Guide & FAQ

How to use the app — start by dropping a lecture in the drop zone, then study it with the flashcards and tools below. Skim the cards, expand a question if you’re stuck.

The drop zone
Drop a lecture — PDF, PowerPoint, or Word — and it becomes a study kit — flashcards and board-style questions, filed to the PANCE blueprint — in under a minute.
~20 flashcards ~8 board-style questions auto-filed by system

How to use it

  1. 1

    Drop a lecture file

    On the home page (the big drop zone) or in My Library — drag the file in, or click to choose. PDF, PowerPoint (.pptx), or Word (.docx), 32 MB each; once you’re signed in, up to 5 at a time.

  2. 2

    Sign in with a code — first time only

    After your first drop, enter your email and type the 6-digit code we send — no password, no link to click. Your file waits in your browser until you’re in; once you’re signed in, every drop goes straight to the build.

  3. 3

    AI reads every slide

    It condenses the lecture in under a minute — no formatting, no copy-paste. Watch the live pipeline as it reads, classifies, and builds.

  4. 4

    You get a study kit

    About 20 flashcards plus 8 board-style questions, auto-filed onto the right PANCE body-system shelf in My Library. It’s built from your own material — personal-notes quality, not faculty-reviewed.

  5. 5

    Study it your way

    Grade the flashcards — each grade schedules the card's next review right alongside the built-in deck — take a quiz graded to the boards, or ask the AI tutor about the lecture.

New here? Drop a lecture, then enter your email and type the 6-digit code we send — your deck builds itself on the spot. No password, no link.
Free vs Pro
Every feature is the same on Free and Pro — Pro just raises the limits. Nothing is locked behind a paywall.
The Free tier is genuinely free — no card needed. Pro just raises the limits; every feature works the same on both.
Free$0
  • Full study kits — flashcards + board-style questions
  • Spaced-repetition review, auto-filing, Notes & Sketches
  • Up to 30 study kits a month (5/day)
  • 1 diagram deck a month — keeps the pictures from a PDF lecture over 80 slides (up to 450)
  • 1 lecture quiz graded to the boards — one-time, account-wide
  • 2 tutor questions a week
Pro$20/mo

Everything in Free, plus:

  • 8 Board quizzes a month on your own lectures, graded to the boards
  • 30 tutor questions a month about your lectures
  • 10 diagram decks a month
  • No monthly cap on study kits (5 a day)
Sign in to go Pro
Flashcards (Spaced Repetition)
The app schedules each card for you — review what’s due, meet new cards at a steady pace, and let the algorithm handle timing.

Two ways to study

  • Review — your due cards plus a few new ones. Progress is saved and scheduled. This is the daily driver.
  • Browse all — free study over any cards you choose. Good for cramming; it doesn’t change your schedule.

Grading a card (after you reveal it)

  • Again — you forgot it. Resets the card and re-shows it later this same session.
  • Hard — right, but a struggle. Comes back sooner than usual.
  • Good — solid recall. The normal, expanding interval — your default choice.
  • Easy — too easy. Pushed far into the future so it stops crowding your day.

Each button shows its next interval (e.g. 1d, 4d, 10d), so you can see exactly when the card returns.

Pace

  • ~20 new cards/day by default, so you’re never buried. Reviews of started cards are unlimited.
  • The number beside “Flashcards” in the sidebar is how many cards are due right now.
Keyboard: Space reveals a card. In Review, 1 = Again, 2 = Hard, 3 = Good, 4 = Easy. In Browse, 1 = Again, 2 = Got it.
Mind Map
One lecture laid out as a map — open a topic, see its pieces. It’s a learning tool, not a quiz or a test.

Where it is

Open a lecture in My Library and tap its Mind Map tab (sign in first — it’s built from your own lectures). It’s made when you ask for it, from that lecture’s own cards, plus the lecture’s own text (kept from newer uploads; older ones can attach the file on the Mind Map tab).

