StudySmarter alternatives 2026: Studyflash and six more

Prices and features checked 5 November 2026; prices vary by country and store.

StudySmarter puts your own sets beside a community library of millions of sets, by its own account.

Like Studyflash, StudySmarter makes cards from uploads, but the four lectures first came back as 20. More came one card type at a time, with no setting for the number of cards or the detail. There's no image occlusion, so no card hides a label on a diagram.

Its tests use the cards in a set, not your old exams, so a fuller test needs more cards in the set. The free plan holds two study sets and has AI limits it doesn't publish. It showed us ads. See Studyflash vs StudySmarter.

Studyflash is best for anyone with their own material, at school or university.

Start from PDFs, slides, photos of handwritten notes or a lecture recorded live. The cards are built to cover all your material. In one go you set the number of cards, the detail and the card types. The six types include image occlusion, which hides parts of a diagram.

A mock exam covers a whole course and matches the structure and question style of your old exams or example questions. Without them, you set the time limit plus question count and types. It's timed and graded on your country's scale. Take it whenever and as often as you like.

Max has read your material and answers with citations. Quizzes, summaries, mind maps and two-voice podcasts come on request. Spaced repetition times each card by how well you remember it.

Everything sits in courses you name. You can add a lecture any time. Each course's study plan, shaped by your goal, goes topic by topic to mastery and suggests an order you don't have to follow.

Anki, the open-source study app at apps.ankiweb.net, is best for designing your own card layouts. It's built around shared decks and cards you write, with add-ons on top. With no AI generation from files, every card from your slides is yours to write. See Anki alternatives.

Quizlet, the study app at quizlet.com, is best for finding ready-made flashcards, with over 700 million shared sets by its own figure. Study Guides turn uploads into an outline with flashcards, in English, French and German. You must be 18 to use them in Germany, France and the Netherlands. See Quizlet alternatives.

RemNote, the note-taking app at remnote.com, is best for keeping notes and flashcards in one document. You write cards inside your notes and annotate PDFs in the same app. Its AI makes cards from pasted text, PDFs and slides. Each run costs AI credits.

Knowt, the study app at knowt.com, is best for sets already on Quizlet: it's built around importing them. Its practice mode, Learn, is unlimited. Its AI writes cards from a prompt or pasted notes.

Exam prep centres on the American AP, SAT and ACT.

Gemini Notebook, formerly NotebookLM, the research app at notebook.google, is best for research across many sources, with up to 50 side by side. It makes cards and quizzes from uploads but gives you no review dates and no study plan. Read NotebookLM against study apps.

Knowunity, the study app at knowunity.com, is best for reading what pupils shared: over a million notes, summaries and solved old exams, by its own account. The four lectures we uploaded gave 15 cards, with no card types to choose and no image occlusion. Its mock exams stay in Knowunity's own format, not on your old exams. See Knowunity alternatives.

Stay with StudySmarter if you want to search what other students published for your subject rather than build from your own material.

• Your own notes or slides: Studyflash turns them into cards and a mock exam. Max, Studyflash's AI tutor, answers from them.
• Shared decks and add-ons: Anki has both.
• Notes and cards in one document: RemNote keeps them together.
• Research across many sources: Gemini Notebook holds up to 50.

In September 2026, Maximilian S. from the Studyflash team uploaded four master's-level lecture presentations (130 slides) unchanged to Studyflash, StudySmarter and Knowunity. He looked at card counts, card types, whether a diagram became cards with parts hidden, and whether an old exam could be a mock exam template. We saw the ads on the free versions ourselves; the other apps' facts come from their own pages on 5 November 2026.

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