INTRODUCTION
Quizlet Plus costs $7.99 a month, or $35.99 if you pay for the year. Plus Unlimited costs $9.99 a month, or $44.99 a year. Those are the numbers on quizlet.com/upgrade today (checked 2026-09-20), and they are the reason you are reading this.
Here is the part no other list will tell you. Knowt - the app that ranks first for this search, the one Google's own AI summary calls the best free Quizlet alternative - now charges $149.99 a year for its Ultra plan, or $24.99 a month (knowt.com/plans, checked 2026-09-20). That is more than three times what Quizlet Plus Unlimited costs. Knowt's free tier is still genuinely free and still the easiest place to land your old sets. But "cheaper than Quizlet" stopped being true above the free line, and every article on the first page of this search still says otherwise.
So this page does something simple and slightly tedious: it opens twenty-four pricing pages, writes down what each one says, and writes down the date. Where a company does not publish a price at all, it says that instead of guessing. Mindomax is our own app and it sits fourth, with the same honest limitation line as everything else.
What Quizlet Actually Costs in 2026
The free tier still exists. It covers making and flipping cards and the Match game. Everything that made Quizlet worth using - Learn mode, practice tests, the AI tools, offline study - is on the other side of the paywall.
All figures from quizlet.com/upgrade, checked 2026-09-20. Note the monthly plan is not eligible for the free trial - the seven-day trial is annual-only. We break the plans down further in what Quizlet Plus costs.
Before You Move: What Quizlet Lets You Take
This is the part that decides your weekend, and not one page-one article states it. From Quizlet's own Help Center (checked 2026-09-20), there are two hard walls.
You can only export sets you created. In Quizlet's words: "If you copied a set from another user, you won't be able to export it." If your revision lives in sets you saved from other students, it is not coming with you.
Images never come with you. "Image exports aren't currently available due to copyright restrictions." Diagrams, anatomy labels, any card where the picture is the question - you rebuild those by hand, on any plan.
What you do get is plain text. Open a set you made, choose Export from the more menu, pick how terms and definitions are separated, and copy. That means the receiving app only needs to accept pasted CSV or tab-separated text. The constraint is Quizlet's, not the new app's.
Of the twenty-four apps below, six document a route for that text. The other eighteen do not say, which is worth knowing before you commit a term's revision to one.
The 24 Apps
1. Knowt - the closest free clone, and now the priciest upgrade
Free tier: unlimited files, live collaboration, storage, and five million browsable sets. A Chrome extension pulls your Quizlet sets across in one click, which is still the single easiest migration here. Ultra costs $12.99/month billed annually at $149.99/year, or $24.99/month (checked 2026-09-20). Limitation: review scheduling adapts frequency rather than running true interval scheduling, so it is stronger for a test next week than for a year of medicine. And the paid tier is the most expensive on this page. We put the two side by side in Knowt vs Quizlet.
2. Anki - free everywhere except your iPhone
Free on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and the web. AnkiMobile for iOS is $24.99, once, forever (App Store, checked 2026-09-20). It runs FSRS natively and has the deepest shared-deck library in existence. Paste your Quizlet export straight in as CSV. Limitation: the least friendly interface here by a distance, and your first deck takes a real evening to configure. More on the cost question in Is Anki Free?.
3. RemNote - notes and cards in the same document
A keyboard shortcut turns any bullet into a flashcard that keeps its context. PDF annotation, image occlusion, SM-2 with an FSRS beta. Free tier: unlimited notes and cards but only three annotated PDFs and five image-occlusion cards. Pro is €8/month or €96/year; Pro with AI is €18/month or €216/year (remnote.com/pricing, checked 2026-09-20). Limitation: it is a note system that grew flashcards, so the learning curve is steeper than a card app.
4. Mindomax - cards from a PDF, a recording or a photo
Our own app, so read this one sceptically. It exists because making cards is the step where people quit. Upload a PDF, record a lecture or photograph handwritten notes and it builds the deck. LaTeX editor, pronunciation in fourteen languages, 450,000+ ready-made cards across USMLE, MCAT, GRE and languages. Free tier: one box, unlimited cards, three AI requests a day. Premium: $0, free until 2028 (mindomax.com/price, checked 2026-09-20). Limitation: no App Store ratings yet, the community is small, and the scheduler is proprietary and not independently benchmarked - the same criticism we make of everyone else below. There is no documented Quizlet importer either; CSV export is published, CSV import is not.
