How we ranked these apps
This list ranks the apps a student is most likely to move to when Quizlet's paywall gets in the way. Each app was placed on what it gives free (especially Learn-style study and practice tests), how easily your Quizlet sets come across, whether it schedules reviews with spaced repetition, what its AI does and costs, and what its own policies say about your uploads. Every price and limit on this page was read on October 25, 2026 and carries its link.
Knowt is first because it is the closest like-for-like swap: your sets come over in one click and the study modes Quizlet now sells are free. Anki is second for students who memorise over months or years and want proven spaced repetition with no ads and no bill. Gizmo, Brainscape and StudyFetch each suit a narrower kind of student, as their cards say.
What changed at Quizlet
Quizlet still lets you make and study your own sets as flashcards and Match for free, but Learn and Test give free users only a short preview. Even paying does not remove every limit: Quizlet Plus costs $35.99 a year and allows 20 Learn rounds and 3 practice tests a month, and only Plus Unlimited, at $44.99 a year, drops the caps. Those figures come from iTechGuides and Fiveable, who read Quizlet's upgrade page in August and September 2026; Quizlet's own pages returned errors to automated reading.
Students in a teacher's class are the exception: they get unlimited, ad-free Learn and Test on the sets assigned to that class. Quizlet's Q-Chat tutor ended around June 2025, and in 2026 Quizlet bought Coconote, an AI note-taker for recordings, and launched an app inside ChatGPT. On Trustpilot, Quizlet scores 1.4 out of 5 from 662 reviews, mostly about the paywall, ads and charges after cancelling.
Moving your Quizlet sets
There are two ways to bring a set across. Knowt and Gizmo import it straight from Quizlet: Knowt's Chrome extension works from the set's page, and Gizmo's Magic Import takes the set's link.
Anki and Brainscape need a text export first, and Quizlet allows an export only for sets you created, not for copies of other people's sets. Images and audio do not come across in a text export, so check cards with diagrams after you import them into Anki or Brainscape.
Flashcard app or AI study workspace
The apps here split into two kinds.
- Flashcard apps with spaced repetition (Anki, Brainscape, and Knowt's and Gizmo's study modes) show you each card again just before you would forget it. They suit vocabulary, definitions and anything you must remember for months.
- AI study workspaces (StudyFetch, and Knowt's and Gizmo's paid AI tools) turn your slides, PDFs and lectures into notes, flashcards and practice tests. They save time before an exam, but the cards are only as good as the AI's reading of your material, so check them.
For age and school data: Knowt and Gizmo set the minimum age at 13, Brainscape's privacy policy states COPPA and FERPA compliance, and Knowt's covers school accounts under both. Anki keeps your cards on your own device unless you turn on sync.
What public comparisons show
No independent test has run these apps on the same notes. Most published "Quizlet alternatives" lists are written by companies that sell a study app, including Fiveable and Brainscape itself. The exceptions are small: a student writer at The Algonquin Harbinger found Knowt's free Learn mode the main reason to switch, while noting its frequent ads, and Fritz.ai's 20-hour review found Knowt's Quizlet import smooth and its lecture flashcards accurate.
Among Reddit comments gathered by GummySearch, Anki has the most mentions and the best rating (4.6 out of 5 from 89), ahead of Quizlet (3.9 from 32). For StudyFetch, tl;dv's hands-on review found it useful for single-subject exam revision but not for language lessons or recordings with several speakers.
- Studley AI turns slides and PDFs into study sets, but its free plan allows each feature about once a day, it has no Quizlet import, and its own site text could not be read, so its prices come only from App Store listings.
- Mindgrasp is an AI note-taker and summarizer with flashcards and quizzes but no flashcard study mode; its trial needs a card and turns into a paid plan, and most of its 135 Trustpilot reviews are one-star complaints about such charges.
- Solvely is mainly a photo homework solver. Its privacy policy says your inputs and the AI's answers may be posted publicly on the web, without your name.
- Studocu is a site for sharing students' notes and past exams, with AI quizzes as a side feature; hosting past exams has raised copyright and exam-leak questions.
Homework solvers such as Solvely, and the Solve tab in Studley, give step-by-step answers to a photo of a problem. Using them on graded work can break your school's rules; Solvely's own Honor Code bans presenting its answers as your own work on assessments. The flashcard apps on this list quiz you on your own material instead.