What is Studley AI?
Study sets from your uploads, plus a photo solver
- Price
- $14.99/mo$97.99/yr
- Free
- Free tierOne study set, ever
What you get
- Flashcards, multiple choice and fill-in-the-blanks
- A written test, plus a set of notes
- A two-speaker podcast of your material
- A photo solver for homework problems, and a grader for essays
What it does well
- One upload becomes six kinds of study material, more formats than anything else here
- The written test is the strongest practice format in the flashcard tier
- The photo solver and the essay grader are genuinely useful, and nothing else on this page has both
- Rated 4.7 on both the App Store and Google Play. Most of its users are happy with it
Where it falls short
- The free plan is one study set, ever. Most people find that out after uploading their first document
- Generation fails often enough to matter, and a failed run still burns your one free set
- Notes come back incomplete, cut off mid-chapter. The main theme on Trustpilot, where it averages 2.8 out of 5
- Lecture recordings disappear, with reviewers reinstalling the app to get them working again
Turbo AI
Lecture recorder and note generator
- Price
- $19.99/mo$119.88/yr
- Free
- Free tierTight monthly caps
What you get
- Upload PDFs, videos and documents, or record a lecture live
- Notes, flashcards, practice questions and a podcast from any of them
- Practice formats: fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice and essay
Beats Studley at
- Lecture recording, by a wide margin. The direct fix for Studley’s disappearing-recordings complaint
- Filters out the chatter around you, so you get the lecture and not the room
- The one to pick if you cannot listen and take notes at the same time
Where it falls short
- The most expensive tool on this page, at $5 a month more than Studley
- No pricing page anywhere on the site. You find out what it costs at the paywall
- The free tier is capped tightly enough that it runs out in days. Treat it as a trial, not a free plan
- The caps are not published either, so you only meet them by hitting one
Gemini Notebook
Google's document assistant, formerly NotebookLM
- Price
- $4.99/movia Google AI Plus
- Free
- Free tier50 sources, 10 quizzes a day
What you get
- 50 sources per notebook, 100 notebooks, on the free tier
- Answers only from your documents, with a citation on every claim
- Quizzes, flashcards, mind maps, audio and video overviews
- 50 chats, 10 quizzes and 10 flashcard sets a day, free
Beats Studley at
- The free tier is not a demo. Against one study set, it is not close
- Built to explain your material rather than package it. Ask why something works and the answer is grounded in your own notes, not the open internet
- Answering only from your sources fixes the 'it skipped half my document' complaint
- No card required, ever
Where it falls short
- It explains, it does not train you
- Quizzes and flashcards are a side feature here, not the main event
- No tracking of what you got wrong, no scheduled revision
- It will not notice you have been avoiding a topic. You bring the discipline
Quizlet
Flashcards with a huge shared library
- Price
- €7.99/mo€35.99/yr
- Free
- Free tierFlashcards and practice questions
What you get
- Millions of shared decks, most standard courses already covered
- Flashcards, practice questions, diagrams and study activities
- Learn, Test and Study Guides on the paid plan
- Bought Coconote, the viral AI lecture note-taker, in February 2026
Beats Studley at
- The free tier is real and open-ended, not a sample
- Shared decks skip the generation step entirely. For a common course someone has already built what you need
- The Coconote acquisition brings lecture recording and AI note generation onto the platform
- Mature and stable. Nothing here fails to load
Where it falls short
- You pick from what exists rather than generating from your own slides. For your lecturer’s particular material that is a real downgrade
- The modes that build recall are paid: Learn, Test, Study Guides, Expert Solutions, offline
- Free Quizlet is mostly flashcard flipping, the weakest practice on this page
- A shared deck is only as good as the student who made it
RemNote
Notes, AI flashcards and spaced repetition in one app
- Price
- $8/mo$96/yr$18/mo for full AI
- Free
- Free tierUnlimited flashcards, 100 AI credits a month
What you get
- Notes, PDF annotation and flashcards in one place
- AI generates cards from your own notes, PDFs and lecture transcripts
- Spaced repetition brings each card back just before you would forget it
- Exam scheduler, image occlusion, lecture recorder and an AI tutor chat
Beats Studley at
- A genuinely open free tier: unlimited notes and unlimited flashcards, no expiry
- Your notes become the flashcards, so you are not maintaining two systems
- Spaced repetition, which none of the generators on this page offer
