The tool on this page is deliberately simple: it reads your text, finds the definition lines, and turns the rest into fill in the blank prompts. It runs entirely in your browser, so nothing you paste leaves this page and no account is needed. The app is the other half of the same idea: it reads a PDF, a photo or a camera shot and writes the cards with AI, which is work text rules cannot do.
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.
Flashcard maker
This is a browser-only tool, 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 card; 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, which is the format Anki and Quizlet both accept.
What the tool on this page actually does
It reads your text one line at a time and applies three rules. A line with a colon or an equals sign becomes a two sided card: the part before the separator is the front, the rest is the back. A line without a separator becomes a fill in the blank prompt, with the longest word removed and kept as the answer. Lines shorter than eight characters are skipped, because a fragment does not make a card worth reviewing. Switching to Quiz prompts shows the same items with the answer labelled, which is the form you want when you are testing yourself rather than flipping. Nothing here is guesswork about your subject; the tool has no knowledge of biology or law, it only has your text.
Why a card you did not write is still worth reviewing
The point of a card is not the writing, it is the retrieval. The 2006 Roediger and Karpicke experiments put numbers on it: one week out, the group that had been tested on a passage was still ahead of the group that had reread it, and the gap had widened rather than closed. Rereading felt like the more productive hour while it was happening, which is the part that catches people. Spacing has a comparable body of evidence behind it. A 2006 review by Cepeda and colleagues pooled 254 experiments and found that the same total minutes, split across several days, beat one uninterrupted block by a wide and repeatable margin. Both findings are about when and how you retrieve, not about who typed the card. That is the argument for generating a deck quickly and spending the saved time on the review itself. Our spaced repetition page explains how the app schedules that review.
Where this tool stops and the app starts
Text rules cannot read a PDF, cannot see a photograph and cannot tell an important sentence from a filler one. If your material is a lecture slide deck, a scanned page or a photo of a whiteboard, there is nothing for the rules on this page to match. That is the work the app does: upload the file and WeSolve+ writes the cards, the explained quiz and a roughly one minute audio recap from the same source. It runs in your browser at wesolveapp.com and as an App Store app on iPhone and iPad. See AI flashcards for what the generated cards look like, and PDF to quiz for the question side.
Getting the deck into the app you already use
The copy button gives you tab separated rows, one card per line, front and back. Anki imports that format directly through File then Import; Quizlet accepts it in the import box when you set the separator to tab. If you would rather keep the deck here, the app stores cards against the file they came from, so a card always points back to the page it was built out of. That matters more than it sounds: a card with no source is a card you cannot check when you get it wrong. Compare the approaches on WeSolve+ and Anki, WeSolve+ and Quizlet and WeSolve+ and RemNote.
Making better cards out of messy notes
Two habits raise the quality of anything a rule based tool can produce. Write one idea per line, because the tool splits on line breaks and a paragraph becomes one unusable card. Put the term first and the meaning after a colon, because that is the pattern that produces a real two sided card instead of a blanked out word. If your notes are already prose, run them through the tool anyway and look at what comes out: the fill in the blank prompts usually show you which sentences carried a fact and which were padding. That is a useful edit pass on your notes even if you throw the cards away.
Free to use, and what the app costs
The tool on this page is free and has no limits, because it costs nothing to run: it never contacts a server. Starting costs nothing, on the web or on an iPhone. The free plan meters the expensive part rather than the cheap one: two file uploads and two quizzes in a day, two audio recaps in a week, two duels in a day. How many cards one upload yields is not capped, because producing them costs nothing once the file has been read. The Premium and Ultra plans raise the daily limits; subscriptions are managed through the App Store. Full numbers are on the pricing page and the common questions are on the FAQ page.
Sources used on this page
- Roediger and Karpicke, Test-Enhanced Learning (2006)
- Cepeda et al., distributed practice meta analysis (2006)
- Dunlosky et al., improving students' learning (2013)
- Hermann Ebbinghaus, the forgetting curve (1885)
- Anki manual, importing text files
- Karpicke and Blunt, retrieval practice and concept mapping (2011)
- Bjork and Bjork, desirable difficulties
- WeSolve+ on the App Store
- MDN, the Clipboard API
- MDN, the details element
- Karpicke and Roediger, the critical importance of retrieval for learning (2008)
- Cepeda et al., spacing effects and the optimal retention interval (2008)
- Kornell and Bjork, is spacing the enemy of induction (2008)
- What Works Clearinghouse, organizing instruction and study
- The Learning Scientists, retrieval practice
- Retrieval Practice, the research library
- Cloze test
- Active recall
- Flashcard
- Spaced repetition
- Testing effect
- Leitner system
- SuperMemo, the SM-2 algorithm
- Anki manual, studying and scheduling
- Anki manual, deck options
- MDN, the textarea element
- MDN, the output element
- W3C, the disclosure pattern
- W3C, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2
| The line you paste | The card it makes | Why that shape and not another |
|---|---|---|
| Term, colon, meaning | Front is the term, back is the meaning | A separator is the only unambiguous signal in plain text |
| Term equals meaning | Same, the equals sign counts too | Notes typed in a hurry use whichever key is nearer |
| A sentence with no separator | Longest word removed, you supply it | Nothing in the line says which half is the question |
| A line under eight characters | Skipped, no card | A fragment is not worth a review slot |
| A heading or a page number | Usually skipped as a fragment | Structure from the document is not knowledge |
| A scanned page or a screenshot | Nothing at all | Rules read characters; only the app reads pictures |
Is this flashcard maker really free?
Yes, and there is no account and no limit. There is no machine on our side doing the work, so there is nothing to charge for. The app is the other half of this and starts free, at wesolveapp.com or from the App Store, with the daily caps listed further down.
Does my text get uploaded anywhere?
No. The tool is a script on this page. Nothing here travels. Open your developer tools, watch the network panel, and type into the box: no request is made, because there is nowhere for one to go. Nothing is requested.
Can I import the cards into Anki or Quizlet?
Yes. The copy button gives tab separated rows, front and back. Anki imports that through File then Import. Quizlet accepts it in the import box when the separator is set to tab.
Why does it use text rules instead of AI?
Because AI needs a server, and a server means uploading your notes, an account and a cost. For a paste and go tool the rules are honest about what they do. When you want AI to read a PDF or a photo, that is the app.
How many cards should one study session cover?
There is no single right number, and any page that gives you one is guessing. What the research supports is spreading the same total minutes across more days rather than piling them into one sitting. Cepeda and colleagues found that pattern across 254 studies.
What happens to lines that are not definitions?
They become fill in the blank prompts: the longest word is removed and becomes the answer. Anything shorter than eight characters drops out; a stray word left over from a bullet list will only waste a review slot.
Last updated: 2026-08-15