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Looking for a Gizmo alternative? Mindko turns your notes, PDFs, slides and lectures into flashcards, quizzes, a mind map, a study podcast and a chat tutor — automatically, from your own material. One upload, your whole study workflow in one place.





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There are dozens of flashcard and study apps promising better grades — but most just hand you a blank deck to fill in yourself.
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Upload your material
Drop in a PDF, your slides, a lecture recording, a YouTube link or your own notes — one upload is all it takes.
Mindko generates your set
Mindko reads everything and builds your notes, flashcards, quizzes, mind map and study podcast — automatically.
Study, test & ask
Review your notes, drill with active recall, quiz yourself and chat with your files until it sticks.

See everything Mindko builds from the material you already study from.
PDFs, slides, textbooks, a YouTube link, an audio file or your own handwritten notes — pile it all in. Mindko reads everything and builds one connected Study Set you can chat with and study from, with no copy-pasting.

Hit record when class starts and Mindko's lecture recorder transcribes every word in real time. By the time you pack up, that transcript is already clean notes, flashcards and a quiz — nothing to type up later.

Upload your material and Mindko's study guide splits it into small, focused lessons — ordered so each topic builds on the one before it. Every lesson comes with its own flashcards, a quiz, a mind map and a study podcast, so you work through it step by step and actually retain what you learn.

Mindko scores what you know and what you don't across your whole set, then generates fresh quizzes, flashcards and active recall on your weak spots — and even grades your practice essays — so every topic moves from Unfamiliar to Mastered, not just “reviewed once.”

Mindko is powered by a rich library of over 260 million academic articles


| Feature | Gizmo | |
|---|---|---|
| Auto-generates flashcards from your PDFs & notes | ||
| AI notes & summaries from your material | ||
| AI practice quizzes & graded tests | ||
| Two-host study podcast | ||
| Concept mind maps | ||
| Chat with your PDFs & notes | ||
| Active-recall grading & spaced repetition | ||
| Free to start |
Gizmo is an AI flashcard app built around spaced repetition, quizzes and shared community decks. Mindko generates flashcards from your own PDFs, slides and notes instead of relying on someone else's decks, and turns the same upload into AI notes, a concept mind map, a two-host study podcast and a chat tutor — a full study set, not just cards.
Yes. Mindko auto-generates flashcards from your material and drills them with active-recall grading and spaced repetition, just like Gizmo — but the cards come straight from your own files rather than a community deck.
Beyond flashcards and quizzes, Mindko creates AI notes and summaries, a concept mind map that links the ideas in your material, a two-host study podcast, and a chat tutor that answers straight from your files — none of which Gizmo offers.
Yes. Create a free account and build your first Study Set without paying; upgrade to Mindko Pro for unlimited sets and unlimited use of every tool.
Definitely. Where Gizmo focuses on flashcards, Mindko turns one upload into flashcards, AI notes, quizzes and graded tests, a concept mind map, a two-host study podcast and a chat tutor — all built from your own material.

Upload once and get flashcards, notes, quizzes, a mind map and a study podcast — free to start.