A whole term of lecture notes sits on your phone, and your January exams are a few weeks away. On the packed train to campus you're standing with one hand on the rail, so you can't really work through your notes. As a podcast, those notes play in your earphones on the way in.
Studyflash turns your own notes into a podcast: you upload them, and two voices talk them through in an episode you can listen to on the way in. Miss a line and there's a transcript to search. Once you're off the train, you can make flashcards and a quiz from them too.
How to turn your notes into a revision podcast
- Upload your notes to Studyflash as a PDF, a document, photos of the pages you wrote by hand or text you paste in. You can also record a lecture live and have it transcribed. Each upload becomes a deck in the course for that module.
- Choose where the episode comes from: one deck for a single lecture, or the whole course if you want the module in one go.
- Press play on the train and put your phone away. The episode keeps playing in the background, even when you lock the phone or answer a message.
- When you get to campus, make flashcards and a quiz from the lecture you just heard to see what stuck.
What the episode sounds like
Two voices discuss your notes, much like two coursemates talking a topic through before an exam. Say you turn your lecture notes on price elasticity from a first-year economics module into a podcast. The episode works through the idea and the examples you wrote down, as a conversation rather than your notes read out line by line.
The AI that turns your notes into a podcast works in the same 27 languages as the app.
Finding the line you missed
Every episode has a transcript that runs in step with the audio. Picture the doors opening at a stop, someone squeezing past, and you only half catching a term like cross-price elasticity. As soon as you can glance at your phone, open the transcript and search for the word. Tap the line and the audio jumps straight back to it, so there's no dragging the slider around to find it.
What to do after you've listened
Studyflash turns those notes into flashcards in six card types. You choose how many cards you get and how much detail they go into. You then review them with spaced repetition. A quiz on the same lecture shows you which questions you got wrong and explains each one with a passage from your own notes.
If a point from the episode still isn't clear, ask Max, Studyflash's AI tutor. He answers from your decks and uploaded files and shows where each answer comes from. You can type or talk to him out loud.
Each course also has a study plan that takes you through it topic by topic until you know it. It opens with an overview: a summary, a mind map and the podcast. Each topic then has its own cards and quiz, and you see how well you know it. A mock exam comes last. The plan suggests an order for the topics, but you don't have to follow it.
The mock exam is timed and graded, and you can build it from your old exams. Sit it whenever you like, as often as you like.
Studyflash and recording yourself side by side
| Studyflash | Recording yourself | |
|---|---|---|
| What you hear | Two voices discussing your notes | Your own voice reading them out |
| Finding a part again | Search the transcript and jump to that line | Scrub through the recording to find it |
| After listening | Flashcards and a quiz on the same notes | You go back to your notes |
| Cost | Cards and quizzes are free; podcasts and mock exams come with Premium | Nothing |
| Devices and languages | Web, iPhone, iPad and Android, in 27 languages | Your phone, in your own language |
| Best for | Learning a term of notes on the move | Hearing one text word for word |
Features checked on 24 September 2026. Plans are priced per country and shown at checkout.
Questions students ask
Upload them to Studyflash, then pick one deck or a whole course as the source for the episode. If your notes are spread over several lectures, choosing the course lets the episode draw on all of them.
Yes, Studyflash works with photos of your handwritten pages just as it does with typed notes.
The same 27 languages the Studyflash app itself comes in.
Yes, you can use Studyflash for free, without a credit card. The free plan has no ads and gives you flashcards, quizzes, spaced repetition, unlimited chat with Max, Studyflash's AI tutor, and a monthly allowance for creating new cards, quizzes and summaries with AI. Premium adds podcasts, with a monthly allowance, as well as mock exams, no limit on creating with AI and unlimited study groups.
Yes, you record it live in Studyflash on the web or on your phone, and it is transcribed into a deck you can choose as the source. Ask your lecturer first whether recording is fine.
No, Studyflash is the better choice if you're revising a whole term of notes on the move. A recording takes as long to make as reading your notes aloud, and you redo it every time they change. All you hear on it is your own voice, while Studyflash has two voices discussing your notes. To find a passage again, you scrub through the recording; Studyflash's transcript takes you straight to the line. You can also make flashcards from the notes when you want to test yourself.