AI Flashcard Generator
Paste 50 to 10,000 characters of notes into StudyClock's AI flashcard generator, choose between 5 and 50 cards, and it writes the deck for you. You can then study that deck five ways: flip cards, multiple choice, typed answers that the AI grades, a matching game, and true/false. Open the generator when you are ready to try it.
You need a free StudyClock account to generate a deck. Visitors who are signed out see a sign-in prompt instead of the notes box. A new account starts with 50 credits, which pays for one deck of up to 50 cards.
This page covers what you paste in, what a deck costs in credits, the five study modes, and the limits that matter before you start, such as no PDF upload and no review scheduling across days. For plan prices beyond the figures here, see the pricing page.
How the generator turns your text into cards
The notes box takes plain text. The minimum is 50 characters, about one sentence. The maximum is 10,000 characters, which is roughly 1,500 words of ordinary notes. If you have nothing handy, three sample passages (photosynthesis, supply and demand, and the French Revolution) can fill the box. Choosing a sample only fills the box, and credits are used only when you press Generate, the same as with your own notes.
Next you pick the kinds of cards you want. You can tick more than one:
Q&A:
a question on the front and the answer on the back.
Fill-in-the-blank:
a sentence with a gap for the missing term.
Definition:
a term on the front and its meaning on the back.
True / False:
a statement for you to judge.
The tool starts with Q&A selected and 10 cards. The AI reads your text once and writes every card in a single pass. It is told to test understanding instead of word-for-word recall, to keep each answer under 100 words, and to spread the card types evenly across the ones you picked. A card can also carry a short hint, which shows on the front in Classic mode.
Longer notes can take about a minute to turn into cards. If you are still waiting after 20 seconds, the app shows a message that says so. Generating again replaces the deck on your screen, so save a deck before you make the next one.
Your text goes to an outside AI service (OpenAI's GPT-4o-mini model, as of October 2026) so it can write the cards. The privacy policy explains how StudyClock handles data.
PDF and photo notes
The notes box accepts typed or pasted text only. There is no PDF upload. The one place this tool takes a file is the Import CSV button, which is for cards you have already written (more on that below).
Photos of notes have their own route. StudyClock's Scan Notes tool accepts image files up to 10 MB each, in JPEG, PNG, GIF, or WEBP format, and turns printed or handwritten pages into text you can fix. After you review the text, the "Make flashcards" button sends it to the generator with the notes box already filled in. Scan Notes has its own credit cost: 8 credits for the first image on the free plan or 4 on Pro, plus 2 for each extra image in the same batch. That cost comes before the flashcard cost.
Scan Notes does not read PDFs either. For a PDF you can select text in, copy the text and paste it into the notes box. For a scanned PDF with no selectable text, photograph or screenshot the pages and run those images through Scan Notes. The box stops at 10,000 characters, so make one deck per section of a long chapter instead of pasting the whole thing.
What a deck costs in credits
The figures in this section were checked in October 2026.
Your card count is rounded up to the next group of 10. Each group costs 10 credits on the free plan or 5 credits on Pro. A deck of 25 cards counts as three groups, so it costs 30 credits free or 15 on Pro. A deck of 30 cards also costs 30 credits free, and a deck of 50 costs 50. Because of the rounding, 5 cards cost the same as 10, so ask for 10, 20, 30, 40, or 50 and you pay for every card you get.
One detail is easy to miss. The credit number beside the Generate button, and in the in-app help, always uses the Pro rate of 5 credits for each 10 cards. A free account is charged 10 for each 10 cards, so a 30-card deck shows 15 but costs 30. Check your balance after the first deck.
A new account starts with 50 credits. Free accounts get 10 more at the start of each month, and the refill tops the balance up to a maximum of 60. Pro accounts get 400 a month, up to 600. In practice, once the signup credits are used, the free refill pays for one 10-card deck a month. If you need more, one-time credit packs sell 150 credits for $1.99, 400 for $3.99, and 900 for $7.99, and they are spent after your monthly credits run out.
Credits are refunded automatically when the AI call fails, whether it was a deck, a mnemonic, or a Written answer check. Two other actions use credits: Written mode takes 1 credit for each answer you check, and each mnemonic takes 1 credit. Classic, Multiple Choice, Match, True/False, editing, saving, and CSV import cost nothing.
Five ways to study a deck
Press Study on a finished deck and pick a mode, or press 1 to 5. Each round shuffles the cards, and you can switch modes on the same deck whenever you like.
Classic shows the front, you tap to reveal the back, and then you rate yourself Again, Hard, Good, or Easy (keys 1 to 4). Good and Easy count as right. Hard and Again do not count toward your score. Each card appears once per round.
Multiple Choice shows a question and four answers. The three wrong options are the answers from other cards in your own deck, so they come from the same material and look believable. A deck of fewer than four cards cannot fill all four slots.
Written asks you to type the answer. The AI then checks it and gives one sentence of feedback, with your answer shown next to the correct one. It accepts paraphrases, partial answers that capture the core idea, and small spelling mistakes. It is the only mode that costs credits, 1 for each answer you check.
Match puts six cards on the table as 12 tiles, six questions and six answers, and you pair them up. It counts your tries, not your time, because there is no timer. A deck with more than six cards gives you a random six each round.
True / False turns each card into one statement made of the front and a back. About half the time the back is the real one. The rest of the time it is the back of a different card in your deck, and you judge whether the statement is true. It works the same way for every card type.
A round ends with your score as a percentage and, if you had one, your best run of right answers in a row. In every mode except Match, each card you did not get right goes into a "To revisit" list, with buttons to retry only those cards or to run the whole deck again. Leaving halfway through discards the answers so far, and the app does not save results once a round is over.
