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A free Quizlet-style option for quizzes from your own notes

DeckOwl turns your PDFs, slides and notes into quizzes with explanations. Start on the free plan with no credit card.

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What the free plan includes and where it stops

Students who ask whether there is a free version of Quizlet usually want to study from their own notes without paying first. DeckOwl has a free plan that turns PDFs, slides, DOCX files, plain notes or photos of pages into practice quizzes with explanations.

Upload a PDF, DOCX, PPTX, text file or photo of a page
Get multiple-choice, true/false and short answer questions with explanations
Study in the browser on the free plan with 3 generations per month
Move to Plus or Pro when you need exports to PDF, DOCX, Anki, CSV, QTI or Moodle XML

Example biology quiz questions for a general study topic

Which organelle is the main site of ATP production in eukaryotic cells?The mitochondrion. It carries out cellular respiration, which produces most of the cell's ATP.

True or false: DNA replication is semiconservative.True. Each new double helix keeps one original strand and gets one newly made strand.

What does osmosis describe?The movement of water across a semipermeable membrane from a region of lower solute concentration to one of higher solute concentration.

Why do mature mammalian red blood cells lack a nucleus?They lose the nucleus to make more room for hemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen.

What is the role of helicase in DNA replication?Helicase unwinds the double helix by breaking hydrogen bonds between base pairs, which creates the replication fork.

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Quizzes from your own material

Upload a PDF, DOCX, PPTX, plain text file or a photo of a page and get questions based on what you actually need to learn.

Multiple formats with explanations

Multiple-choice, true/false and short answer questions each come with an explanation, so you learn why an answer is right.

Study in the browser

The free plan lets you practice right away in your browser, with 3 generations per month and no download needed.

How it works

Upload your notes

Add a PDF, slide deck, Word file, text notes or a photo of a textbook page.

Pick a question type

Choose multiple-choice, true/false or short answer questions for the material you are studying.

Answer and review

Work through the quiz, read the explanation for each answer, and retake the questions you missed.

The free plan gives you 3 generations per month and lets you study in the browser. Exports are not included on the free plan, so if you need to move questions into another tool, you will need a paid plan.

Plus adds unlimited generations, spaced repetition and PDF, DOCX, Anki and CSV export. Pro adds a stronger AI model, bulk upload and QTI 2.1 and Moodle XML export.