A free online flashcard maker that keeps your source beside every card

Make cards beside your material

Most flashcard makers give you an empty form. FlashCardz puts your PDF on one side and the card on the other, so you write while you read, and each card keeps its file and page. When a card's answer looks wrong weeks later, one tap opens the page it came from.

• Question and answer cards, and cloze cards for exact wording.
• Image cards cropped straight from a page.
• Image occlusion: hide the labels on a diagram and name each one.
• A live preview as you type, and ⌘ Enter to save and start the next card.

Study them properly

Making cards is half the job. FlashCardz schedules every card with FSRS, the open-source spaced repetition algorithm, on every plan. Each day you get the cards that are about to slip, a few new ones, and three rings to close. Plan around your exam date and the nearest exam comes first.

Bring the cards you already have

Import your Anki decks (.apkg), with images, subdecks and, if you want, your review history, or a spreadsheet of questions and answers. Export to CSV or Anki whenever you like. More on moving from Anki.

Who it's for

University students in subjects where you learn many exact facts: medicine, law and languages. If you've been making cards in a document and copying them into an app, or typing everything twice, the card maker removes that step: you read the page, write the card, and it's already in your deck with its source attached.

Teachers and tutors who write cards for a class can use it the same way, and share decks as an Anki file that any student can import.

When you'd rather not type

On Plus, FlashCardz also writes cards for you from your slides, PDFs and notes, each quoting the line it came from and checked against it before you see it. See the AI flashcard generator. Your handmade cards and the AI's are studied together.

Tips for cards that stick

• One idea per card. If the answer is a paragraph, split it.
• Ask for the thing itself, not a yes or no.
• Use your course's wording and examples.
• Give important ideas a second card from another angle.

The full version: how to make flashcards that actually work.

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