The AI for History

Humy is a website where you hold in-depth conversations with AI recreations of more than 1,200 historical figures: ask Hammurabi or Marie Curie a question and get an answer back, in writing or out loud, in 50+ languages. A figure can be given an archive of primary sources (letters, speeches, scanned books, photographs), which it searches while answering. Every quote it shows is copied character for character from the document and opens the page, so you can read the passage in context; the AI never writes a quote. Schools and universities use Humy for assignments graded to a rubric, museums put figures in their exhibits, and private readers use it on their own. Nothing to install. Humy comes from the team behind the Hello History app (2022); Hello History for schools became Humy in 2023 (humy.ai/hello-history-for-schools).

It works well beyond K-12. Reading level is set per figure version from primary school through university and adult learners, and the five assignment formats run unchanged in a seminar. Of our 648 paying customers, 92 are schools, 6 are universities, 375 are individual teachers, 19 are individual professors, 143 are private individuals and 13 are businesses. Museums and cultural institutions embed figures in their exhibits. Wherever people learn from sources, the platform fits.

Yes, and 143 people pay to do exactly that. Humy began in 2022 as the Hello History app, and private readers are still part of it, with paying individuals in 31 countries. The free plan gives you 20 messages a month with no credit card; the personal plan is US$129 a year. Question any of the 1,200+ figures by text or live voice, or upload a public-domain memoir and interrogate its author. If you prefer a phone app, Hello History (hellohistory.ai) is our consumer app for chatting with historical figures on the go. Classes, assignments and school privacy agreements stay on Humy.

The free plan is 20 messages a month, no credit card. Individuals pay US$129 a year. School plans start at US$600 per school per year; universities get a quote at humy.ai/request-a-quote. Museums start with a 30-minute demo, booked from humy.ai/for-museums. Libraries, archives and publishers book a call from their own pages. Prices are in US dollars.

General chatbots improvise a persona and offer no guardrails for the classroom. A Humy figure searches the primary and secondary sources it is given, and any quote is copied from them, never written; you stay in control: you build assignments aligned to the standards you teach to, set a grading rubric, cap attempts, turn copy-paste off and choose the reading level for each group. Students join from a link or QR code with no account. That same structure applies in any subject: a chemistry interview with Curie, a literature debate, or a philosophy simulation all run through the same teacher controls.

Two different things, so two answers. A quote is never written by the AI: when a figure quotes, Humy's backend copies the passage character for character from the source document, and you can open the page it came from. In our published benchmark (a Napoleon figure, August 2026) that held for all 1,323 quotes; none was fabricated. The prose around the quotes is still the AI's. Loading the documents cut outright invention there from 22.6% of answers to 12.2%, which means about one answer in eight still carries a wrong date or detail. We publish those numbers at humy.ai/blog/humy-2-6-97-percent-increase-in-historical-reasoning. That is why every quote opens its page: so you can check, and so students learn to. The more documents a custom figure has, the better its prose gets, and you can give feedback to refine it.

Five formats: interview, debate, historical simulation, open questions (open-ended or short-answer), and essay, including the US AP essay types (DBQ, LEQ, FRQ) and concept-application prompts. You set the level from primary school through university and lifelong learners, the language, and the standards, whether US federal and state, or international. The formats are subject-agnostic, so you can debate an ethical question in philosophy, interview a scientist for a lab unit, or assign a free-response essay in any AP-level course, not only history. Interviews, debates and simulations can run with one figure or with a panel of up to ten.

More than 50, in text and in live voice. The app ships 42 base languages, including Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Turkish and Vietnamese, and a figure can hold the whole conversation in any of the 50+. A quote is copied from its document character for character, so it stays in the language it was written in. Voice calls are capped at ten minutes each; images and tables appear in text mode only.

Yes. Upload the founder's letters, speeches, diaries and papers, in text, image or video, and Humy builds a figure that quotes them, each quote opening the page it came from. Archive builds are made with our team: at National Louis University in Chicago we built the university's founder, Elizabeth Harrison, from 25 of her writings, photographs and documents.

No. You share a chat as a web link or QR code, and students open it and start talking — no sign-up and no password. You choose whether they join anonymously or enter their name.