SnapDeck AI
Snap it, done
A textbook page, a lecture slide, your own scribbles. Take the photo and you have a deck before you've found a pen.
Snap your notes.
Ace the exam.
Point your camera at your textbook, lecture slides or messy handwriting — SnapDeck AI turns them into flashcards in seconds. Free, offline, no account.
- Free to start
- Works with no wifi
- No account, ever
- Secondsfrom photo to full deck
- 100%on-device AI
- Zeroaccounts or uploads
- 39languages
Features
Everything between you and a better grade
No setup, no subscriptions to figure out, no 40-minute detour into making the cards before you can start studying.
Your phone does the thinking
Apple Intelligence runs the whole thing on your iPhone. No loading spinner waiting on someone's server, no signal required.
Nothing leaves your phone
No sign-up, no email, no upload. Your notes stay yours — which also means nobody can lose them for you.
Study that actually sticks
Flip, answer, mark it Know it or Review. SnapDeck keeps score so you stop re-reading the stuff you already know.
- Photos & slides — pages, whiteboards, projector shots
- PDF import — drop in a handout or reading list
- Type it yourself — when you already have the text
- Streaks & XP — a reason to open it again tomorrow
- Progress stats — see what's mastered, honestly
- Airplane mode — the AI doesn't need a connection
- Dark mode — built for the 1 a.m. session
- 39 languages — study in the one you think in
How it works
Three steps. One of them is taking a photo.
1 Snap it
Point at your notes
Textbook, lecture slide, whiteboard, or the handwriting only you can read. PDFs and plain text work too.
2 Get your deck
Cards write themselves
On-device AI pulls out the questions worth asking and writes the answers. Not quite right? Edit any card in a tap.
3 Quiz yourself
Then actually study
Flip, answer, be honest. Cards you miss come back. Your streak, XP and stats keep the momentum going.
Streaks & stats
The bit that keeps you coming back
Studying once is easy. SnapDeck is built around the second, third and tenth time — with just enough scoreboard to make it stick.
- Streaks and XPShow up daily, watch the number go up. Petty, effective.
- Honest progressPercent mastered per deck and per week — not "time spent studying".
- A deck per subjectBiology, Spanish, whatever Thursday's exam is. Due cards surface first.
The maths
30 seconds vs. 30 minutes
Making flashcards by hand is studying, sort of. It's also the reason most people never get to the studying part.
| By hand | With SnapDeck | |
|---|---|---|
| Building a deck from one chapter | 20–40 minutes of copying | Seconds |
| Getting text off a photo | You retype all of it | Read for you |
| PDFs and lecture handouts | Print it, then copy it | Import it straight in |
| Studying with no signal | Fine — if you brought the cards | Everything runs offline |
| Knowing what you've mastered | Two piles and a feeling | Tracked card by card |
| Losing them the week before finals | Genuinely possible | They're on your phone |
| What it costs | Index cards, pens, your evening | Free to start |
Who it's for
Made for the way you actually study
Different subjects, same problem: too much material, not enough evenings.
The volume problem
Med, bio, law — hundreds of terms per module and no realistic way to hand-write cards for all of them. Photograph the chapter, get the deck, spend your time on recall instead of transcription.
Uni & med studentsVocab from anywhere
A page of new words, a menu, a slide from class. Snap it and you have a vocab deck for the bus ride home — no signal needed, which is the point when you're abroad.
Language learnersThe finals-week rescue
It's Tuesday, the exam is Thursday, and the notes are a mess. Turn what you have into questions tonight and spend Wednesday finding out what you don't know yet.
High school & A-levels
Pricing
Free to study. Premium if you're serious.
No trial countdown, no card required to start. Upgrade only when the free limits get in your way.
Free
Free
Enough for a normal week of studying.
- 3 new decks every month
- Photo, PDF and typed input
- Full study mode, streaks and stats
- Works offline, no account
Premium
One-time
Buy it once, keep it. No subscription.
- Unlimited deck creation
- Unlimited document length
- Unlimited cards per deck
- Everything in Free, obviously
Premium is unlocked inside the app. Current pricing is shown on the App Store.
From the blog
Study smarter — the science
Short, practical reads on why some studying sticks and most of it doesn't.
What is active recall and why it feels harder than re-reading
If re-reading notes feels productive but the results disappear fast, you are not the problem — your method is. Active recall is the fix, and it starts by making studying feel worse before it gets better.
Read it →
How to catch up on a semester of notes you never reopened
You have three months of lecture notes, PDFs, and photographed whiteboards piling up in front of you. The first step is not to study — it is to sort, triage, and pick the twenty percent that will actually get asked.
Read it →
How to study from bullet-point lecture slides when they say nothing
You open the slides, stare at a screen full of fragments — 'mitochondrial membrane transport', 'three phases of translation', 'key factors in X' — and you know, with growing dread, that this is your entire revision resource. Bullet points are the enemy of real understanding.
Read it →
FAQ
Fair questions
Is it really free?
Yes — three new decks a month, and everything else (studying, streaks, stats, offline use) is included. Premium is a one-time purchase that removes the deck, document length and card limits. No subscription, no trial that quietly charges you.
Does it work offline, in a lecture hall with no wifi?
That's the whole idea. The AI runs on your iPhone, so making decks and studying both work in a basement seminar room, on a train, or in airplane mode.
Can you see my notes?
No. There's no account and nothing is uploaded — your photos, PDFs and decks stay on your device. Details are in the privacy policy.
What subjects and languages does it handle?
Anything text-based: biology, history, law, medicine, computer science, vocabulary, and so on. The app itself is available in 39 languages, and it builds decks from material in the language you're studying.
Will it read my handwriting?
Usually. Clear handwriting in decent light works well; a rushed page photographed in a dark room is harder. You can edit any card afterwards, or type the text in yourself.
Which iPhones does it need?
An iPhone with Apple Intelligence — iPhone 15 Pro or later, running iOS 26. That's what makes the on-device AI possible.
Your next exam is closer than you think.
Your flashcards don't have to be.
Download SnapDeck AI, photograph one page, and see how long it takes.
Requires iOS 26 and Apple Intelligence · iPhone 15 Pro or later