You might be revising for your final exams at school from your own notes and a few old exams, or heading into your first January exams with a term's worth of lecture slides. Studyflash and Gizmo, the AI flashcard and quiz app at gizmo.ai, both turn your own notes and slides into flashcards. This review of Gizmo AI compares what each one does with that material, all the way to the exam.
Our verdict: Studyflash is the better choice for anyone studying from their own notes, lecture slides and old exams. It turns your course into a study plan that runs topic by topic up to mastery. Gizmo's learning path, as we used it in September 2026, was a flashcard game. Alongside the study plan, Studyflash builds your mock exam on your own old exams.
Studyflash and Gizmo side by side
| Studyflash | Gizmo | |
|---|---|---|
| Study plan | Your whole course, topic by topic to mastery, with several study tools | A path of flashcard rounds played as a game |
| Mock exam | Built on your own old exams or example questions, graded on your country's scale | From a deck, topic or UK exam board course, never your old exams |
| Flashcards | The card types you choose, from six, every time you generate | No choice of card type |
| Free plan | Cards with spaced repetition, quizzes and unlimited AI tutor chat; Premium adds mock exams and podcasts | Unlimited decks and cards; quizzing pauses after 15 wrong answers, the tutor after five sessions a day |
| Price | Free plan with no time limit; Premium's price shows in the app. See what each plan includes | Gizmo Unlimited, weekly or yearly, priced in the app |
| Platforms and languages | Web app plus iPhone, iPad and Android apps, in 27 languages | Web and mobile apps in about fifteen languages |
| Best for | Anyone with their own material who wants a plan through the whole course | UK exam board pupils with no notes or old exams |
Prices and features checked on 16 September 2026. Prices vary by country and store.
A study plan through your whole course, or flashcards inside a game
Studyflash's study plan takes every deck and source in a course and lays them out topic by topic, starting with a summary, a mind map and a podcast.
Each topic then gets its own cards and quiz. You see your progress on it, up to mastery. The plan follows the goal you set when you sign up: a pass or the top grade. It suggests an order for the topics, but you don't have to follow it.
When we used Gizmo, its learning path was a flashcard game. We found no podcast or mind map.
Gizmo's tutor kept no memory of us between sessions. Max, Studyflash's AI tutor, has read your whole course. Max's memory of how you learn grows with use.
Studyflash builds mock exams on your old exams, Gizmo's practice tests never use them
Upload an old exam or example questions and Studyflash copies their structure and question style; Gizmo's practice test is built from a deck, a topic or a UK exam board's course. Studyflash's mock exam draws on every deck and source in your course.
The paper runs against the clock and is graded on your country's scale. Without an old exam, you set the number of questions and the time limit, then pick which question types go in. You can take mock exams whenever you like, as often as you like. Max can also set one up for you in the chat.
Studyflash lets you pick the card types for every batch of flashcards
Studyflash has six card types, including image occlusion, and you choose which ones go into each new set of cards. Image occlusion hides part of a diagram for you to recall. The cards Studyflash generates are built to cover all your material.
You also set how detailed the cards are. If a set misses the point, you regenerate it with a note to Max. Any cards you wrote yourself stay. The whole deck also works offline in the mobile app. You can search and edit every card afterwards.
When we generated Gizmo AI flashcards from the same four lectures we uploaded to both apps, we could not choose the card type. None of the cards hid part of a diagram. Studyflash can turn an uploaded diagram straight into image occlusion cards.
Who should pick which app
If you are on a UK exam board's course with no notes or old exams of your own and want practice questions set on that course, Gizmo is the better pick.
- Your own notes, slides and old exams, taken all the way to the exam: Studyflash builds one plan for the whole course, with several study tools in it.
- A mock exam that looks like your real one: Studyflash builds it on your own old exams.
- Flashcards set up your way: Studyflash lets you choose the card types each time.
- A tutor who knows your whole course: Max, Studyflash's AI tutor, has read everything you added and remembers how you learn.
How we tested
Maximilian S. from the Studyflash team tested both apps in September 2026. He uploaded the same material, unchanged, to each: four master's-level lecture presentations with 130 slides in all. The slides are heavy on images and charts, formulas, definitions and worked examples, and carry many notes a student typed onto them. He looked at the card types and settings, whether a diagram became cards with parts hidden, whether an old exam can be uploaded as the template for a practice test, and which study tools each app has.
Questions and answers
If you study from your own lecture slides, notes and old exams, yes: Studyflash lays your whole course out as one study plan and takes you through it topic by topic.
Yes, Gizmo has a free plan with unlimited decks and cards. Unless you pay for Gizmo Unlimited, quizzing pauses for ten minutes after 15 wrong answers, and the tutor stops at five sessions a day.
Studyflash's free plan covers flashcards, quizzes, spaced repetition and unlimited chat with Max, its AI tutor; Premium adds unlimited AI generations, podcasts and mock exams built on your own old exams.
Studyflash carries a whole course to mastery with several study tools, and Gizmo turns flashcard practice into a game. Studyflash also sets mock exams in the shape of your old exams and lets you choose the card types for each set of flashcards. On top of that, Max remembers how you learn.
If your notes, slides and old exams are your own, no: only Studyflash builds them into one study plan for the whole course, with an overview first and then cards and a quiz for each topic.
No. Gizmo draws its practice test from one of your decks, a topic or a course set by a UK exam board. Studyflash takes your old exams as the template and copies their structure and question style.
No. Gizmo made our cards without letting us pick a card type. Studyflash lets you pick from six card types every time it generates.