Gizmo is an AI study app that turns your notes, PDFs, slides, and YouTube videos into gamified flashcards and quizzes with spaced repetition, promising to make studying feel addictive.
Built by a Cambridge alumni team in 2021, Gizmo’s pitch is that the best study technique — active recall — fails most students because flashcards are boring to make and easy to abandon. Its answer: Magic Import. Feed the app almost any material (PDFs, PowerPoints, photos, web pages, YouTube lectures) and it converts it into quiz questions and flashcard decks in seconds.
Retention science does the rest. Reviews are scheduled with spaced repetition right before you would forget them, and the experience is wrapped in game mechanics: streaks, hearts/lives, XP points, and leaderboards that build a genuine daily study habit. A 1M+ public deck library lets you start instantly on popular topics, one-tap imports from Quizlet and Anki ease the switch, and an AI tutor can explain concepts on demand while you revise.
The tradeoff is transparent. The free tier limits you to 15 lives and 10 AI quizzes per day — run out of lives mid-cramming session and you’re locked out until they refill — and critics note diagram-heavy subjects are underserved without image occlusion, with no offline mode.
The free plan includes unlimited basic flashcards but caps AI quizzes (10/day) and uses a lives system (15/day). Premium unlocks unlimited quizzes and no lives: weekly plans around $13.99/week, monthly around $8.80/month, and yearly around $2.99/week billed annually, with a higher Ultra tier for heavy users. Pricing verified via 2026 comparisons (firmsuggest.com, ourculturemag.com).
Ideal for high-school and college students who want studying to feel like a game and struggle with revision consistency. Less suitable for diagram-heavy medical or anatomy study (no image occlusion) or students who need offline access.