University and college students
Bachelor's, prep classes, vocational degrees, master's: drop your readers, slides and lecture recordings. Mindlet turns them into flashcards and quizzes, spreads your reviews across the semester and gives you a mock exam before the real one.
Mock exam graded /20 Spaced repetition The method
By testing yourself often, at growing intervals, instead of rereading. Rereading a handout feels productive because the text looks familiar. Testing forces you to retrieve the information without seeing it, and that act of recall is what makes it stick (Roediger and Karpicke, Psychological Science, 2006).
The second lever is spacing: spreading reviews over several days beats cramming the night before. A meta-analysis by Cepeda, Pashler, Vul, Wixted and Rohrer (Psychological Bulletin, 2006) pulls the evidence together.
Mindlet does both. It quizzes you rather than making you reread, and it picks the day to review each card.
Understand spaced repetitionWhat you bring
The material you already have is enough. Mindlet reads a PDF as it is, even a scanned one, and you can leave out pages such as the bibliography or appendices. It listens to a lecture recording, transcribes a YouTube video, and can go through a course website of up to fifty pages.
A typical week
Here is what an ordinary week with Mindlet looks like, whatever your degree. No need to block out hours: most sessions fit into a commute.
You drop in the slides and the lecture recording. Mindlet finds the key notions, sorts them into topics and writes the cards while you get on with your day.
Right after the lecture
New cards and cards due for review are waiting. On a flashcard you rate yourself; the other formats are marked automatically.
Fifteen minutes, on your phone
You ask the Mindlet assistant to explain it another way, with an example, then to ask you three questions on it.
Ten minutes, typed or spoken (in French)
You add the tutorial sheet to the same collection. Its cards join the same collection's schedule.
Two minutes
On the train home, you review a collection you had already opened. Your answers are saved and sync when you are back online.
On iPhone or Android
You generate the collection's study guide: definitions, tables, common traps. You can print it from the web app.
For a quick read-through
Six to eight mixed cards, thirty seconds each. You see what holds before next week.
Five minutes
A scenario built from the app's features, not a testimonial.
Scheduling
Every card has its own review date, computed from your answers with the FSRS-6 algorithm. A card you know comes back much later; a card you missed comes back soon. Mindlet starts from average settings and adjusts them every week to your own forgetting rhythm.
So there is no study timetable to maintain by hand. At most one reminder a day, at the time you choose, never during your quiet hours, plus a summary email on Mondays.
Test yourself
Pick the format (multiple choice, written or mixed) and the length. Mindlet builds a paper of up to forty questions from your course, times it, grades it out of 20 and breaks the result down by section and by topic.
In practice
The memory work is still yours. Mindlet handles the parts that teach you nothing: copying and scheduling.
| The step | By hand | With Mindlet |
|---|---|---|
| Preparing material | Copying handouts into notes, then into questions | Cards and a study guide are drawn from the document; you edit whatever doesn't suit you |
| Choosing what to review | Rereading the whole chapter, or whatever feels shaky, by guesswork | Each card comes back on its own date, computed from your answers |
| Testing yourself | Redoing past papers, when there are any | A practice exam built from your course, graded out of 20 |
| Understanding a notion | Searching online for another explanation | Asking the Mindlet assistant, which knows your collections |
| Studying with others | Quizzing each other, with no record of what you know | A shared collection and one-on-one challenges |
Together
A collection can have several members: everyone reviews the same cards at their own pace. With friends, you can send one-on-one challenges, and messaging lets you start a group conversation. If a lecturer runs a live quiz, you join it with a code.
Challenges and live quizzes
Budget
The free plan has no time limit and needs no credit card. Reviewing never costs anything, whatever your plan. Paid plans, from €4.99 a month on the web billed yearly, give you more generation capacity. There is no student discount at the moment.
See pricing To be clear
FAQ
The one that makes you test yourself on your own courses, at growing intervals. Mindlet creates cards from your documents, schedules reviews with spaced repetition and offers a practice exam graded out of 20. If you prefer to build every card by hand, Anki remains a reference. Our comparisons go through the differences.
Test yourself instead of rereading. Upload all your courses on day one, take the placement test to see what you already know, then do a session every day. Sit a practice exam mid-week and work through your mistakes. A week leaves little room for spacing, so starting earlier remains the best advice.
One collection per subject, with each lecture added the same day. A short daily session is enough to keep up, since Mindlet decides which cards to review. Before exams, one practice exam per subject shows where to focus. In first year the hard part is consistency, and the daily reminder helps with that.
Not at the moment. The free plan has no time limit and lets you import courses and review, and reviewing never costs anything. Paid plans start at €4.99 a month on the web, billed yearly, and promo codes are accepted at web checkout. Details on the pricing page.
Yes, as long as it quizzes you rather than answering for you. Mindlet works on your own courses: it draws questions from them, makes you retrieve the answers and explains a notion when you are stuck. For graded coursework, follow your university's rules on AI use.
The Mindlet app interface is in French for now. Your courses, cards and study guides can be in English: content can be generated in nine languages, including English, Spanish and German. The voice assistant speaks French only.
Drop the handout from your last lecture. Mindlet prepares the cards, you do the reviewing.
Free to start, no credit card · Web, iPhone, iPad and Android
