Learn has stopped mid-set, Test has handed you its one free run, and the deck for your module was never there in the first place. So you go looking for Quizlet alternatives, and most lists name the same apps without saying which one fits the way you actually study.
Start from your material: if you study from decks other people wrote, stay where you are, because nothing on this list comes close to Quizlet's library of over 700 million sets. If you study from your own lecture slides, notes and old exams, you want a tool that builds the cards out of them, and Studyflash is built around exactly that. Every app here has a free plan, and Anki is free everywhere except on the iPhone. Among the paid plans, Mochi's costs little, and Quizlet's yearly plan undercuts most of the others.
What each app is built around, and what it costs
| Built around | Review scheduling | Free plan | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quizlet, for reference | Over 700 million sets, its own figure; Study Guides in three languages; Ask Quizlet US only | Spaced repetition, on the website only | Flashcards and Match with ads, a taste of Learn and Test | About €45 a year for Plus on the App Store |
| Studyflash | Your PDFs, slides, photos of notes, pasted text or a recorded lecture; six card types, quizzes, summaries, mock exams, podcasts, mind maps | Spaced repetition plus a cram mode | Flashcards, quizzes, spaced repetition, a monthly allowance of AI generations; chat with Max, the AI tutor | What each plan includes; your country's price in the app |
| Knowt | Cards from notes, PDFs and video; its own library | Yes | Every study mode, with ads; 1 AI summary a month | $149.99 a year (about $12.50 a month) or $24.99 month to month |
| Anki | Cards you write; AI only through add-ons; shared decks | Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler (FSRS) built in, off by default | Everything except the iPhone app | Free; iPhone app about $25 once |
| Brainscape | Pasted text, photos of notes, Word or PowerPoint files, no PDF; 2,500 pre-made cards | Confidence-rated, 1 to 5 | Your own cards, spaced repetition, 2,500 pre-made cards | $7.99 a month billed yearly |
| RemNote | Cards inside your notes, against AI credits | SuperMemo 2 (SM-2) by default; FSRS as an opt-in beta | Unlimited notes and cards; 3 PDFs, 5 occlusion images, 250 AI credits a month | $8 a month billed yearly |
| Mochi | Cards you write; the AI turns text in a card into a question or an example sentence | Its own algorithm, FSRS optional | Unlimited cards on one device; no sync between devices | $5 a month billed yearly |
| Gemini Notebook | Cards and quizzes from your uploads; no library | You re-run cards when you choose; no review dates | 100 notebooks, 50 sources each; limits refill every 5 hours, up to a weekly cap | Free tier; Google AI Pro about $20 a month |
Prices and features checked on 25 September 2026. Prices vary by country and store, and where a vendor publishes no euro price the figure is the US one.
What Quizlet locks behind Plus
Learn gives you a free study session per set. Test gives you one free practice test per set. Flashcards and Match stay free, with ads running beside them. Paying raises the ceiling rather than removing it: base Plus comes with monthly usage limits that Quizlet no longer puts a number on, and only Plus Unlimited lifts them.
Ask Quizlet, the chat that reads the files you upload, is US-only. Study Guides, which turns your notes into a set, runs in English, French and German. Q-Chat, the old tutor, is gone. And Coconote, which turns up on most lists of ways out, has belonged to Quizlet since February 2026.
Studyflash
Studyflash starts from your material, not a blank card. Upload the lecture PDF, the slides or a photo of your handwritten notes, paste text, or record the class, and flashcards, a summary and a quiz come back. Six card types include image occlusion, and quizzes judge a typed answer on meaning. Knowt, RemNote and Gemini Notebook also make cards from uploads. Studyflash adds mock exams modelled on the old exams you upload and, unlike Gemini Notebook, schedules your reviews. The free plan covers flashcards, quizzes and spaced repetition with a monthly allowance of AI generations, and the pricing page lists what Premium adds.
There is no public library, sharing is by link, and mock exams and podcasts sit on Premium. There is no one-click import from Quizlet either, so export your sets as text and paste them in. The head-to-head with Quizlet goes row by row.
Knowt
Knowt is the closest thing to a like-for-like swap. Learn, practice tests, Match and spaced repetition are all there, it builds cards from notes, PDFs and video, and it keeps a library of its own. Every study mode is free, with ads, and the AI stops at one summary a month.
The website is English only, with language switching in the app, so a course taught in another language is awkward on a laptop. The import from Quizlet runs through a Chrome extension and then a click per set.