Does it use spaced repetition?
No. Spaced repetition means a card comes back after a gap that grows each time you remember it, such as 1 day, then 3, then 7. This tool has no such schedule. Your Again, Hard, Good, or Easy rating only changes the score for the current round, and the app keeps no record of which cards you found hard once you leave. The "retry missed" button covers the same sitting. It does not bring a card back tomorrow.
If you want review spread over days, two other parts of StudyClock do that, though neither works on these cards. The Chapter Tracker books your first five revisions of a chapter when you add it. Its base gaps are 1, 3, 7, 15, and 30 days, shortened or stretched by your confidence rating, the chapter's difficulty, and how close your exam is. It tracks chapters, not single cards. The blog post on spaced repetition and the forgetting curve explains why the gaps matter, and active recall versus passive review explains why flipping a card beats re-reading it.
Editing, saving, and importing a deck
Every card can be changed before you study it. Open the pencil icon to rewrite the front or the back, switch the card type, or save the change with Ctrl or Cmd plus Enter. The trash icon deletes a card, and an Undo button stays on screen for about 8 seconds. A hint, if the AI wrote one, cannot be edited.
Q&A and Definition cards also have a Mnemonic button. It takes the card and returns a memory hook such as an acronym, a rhyme, a short story, or a vivid image, for 1 credit. The hook is not stored with the card. If you like it, copy it into the back of the card before you save.
Press Save deck, give it a title of up to 120 characters, add tags if you want, and the deck goes to your AI Notes Library. A free account can hold 20 saved items in total across all the AI tools, so a library of saved summaries and mind maps counts against decks too. Pro has no limit.
To bring in cards from somewhere else, press Import CSV. Each line holds a front, a back, and an optional hint, separated by commas or tabs. You can upload a .csv, .tsv, or .txt file or paste the text. The importer reads up to 200 cards, shows a preview of the first 10, and adds them to the deck on screen as Q&A cards. It costs no credits because nothing is generated. The generator has no export button, so cards you make here can be studied here, copied by hand, or edited, but not downloaded as a file.
Worked example: 30 cards from one respiration chapter
Say you are preparing for NEET and have typed about 1,500 words of notes on respiration in plants. That is close to the 10,000-character limit, so you paste the whole thing, tick Q&A and Fill-in-the-blank, and set 30 cards. Thirty cards is three groups of 10, so the deck costs 30 credits on the free plan. A new account has 50, which leaves 20.
Before you study anything, read through all 30 cards once. Delete any card the AI built on a side detail, and fix any gap in a fill-in-the-blank card that sits in an odd place. This pass also tells you what the notes cover.
Then run one Classic round. Rate yourself strictly, because every card you rate Hard or Again lands in the "To revisit" list. Press the retry button for the missed cards and go again until the list is short. A Multiple Choice round after that checks whether you can pick the right answer among believable wrong ones, which is closer to how a printed paper tests you. If five cards are conceptual, run them through Written mode for 5 credits and read the feedback. That whole plan uses 35 of the 50 starting credits.
Who should use the generator
It suits a student with a block of text to turn into cards quickly: a lecture's notes, one chapter, a list of definitions before a test. The time saved is largest compared with writing every card by hand. Students working through dense, fact-heavy chapters for board exams, NEET, or JEE can make a fresh deck per topic instead of keeping hand-made decks up to date.
It suits you less well in four cases. You need review that adapts over weeks, which this tool does not do. You have a PDF you cannot copy text from, which means an extra step. You want pictures or diagrams on cards, because cards hold text only. Or you want to move your deck into another app, since there is no export.
Free plan and Pro plan
| Free | Pro ($4.99 a month) | |
|---|---|---|
| Credits per 10 cards | 10 | 5 |
| Credits at signup | 50 | 50 |
| Monthly credits | 10, up to a balance of 60 | 400, up to a balance of 600 |
| Saved AI items | 20 | Unlimited |
| Study modes, editing, CSV import, mnemonics | Same | Same |
The tool itself works the same on both plans. Pro makes generation cheaper, refills more credits each month, and removes the 20-item save limit. At the Pro rate, 400 credits is 80 groups of 10, or up to 800 cards a month if you spend them all on flashcards. Credits are shared with StudyClock's other AI tools.
A low-cost way to start is to open the generator, choose one of the sample passages, and make 10 cards. That costs 10 credits on the free plan, leaves 40 of the 50 starting credits, and shows you all five study modes on a real deck before you paste in your own notes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Not directly. The notes box takes pasted or typed text only. For a PDF with selectable text, copy the text and paste it in. For photos or screenshots of notes, use the Scan Notes tool, whose "Make flashcards" button sends the text into the generator.
No. Each round shows every card once in a shuffled order, and your Again, Hard, Good, or Easy rating only changes that round's score. At the end you can retry the cards you missed, but nothing is scheduled for a later day.
Between 5 and 50 per generation, in steps of 5. For more than 50 cards on one topic, save the first deck and run the generator again on the next section of your notes.
You need a free account to generate cards. It starts with 50 credits and adds 10 at the start of each month, up to a balance of 60. That pays for a first deck of up to 50 cards and then about one 10-card deck a month. Only generation, Written answer checks, and mnemonics use credits.
Yes. You can rewrite the front or back, change the card type, or delete the card, and Undo brings back a deleted card for about 8 seconds. Hints cannot be edited.
They are refunded automatically. You see an error message instead of a half-built deck, and your balance goes back to what it was before you tried.