It is Sunday and the pharmacology block runs to sixty-eight slides, four of them titled Overview. Your own notes from those lectures sit in a second file, and the photo of the whiteboard from Thursday is somewhere on your phone. None of it is a document you can sit down and read.
Studyflash makes an AI summary of your notes and your lecture material. You upload what you already have, choose how long and how deep it should be, and get back something written to be read rather than presented from. It comes out of the same upload as your cards and your quiz.
What you can turn into a summary
Slides, scripts and PDFs
The slide deck, the reading, the script your department hands out, or plain text pasted straight in. Start from what the lecturer put in front of you.
Photos of your handwritten notes
A photo or a scan of what you wrote in the lecture counts as material, so what lives only in your handwriting is not lost.
A lecture you record in the room
Record the class on your laptop or phone, and the transcript comes back as a summary, flashcards and a quiz.
A blank page
If you would rather write it yourself, the editor opens empty.
Built from what your lecturer actually taught
A summary you find online covers the topic the way its author learned it. You are examined on the way your own course taught it: that emphasis, that notation, the two case studies your lecturer keeps returning to. A summary from your own upload keeps all of that.
Two styles, and how deep you want it to go
A general overview, for orientation and for the seminar on Tuesday. Or an in-depth write-up that works through each topic properly. Before generating you set length, complexity, format and whether reflection questions come with it. The depth setting decides whether you return to the summary or read it once.
The summary is the first pass, the cards are the second
Reading puts the shape of a topic in your head, so the details have somewhere to sit. That is the first pass. The second is being asked and having to answer, which is what the flashcards from the same upload are for, and the mind map shows how the topics connect.
Editing, exporting and reading it on your phone
The summary is rich text you can edit, and it saves as you type. Rewrite the section your lecturer explained differently, add the worked example from the seminar, cut the pages you already know. Export to PDF when you want it on paper. The same summary is in the phone apps, so the tram counts as reading time.
Three points in the term where it earns its place
The exam period in January, with four subjects and a backlog of recorded lectures from November. An overview of each block tells you which one you are actually behind on.
A reading week in law or history, where the material runs to hundreds of pages and the seminar question is one paragraph. The in-depth style is built for that volume.
A resit in August, months after the lectures ended. Your notes are still in the course, and a summary from them puts you back where you were in May.
What a summary will not do
It is only as good as what goes in: a clean PDF or a legible photo gives you a document worth revising from, so the page shot in a dark hall is worth taking again.
Reading is also not recall. A summary you have read twice feels learned, and the test of whether it is comes from being asked, which is what the cards and the quiz do.
Free to start
Flashcards, quizzes, spaced repetition and a monthly allowance of AI generations are on the free plan, so your first summary costs nothing and no card is needed to sign up. What each plan includes is on the pricing page; prices are set per country and shown at checkout.
Questions and answers
You choose it when you generate, from the same twenty-seven languages the app runs in. English slides can come back as a Dutch summary, or the other way round.
On the web, formulas render as maths in the summary editor and in the PDF export. Formula-heavy subjects are still better worked through in the quiz or with Max.
Max has read your decks and sources, so you can ask in the chat. Chat is unlimited on every plan, the free one included; generating material from the chat is part of Premium.
On the phone apps, yes. Summaries, flashcards, quizzes and mind maps sit on the device, and review progress syncs once you are back online. Generating anything new needs a connection.
Export it to PDF and send the file, or share the deck by link: whoever opens it saves their own copy, which they can then edit without touching yours.