Some hours of the day are closed to studying. The tram to campus twice a day, the queue at the supermarket, the rowing machine at the gym, the walk back from the library at night. Your hands are busy, your eyes are busy, and your ears are doing nothing at all.
Studyflash turns your notes into a podcast for exactly those hours. Point it at a deck or at a whole course, and you get an episode of two voices working through that material, the way two people talk a topic out.
PDF to podcast, and what else an episode can be made from
A deck you already built
Slides, a lecture script or a photo of your handwritten page become a deck first, and the deck becomes the episode.
A whole course
At course level the episode draws on every deck and source in it, so it covers the term rather than one week.
A lecture you recorded
Record the class in Studyflash, and the transcript it writes becomes material you can hear back in other words.
Why hearing it again is a good second pass
An episode is not where learning a subject starts. It is the pass after the first one: you have read the chapter, you have been through the cards, and now the same ideas arrive in other words, with the links between them said out loud.
That is also the test. A definition you only recognised on paper slides past you when someone explains it differently, and noticing that is worth the ride home. The episode asks you nothing, so it sits beside your flashcards rather than replacing them: the recall still happens with the cards in front of you.
Reading along while it plays
Every episode has a transcript in sync with the audio: tap a line to jump there, or search it when you need one sentence, not the episode. On the phone, the audio keeps going when you leave the app.
Three moments in the term it is made for
The exam period, when the cards for your pharmacology course are built already and the tram ride becomes the third time through them.
A reading-heavy subject like law, where the summary is long and hearing the argument spoken shows you a structure another read-through would not.
A semester abroad, when the lecture was in English and you would rather revise it in the language you think in.
What it does not do
Episodes stream, so listening needs a connection. There is no download, and nothing is kept on the phone for the flight or the metro.
Podcasts are part of Premium. The free plan does not generate episodes, on the web or in the app.
Free to start
An account costs nothing, and the free plan covers flashcards, quizzes, spaced repetition and unlimited chat with Max, with a monthly allowance of AI generations. Podcasts sit on Premium: the plans page sets out what each one includes.
Questions and answers
Yes. Pasted text is an accepted input, the same as a file or a deck you built. What comes back is two voices discussing it, rather than a reading of your page. They have only what you paste in, so give Studyflash the whole set of notes and the episode has more to work with.
Yes. Episodes are generated in any of the languages Studyflash supports, so a lecture you sat through in English can come back to you in the language you revise in.
Podcasts sit on Premium, which includes a monthly allowance of episodes. The free plan covers flashcards, quizzes, spaced repetition and unlimited chat with Max, so your PDF still becomes a deck to work with on Studyflash.
Yes. Max can generate an episode on request, alongside flashcards, quizzes and summaries. Chatting with Max is unlimited on every plan, but having Max generate anything is Premium.
Yes, either because the deck has grown or because you want the material approached differently. Each new episode counts against the monthly allowance that comes with Premium.