You might be a pupil facing your final exams at school, with your own notes and old exams. Or you are a first-year student with lecture slides piling up before your January exams. Studyflash and StudyFetch, the AI study platform at studyfetch.com, both turn your own files into flashcards and quizzes. This review of StudyFetch compares them on the question that decides it: which one gets your material ready for your exam?
The short answer: Studyflash is the better choice for turning your own notes, lecture slides and old exams into what you need for your exam. When we tested StudyFetch in September 2026, it asked us how many cards to make before it had looked at our slides. Studyflash assesses your lecture first, lets you decide on fewer, normal or more cards, and turns everything relevant in your slides into flashcards. You also get a mock exam shaped by your own old exams, whenever you like, as often as you like.
How Studyflash and StudyFetch compare
| Studyflash | StudyFetch | |
|---|---|---|
| Flashcards | Fewer, normal or more cards once your lecture is assessed, as detailed as you choose | An exact card count, typed in before it has seen your lecture |
| Mock exam | Built on your own old exams and their question style, with Premium | Practice tests, none built on your old exams |
| Exam it is built for | Your own exam, graded on your country's scale, school or university | Ready-made formats built around American admission and licensing exams |
| Free plan | Flashcards, quizzes, spaced repetition and unlimited tutor chat, ad-free, no credit card | Free to start |
| Price | Free plan with no time limit; Premium's price shows in the app. See what each plan includes | €99.00 a year |
| Platforms | Web, iPhone, iPad and Android | Web, iPhone and Android |
| Best for | Anyone learning from their own notes, slides and old exams | American admission or licensing exams without old exams |
Prices and features checked on 16 September 2026. Prices vary by country and store.
Studyflash sizes your deck to the lecture, StudyFetch asks for a number first
Studyflash assesses what your lecture needs before it makes any cards, and you then choose fewer, normal or more cards against that. StudyFetch asks for an exact number of cards before it has seen your lecture. You can't know that number in advance, so you have to guess how many cards the lecture needs. Studyflash works from a PDF of slides, a document or a photo of your handwritten notes, and it covers a long lecture as fully as a short one.
You set the level of detail of your flashcards to low, medium or high. You pick from six card types, including image occlusion, which hides parts of a diagram you upload so you can recall them. To change a finished deck, you tell Max, Studyflash's AI tutor, what to adjust, and the cards you made yourself stay. You can study the whole deck offline in the mobile app.
A timed mock exam built on your old exams
Studyflash lets you rehearse the exam you will actually sit, using your own old exams as the template. Without an old exam, it lets you set the number of questions, the time limit and the question types. StudyFetch builds its timed practice tests from the question types and number of questions you pick. Your own old exam is never the template.
Upload last year's exam, and Studyflash builds a mock exam that matches its structure and question style. It draws on every deck and source in your course, with eight question types, including essays and calculations. You sit it against a clock and get it back graded.
Max can also build one in chat from an old exam.
Your own exam graded your country's way, or ready-made American exam formats
Studyflash grades your mock exam on your own country's scale, so you can compare the grade with the ones you actually get. A pupil facing their final exams at school and a first-year student facing their January exams each get a result on the scale their own school or university uses. StudyFetch's ready-made formats are built for American exams instead, such as the SAT, the MCAT or the bar exam.
Studyflash runs in 27 languages, so the questions come in yours too.
Which one to pick
If you are preparing for an American admission or licensing exam with none of its old exams or sample questions, and want ready-made practice questions in its format, StudyFetch is the better pick.
- A whole term of lectures: Studyflash makes flashcards from everything that counts in every lecture, with the depth you pick. Spaced repetition then brings each card back by how well you remember it.
- Your own notes or slides, plus old exams: Studyflash turns them into flashcards, quizzes and a mock exam built on those old exams.
- A grade on your own scale: Studyflash grades your mock exam the way your country grades, at school or university.
How we tested
Maximilian S. from the Studyflash team tested both apps in September 2026. He uploaded the same four master's-level lecture presentations to each, unchanged: 130 slides heavy on images and charts, formulas, definitions and worked examples, with many notes a student had typed onto the slides. He looked at two things: how each app sets the number of cards, and whether an old exam can be uploaded as the template for a mock exam.
Questions and answers
If you learn from your own lecture slides and notes, yes: in our September 2026 test, StudyFetch had us type in a precise card count first. Nobody can judge that number before seeing what a lecture needs. Studyflash assesses each lecture itself and lets you ask for fewer, normal or more cards relative to what it found, and it turns your old exams into a mock exam too.
StudyFetch is free to start. Studyflash's free plan comes with flashcards, quizzes, spaced repetition and unlimited chat with the AI tutor Max plus a monthly allowance of AI generations, all without ads or a credit card; Premium adds unlimited generations, podcasts and mock exams that follow your old exams and are graded on your country's scale.
StudyFetch's price for Premium is €99.00 a year, or €22.99 a month. Studyflash has a free plan, and Premium's price shows in the app.
Yes. StudyFetch is a working study app on the web, iPhone and Android. Its privacy terms set out the data-protection rights of users in Europe.
StudyFetch asks for a card count before it has seen your slides, while Studyflash assesses your slides first and then lets you pick fewer, normal or more cards. Despite the similar names, they are separate products from separate companies. With Studyflash, your mock exam also comes back graded on your own country's scale.
No. StudyFetch's ready-made exam formats target American admission and licensing exams. Studyflash builds a mock exam on the exam you will sit and grades it on your own country's scale, at school and at university alike.
If you are preparing for an exam at your own school or university and have old exams from it, no: StudyFetch's practice tests are not built on them. Studyflash builds your mock exam on those old exams, matching their structure and question style.