About Cram

Why we built Cram

Every student knows the trap. You sit down to study, then spend the first hour copying your notes into flashcards one card at a time. By the time the deck is ready, you're tired, the clock has run out, and you've barely started actually learning the material.

We built Cram to delete that step. Point it at what you're already studying — your own lecture notes, a PDF, a web link, or just a topic you type in — and Cram's AI turns it into a clean set of question-and-answer flashcards in seconds. The hours you used to spend formatting cards go back into the part that matters: recalling, testing, and remembering.

That's the whole idea. Less busywork, more learning, built from the material that's actually on your exam.

What does Cram actually do?

Cram is an AI flashcard app for iPhone. You give it source material and it generates a ready-to-study deck — then it helps you remember those cards using spaced repetition, a long-studied learning method where each card comes back for review right before you'd be likely to forget it.

As you study, you rate how each card felt, and Cram schedules the next review for you. There's no busywork in deciding what to study next: the app spaces out the easy cards and brings back the hard ones more often. Set your exam date and watch the countdown, so you start early and walk in prepared instead of cramming the night before.

Because Cram is offline-first, your decks live on your device and you can review anywhere — on the bus, in a library basement, on a flight — with no connection required. Sign in with Apple, Google, or email and everything syncs to your account when you're back online, so your decks survive reinstalls and new phones.

• Generate flashcards from your notes, PDFs, web links, or any typed topic
• Review with spaced repetition so cards return right before you'd forget them
• Set your exam date and watch the countdown
• Study offline, with your decks stored on your iPhone and synced to your account

What do we believe about studying?

Cram is opinionated, and those opinions come straight from how memory works. The first is that you learn best from your own material — a deck built from your lecture, your textbook chapter, or your reading is far more useful than a stranger's set that half-matches your course. So everything in Cram starts from what you bring.

The second is that recall beats rereading. Highlighting a page feels productive but fades fast; actively pulling an answer out of your own head — the testing effect — is what makes knowledge stick. Spaced repetition (the spacing effect) then schedules that recall over time so it lasts past the exam. These are well-established ideas in learning science, and they're the backbone of how Cram reviews.

The third is that good study tools should get out of your way. No ads interrupting a review. No streaks weaponized against you, no lives to lose, no lockouts that punish a bad day. Just your cards and a method that works.

How does Cram handle your material and privacy?

The notes you study are personal, so we treat them that way. Cram is local-first: your decks are stored on your iPhone so you can study without a connection, and they're synced to your account so they're backed up if you lose or replace your phone. Generating a new deck from your material uses AI, which needs a connection for that step, but reviewing what you've already made never does — and your study content is never used to train AI models.

We don't sell your data, and we don't run an ad business that depends on profiling you. Cram is a paid subscription with a free trial on the annual plan — not an ad-supported app — which means our incentives are simple: make a study tool good enough that you want to keep using it. We'd rather earn that directly than monetize your attention.

We also work hard to keep the generated cards accurate and faithful to your source. AI isn't perfect, so every deck is fully editable — you stay in control, and you can fix or refine any card before you study it.

Who makes Cram?

Cram is built by Sunbranch, a small, independent app studio. We're not a venture-backed growth machine chasing engagement metrics — we're a focused team that ships software we'd want to use ourselves, and we answer to the people who use our apps rather than to advertisers.

Being independent means we can make student-first calls without a committee: no dark patterns, no selling your data, no bolting on features that pad a pitch deck but slow you down. If something doesn't help you remember more on test day, it doesn't belong in Cram.

We read our feedback, and the app is better for it. If Cram saved you an hour of card-making, or if something's getting in your way, we genuinely want to hear about it.