Wisdolia

Auto-generate flashcards from any PDF, lecture video or article — review with spaced repetition.

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Wisdolia generating 24 flashcards from a 90-minute YouTube lecture on macroeconomics in under a minute.

90-minute lecture in, 24 flashcards out — in under a minute.

TL;DR

Wisdolia closes the most painful gap in flashcard-based study — making the deck. Quality-of-questions is decent (recall-level by default), the spaced-repetition scheduler is solid, and the YouTube-lecture flow is genuinely impressive.

Recommend it if

A high-school or college student studying for a content-heavy course (med school, AP exams, language vocab) who wants Anki-quality review without the deck-making time sink.

Skip it if

You learn better from explaining out loud than from cards (Khanmigo / NotebookLM are better), or you need application / synthesis questions, not recall.

Quick facts

Platforms: WebChrome extensioniOS
Languages: EnglishSpanishFrenchGermanMandarin+10 more
School fit: 9-12 Higher Ed Adult / PD
Subjects: Scienceslanguageshistoryvocab-heavy subjects
Time to first output: < 2 min
Learning curve: Easy
Setup: Install Chrome extension or use web app
Works offline: —

Real-world use cases

How a teacher, student or parent actually puts this tool to work.

Who	Scenario	Time	Output
Students	AP US History — turn each chapter PDF into a 30-card deck on Sunday, review 10 minutes a day; comes exam week, you've reviewed every card 6 times.	5 min generate + 10 min/day	Spaced-review deck per chapter
Students	Med-school first-year — process every lecture YouTube replay into a deck the same evening; pair with Anki on mobile for commute review.	3 min/lecture	Per-lecture flashcards
Teachers	Vocabulary-heavy unit — generate a deck from your reading list, share with the class as a Quizlet export.	8 min	Class-shared vocab deck

Students
AP US History — turn each chapter PDF into a 30-card deck on Sunday, review 10 minutes a day; comes exam week, you've reviewed every card 6 times.

Time

5 min generate + 10 min/day

Output

Spaced-review deck per chapter
Students
Med-school first-year — process every lecture YouTube replay into a deck the same evening; pair with Anki on mobile for commute review.

Time

3 min/lecture

Output

Per-lecture flashcards
Teachers
Vocabulary-heavy unit — generate a deck from your reading list, share with the class as a Quizlet export.

Time

8 min

Output

Class-shared vocab deck

Wisdolia closes the most painful gap in flashcard-based study: making the deck. The generation flow takes a YouTube lecture, a PDF chapter or a web article and gives you 20-40 cards in under a minute. Spaced-repetition review is built in.

The week-one workflow

Install the Chrome extension
Right-click any PDF / YouTube lecture → Generate Wisdolia deck
Review the deck (delete weak questions, edit a few)
Open daily, review for 10 minutes — the scheduler picks the right cards

For Anki diehards, Wisdolia is a deck-making accelerator — generate, export to Anki, review in your existing system.

What we like

+ Turn a lecture video or PDF into a flashcard deck in 30 seconds
+ Built-in spaced-repetition review (Anki-like algorithm)
+ Chrome extension works on YouTube lectures and academic PDFs
+ Free tier covers 10 decks — enough for one semester

Heads up

− Generated questions skew recall-level — manual edits needed for application questions
− Free tier deck cap hits fast for power users
− Native mobile app is iOS only as of 2026

Pricing breakdown

Pricing

Verified directly on the vendor site. We re-check every quarter.

Free

· 10 decks
· Generate from PDF, video, article
· Spaced-repetition review
· Anki / Quizlet export

Pro

Most useful

$9 /mo (or $59/year)

· Unlimited decks
· Bulk generation from a folder
· Priority generation queue
· Advanced card types (cloze, image)

Edu / Teams

Contact per seat

· Bulk seats with shared deck library
· Teacher-mode dashboards
· Volume discount for class adoption
· Signed DPA on request

Privacy & compliance

What we found in the vendor's terms, DPA, and trust center. Verify with your district before deploying.

FERPA: Partial
SOC 2: Partial
COPPA: Unclear
GDPR: Compliant
Trains on your data: No
Data retention: Decks retained per account; export anytime; bulk delete in settings.
Hosting regions: US · EU

Consumer product first. For under-13 use, parent supervision recommended. Source documents are processed for card generation but not retained for training.

Works with

Chrome (right-click PDF or YouTube)
Anki (export)
Quizlet (export)
PDF (printable)
iOS share sheet

Frequently asked questions

How is this different from manually making Anki cards?

Manual Anki cards are higher-quality because you're processing the material as you make them — that's part of the learning. Wisdolia trades a bit of that for time. Best practice — generate with Wisdolia, then edit ~30% of the cards before reviewing, so you get most of the learning benefit with a fraction of the time cost.

Does it actually use spaced repetition?

Yes — built-in scheduler is SuperMemo-2 family, same as Anki. Card intervals stretch as you mark Easy and tighten as you mark Again. It's not just a flashcard app, it's a real SR system.

Will it generate good questions for application / synthesis?

Mostly recall-level by default ("what year did X happen?"). Pro adds cloze and image cards. For Bloom's-application-level cards, edit them yourself or prompt with "include 'why' and 'how' questions" in the generation step.

Can my teacher push a deck to the whole class?

On the Pro / Edu plan, yes. On free, share via Quizlet export — the class signs into Quizlet, no Wisdolia accounts needed.

Is there a mobile app?

iOS yes, Android via web app for now. Desktop and Chrome extension cover most generation use; mobile is mostly review.