Turn any YouTube video into study flashcards
Paste a video URL and Scholarly builds a deck of flashcards straight from the transcript — ready to review, quiz yourself, and export to Anki or Quizlet.
Free to start · No credit card · 70+ languages
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Enter YouTube Video URL
Paste the URL of the YouTube video you want to convert into interactive flashcards. You will be redirected to register.
Video transcripts are processed securely by Scholarly's AI.
From video link to a deck in three steps
No manual typing. Paste a link, get cards, and start studying.
Step 1: Paste URL
Provide a YouTube video URL, and let our AI analyze the transcript to create flashcards.
Step 2: Practice
Review your flashcards directly on Scholarly, share, print, or export them to platforms like Anki.
Step 3: Test Yourself
Master your material, then use our exam mode to test your knowledge and get personalized AI feedback.
Flashcards built for real recall
Every deck is designed to test understanding, not just surface trivia from the video.
Transcript-grounded
Cards are built from the video's own words, so the questions and answers stay accurate to what was taught.
Tests understanding
Questions probe concepts and relationships — not rote recall of arbitrary numbers or timestamps.
Export to Anki & Quizlet
Take your deck anywhere. Export to Anki, Quizlet, or print it for offline study.
Spaced repetition built in
Study right inside Scholarly with spaced repetition so the material sticks for the exam, not just tonight.
70+ languages
Generate cards from a video in one language and study them in another — ideal for international courses.
Turn cards into a quiz
One click turns your deck into an exam-style quiz with AI feedback on every answer.
Watching isn't studying
It's easy to feel productive watching a lecture — but passive viewing fades fast. Real learning happens when you have to retrieve the answer yourself, over and over.
That's exactly what flashcards force. By turning a video into a deck of recall prompts, you convert an hour of watching into active practice you can repeat in minutes.
Because the cards are grounded in the video's actual transcript, they test what was really said — not a generic AI guess about the topic. The questions stay faithful to your source.
And the deck lives in your Scholarly workspace, so you can study it with spaced repetition, turn it into a quiz, or ask follow-up questions in a grounded AI chat — all from the same video.
Converter vs. real study workspace
Many tools generate cards. Scholarly turns the video into a study loop you can actually finish.
Fast, but shallow. Paste a link, get a list of cards. Fine for a quick export, but the cards often miss the point of the video.
Many don't read the real transcript, so the questions can be generic or wrong.
No place to actually study — you have to take the cards somewhere else to review them.
No quiz, no spaced repetition, no grounded chat back to the source.
Accurate, but slow. Writing your own cards is great for retention — when you have hours to spare.
An hour of video can mean an hour of pausing, rewinding, and typing each card.
Easy to skip the hard concepts and only capture the easy facts.
Hard to keep decks organized alongside your other course materials.
Generate, then actually study. The deck is the start of a full study loop, not a dead-end export.
Built from the real transcript and tuned to test understanding, in 70+ languages.
Study with spaced repetition, turn the deck into a quiz, or export to Anki and Quizlet.
Every deck saves to your library next to your videos, notes, and PDFs.
One video, a full study session
A deck is just the beginning. From the same video you can keep your flashcards in spaced repetition, build a practice quiz, or open a grounded AI chat that answers questions using the video itself.
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Frequently asked questions
How do I convert a YouTube video to flashcards?
Simply paste the YouTube video URL into Scholarly, and our AI will analyze the transcript to automatically generate flashcards. You can then review, edit, and export them.
Do all YouTube videos work?
Our tool works with most public YouTube videos that have transcripts available. Private or restricted videos may not be accessible for conversion.
Is the YouTube to flashcards converter free?
Yes. You can generate flashcards for free after creating an account. Paid plans unlock unlimited decks plus spaced repetition, quizzes, and grounded AI chat.
Can I export the flashcards to Anki or Quizlet?
Yes. Decks created in Scholarly can be exported to Anki and Quizlet, printed, or shared with classmates — or you can study them with spaced repetition right inside Scholarly.
Do the flashcards just test trivia from the video?
No. Cards are written to test understanding of the concepts and relationships in the video, not rote recall of arbitrary numbers or timestamps, so studying them actually builds knowledge.
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Your questions, answered
Is Scholarly free to use?
Yes! The free plan includes core study tools with daily limits: AI Chat messages, 3 AI creations per day, research reports, file uploads, quizzes, practice exams, and manual flashcard creation. Upgrade to Ultimate when you want unlimited AI creations and higher limits.
What uses my daily AI creation?
Generating flashcards, improving a flashcard deck, making a podcast, creating a video lecture or infographic, building slides, making a mind map or study guide, or processing a recording each use the same daily free AI creation allowance. AI Chat messages, uploads, quizzes, and exams have their own separate daily limits.
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