Frequently Asked Questions

Turn your study material into tools that help you remember it. From slides, notes, readings, or recorded lectures, Recall Genie creates Anki flashcards (Basic, Cloze, and Image Occlusion), exam-style multiple-choice quizzes with explanations, and slide-by-slide lecture notes. Everything exports as standard files you keep, most commonly an Anki deck (.apkg).

No. Recall Genie runs entirely in your browser. The only external app you may want is Anki itself, for studying the decks you download.

Only for studying flashcard decks. Anki is free on desktop and Android (AnkiMobile is paid on iOS). Lecture notes, PDFs, and quizzes generated by Recall Genie can also be used entirely without Anki.

PDFs, PowerPoint, Word documents, and images for slide decks; MP4/MOV video and MP3, M4A, or WAV audio for lectures; and .vtt/.srt/.txt transcripts if you already have one. You can drag and drop files anywhere on an upload page and they land in the right place. Scanned or image-based pages are handled by Vision/OCR.

Our flagship feature: add a YouTube link, a video or audio recording, or slides plus audio, and Recall Genie writes organized notes that match what your professor said to what was being shown. It detects slide changes, captures the relevant visual, and aligns the explanation to it. You can review and edit everything, then export a speaker-notes PDF, an annotation PDF, plain text, an Anki deck, or a quiz.

Audio means an audio-only recording (MP3, M4A, WAV): we transcribe it and structure clean notes by concept. Visual means anything with imagery (YouTube, uploaded video, or slides synchronized with audio), where notes are organized around the slides and frames being discussed. Plans track the two allowances separately, in actual minutes of lecture, and monthly allowances reset every month on all plans.

Yes, every free account includes one Lecture Notes generation for a lecture up to 30 minutes, audio or visual, your choice. It's a single lifetime trial rather than a monthly allowance.

Yes, in two ways. Generate original exam-style questions from your material, with plausible distractors and an explanation for every option. Or upload an existing practice exam and get it back as a study deck: the identical questions, with correct answers taken from the exam's own answer key or highlighted answers (detected automatically), plus explanations. Both download as Anki decks.

Yes. Decks can be generated in several visual themes (including the popular Milesdown style), and you choose between Basic and Cloze card formats. Diagrams and figures from your material are included on cards where they help.

Time and consistency. In dense programs you can face hundreds of slides a week; building cards by hand doesn't scale. Recall Genie produces study-ready decks, quizzes, and notes in minutes, grounded in your actual source material, so your effort goes into reviewing rather than formatting.

Match a sample exam copies the style of a practice exam you upload: how long the questions are, whether they use scenarios, and how the answer options are built. Figures and diagrams lets Recall Genie read the charts on your slides, and Ask about them adds questions that show the picture itself, each checked against the real image before it is kept. Deeper explanations (Pro) rewrites every explanation like a teaching assistant would: why the right answer works and why each wrong one is tempting.

• Free ($0): 3 Anki decks and 1 MCQ quiz per month (30-page upload limit), plus one 30-minute Lecture Notes trial.
• Basic ($6.99/month): 30 Anki decks and 10 MCQ quizzes monthly, 5 hours of Audio and 2 hours of Visual Lecture Notes, 5 Vision/OCR generations, 30 Image Occlusion exports, no page limit per upload.
• Pro Monthly ($12.99/month): Unlimited Anki decks, standard MCQ quizzes, Image Occlusion exports, and Audio & Visual Lecture Notes (subject to fair use), plus 10 Vision/OCR generations monthly.
• Pro Annual ($109.99/year, about $9.17/month): Everything in Pro Monthly at the best value. Monthly allowances still reset every month.

Billing is handled by PayPal, and you can upgrade from the Pricing page at any time.

Genuinely unlimited for normal individual studying. Reasonable fair-use protections exist to prevent automated or bulk abuse, such as a cap on the length of a single lecture, but they're designed never to limit a real student's workload.

The Recall Genie Access Fund sponsors complimentary Pro access for students when cost is a barrier: no financial records, no documentation, no judgment. Join the Access Waitlist and we'll reach out as sponsored memberships become available.

Every account can use them. The free plan includes a few runs each month; Basic includes more, plus OCR and AI notebook notes; Pro has no monthly limit on page tools, conversions or AI notebooks. OCR runs share your monthly Vision/OCR allowance.

Yes. Your uploads and generated material become private drafts in your account for you to review, edit, and export. Nothing is posted or shared anywhere.

Use the contact page or email recallgeniehq@gmail.com. Pro subscribers receive priority support, but we respond to everyone.