Anki
Anki gives you total control for nothing. It is free on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android, the iPhone app is a one-off purchase, and image occlusion has been built in since version 23.10, so ignore any guide that tells you to install an add-on for it.
It will not write the cards for you. AI generation means third-party add-ons, and Anki warns that an update can break them. The manual runs to 26 chapters and asks you to spend a few weeks on the defaults before changing anything. The Anki alternatives piece weighs that trade.
Brainscape
Brainscape runs on confidence-rated scheduling with content already loaded. You rate each card from 1 to 5 and the app decides when it comes back, anywhere from minutes to months. The free plan covers your own cards plus 2,500 pre-made ones, and a paid plan, billed monthly, every six months, yearly or once for life, opens the rest.
There is no image occlusion, which Brainscape says is coming. There is no PDF upload either: it takes pasted text, photos of notes and Word or PowerPoint files. Images, audio and export are all paid, so a free account cannot take its cards anywhere else.
RemNote
RemNote keeps the cards inside your notes, so each one holds on to the paragraph it came from. Scheduling uses SM-2 by default, with FSRS as a beta you can switch on. Image occlusion is there, and Anki .apkg files import with their review history. Pro, billed yearly, includes 1,000 AI credits a month, and the dearer Pro with AI tier includes 20,000.
The free plan stops at 3 annotated PDFs, image occlusion on 5 images and 250 AI credits a month, which an anatomy student gets through in an afternoon. There is no import from Quizlet.
Mochi
Mochi is cheap and works offline. It is free with no sign-up, image occlusion comes as Diagram cards, and .apkg files import with their review history. It is the cheapest subscription among the alternatives, and paying buys sync across devices.
The AI works on the text inside a card, turning it into a question or an example sentence, but it will not build a deck from your lecture PDF. Free means one device, so your phone and laptop will not agree.
Gemini Notebook
Google has renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook: same product, new name. It is built for making sense of a pile of sources, and it generates flashcards and quizzes from your uploads, each card with a difficulty setting and an Explain button.
There is no library to browse, so every card starts from what you upload. It remembers your progress and re-runs all the cards or only the ones you missed whenever you ask, but it sets no review dates, so spacing the reviews across a term is up to you. The NotebookLM comparison works through what that means for a module examined weeks later.
Who should pick what
- Decks other people made: stay on Quizlet. On a standard course the set already exists, and if the Learn caps bite, price Unlimited before you price a migration.
- Your own lectures, slides and notes: Studyflash. No library holds your lecturer's slides, and Studyflash turns them into cards, quizzes and mock exams.
- Quizlet alternatives that are free for a whole term: Anki on everything but an iPhone, Mochi on one device, Knowt if English on the web suits you and you can live with the AI cap. Studyflash too, if its monthly allowance of AI generations covers your own material.
- Notes and cards as one document: RemNote, within its free plan's ceiling on PDFs and occlusion images.
- Understanding sources rather than drilling them: Gemini Notebook, with you deciding when each review comes round.
- Cheapest subscription, and offline: Mochi, if you are happy writing your own cards.
Questions and answers
Yes, in part: Quizlet keeps Flashcards and Match free with ads. Learn and Test stop after a free taste of each set, and base Plus still caps Learn rounds and practice tests every month. If free has to carry a whole term of your own material, the Studyflash free plan gives you flashcards, quizzes and spaced repetition with a monthly allowance of AI generations.
Yes, but Quizlet exports sets only as text, only from the website, and not the ones you copied from someone else. Images stay behind, and your own sets are public by default while they sit there. Knowt has the smoothest route with its Chrome extension, Brainscape takes a spreadsheet file, and Studyflash takes the pasted text.
Not any more: Quizlet bought Coconote in February 2026 and it is still running, so moving to it is moving to Quizlet.
Quizlet's Study Guides runs in English, French and German only, Ask Quizlet is US-only, and Knowt's website is English only, so check before you move. Gemini Notebook's Audio Overviews, by contrast, cover over 80 languages. Studyflash works from your material in the language it is written in, across 27 interface and generation languages, so a course taught in Dutch, Italian or Greek is covered.
Anki, which costs nothing on every platform except iPhone. Mochi is the cheapest subscription among the alternatives, and Gemini Notebook is free within usage limits that refill every five hours, up to a weekly cap. If the material is your own, the Studyflash free plan is the one to try first.