5. Noji - the app that used to be Anki Pro
If you searched for Anki Pro and landed somewhere else, this is why: ankipro.net now redirects to noji.io (checked 2026-09-20). Same app, new name, 6M+ users and 50,000+ pre-made decks, with image occlusion and live collaboration. Limitation: the price is in-app only and not published on the website, it is not affiliated with Anki despite the old name, and the Play rating (3.9) sits well below the App Store rating (4.6).
6. Brainscape - confidence-rated repetition
You rate how well you knew each card from 1 to 5 and weak cards come back sooner. Free Basic covers unlimited cards you made or that were shared with you, spaced repetition and progress tracking. Pro is $7.99/month (brainscape.com/pricing, checked 2026-09-20). Limitation: not FSRS, and the certified expert decks - the main reason to be here - are behind the paywall.
7. Mochi - plain text, no noise
Markdown and LaTeX, image occlusion, optional FSRS, and an interface with nothing on it. Free is $0 forever and genuinely usable offline with unlimited cards, import and export. Pro is $5/month (mochi.cards/pricing, checked 2026-09-20). Limitation: sync across devices - the thing most students need - is the paid feature, and there is no shared deck library at all.
8. MintDeck - FSRS with no subscription
iOS only, launched late 2025. Studying is free: FSRS scheduling, CSV import, full Anki .apkg import with the scheduling history intact, .apkg export, image occlusion, cloze, offline, on-device text-to-speech. AI generation is the only paid part, at $4.99 for 400 credits, one-time, credits never expire (mintdeck.app, checked 2026-09-20). Limitation: no Android, and only 35 App Store ratings so far.
9. Jungle AI - questions from your lecture slides (and Wisdolia now lives here)
If you were looking for Wisdolia, wisdolia.com redirects here (checked 2026-09-20). Upload slides, PDFs, YouTube or textbook pages and it writes multiple-choice, free-response and case questions. Free: 2 generations a month, 30 pages per document, 30 minutes of video, 5 lecture recordings. Pro $6/month billed yearly ($72/year); Elite $15/month billed yearly ($180/year), which adds automatic image occlusion and Step 1 / MCAT templates (jungleai.com/pricing, checked 2026-09-20). Limitation: it generates; it is not a place to live.
10. StudyGlen - FSRS, one-time credits
Paste text or upload a PDF, image, YouTube link or Anki deck and it builds cards on FSRS scheduling. No subscription at all: credit packs at €4.99, €9.99, €24.99 and €49.99, one-time, never expiring, down to €0.17 a credit at the top pack (studyglen.com/pricing, checked 2026-09-20). Limitation: web only, no native mobile app.
11. Zorbi - for people who live in Notion
Connects straight to Notion, with a Chrome extension that makes cards from any PDF or web page, and iOS, Android and web apps. Limitation: no LaTeX, no image occlusion, no AI generation - and you cannot see what it costs without creating an account, because zorbi.app/pricing redirects to the login screen (checked 2026-09-20).
12. QuizRise - quizzes from anything
Text, PDFs, YouTube, PowerPoint and images in; quizzes, flashcards and summaries out, in 55+ languages, with a developer API and export to PDF and CSV. Limitation: the pricing page 404s (checked 2026-09-20), so the free caps are the only terms you can see, and it is a quiz generator more than a study system.
13. Vaia (formerly StudySmarter) - the big free library
Flashcards, practice tests, summaries, progress tracking and offline review, with expert-curated sets for A-Level, GCSE, AP and university subjects. 4.71 on the App Store across 1,531 ratings. Limitation: card creation is still largely manual, and both advertised pricing URLs - /en-us/plans/ and /en-us/pricing/ - returned 404 on 2026-09-20, which makes it hard to budget for.
14. OmniSets - small, cheap, community-funded
Free, with a $3.99/month Patron tier that adds video and audio on cards, ad-free study and larger image uploads (omnisets.com/pricing, checked 2026-09-20). Limitation: tiny team, and the paid tier is framed as patronage rather than a product roadmap.
