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.