Yes. Creating, importing, and studying your own flashcards is free with no limits, and so are practice quizzes written from your own decks (three a day). The free plan also turns your first two documents into flashcards or quizzes, at the same quality as the paid plans. Plus ($6.99 a month or $49 a year) and Pro ($12.99 a month or $89 a year) add 15 or 40 generations every month.

Yes. Pick “Quiz” instead of “Flashcards” to get a multiple-choice quiz from a subject, your notes, or a file, or press “Quiz me” on any deck. You get a score, the correct answers with explanations, and can redo it with reshuffled questions. Quizzes can be shared like decks.

Can it write a study guide?

Yes. Pick “Study guide” and name the unit, paste your notes or upload a file. You get the unit on one page: a mindmap, the ideas in order, a worked exam-style question and the mistake students make most. Print it, or turn it straight into flashcards or a quiz. Study guides are on the Plus and Pro plans; free unit guides for AP Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, MCAT, SAT and ACT are at quizcard.org/unit-guides.

What files can I turn into flashcards?

PDF, Word (.docx), PowerPoint (.pptx), plain text, and Markdown, up to 25 MB, or paste text directly. Charts and diagrams are kept on the cards when the source is a PDF.

How is Quizcard different from Quizlet or Anki?

Quizcard writes the cards for you from your own material and keeps the source document attached, with a reader, highlights, and a tutor that answers from those pages. Decks export to CSV and JSON, so you can still review in Anki if you prefer its scheduler.

Yes. Any deck can be published as a public page that others can study online or copy into their own account. Public decks are listed at quizcard.org/explore.

Does it work offline and on my phone?

Yes. The Android app is on Google Play, the iPhone app is coming soon, and on any phone Quizcard also installs straight from the browser. Decks you have opened stay available offline and changes sync when you are back online.

Your decks and files are private unless you choose to share a deck. You can export or delete everything at any time, and you can bring your own Anthropic API key if you prefer.

Guide

How to turn a PDF into a practice quiz

Reading a chapter twice feels like studying; a quiz on it tells you what actually stuck. Quizcard reads your PDF, writes multiple-choice questions the way an exam asks them, scores you at the end and explains every answer, including why the tempting wrong option is wrong.

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Step by step

Open quizcard.org and pick Quiz next to the prompt box.
Upload the PDF (or a Word document, PowerPoint or Google Slides export, up to 25 MB). Add a note if you want the quiz to focus on part of it, for example “chapters 3 and 4 only” or “definitions and formulas”.
Press Make a quiz. About a minute later you have ten to thirty questions with four options each, written from the pages you uploaded.
Take it. You see your score, your pick, the correct option and a short explanation for every question.
Press Redo quiz tomorrow: the question and option order are reshuffled, so it is a real retest. New questions rewrites the quiz on the same PDF once the first set is easy.

What kinds of PDFs work

Lecture slides and handouts. The questions follow the lecture’s emphasis, which is what the test will follow.
Textbook chapters. Twenty pages on the free plan, fifty on Plus, 150 on Pro. For a long chapter, upload the sections you are tested on.
Past papers and review packets. Quizcard writes new questions in the same style rather than copying the ones you have already seen.
Scanned PDFs work only if they have a text layer. Most school-provided PDFs do; a pure image scan needs OCR first.

Quiz, flashcards or study guide?

Every document you upload gets all three buttons. Flashcards build recall over days; a quiz checks it before the test; a study guide puts the whole unit on one page with a mindmap. A common order: study guide the day the unit ends, flashcards for a week, quiz the night before, then redo the quiz the morning of the exam.

Share it with your class

Publish the quiz from its page and send the link. Classmates take it without an account and their scores stay private to them. Signed-in classmates can save it to their own quizzes and redo it. Teachers: a quiz from your own slides, shared with one link, is the fastest exit ticket there is, and Quizcard Pro is free for teachers.

Questions

Is it free to turn a PDF into a quiz?

A quiz written from a file counts as one generation, the same as a flashcard deck: two are included free, then 15 a month on Plus ($6.99, or $49 a year) and 40 on Pro ($12.99, or $89 a year). Quizzes written from a deck you already have are free on every plan, up to a daily cap.

How many questions does it write?

Ten to thirty, depending on how much material the PDF holds, with four options each and one correct answer. Distractors are the mistakes students actually make, never “all of the above”.

Can I see the correct answers?

After you submit. Every question then shows your pick, the correct option and an explanation. The answers are not sent to your browser until you finish, so you cannot peek by accident.

Can I turn the same PDF into flashcards too?

Yes. The PDF stays in your library with three buttons: flashcards, quiz and study guide. Each one is a separate generation.

Does it work on my phone?

Yes. Quizcard installs as an app on iOS and Android from the browser. Upload the PDF from your files or a share sheet and take the quiz anywhere.

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