FAQ
Questions.
Answers.
The things students actually ask before they upload a lecture: how accurate the questions are, what you can drop in, whether it beats Anki for boards, and what the free tier covers.
The basics
What is Studyly?+
Studyly turns any lecture slide deck, PDF, textbook, or YouTube lecture into about 200 multiple-choice practice questions in 60 seconds. The questions are built from your professor's actual material, not pulled from a generic web question bank, and they scored 81.3 on a held-out three-document eval where Turbolearn scored 57.8. It runs on Jungle, the study app used by 1M+ students.
See the 60-second flow→Is this another tool I have to learn?+
No. Drag a PDF in, click Generate, you get 200 questions. The whole flow is under a minute, and the deck is ready to drill the same night you upload the lecture.
How is this different from ChatGPT or Gemini?+
ChatGPT and Gemini will draft questions, but they don't enforce a quality rubric, don't track which ones you've gotten right, don't reword on revisit so you can't pattern-match the answer, and don't run spaced repetition. Studyly does all four, and scored 81.3 on a held-out eval against Turbolearn's 57.8 on the same documents.
Full side-by-side comparison→How do I know the questions are accurate?+
Every question is generated against the document you uploaded and anchored to the slide or page it came from, so 'explain my mistake' references the original source. A rubric scores each question on factual correctness, clarity, and distractor quality before it ships; off-spec questions get rewritten or dropped. That gate is why the eval score is 81.3 and not the roughly 68 average across the tools we benchmarked.
Read the eval methodology→Sources, formats & exports
What sources can I drop in?+
Lecture slides (.pptx, Google Slides), PDFs (textbooks, scanned chapters, lecture handouts), YouTube lectures, your own notes, and study guides. One source or thirty in a folder.
What question formats do I get?+
Multiple-choice with realistic distractors, free-response prompts, case-style scenarios, and image-occlusion flashcards for anatomy. All four formats from the same source. All editable. All exportable to Anki.
Can I export to Anki?+
Yes. Studyly's flashcard format is one-click exportable to .apkg, including image-occlusion cards, with a namespaced note type so the import sits alongside AnKing without overwriting any card, tag, or filtered deck.
The Anki two-deck split, explained→Is there a mobile app?+
Yes. Studyly runs on the web, iOS, and Google Play, so you can drill on your phone between classes. Your decks sync across devices, so a deck you generate on a laptop is waiting on your phone.
Quality & coverage
What subjects work best?+
Memorization-heavy subjects: med school, dental, nursing, pharmacy, PA, vet, pre-med, anatomy, immunology, microbiology, history, and literature. Math concept questions work; step-by-step computational problem-solving is weaker.
Is it good enough for USMLE Step or NCLEX boards?+
For boards, keep your community decks. AnKing, Zanki, and UWorld are years of curation no generator replaces in a year. Studyly's edge is your professor's class slides, where no community deck exists. The honest move is a two-deck split: community decks for Step 1, Step 2, and NCLEX, Studyly for the class exam pulled from those slides.
When each tool actually wins→Pricing, account & privacy
Is there a free tier?+
Yes, freemium. Click Get Started to grab access, no credit card. The free tier lets you generate and drill; the paid plan unlocks unlimited generation and the full export.
Will my email be spammed?+
No. One welcome email with your access link. We don't sell or share your email.
Can I cancel anytime?+
Yes. The free tier never expires, and the paid plan can be cancelled anytime from your account. Decks you've generated stay yours either way.
Is my uploaded material private?+
Your uploads are used to generate your questions and aren't sold or shared. Studyly is cloud-based, so it isn't a fully offline tool; if you need an air-gapped option that never touches a server, it isn't the right fit.
Privacy policy→About Studyly
What about the gamification?+
You grow a tree per study deck and traverse a river across decks. Weekly leagues (sprout → fern → banana, Duolingo-style) put you in cohorts of 30 students competing on study streaks. It's the mechanic that turns five minutes a night into a daily habit instead of falling asleep at the desk.
Who's behind Studyly?+
Studyly runs on Jungle, built by David Glass and Julian and used by 1M+ students across med, dental, nursing, pharmacy, vet, and PA schools, with roughly 7,000 new students signing up each week.
The founding story→What's the relationship between Studyly and Jungle?+
Studyly is the front door; the app itself is Jungle. When you click Get Started, you're sent to Jungle's free tier at app.jungleai.com with a one-click access link. Same product, same account, no separate signup.
Still wondering?
Drop a lecture and watch it.
Upload your next slide deck, get 200 questions in 60 seconds, and decide for yourself. Free tier, no credit card, one welcome email.