Alternatives to Knowt

A study app for flashcards, notes, quizzes and exam prep, with AI tools that summarize lectures. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

  • Knowt

    A study app for flashcards, notes, quizzes and exam prep, with AI tools that summarize lectures.

    FreeProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Knowt.

  • Quizlet

    An online flashcard and study-set platform with practice games and tests built from your cards.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Quizlet turns study sets into flashcards, games and tests with a large shared library, but it is web only here and some features need a paid plan.

  • Brainscape

    A flashcard app that uses confidence-based spaced repetition, on the web and mobile.

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

    Brainscape offers confidence-based spaced repetition, ready-made decks and AI card generation on web and mobile, with some features behind a paid upgrade.

  • Anki

    Flashcards that schedule themselves, showing you a card just before you would have forgotten it.

    FreemiumOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinuxAndroidiOSWeb

    Anki is an open-source spaced-repetition flashcard app with add-ons and shared decks, but it lacks AI study tools and has a dense interface.

Also worth comparing

These listings name Knowt as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • AnkiDroid

    An open-source Android app for studying Anki spaced-repetition flashcards.

    FreeOpen sourceAndroid

    Knowt offers free flashcards with AI tools that build study material from PDFs and lectures, but it is closed source and sends material to its servers.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.

  • Notability

    A note app combining handwriting, audio recording and transcription with AI summaries, quizzes and flashcards.

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

  • Scholarcy

    An AI summarizer that turns papers, articles and videos into interactive flashcard summaries.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

  • Gemini Notebook

    Google's AI research notebook, formerly NotebookLM, that summarizes and answers questions about your uploaded sources.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

  • MarginNote

    A study app for Mac and iPad that links PDF highlights, mind maps and flashcards.

    FreemiumProprietarymacOSiOS

  • Kahoot!

    A game-based quiz platform for classroom lessons, study sessions, meetings and family games.

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb