Flashcard maker

Flashcard Maker: Turn a PDF Into Flashcards You Can Actually Study

PDFQuiz is a flashcard maker that writes the cards for you. Upload a PDF, lecture notes, a slide deck or a photo of a textbook page, and the AI turns it into flashcards with the question on the front and the answer and explanation on the back. Flip through them in the browser, mark each card as known or as needing review, filter the set down to what you still get wrong, and export the deck to Anki when you want spaced repetition. The first set is free and needs no account.

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The short answer

A flashcard maker turns material you already have into cards you can drill. With PDFQuiz you upload the document, the AI writes the questions and answers, and each pair becomes a card. You study the set in the browser, sort cards into unseen, review and known, and export to Anki when you want a spaced schedule. The first set is free without an account. If your material is always a PDF, the PDF to flashcards page goes deeper on that workflow.

Free to start
5 cards, no account
On the back
Answer and explanation
Export
Anki deck

What the study view does

Cards you flip, sort and come back to

The flashcard view is built around one habit: mark what you know, keep drilling what you do not. Every card in a set starts as unseen. Flip it, decide whether you knew the answer, and it moves to known or review. Filters show only the cards in the pile you pick, so the last pass before an exam is just the ones you still miss.

Flip to reveal the answer

Tap or click a card to turn it over. The back shows the correct answer and a short explanation drawn from your document, so a card teaches the point rather than only testing it.

Unseen, review, known

Three piles with a live count for each. Filter the set to a single pile and work through it. Cards you mark as known drop out of the loop until you reset them.

Keyboard shortcuts

Flip, move to the next card and mark it from the keyboard, so a review session does not need the mouse.

Quiz and flashcards from one upload

The same questions power a graded quiz and the flashcard set, so you can drill with cards and then check yourself with the quiz. The quiz generator page covers the quiz side.

How it works

From document to deck in three steps

1

Upload the material

A PDF, Word file, PowerPoint, text file or a photo of a page. 16 formats, up to 10 files at once, 20 MB each.

2

Let the AI write the cards

Each question the AI writes from your document becomes a card. With an account you choose how many cards and which question types.

3

Study or export

Open the set in the flashcard view, or export it to Anki on a paid plan and review it on a spaced schedule.

Flashcard maker: frequently asked questions

Is PDFQuiz free?
Yes, to start. You can generate a 5-question quiz from any PDF without creating an account. A free account adds 3 full quizzes of 10 questions each. Paid plans start at $5 a month billed yearly and remove the limits.
Do I need an account to make a quiz?
No. The first quiz runs without signing up. You need a free account to save a quiz, share it by link, study it as flashcards or keep your results.
How many questions can I generate from one PDF?
The demo without an account writes 5 questions. A free account makes 10-question quizzes from the first 5 pages of a document. Paid plans let you set the number yourself: up to 300 questions per quiz on Plus, 500 on Pro and 1,000 on Elite.
What question types can it create?
Six: single choice (A, B, C, D), multiple answer, true or false, fill in the blank, matching and open ended. Every question comes with the correct answer marked and a short explanation. Open-ended questions are available on the Pro plan and up.
What files can I upload?
16 formats: PDF, DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, ODT, ODP, RTF, TXT, JPG, JPEG, PNG, HEIC, BMP, TIF and TIFF. You can upload up to 10 files at once, 20 MB each. Scanned pages and photos are read with OCR.
What do I get out of it?
An online quiz you can take yourself or share by link, and a flashcard set built from the same questions. Depending on the plan you can also download the quiz as a PDF with the answer key or export it to Anki.
Which languages does it support?
The quiz is written in the language of your document. On paid plans you can pick a different output language from a list of more than 180. The site itself is available in 28 languages, including Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Turkish and Arabic.
How does the flashcard maker work?
Upload a PDF, a Word file, slides, notes or a photo of a page. The AI reads the document and writes questions from it, and each question becomes a card: the question on the front, the answer and a short explanation on the back. You open the set in the flashcard view, flip through the cards and mark each one as known or as needing review.
Can I make flashcards from a PDF without an account?
The generator on this page builds a 5-question set from any document without an account. To open the set as flashcards, keep it and come back to it later, you need a free account.
Is the flashcard maker free?
The first set is free and needs no account. On a free account you can open every set you make as flashcards and study the first three cards of each one; the full set and the Anki export are part of the paid plans, which start at $5 a month billed yearly.
What is on the back of each card?
The correct answer and a short explanation of why it is correct, written from the passage in your document the question came from. For open-ended questions the model answer itself is on the back.
Can I export the flashcards to Anki?
Yes. Paid plans can export any set as a tab separated file that Anki imports as a deck, with the question as the front and the answer and explanation as the back. Spaced repetition then runs in Anki. The Anki flashcard generator page explains the import step by step.
How many flashcards can I make from one document?
The demo makes 5. A free account makes 10-card sets from the first 5 pages of a document. On paid plans you set the number yourself, up to 300 cards per set on Plus, 500 on Pro and 1,000 on Elite. A chapter of 20 to 40 pages usually supports 30 to 60 solid cards.

Make your first flashcard set

Five cards from any document without an account. Create a free account to open the set as flashcards and keep it.