Deckify vs Etch

Turn your notes into flashcards in seconds. Deckify uses AI to instantly convert your handwritten notes, textbook pages, slides, and typed text into study-ready flashcards — then helps you remember them with the most effective spaced repetition algorithm available. HOW IT WORKS Point your camera at any notes or text. AI generates a complete flashcard deck in under 15 seconds. Study on your own schedule — the app knows exactly when to show each card. SMART STUDY SCHEDULING Powered by FSRS, the same next-generation spaced repetition algorithm used by top students worldwide. Rate each card (Again / Hard / Good / Easy) and Deckify calculates the optimal time to review it — so you study less but remember more. WHAT YOU CAN SNAP Handwritten lecture notes, textbook and workbook pages, whiteboards and slides, printed formulas and diagrams, typed or pasted text. FEATURES Camera-first: snap a photo in one tap. Supports complex subjects: math equations and code render properly on cards. Chat-style generation: add images, text, and refinement instructions in one session. Extend any deck with AI-suggested cards at any time. Manual card creation and editing. Study sessions end with a performance summary. Unlimited decks, unlimited studying — always free. FREE TIER 15 AI generations in your first month, 5 per month after that. Studying, editing, and manual card creation are free forever. PRIVACY Images are processed and immediately deleted from our servers. They are never stored or used for training.

Etch is a place for the things you want to remember. It sits somewhere between a notes app and flashcards: quick to capture, gentle to revisit, without the pressure of a study app. Capture in whatever way is fastest. Type a quick note, dictate it with your voice, or clip a passage while you read. In Safari, select the text and send it with the Share button in the toolbar, and Etch keeps both the passage and a tappable link back to its source. Every card is either a simple fact or a question with an answer. A question gives you a small moment of recall before you reveal the answer, which is what makes revisiting feel like reminiscing rather than testing. Revisit a handful at a time, whenever you feel like it. No streaks, no due dates, no counts piling up. You come back to what you saved because you want to, not because an app is nudging you. Optional on-device AI. On supported devices, Etch can help shape what you capture into a clean card. It is entirely optional, it runs on your device, and it only ever works on the text you enter. Nothing is sent away to do it. Made to travel. The interface is in English and French, and you can create cards in many supported languages, so your notes stay in whatever language you think in. Yours, and private. Your cards sync across your own devices with iCloud, and you can export a full backup any time. Etch collects no data about you.