Comparison

Synapsi vs CanQuiz

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β€” with what reviewers say about each.

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Synapsi

Features
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Most study apps make the flashcards. Synapsi checks you actually learned them. Turn any lecture, PDF, or YouTube video into AI flashcards, a quiz, a summary, and a mind map in seconds. Then prove you know it: Synapsi runs real spaced repetition and an AI-judged Feynman teach-back that grades whether you can explain the idea in your own words. MORE SOURCES, SAME STUDY KIT Synapsi also reads web articles and short video links from TikTok, Instagram, X, and Facebook. Paste the link, get the transcript and the full study kit. Free tools (transcript, summarizer, flashcard maker) live at synapsi.guru/tools and need no account. Synapsi is free to download and includes a free preview: your first study kit, with a sample of its flashcards, quiz, and summary. Full study kits and the AI study tools below require a Synapsi Pro subscription or one-time lecture credits. WHAT SYNAPSI DOES (requires Pro or lecture credits) AI flashcard maker: auto-generate flashcards from any source. PDF to flashcards, YouTube to flashcards, lecture notes to flashcards. Spaced repetition that works: a real SM-2 system schedules reviews at the right time so facts stick. Built for exam prep and revision. Quiz generator: turn your notes into a practice quiz with instant feedback. AI summarizer: get a clean summary of a long PDF or hour-long lecture in seconds. Mind map generator: see how ideas connect with a visual mind map of your material. YouTube transcript and notes: pull the transcript from any video and turn it into study notes, flashcards, and a quiz. Feynman teach-back: explain a concept, and the AI judges your answer against the source and shows your gaps. If you can't explain it, you haven't learned it yet. AI study chat: ask questions about your own notes and get answers with citations. Smart reminders: one nudge a day, built from what is actually due. Set an exam date and Synapsi counts down to it. PERFECT FOR - Students cramming for exams and finals - College and university revision - Med, law, and language learners - Anyone who reads PDFs or watches lectures and wants to remember them WHY IT WORKS Making flashcards feels like studying. It isn't. Real learning is recall and explanation. Synapsi uses spaced repetition to make you recall and the Feynman technique to make you explain. Stop highlighting. Stop re-reading. Start proving you learned it. SUBSCRIPTION & CREDITS Synapsi is free to download. Your first study kit is a free preview. Full access requires a purchase: - Synapsi Pro: unlimited notes and every study tool. An auto-renewable subscription billed monthly or yearly (a one-time Lifetime option is also available). Your subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. - Lecture credits: one-time purchases. One credit buys one full lecture's study kit, with no subscription. The current prices and lengths are always shown on the purchase screen before you buy. TERMS & PRIVACY Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://synapsi.guru/privacy

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CanQuiz

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Practice tests and full mock exams made from your own notes, PDFs and photos. The questions you miss come back until exam day. CanQuiz writes the questions and grades what you answer in your own words. Make a quiz from what you study Paste or type your notes, take a photo of a page, pick photos from your library or attach a PDF. In Create, CanQuiz first tells you what it will make: about how many questions, what type and what level, and you can change it. Tap Generate and it writes the quiz. Save it, or start practicing right away. The AI comes with your account, up to a monthly limit. Create shows about how many more quizzes you can make this month. Want it your way? Ask for a type (one answer, several, true or false, written) and a level, up to 100 questions in one request, within your monthly limit. Take a mock exam A full mock exam follows your exam’s rules: the time, how many questions and the pass mark. Hand it in and see your score and whether you pass, review every answer, then practice the ones you missed. You get one full mock per exam each week. Timed practice has a clock and shows the answers at the end, as often as you like. Your sources Keep the exam’s PDFs and photos in its folder, up to 5 per folder. Open one to see its pages, pick the ones you want and make questions from them. Ask your sources a question and get an answer from your own pages, with the source and page it comes from, up to 20 questions a month. Answer it like the exam A question can have one correct answer, several, true or false, or a written answer. Check each answer as you go and read the explanation. The AI grades your written answers, and What did I miss? shows what you left out. You set how strict it is, from Lenient to Examiner. If you stop halfway, Continue takes you back to the same question, even on another device. At the end, practice only the ones you got wrong, or do another round. Practice what's due Questions in your practice come back when it's time to see them again (spaced repetition). Home shows what's due today, and you answer in the same player. Got one right by guessing? Tap I guessed and it comes back sooner. Due questions work offline too: your answers are saved on the phone and sync when you're back online. Exam dates and folders Put quizzes in a folder and give it an exam date. Its quizzes take that date, and due questions are spread out to reach it. Practice the folder in one mixed round, or choose what goes in: due questions, mistakes or new ones. Or start Timed practice: there’s a clock, and you see the answers at the end. Notifications Turn on only the ones you want: a daily reminder when questions are due, at the time you usually practice; a notice 7 days and 1 day before an exam date; a practice round on the morning of the exam; and a note when a quiz you left generating is ready. Reminders and exam notices come at most twice a day, and never during your quiet hours. On the web Your account works on the web too, at app.canquiz.com. Quizzes you make or change there show up on your phone. On the web you can also build a quiz by hand or export your quizzes. I'm Michel from CanQuiz. If something doesn't work or you'd like something added, write to me at hello@canquiz.com.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CanQuiz at none against Synapsi's 2. CanQuiz also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). Synapsi's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Synapsi sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. CanQuiz asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 3 level
Synapsi versus CanQuiz: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSynapsiCanQuiz
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac β€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.016.4 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size82 MB63 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperKhoa TranMICHEL FERNANDO RODRIGUES FLORES

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Synapsi

Subscriptions2
  • Synapsi Pro Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Synapsi Pro Yearly3 Days trial$48.001 Year
None

CanQuiz

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Synapsi free?
Synapsi is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CanQuiz free?
CanQuiz is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Synapsi or CanQuiz have ads?
Neither Synapsi nor CanQuiz shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Synapsi or CanQuiz?
Synapsi ships an update every 3 days, and CanQuiz every 3 days. Most recently, Synapsi was updated on October 28, 2026 and CanQuiz on November 1, 2026.

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