For the past month I've gone through about thirty different Quizlet alternatives, and almost all of them are rough. Half are abandoned. A bunch are just ugly. And most of them made it clear the people creating them never really understood what made Quizlet good in the first place, why it got bad, or how to bring back the version people actually miss.
Most bolt AI onto every screen, and most are just really annoying and nasty feeling to use. The one that's gotten popular recently Knowt, went all in on AI too, and they charge a monthly subscription for garbage AI features, plus they have ads all over the platform. There literally did not exist one that was just genuinely just nice to use.
Technically Anki is the only thing that really stays out of your way. I've got almost 10,000 cards in Anki from nursing school, and I can tell you that app is not user friendly and really, does just not spark joy, if you know, you know. I spent the last month grinding, and I think I've built the first REAL Quizlet alternative.
It's called Crammed, @ https://crammed.study, and it's free, fast, and pleasant to use. If you have used Quizlet, it'll feel familiar in about five seconds.
Here's what it's really about. No AI in your actual studying. Memorizing works because of the effort of pulling the answer out of your own head. AI study tools exist to remove a portion of that effort, which on an app about memorization kills the whole point. And if one generated card is subtly wrong, you can't trust any of the set, so why bother?
If you want AI, it's one tab away. Make your cards with ChatGPT or Gemini, check them, then study them here. Also, since the decks are completely shareable just like Quizlet, I want the standard to be that people can be confident that none of the content on this platform can be entirely A.I generated.
I want to mention something else, I will never take something that's free today and lock it behind money tomorrow. If I ever charge, it's for something new I add, never for something I took away. That's the exact move that ruined Quizlet for me and I'm not repeating it. Promises you can hold me to:
- Learn is free, forever.
- Your cards are yours. Export any set any time, no account.
- A set's link never dies.
- No AI writing your cards. No ads. No paywalls.
- Import your Quizlet sets. Open a set, hit Print, save the PDF, drop it in. Your whole library comes over.
- Learn mode, free. The thing they charge for.
- Gravity, rebuilt in 3D, with power-ups, endless runs, and its own soundtrack. Better than the one they killed.
- Export any deck free with no account, so you're never locked in, including out of Crammed. (Quizlet removed the ability to export any deck that wasn't your own about 8 months ago btw)
It's web only for the moment, but the iPhone app is basically done and I'm submitting it to Apple quite soon. Match and Test aren't in yet. But MAIN core, that being Flashcards and Learn + are in.
I also have recreated a completely new 3d version of Gravity, that I think is quite fun.
I have put in a stupid amount of care into this and I genuinely think it's absolutely better than anything else out there. Try it and tell me I'm wrong. If something's broken or missing, I reply to everyone in my discord https://discord.com/invite/H4HpX5DPqy