Free study sheet generator from PDFs: 7 days, no card

How do you turn a lecture or a chapter into a study sheet?

You upload the material — a PDF, a Word file, slides, a photo of your handwritten notes, or an audio recording of the lecture — and Study-Genie extracts its structure: the outline, the definitions, the formulas, and the worked examples. What comes back is a sheet written from that specific document rather than a generic summary of the topic. You choose the subject and how much detail you want, then you read it through.

That last step is the one most people skip. A generated sheet is an advanced draft: it saves you the formatting time, not the understanding time. Spend five minutes checking that every formula matches what your teacher actually wrote, and add the asides said out loud in class that appear nowhere in the PDF.

What should a good study sheet actually contain?

A useful sheet is short and holds four things: the exact definitions of the vocabulary you are expected to know, the formulas with the meaning of each symbol, the key points of the chapter rewritten as one sentence each, and the traps — recurring confusions, special cases, mistakes you keep making. Everything else, linking sentences and long examples, belongs in the course notes, not on the sheet.

The filter is simple: if a sentence could never be examined, it does not belong on the sheet.

• Definitions — the term, a one-sentence definition, a counter-example if it is easily confused.
• Formulas — the expression, the units, the conditions under which it applies.
• Key points — what genuinely comes up, ranked from most to least likely.
• Traps — the mistakes you have already made, written down explicitly.

Can you make a study sheet from a scanned handout, a photo, or slides?

Yes. Study-Genie reads PDFs, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, photos of handwritten notes through text recognition, and audio recordings of a lecture, which are transcribed before analysis. You can also paste raw text. That matters when the only version of a handout is on paper, or when the lecturer gives the substance verbally and the slides are too sparse to stand alone.

Two tips for text recognition: photograph one page at a time, flat, under even light, and avoid pages buried in highlighter, which hides the letters. For a slide deck, upload your own notes alongside it — bare slides usually produce a sheet too thin to revise from.

How long should a study sheet be?

Aim for one sheet per chapter, on one to two A4 pages. Shorter and you lose things you need; longer and you have simply copied the course out again and will never reread it. The test is practical: if you cannot scan the whole sheet in three minutes the night before the exam, it is too long. Detail level is a setting at generation time, so you can regenerate a denser version.

Layout matters as much as content. Short headings, lists instead of paragraphs, one boxed formula at a time: memory holds on to where something sits on the page as well as what it says. Keep the same structure across every sheet in a subject so your eye knows where to look under pressure.

Can you export the study sheet as a PDF and print it?

Yes. Every sheet exports as a PDF from Study-Genie, on desktop and on mobile. You can print it, file it in a folder, annotate it in pen, or read it offline. Sheets also stay filed by subject inside the app, on the web and on iOS and Android, which saves you rebuilding a revision folder the night before the exam.

Annotating by hand has a real benefit: writing forces you to rephrase, and what you add yourself is what you remember best. A printed sheet with three notes scribbled in the margin beats a perfect sheet you never touched.

What do you do with the study sheet once it exists?

Rereading a sheet feels like knowing without ever proving it. Once the sheet is ready, treat it as a source: generate a quiz from the same document to test yourself, turn the definitions into flashcards, and spread the reviews across several days. Active recall and spaced repetition are the two mechanisms that keep a topic alive beyond the end of the week.

In practice: sheet on Monday, quiz on Tuesday, flashcards on whatever you got wrong on Thursday, a fast reread of the sheet on Sunday. The quiz mistakes tell you what to add to the sheet. That loop is what makes it useful, not the initial generation. When something stays unclear, the AI tutor has your document in context and can explain it another way.

How much does Study-Genie cost, and how does the trial work?

Every new account can try Essential free for 7 days with no card: nothing is charged at the end, and you continue at €2 per 28-day cycle only if you subscribe, cancelling whenever you like. Premium and Ultimate also start with a 7-day free trial: study sheets, quizzes, flashcards, scans, the AI tutor and every import format. That is enough to work through a whole chapter and see whether the method suits you. This trial asks for a card, but nothing is charged before it ends, and you can cancel in one click.

Essential gives 60 revision sheets, 60 quizzes and 600 AI tutor messages every 28 days, with at most 3 sheets, 3 quizzes and 30 messages every 5 hours, with shorter generations and imports capped at about 10 pages per scan. After the trial, Premium is €14.99 per 28-day cycle and gives a broad weekly budget you split freely between sheets, quizzes, flashcards, scans, and chat, with every import format unlocked. Ultimate is €19.99 for the biggest volume (up to ≈ 200 sheets a week), under fair use. An annual commitment takes 30% off every plan, and you can cancel at any time.