PDF → flashcards
Turn any PDF into flashcards
Drop in lecture slides, a textbook chapter, or any PDF and Cram 's AI turns it into a study-ready deck in seconds — no manual typing, no ads, and ready to review offline.
Built on the study methods research ranks highest — active recall and spaced repetition.
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From PDF to memorized in three steps
Drop in your PDF
Lecture slides, a textbook chapter, a study guide, or any PDF you're working from.
AI reads it and writes cards
Cram pulls out the key facts and turns them into clear question-and-answer flashcards in seconds.
Review until it sticks
Study your new deck with spaced repetition that times each card for long-term memory.
Why convert PDFs with Cram
One-tap sign-in
Sign in with Apple or Google and your decks are backed up — they survive reinstalls and new phones.
Spaced repetition
Your generated cards plug straight into review that's timed for memory.
Study offline
Decks live on your phone, so you can review anywhere — no signal needed.
Making flashcards from a PDF by hand means scrolling, highlighting, and retyping every fact into a card — the slow part of studying. Cram does that for you: it reads the document, finds what matters, and writes clean cards so you can spend your time actually remembering the material. It also turns notes, web links, and typed topics into decks, and you can see how it compares to other study apps on our comparison pages.