A pupil revises from her own notes for her final exams at school, while a first-year student has lecture slides for the January exams. Studyflash and Studley, the study app at studley.ai, both turn notes and slides into flashcards and quizzes. This review of Studley AI compares what each does with your material.
Our verdict: Studyflash is the better choice if you learn from your own notes for your final exams at school, or from lecture slides and old exams at university. It has more study tools, including a mind map and a mock exam based on your own old exams. Studley decided how many cards and questions to make from the four lecture presentations we uploaded to both apps in September 2026, and no setting changed that. Studyflash lets you set your cards, quizzes and summary. Everything Studyflash makes is built to cover all your material.
Studyflash and Studley side by side
| Studyflash | Studley | |
|---|---|---|
| Study tools | More tools, including a mind map, each set your way | Several formats; Studley picks how many cards and questions |
| Mock exam | Built on your own old exams, timed and graded, with Premium | A written test on your upload, not your old exams |
| A course through the term | Yes: each new lecture joins its course, and the study plan, Max and the mock exam cover it | Lectures grouped at upload, no new lecture added later |
| Free plan | Cards, quizzes and tutor chat free with no time limit, no ads | One study set, then Studley Unlimited |
| Price | Free plan with no time limit; Premium's price shows in the app. See what each plan includes | Studley Unlimited from €99.99 a year |
| Platforms and language | Web, iPhone, iPad and Android, in 27 languages | Web, iPhone, iPad and Android |
| Best for | Revising from your own material and old exams | A finished essay graded against a rubric |
Prices and features checked on 16 September 2026; prices vary by country and store.
Studyflash gives you more study tools, Studley decides how many cards you get
Studyflash, like Studley, turns your own notes and slides into several study formats, but it has more of them, and you choose how many flashcards and quiz questions you get and what kind.
Its flashcards come in six types, including image cards that hide part of a diagram for you to recall. Each time you generate them, you pick the card types and the number of cards, and set the detail to low, medium or high.
Quizzes take the question count and types you choose. A summary comes as an overview or in depth, at the length you pick. A mind map links each concept to its cards. Cards, quizzes, summaries and mind maps also work offline in the mobile app.
In our test, Studley AI picked the number of cards and quiz questions on its own, and no setting let us change it. The app has no mind map and no mock exam built on your old exams.
With Studyflash, your old exams become a graded mock exam whenever you want
Upload an old exam or example questions, and Studyflash builds a mock exam in the same structure and question style from every deck and source in your course.
The mock exam mixes eight question types, including essay and calculation questions, and runs on a timer. It comes back graded on your country's scale. Without an old exam, you choose the number of questions, the time limit and the question types.
You can take a mock exam whenever you like, as often as you like, or ask Max, Studyflash's AI tutor, for one in the chat.
Studley builds no mock exam from your past exams. Its written test compares a typed answer with your upload and shows a model answer.
One course that grows through the term, or lectures grouped once at upload
In Studyflash, each subject gets one course, and the last lecture of term joins it just as the first did.
You name every level of your library, from workspaces down to courses and decks. A new lecture joins its course whenever it arrives. The course's study plan takes you topic by topic up to mastery and ends with a mock exam. The plan suggests an order for the topics, but you don't have to follow it. Max and the mock exam both draw on every deck and source in the course.
Studley AI study sets hold what Studley makes from the lectures you upload together. When we tested it, a new lecture could not join lectures already grouped at upload.
Which app to pick for your exams
Studley is the better pick when what you need is a finished essay or paper of your own graded against a rubric, rather than material to learn for an exam.
- Revising your own notes, or lecture slides for your January exams: Studyflash turns a PDF, a document, a photo of your handwritten notes or pasted text into every study tool, each shaped by your own settings.
- A mock exam shaped like your real one: Studyflash builds a timed, graded one from the old exams you upload.
- One course for the whole term: Studyflash adds each new lecture to its course as it comes. Max, Studyflash's AI tutor, reads all of it.
How we tested
Maximilian S. from the Studyflash team tested both apps in September 2026. He uploaded the same material, unchanged, to Studyflash and to Studley: 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 many carry notes a student typed onto them. He looked at the settings each format offers, at whether an old exam can be uploaded as the template for a mock exam, and at whether a new lecture can join what was already uploaded.
What students ask about Studley AI and Studyflash
If you revise from notes and slides of your own, yes: in our September 2026 test, no Studley setting changed how much of any format it made. In Studyflash, you decide how your cards, quizzes and summary come out each time you generate. Studyflash also adds a mind map and mock exams modelled on your old exams.
Studley AI is free to use for one study set, and after that you need Studley Unlimited. Studyflash's free plan gives you flashcards, quizzes and a monthly allowance of AI generations, and Premium adds unlimited generations, podcasts and mock exams.
Studley makes several study formats from your notes and slides, while Studyflash makes more, including a mind map, and its cards, quizzes and summary follow your settings. Studyflash also builds your mock exam on your old exams, and its courses grow with each new lecture.
If you are learning for an exam from your own material, no: Studley has no mind map and no setting for how many cards it makes. Studyflash gives you a wider set of study tools, including a mind map linked to your cards, and lets you set each one the way you want.
No. Studley AI's written test checks what you type against your upload instead. Studyflash builds a timed, graded mock exam that matches the structure and question style of the old exams you upload.
No. Studley can't add a new lecture to a study set after upload. In Studyflash, you add each new lecture to its course at any point.