15. Scholarly - read the free tier twice
Turns sources into flashcards, quizzes, practice exams, podcasts and video lectures. Premium is $12/month or $144/year; Laureate starts at $30/month (scholarly.so/pricing, checked 2026-09-20). Limitation: the "free forever" plan is a demo, not a plan - 3 lifetime AI chat messages, 1 AI creation credit total, 1 file upload total, 5 lifetime quiz questions, 15 lifetime voice minutes.
16. Rember - notes in, cards out
Free covers AI cards from up to 30 notes a month; Pro is $8/month for up to 1,000 (rember.com, checked 2026-09-20). Limitation: built around one job. As a general study home it is thin.
17. Okti - it marks your written answer
Type a free-text answer and the AI says what was right, what was missing and what to revisit, instead of just red or green. Cards generate from uploaded PDFs and notes. Limitation: the pricing page 404s (checked 2026-09-20) - "get started for free" is the only published term - and the scheduling is basic next to the FSRS apps.
18. Gizmo - the gamified one
123K reviews on Google Play at 4.5, updated the day this was written (checked 2026-09-20). Cards from your material, wrapped in streaks and levels. Limitation: the price is in-app only and not on the website, and the scheduling is neither published nor benchmarked.
19. Turbo AI - a note-taker that also makes cards
318K Play reviews at 4.7 (checked 2026-09-20). Records and summarises lectures, then generates questions. Limitation: the price is in-app only, and it is a capture tool rather than a spaced repetition system.
20. Memrise - only if the subject is a language
1.57M Play reviews at 4.2 (checked 2026-09-20). Video of native speakers, strong vocabulary scheduling. Limitation: languages only - if you are revising biochemistry this is the wrong tool however good it is at Spanish - and /pricing and /en/plans both 404, so the subscription price is in-app only.
21. Cram - the old web, still standing
A large open library of user-made sets with a free iOS app (4.19 across 1,238 ratings, updated 2026-08-26). Limitation: both /upgrade and /cram-premium 404 (checked 2026-09-20), there is no Android listing, and it feels its age.
22. AlgoApp (formerly AnkiApp) - listed because you will search for it
On Google Play as "AlgoApp - Flashcards", 4.5 across 4.7K reviews, updated 10 September 2026. It is here for completeness, not as a recommendation. Limitation: despite the old name it has never been affiliated with Anki and it cannot open Anki .apkg decks. We wrote up the confusion in Anki vs AnkiApp.
23. Obsidian with the Spaced Repetition plugin - for the do-it-yourself crowd
Obsidian is free without limits and your notes stay as plain files on your disk; optional Sync is $4/user/month billed annually or $5 monthly (obsidian.md/pricing, checked 2026-09-20). Paste a Quizlet export into a note and the plugin turns it into cards. Limitation: you are assembling a study app out of a note app. Nothing is set up for you, and the flashcard layer is a community plugin, not a product with support.
24. StudyStack - free, open, and nobody is updating it
A free library of user-made sets that has outlived most of its generation. Limitation: the iOS app has two ratings and was last updated in May 2026. Use the website, expect nothing from the app.
The Table
Prices checked 2026-09-20. "Not published" means the company does not state a price on its public website - for several of these the subscription only appears inside the app, which is itself worth knowing before you install one.
A year of each app's paid tier, against the two Quizlet plans people are leaving. Knowt - the app every other list calls the best free Quizlet alternative - now charges $149.99 a year, more than three times Quizlet Plus Unlimited. Prices checked 2026-09-20.
Prices taken from each company's own pricing page on 2026-09-20. RemNote and StudyGlen publish in euros and are shown at their euro figures. Chart by Mindomax.
A Warning About Coconote
Coconote turns up on AI-study-app lists as an independent alternative. It is not. Its App Store listing gives the seller and the developer as Quizlet Inc (verified through Apple's own listing data, 2026-09-20). It is a good app. It is also Quizlet, and if you are leaving Quizlet over pricing policy you should know whose pricing policy you would be moving to.
Why Any of These Beats No System At All
Every app above schedules reviews rather than letting you re-read. That is the whole point, and the evidence for it is older and stronger than any of these companies.
