Drop in a PDF, a slide deck, or a page of notes. You get a full deck of question-and-answer cards built from the material you are actually being tested on.
Bigger sets read more of your document. Included with Student and Genius.
Upload a past paper on its own and we work out how it asks: the topics it keeps returning to, whether it wants an option picked or an answer written, how hard it pitches, and the words it uses to ask. Your notes still supply every fact and every answer, and nothing from the paper is copied into your questions.
The difference shows up most in written practice, which comes with Student and Genius. Multiple-choice wording moves much less.
You can add one once your first set is ready.
An estimate from one paper, never a prediction of what your exam will ask.
PDF, PowerPoint, Word, or a link · up to 10 MB · start without an account
A PDF, a PowerPoint, a Word document, or plain notes. You can also paste a link to a page you are studying from.
It works out which ideas carry the material and turns each one into a card with a real question on the front.
Flip through the cards, rate yourself honestly, and let GeniusPal bring the ones you missed back around.
Three lines of psychology notes, and the card GeniusPal writes from them. Sample material, written by us to show the shape of the output.
Your notes
Psychology revision notes.docx
The card GeniusPal writes
In Baddeley’s model of working memory, which component allocates attention between the phonological loop and the visuospatial sketchpad?
The central executive.
The central executive stores nothing itself. Its job is directing attention across the two subsystems that do the storing.
Flashcard mode is included with Student and Genius. Every generated set is scoreable as a quiz on every plan, Free included.
The deck comes from the file you uploaded, so it matches your syllabus and your lecturer rather than a set someone else uploaded.
The slow part of flashcards is phrasing the question. GeniusPal writes the prompt and the answer, and you edit anything that reads wrong.
Sit the scored quiz on any plan, and on a paid plan study the same questions as cards or close the deck and write the answers from memory.
Cards you rate as missed come back sooner than the ones you already know, so your time lands on the weak spots.
Comparing the options first? Read our roundup of the best AI flashcard makers.
Making the deck is free for your first 2 sets, and no card is asked for. Where exactly the paid line falls is worth stating plainly, because it lands somewhere most tools would not put it. Writing cards from your own file costs nothing on the Free plan, and flipping through that deck in flashcard mode, rating each card as you go, opens up on a paid plan; a generated set is scoreable as a quiz whatever you are on. The 2 free sets are a one-off allowance for the account, so they never come back at the start of a month. Beyond them, Student runs $14.99 monthly for 100 sets, while Genius asks $59.99 once a year against a fair-use ceiling of 1000 monthly. Paying widens a deck from 10 cards to 30 too.
PDF, PowerPoint (.pptx), Word (.docx), plain text, Markdown, and CSV, up to 10 MB each. You can also paste a link to a page and GeniusPal will read the text on it, or paste your notes straight into the box without uploading a file at all. The range exists because course material arrives in whatever format the lecturer used, and retyping a handout into a card app is the exact chore this replaces. GeniusPal works from the text inside the file, and reads all of it rather than stopping at the first page, so a full chapter produces cards drawn from the whole thing. Two files will not work as they are. A pre-2007 binary .ppt needs one re-save as .pptx, and a PDF made only of photographs of handwriting has no text to read, so you are told that rather than handed invented cards.
Yes. The generated deck is a starting point, and you should read it before you trust it. Anything phrased badly can be changed, and any card that turns out to be trivially easy is better deleted than left to pad your revision. This matters because a flashcard is a promise you make to your future self: whatever is on the back is what you will drill until you believe it, so an error you leave in gets rehearsed rather than caught. Reading the deck once before you study it is a two-minute pass that also doubles as a first exposure to the material. Where your source supports it, a card shows the exact line it was drawn from, which makes checking a doubtful answer a glance rather than a hunt back through the original file.
No, there is no export today. The reason is that a deck here is more than its text: GeniusPal tracks which cards you rated as missed and brings those back sooner than the ones you already know, and that record lives with your account rather than inside the cards. An export file would carry the questions and answers and leave every bit of that behind, so what landed in Anki would be a fresh deck with no memory of the work you had already done on it. Study happens here for the same reason scoring and redrilling do. If moving cards between apps is essential to how you revise, a dedicated converter is the honest recommendation, and you will get a better result from one than from us. Everything else stays available in the meantime: the same deck runs as a scored quiz on any plan, and as written recall on a paid one.
Both are card apps you fill in yourself, and both are worth knowing before you pick. We wrote up the honest version: Quizlet vs Anki, and the best Quizlet alternatives.