AI Flashcard Maker — Turn PDFs, Slides & Notes Into Cards
An AI flashcard maker turns material you already have into questions you can practice. Paste a lecture summary, choose a file, or provide a public article link. The app extracts text locally where possible, sends extracted text to its card generation service, and returns a deck you can edit. It is a flashcard generator for people who want to spend more time recalling ideas and less time copying headings into cards. You can adjust prompts, answers, and explanations before studying. Your decks and review history stay in this browser's local storage, so the same device can pick up where you left off.
The generator can create standard question and answer cards and cloze deletions. Where source material supports them, cards can also contain multiple-choice options, true-or-false statements, and written recall prompts. Generated questions still need a human check, especially for formulas, dates, and labels in complex diagrams. Think of a draft deck as a starting point for deliberate study rather than an answer key that is guaranteed to be correct.
How to Generate Flashcards From a PDF
Open the File / PDF tab, select up to five documents or images, and let the browser check them. For a PDF, text pages are read directly. Pages without selectable text can use local OCR; likely diagram-heavy pages may also use a local visual model if the device supports it. The file list shows status before you generate, so you can remove a damaged file or cancel a long check. PDFs over 100 MB receive a warning and a local check, not an automatic rejection based on file size alone.
Choose Auto for an estimated card count, or select 10, 20, 30, 40, or 50. The app combines the selected sources into one deck and uses source labels so you can trace cards back to a document or PDF page. For long material, it processes sections before the final generation call; very large batches can exceed the text budget and require a smaller selection or page range. A short document may produce fewer cards than requested because inventing filler would make the deck less useful.
What You Can Upload to This Flash Card Generator
The File / PDF tab accepts PDF, PPTX, DOCX, TXT, Markdown, XLSX, EPUB, and common image files. Text and office documents are parsed as documents before the AI writes cards: headings, slide notes, spreadsheet positions, and ebook chapter labels help preserve context. Image input uses local OCR and, on compatible devices, visual analysis for relationships that plain text extraction cannot capture. Small or difficult handwriting may still require manual correction.
Other tabs accept pasted notes, a public web article, YouTube captions when the video exposes them, and an MP3, WAV, or M4A recording up to 30 minutes. Audio is transcribed locally on a capable device before text is sent for card generation. Public YouTube caption access may be blocked by the platform, so a link is not a promise that every video can be read. The visible upload and processing status will tell you which stage needs attention.
Export Your Deck to Anki, CSV, or JSON
After generation, open My decks to edit, add, move, and study cards. Flashcards Only gives a direct review path; Quiz offers multiple choice, true or false, and written questions; Auto Mix combines study styles; Match is a timed term-and-definition game. Four review ratings feed the spaced repetition schedule. Quiz scoring does not alter that review schedule.
The existing export menu offers an Anki-importable tab-separated text file, CSV, JSON, and plain-text study notes. The Anki file exports ordinary front and back fields; it does not preserve cloze cards as Anki Cloze note types. If you use Anki already, import the tab-separated file and check the field mapping before adding it to a long-term collection. Keep a separate copy of important decks because the working library is stored locally in your browser.