- Built for long courses. The following in medical school is not an accident
Where it falls short
- It is a system, not a quick fix. Expect to spend real time setting it up
- Full AI needs the $18/mo tier. Free gives you 100 AI credits a month, Pro 1,000
- Free caps PDF annotation at 3 documents and image occlusion at 5 cards
- Like Anki it drills recall. It will not notice you have misunderstood something
Anki
Spaced repetition, where you write the cards
- Price
- $24.99 once on iOS, free everywhere else
- Free
- Completely freeDesktop, Android and web
What you get
- Free on desktop, Android and web, with free sync. $24.99 once on iOS
- The best spaced-repetition scheduler there is. Cards come back just before you would have forgotten them
- Open source, twenty years old, decks stored on your own machine
- Thousands of community add-ons and shared decks
Beats Studley at
- Free permanently. Nothing expires, nothing is capped, no subscription to cancel
- For long-term retention per hour spent, nothing here beats it
- Writing the cards yourself is a large part of why Anki users remember things
- Your decks are yours, in a local file
Where it falls short
- You write every card, and writing good ones is a skill in itself
- The interface is famously utilitarian
- Three days from an exam with 200 unread pages, this is the wrong tool
- It handles recall only. It will never make you explain a mechanism
Akono
A tutor that reads your answer instead of scoring it
- Price
- €11.99/mo€59.88/yr
- Free
- Free trial3 days, card required
What you get
- Upload slides, notes or PDFs and it builds a course from them
- Tutored sessions where each question follows from the answer before it
- Anything you misunderstand is recorded and comes back in later sessions
- Checkpoints per chapter, practice exams, all planned back from your exam date
Beats Studley at
- The only tool here where the next question depends on how you answered the last one
- It teaches you the missing piece mid-session instead of marking you wrong and moving on
- What you misunderstand stays open across sessions until you can explain it yourself
Where it falls short
- No free tier, but a 3-day trial of unlimited access
- If your exam is tomorrow, use something else. It paces work across weeks
- Weaker for pure calculation drilling, where a problem set or Anki serves you better
- No photo solver, deliberately
How Akono is different
Every other tool on this page hands you a finished set. The flashcards, the quiz, the practice test: all of it is written before you answer the first question, and none of it changes after you do. Get question four wrong and question five turns up exactly as it was, because it was written when the tool knew nothing about you.
That works for memorising. It is a bad way to fix something you have misunderstood, because nothing in the loop ever notices that you have.
Anki is the near-exception, and it deserves the credit. Its scheduler really does adapt, better than anything else here. But what it adapts is when a card comes back, not what the card asks. Miss the same card six times and you see it six times, word for word, with nothing in between to explain the bit you keep missing.
A generated set
Studley, Turbo, Gemini Notebook, Quizlet, RemNote, Anki
You answer
You get it wrong.
What happens
It is marked wrong. If you are lucky, the correct answer is shown next to yours.
Next question
The next one in the set. Chosen before you started, with no relationship to what just went wrong.
A tutor reading what you wrote
Akono
You answer
You get it wrong, or half right.
What happens
The answer is read for what it reveals, not marked against a key.
In between
The missing piece is taught immediately, before another question arrives.
Next question
Aimed at that gap, phrased differently, and it stays on the list until you can explain it.
Which one should you pick?
Mostly this comes down to how long you have left.
Days away
The exam is this week and you have not read the material yet.
Studley or Turbo AI
Cramming is exactly what a generator is for. This is the one bucket where Akono is the wrong answer.
A few weeks
Enough time to fix what you do not understand, not enough to build a system.
Akono
Long enough for a tutor to find your gaps and close them. Too short for writing your own cards to pay off.
A term or more
You want to still know this at the end of the year, not just on the day.
Anki or RemNote
Spaced repetition needs months before it pays off. Given months, nothing here beats it.
Any timeline, no budget
You are not paying for a study tool, whatever the deadline.
Gemini Notebook
The largest genuinely free tier on this page, and it works on your own documents.
Every price and limit here was checked against each product's own site and store listing on 24 July 2026. Studley's own terms and its Trustpilot reviews are worth a look before you subscribe to anything.