“Existing AI flashcard tools need an account and a subscription, or they generate cards with no way to check them against the source before you start memorizing something wrong.”
Chi-Wei Lee, on reddit.com ↗
The AI flashcard apps want an account and a monthly fee. cardsmith builds the deck offline from your own PDF, checks every card against the source, and exports to Anki for free.
Speechify charges $29 a month to read text out loud. Earful reads your PDFs, books and photos of pages aloud on your own device, for nothing.
“The popular reading apps lock the basics behind a subscription of around $139 a year.”
IELTS prep sites give you two mock tests and then a paywall. IELTS Mastery Hub gives you all of them and keeps your essays on your own laptop.
“basically every IELTS prep tool out there is SaaS. You get two free mock tests, then a paywall, and your essays and progress data live on someone else's server.”
Test-prep sites charge a ridiculous amount to quiz you on Canada. This one does 500 questions free, no ads, no account.
“While looking for tools to prepare for the test, I found most are either hard to use, full of annoying ads, or ask for a ridiculous amount of money.”
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