Quizlet alternatives: five free plans, and where your sets go

What Quizlet still gives you for free

A free Quizlet account still covers flashcards, practice questions, interactive diagrams and activities. Study Guides, Learn, Test, Expert Solutions and offline studying come with a subscription. Quizlet Plus has monthly usage limits on those tools, and Plus Unlimited is the higher tier (Quizlet help).

Learn has two exceptions. Without a subscription you can start a free session to try it. And if a teacher adds a set to a Quizlet class, everyone invited to that class can use Learn and Test on that set for free (Quizlet help). If your course already runs on Quizlet, ask your teacher to add the sets to a class.

Quizlet Plus purchases on the US App Store start at $9.99 (App Store). The listing doesn't say which price is monthly and which is yearly, so check the upgrade screen for your price. If Plus isn't worth it to you, the five apps below have free plans.

The five alternatives at a glance

Every competitor's price and feature below comes from its own pages and app store listings. Top of Class facts come from our product documentation. Top of Class is my own app, so it comes first and carries the label. Read its entry with that in mind.

How to move your Quizlet sets

Quizlet lets you export sets you created yourself. On the Quizlet website, open the set, choose Export from the more menu, pick how terms and definitions are separated, and copy the text. Two limits matter. You can't export a set you copied from someone else, and images don't come with it (Quizlet help).

Anki imports plain-text files with fields separated by tabs, commas or semicolons. Pick tab between term and definition, paste the text into a .txt file, and import it (Anki manual). Knowt skips the export step. Its Chrome extension copies a set you have open in the browser, so you'll need a computer for the move (Knowt). Top of Class can't import Quizlet sets, so starting there means writing new cards or having Atlas draft them from your notes.

1. Top of Class: cards drafted from your own notes (ours)

I build Top of Class, so this entry has a conflict of interest. It has no Quizlet import, and students can't share sets with each other, so there's no library of student-made sets like Quizlet's. It's for students whose problem is making cards in the first place. I started it after about eight years of using Anki, because I wanted less manual work while keeping Anki's core way of learning.

You paste lecture notes or a textbook passage, and Atlas, the AI card writer, drafts recall cards from it. You decide which ones to keep. Reviews use spaced repetition with two buttons, Again and Good, and the app decides when each card comes back. Tend collects the cards you keep missing, and Atlas suggests a clearer version that you can accept or ignore.

Writing cards by hand and reviewing them is free. Atlas drafting, Atlas's Tend repairs and sync between iPhone and web need Scholar, a subscription bought in the App Store. Atlas reads pasted text only, not PDFs, and there's no Android or iPad app. On iPhone you can import an Anki deck. See how it works.

2. Knowt: the closest free swap for your Quizlet sets

Knowt sells itself as a Quizlet replacement. Install its Chrome extension, open a Quizlet set, and choose "Open in Knowt" to copy it across (Knowt). Knowt says its Learn mode, matching game, spaced repetition and practice tests are free with unlimited rounds (Knowt).

Ultra adds an ad-free experience and AI summaries of PDFs, videos and lecture recordings, at $149.99 billed yearly or $24.99 a month (Knowt plans). Knowt runs on the web, iPhone and Android (Knowt mobile).

3. Anki: free, and built for remembering a course for months

Anki is free on Windows, Mac, Linux, in the browser through AnkiWeb, and on Android through AnkiDroid, and syncing between them is free (Anki). The official iPhone app, AnkiMobile, is a one-time $24.99 on the US App Store (App Store).

Every card gets its own review schedule. With FSRS turned on in the deck options, Anki brings each card back when your chance of recalling it drops to a target you set, 90% by default (Anki manual). That per-card schedule is why I'd pick it for a cumulative final, a licensing exam or a language. The cost is time. You write or import every card yourself, and the options take a while to learn. For a closer look at the two apps, read Anki vs Quizlet.

4. Brainscape: spaced repetition with confidence ratings

In Brainscape you rate how confident you are in each answer from 1 to 5, and the app uses spaced repetition to time the next review (App Store). The free plan lets you make, import and study unlimited cards of your own, use AI to make hundreds of flashcards, and study 2,500 of its ready-made cards (Brainscape pricing).

Pro is $7.99 a month on the yearly plan and adds unlimited AI cards, unlimited ready-made Certified flashcards, images and sound on cards, and private decks. Brainscape runs on the web, iPhone and Android.

5. RemNote: notes and flashcards in one place

RemNote makes flashcards inside the notes you write, so your notes and your review queue are in the same app. The free plan includes unlimited notes and flashcards, five AI card generations from text, PDFs or slides, and three annotated PDFs. Pro is $8 a month billed $96 yearly, and Pro with AI is $18 a month billed $216 yearly (RemNote pricing). It runs on desktop, iPhone and Android (RemNote).

Which one to pick

Pick by what you used Quizlet for and how long you need to remember it.

• You have a library of Quizlet sets and want Learn and practice tests without paying: Knowt, which says both are free.
• Your teacher already uses Quizlet: ask them to add the sets to a class, which gives you Learn and Test free on those sets.
• A cumulative final, a licensing exam or a language: Anki.
• You want spaced repetition without learning Anki, or a ready-made deck for a standard exam: Brainscape.
• You take notes on a computer and want cards inside them: RemNote.
• You have your own notes and keep putting off making cards: Top of Class.

How this article was made

Researched and drafted with AI assistance from the apps' own help pages, pricing pages and app store listings, then fact-checked against those sources on 13 October 2026. Top of Class details were checked against its code on 20 October 2026.

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