Using it

  • Tap a topic to open it — the small boxes at the end of a branch are its pieces.
  • Make it yours — tap Edit to rename, add, move or delete topics. Deleting a topic keeps its cards and sub-topics; they move up to the topic above it. Rebuilding the map replaces your edits (it asks first).
  • Want to drill too? The topic’s cards are listed under the map; tap one to reveal it, then grade it — it’s scheduled just like on the Flashcards tab.
The rest of the toolkit
Everything else, in one line each.
  • My Library

    Every lecture you’ve uploaded, turned into study kits and shelved by PANCE body system. The home of the drop zone — add more anytime; “Move to system” re-files anything.

  • Notes & Sketches

    A real ink tool — pens, highlighter, shape-snap, and a blueprint sketch index. Annotate a slide or sketch free-hand; sign in to save across devices.

  • Ask about this lecture (AI tutor)

    On any deck, ask a question and get a streamed answer grounded in that lecture’s own material — not the open internet.

  • Quiz me on this lecture

    Turns a deck’s own questions into a quiz graded to the boards — it flags where the lecture diverges from board-style answers.

  • Mind Map

    One lecture laid out as a map — open a topic and see its pieces (more in the Mind Map card above).

  • Prep Rounds

    PANCE-style multiple-choice questions by body system. Learn mode reveals the answer to study; Test mode grades you with a running score.

  • Flashcards

    Spaced-repetition review of the built-in deck and your own lecture cards, with each card scheduled to come back right when it’s due.

  • To revisit

    A live list of what you’ve missed in the course drills on this device, most-missed first, each with a link straight back to practice it.

  • Calendar

    Your exams, lectures and classes in one place — add dates by hand, or import your school’s calendar or a syllabus.

  • Progress

    See what you’ve studied and what’s coming due, with coverage across the PANCE blueprint.

  • Body Systems

    Disease and anatomy profiles by PANCE blueprint system, in a fixed High-Yield order: Pathophys → S/Sx → Gold-Standard Dx → First-line Tx.

  • Pharmacology

    Drug profiles grouped by class — mechanism, black-box warnings, and high-yield notes.

  • Search

    One box across the courses, drills, diseases, drugs, anatomy and medical terms — and, signed in, your own lectures. Matches word variants and drug families (“beta blockers” finds metoprolol).

Frequently asked
Tap a question to expand.

It’s the upload box on the home page (and at the top of My Library). Drop a lecture — PDF, PowerPoint (.pptx), or Word (.docx) — and the app turns it into a study kit — about 20 flashcards and 8 board-style questions — and files it under the right PANCE body system automatically. Signed in, you can drop up to 5 files at once.

Yes — a free one, and it takes seconds: drop a lecture, enter your email, type the 6-digit code we send, and your deck builds itself on the spot. No password, no card. Signing in is what keeps every deck saved to you.

Yes — the Free tier is genuinely free and needs no card. It includes full study kits, spaced-repetition review, and a taste of each Pro feature: 1 diagram deck a month, 2 tutor questions a week, and 1 lecture quiz graded to the boards (one-time, account-wide). Pro is the paid tier that just raises those limits — every feature works the same on both.

For large lectures (over ~80 slides) the standard build extracts text fast and drops the images. A diagram deck keeps the figures and diagrams from those big lectures instead — toggle “Keep diagrams on large decks” when you upload. Free includes a monthly taste; Pro includes more.

Review is spaced repetition: it shows the cards you’re due to see plus a few new ones, and it saves your progress so each card comes back at the right time. Browse all is free study (cram) over any cards you pick — it does not change your schedule.

After you reveal a card, you tell the app how well you knew it. That choice sets when you’ll next see the card — Again brings it right back, Good spaces it out normally, Easy pushes it far out. Each button shows its next interval (e.g. 1d, 4d, 10d) so there’s no guessing.

New cards are capped (20/day by default) so you don’t get buried on day one. Reviews of cards you’ve already started are not capped — they always appear when due. The new-card allowance resets each day.

No — that’s the system working. Once you’ve cleared what’s due and met your new cards, there’s nothing left to schedule for today; cards return over the coming days as they come due. To keep studying ahead, switch to Browse all.

Yes. Your library and review history are tied to your account, so you can study on your laptop and pick up exactly where you left off on your phone (as long as you’re signed in).

No. Study kits are AI-generated from your own slides, and the built-in content is AI-authored — both may contain errors and are a study aid, not medical advice. Always verify against current primary sources and your faculty before relying on it clinically.