An AI flashcard generator with spaced repetition built in
Skolight's AI flashcard generator pulls the key facts out of your PDFs, slides, and lecture notes and turns them into a deck. Built-in spaced repetition then brings each card back right before you'd forget it.
Free plan, no credit card required.
How it works
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Pick your sources
Choose the lectures, PDFs, or notes the deck should cover.
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Generate the deck
Set how many cards you want, up to 50, and the difficulty. Edit any card or add your own.
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Review a little each day
Rate each card Again, Hard, Good, or Easy, and Skolight schedules when you'll see it next.
What you get
Decks in seconds
Up to 50 cards per deck, generated from the material you choose, so they match your course rather than a generic topic.
Spaced repetition built in
A proven scheduling algorithm (in the SM-2 family, like Anki's) spaces out reviews, showing hard cards more often and easy ones less.
Review the way you need
Study only the cards that are due, run through the whole deck, or drill just the ones you missed.
Fully editable
Fix wording, delete cards you don't need, or write your own alongside the generated ones.
Made from any source
PDFs, Word documents, slide decks (PPT, PPTX), text and Markdown files, your own notes, captioned YouTube videos, web pages, audio files, and live lecture recordings.
Part of the whole workflow
Decks live next to the notes, quizzes, and exams for the same subject, so revision is never spread across five apps.
Why spaced repetition works
Memory fades on a predictable curve - first described by Hermann Ebbinghaus in the 1880s - and every time you successfully recall something, that curve flattens. Spaced repetition takes advantage of this by reviewing each fact just as you're about to forget it, so every review does the most work for the least time.
Making good flashcards by hand is slow, which is why many students give up before the reviews start paying off. Generating the deck from your own material removes that barrier, and the scheduler handles the hardest part: deciding what to review today.
Ten to fifteen minutes a day is enough for most courses. Consistency matters far more than session length.
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