finance: Take Control of Your Money
The handful of ideas every money decision rests on, from the gap in your month to compound growth, built to hold whether prices around you rise slowly or fast.
- Trading and Markets Basics
How a market really sets a price, how orders and charts work, and how traders size and limit risk, in animated diagrams you step through one frame at a time. Education, not financial advice.
Music
- Ear Training: Hear What's Playing
Every lesson opens on a short video you watch and listen to, then teaches you to name what you just heard: notes, distances, chords and rhythms.
- Music Theory from Zero
Learn how music actually works, by clapping, counting and picturing a keyboard, with no sheet music and no instrument needed.
Nature
- Climate Change, Clearly Explained
How the climate works, what is changing and why, and what actually helps, with the numbers scientists use.
People and communication
- Mental Models: Think Clearly, Decide Better
Twelve reusable ideas that make everyday decisions clearer, each one worked through on a real choice.
- Public Speaking: Talk So People Listen
Every lesson opens on a short narrated video, then gives you one skill to use in your next talk: calmer nerves, a clear message, a simple structure, and a voice and body that carry it.
Science
- Human Body Basics
How the body you live in actually works, from one cell to the whole team, in animated diagrams you step through one frame at a time.
- The Cosmos: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
The universe explained with real numbers and real reasoning, and always with how we know it.
Technology and code
- How Computers Work
From a single bit to a running program: the processor, memory, storage and the operating system, in animated diagrams you step through one frame at a time.
- How the Internet Works
What really happens between your tap and the page, in moving pictures you step through one frame at a time.
- Intro to Python
Your first real programs, from one line that prints a number to a small tool that reads a file, with an animated diagram in every lesson showing what the code actually does.
- Prompting AI: From First Question to Reliable Results
Understand what an AI assistant is really doing with your words, and write prompts that come back with something you can use.
Thinking
- Critical Thinking: Don't Get Fooled
Every lesson opens on a short narrated video, then shows you how to check a claim, a source, a number or a picture before you believe it or share it.
- Philosophy for Everyday Life
Think more clearly and live more deliberately with the ideas of Socrates, the Stoics, Aristotle, Kant and more.
Writing
- The Art of Storytelling
Learn the small set of parts that turn a list of events into a story people actually listen to.
Keep it, don't just read it
Pathwise brings each idea back just before you'd forget it, with a quick question. Free on Android and on the web, in English and Persian.