Ebbinghaus showed in 1885 that memory falls away steeply within hours; Murre and Dros replicated it in 2015 and found most people lose 50 to 70 percent of new material inside a day without review. Cepeda and colleagues, across 839 assessments in 2006, found distributed practice beat massed practice in every condition tested. Karpicke and Roediger, in Science in 2008, found students who practised retrieval held roughly 80 percent at delayed testing against roughly 35 percent for those who only re-studied; Rowland's 2014 meta-analysis put the testing advantage at g = 0.50. Dunlosky and colleagues rated only two techniques "high utility" in 2013, and they were these two: practice testing and distributed practice.
FSRS, SM-2, and the Ones That Won't Say
SM-2, written by Piotr Wozniak in 1987, moves each card's interval by a fixed ease factor. It works and it ran Anki for nearly two decades. FSRS, published at KDD in 2022, trains on real review logs instead; the open benchmark shows roughly 20 to 30 percent fewer reviews for the same retention, and Anki adopted it natively in 2023. MintDeck and StudyGlen default to it; Mochi offers it.
Most of the rest run something proprietary. Knowt adapts frequency without true interval scheduling. Mindomax uses its own scheduler. Vaia uses its own. None of these is published or independently benchmarked, ours included. That is not an accusation of poor performance - it means the evidence stays private, and you should weight it accordingly. If you want to read the comparison properly, we wrote it up in FSRS vs SM-2.
The honest summary: the gap between a good algorithm and a mediocre one is real but small next to the gap between using one and not.
So Which One
If you want the shortest possible move and your sets are ones you made, install the Knowt extension and stay on its free tier; just do not assume the upgrade is cheap, because at $149.99 a year (checked 2026-09-20) it is the most expensive option here. If you are studying for something that matters in eighteen months rather than eighteen days, use Anki and pay the $24.99 once (checked 2026-09-20) if you are on an iPhone. If your problem is that making the cards is what stops you, try one of the generators - Mindomax, Jungle AI or MintDeck - and check what the free tier actually allows before you rely on it.
And whichever you pick, export your Quizlet sets first. The ones you copied from someone else will not come, and the images will not come either.
If making the cards is the part that stops you, Mindomax is free to try and free until 2028.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a completely free alternative to Quizlet?
Yes, several. Anki is free on every platform except iOS. Mochi's free tier works offline with unlimited cards. MintDeck charges nothing for studying, only for optional AI generation. Knowt's Basic plan is free and imports your Quizlet sets in one click. Mindomax's Premium tier is $0 until 2028. All prices checked 2026-09-20.
Can I import my Quizlet sets into another app?
Only the sets you created - Quizlet's Help Center states that a set copied from another user cannot be exported. Images cannot be exported at all, on any plan. What you can export is plain text with a separator you choose, so any app that accepts pasted CSV can receive it. Six of the twenty-four apps here document that route: Knowt, Anki, Mochi, MintDeck, StudyGlen and Obsidian.
What does Quizlet cost in 2026?
Quizlet Plus is $7.99 a month or $35.99 a year, and caps Learn at 20 rounds a month with 3 practice tests. Quizlet Plus Unlimited is $9.99 a month or $44.99 a year and removes those caps. The monthly plans are not eligible for the free trial. Checked on quizlet.com/upgrade, 2026-09-20.
Is Knowt still the cheapest Quizlet alternative?
Its free tier is still free and still the easiest migration. Its paid tier is not cheap any more: Knowt Ultra is $149.99 a year, or $24.99 a month, which is more than three times Quizlet Plus Unlimited at $44.99 a year. Checked on knowt.com/plans, 2026-09-20.
Which free Quizlet alternative is best for medical students?
Anki, because of the community decks - AnKing above all - and because FSRS is built in. Among the newer tools, Jungle AI's Elite tier adds Step 1 and MCAT question templates with automatic image occlusion, and Mindomax ships around 10,000 USMLE and 20,000 MCAT cards. MintDeck and StudyGlen both default to FSRS if the algorithm is what you care about.
Is FSRS better than Quizlet's algorithm?
FSRS trains on real review logs and the open benchmark shows 20 to 30 percent fewer reviews at the same retention compared with SM-2. Quizlet's scheduling is proprietary and has never been published or independently benchmarked, so no honest comparison is possible - which is itself the answer.
