Flashcards that actually stick

Build a deck in minutes

A card is a term and a definition, and it can carry an image. Add cards one at a time or paste a whole list in at once, reorder them, and edit any card later without losing the progress you have already made on the deck.

Decks go into folders, so a term you learned in September is still findable in May. Every deck starts private. Making it public is a deliberate switch, and it is the only thing that puts a deck in front of anybody else.

Turn your notes into flashcards or a quiz

On My Decks, open + Flashcard Deck and choose From Document. Upload a PDF, a Word file or your typed notes, or photograph a page of a textbook with your phone, and Knovli drafts the cards for you. On My Quizzes, + Quiz → From Document drafts multiple-choice questions from the same material instead.

Nothing is saved until you say so. The draft opens in the ordinary editor, unsaved: fix a definition, delete the three cards that came out of a page header, correct an answer that is not quite right, add the two the page implied but never spelled out. Your file is read on your device rather than uploaded, and one monthly page allowance covers both cards and questions — a page costs the same whichever you ask for — which you can check under Profile → Subscription.

Study it eight ways, then master it

Every deck opens into eight study modes and a mastery plan. They all read the same cards, so switching between them costs you nothing and your progress follows you across all of them.

Flashcards

Flip through term and definition, marking what you already know as you go.

Multiple Choice

Pick the right definition for each term from four options.

Speed Quiz

Answer as many as you can before the timer runs out.

Vocab Maze

Collect clues and power-ups, dodge the ghosts, then spell the word.

Type the Answer

No options to pick from — recall the term and type it.

Match the Pairs

Pair each term with its meaning. Only the first attempt counts.

Use It

Short situations — work out what follows.

Say It Your Way

Explain it in your own words, marked for understanding. Off unless a deck’s owner turns it on.

Read up in Knovli Learn

Knovli Learn is our own writing on how to study well: how to build a deck that actually sticks, when flashcards beat multiple choice, and how mastery works here. The guides are short and practical rather than academic.

Decks mentioned in an article open straight into Knovli, so an idea you have just read about is one tap from the cards you would use it on.

Copy anything you find

Explore is full of public decks made by other learners, plus Curated Content written and checked by subject specialists — anything carrying the Content Expert badge has been approved by somebody qualified in that subject.

Copy any public deck into your own library with one action. The copy is yours: edit it, cut the cards you do not need, add the ones your teacher actually set, and study it without touching the original.