WeSolve+ reads the whole document and writes the questions for you
Upload your PDF, photograph your notebook, or point the camera. WeSolve+ writes questions from that material, explains why each answer is right, reads the chapter back to you as a podcast, and remembers every item you missed until you own it.
The tool below is a small browser-only tool and it is not WeSolve+: paste a few lines and text rules turn them into cards on the spot. The real app, the one that uses AI, is behind the link above.
Quiz maker
This tool runs only in your browser, and that is all it isIt splits the text you paste by rule, and nothing else. WeSolve+ is a different thing entirely: it reads your whole PDF with AI, writes the reasoning behind every question, speaks the chapter back to you, and remembers what you missed so it can return it. Try the real app now, free!
This tool uses text rules, not AI. It looks for lines written as "term: definition" or "term = definition" and makes a two sided item; for any other line it removes the longest word and asks you to supply it. Your text stays in the browser and is never sent anywhere. The copy button produces tab separated rows, the format Anki and Quizlet both accept.
Who it's for, and who it isn't
Several courses, each with its own slide deck, and you'd rather answer questions on them than highlight them. That's the student WeSolve+ is built around: upload a lecture PDF or a photo of your notes, get questions tied to the source, and see missed ones again later. It won't write essays or lab reports, and it has no ready made question bank for a course you have no material for. Studying in Polish or Portuguese? It doesn't write quizzes in either. Free includes two quizzes and two PDF uploads per day. Premium is ₺299.99 monthly online, local currency on the App Store.
What a college course asks of a study app
College exams are usually written by the person who wrote the slides, so an app that reads your lecturer's file starts closer to the exam than one working from a general library. Four more questions separate the candidates. Does it make practice questions or only cards? Does it bring back what you got wrong on later days? Does the free tier actually generate anything, or only let you look around? And does it follow you from the library laptop to your phone?
The ranking
Disclosure: the WeSolve+ team wrote this ranking, and the app in first place is ours. We ordered the list by the criteria above, weighting most heavily the ability to work from your own lecture files. Facts about the other apps restate our AI study app comparison, where each tool's own site was read on 26 August 2026 and the page was reviewed again on 28 September 2026.
- WeSolve+: reads PDFs, photos, screenshots and handwriting and returns quizzes, flashcards and an audio recap from the same upload, with missed questions scheduled for review; a PDF with text also becomes a study booklet on Ultra. Suits the student whose exams follow the lecturer's slides.
- NotebookLM: keeps its answers inside the readings you add, and can build quizzes, flashcards, study guides and an audio overview from them. Nothing is scheduled for later review. Suits the student who wants to interrogate a dense article before being tested on it.
- Knowt: an unusually wide free tier, and it accepts lecture recordings, slide decks, YouTube links and images as well as PDFs. Suits the student on a tight budget or with recorded lectures.
- Quizlet: the largest library of ready made sets. Suits intro courses with a standard textbook, where someone has probably already made the set.
- Anki: makes no content for you, yet its review intervals can be tuned further than any other app here. It is free and open source on desktop and Android; the iPhone app is a paid purchase. Suits the student who likes writing every card by hand.
- StudyGlen: you can skip signing up, drop in scanned PDFs and have a short explained quiz in roughly a minute and a half. Suits a quick check the night before an exam.
- RemNote: notes, flashcards and quizzes in one workspace with scheduling. Suits the student who wants to take notes and review in the same place.
Most students end up with two of these, one that makes questions and one that holds a library or a hand built deck, and that is a sensible outcome.
Why we weighted scheduling so heavily
The case for scheduling rests on research: the spacing effect shows that reviews spread over days hold up longer than one long session. Our study data, drawn from 1,790 questions answered on WeSolve+ between 24 August and 29 September 2026, adds a second point: 49.6% of wrong answers came from a misunderstood concept, so an app has to explain a miss, not just mark it. In a semester with five courses, the review that nobody schedules usually does not happen, which is why scheduling carried so much weight in this ranking.
How to test any of these in one evening
Take the next lecture you have to learn anyway and put it through two apps from the list. Answer what each produces, then answer again the next evening and compare which questions actually matched what the lecturer stressed. Check what the free tier allowed before it asked for payment. Our guide to studying in college covers the routine around it.
Where first place is the wrong choice
If your course follows a common textbook and a set already exists, searching Quizlet or Knowt is faster than uploading anything. If you enjoy tuning your own review intervals, Anki is the better home. If you want worked maths solutions, none of these seven is built for that. And WeSolve+ has no export to other flashcard apps or to a campus learning platform, which matters if your deck needs to live somewhere else.
Sources used on this page
| What a course needs | WeSolve+ | NotebookLM | Knowt | Quizlet | Anki | StudyGlen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starts from the lecturer's file | Yes: PDF, photo, handwriting | Yes, sources you add | Yes, also slides and recordings | No, sets you make or find | No, you type cards | Yes, PDFs even when scanned |
| Practice questions | Quizzes | Quizzes | Quizzes | Built from sets | None generated | Up to twenty per quiz |
| Cards | Generated | Generated | Generated | Yes | Written by you | None |
| Misses scheduled for later | Yes | No schedule | Yes | Yes | Yes, fully adjustable | No schedule |
| Listen on the way to class | Audio recap | Audio overview | Podcast through Kai | No | No | No |
| Account needed | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
What is the best study app for college students?
It depends on where your exam comes from. If it is written from your lecturer's slides, choose an app that reads your files; our ranking puts WeSolve+ first on that basis, with NotebookLM second. If your course uses a standard textbook, a library app such as Quizlet or Knowt may already have the set.
Which study apps for college are free?
Anki is free and open source on desktop and Android, though its iPhone app is paid. StudyGlen needs no account, and Knowt has a wide free tier. WeSolve+ gives two quizzes and two PDF uploads a day for free. Always check what the free tier generates before you rely on it for a whole semester.
Why is WeSolve+ first if the WeSolve+ team wrote the list?
Because we ranked by one stated criterion, working from your own lecture files, and that is what we built the app for. We disclose the conflict so you can weigh it, and every entry names the student another app suits better.
Last updated: 2026-10-01 · Written with AI assistance and reviewed before publishing.