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Drop in a lecture. Get a ready-to-study Anki-compatible deck with question-and-answer cards, cloze deletions, and spaced repetition built in. No manual card-writing ever again.
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Front
What’s the first-line treatment for stable angina?
Cloze
The [[SA node]] is the primary pacemaker of the heart at ~60–100 bpm.
Card 3 of 42
Beta-blockers reduce myocardial oxygen demand by…
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Flashcards are still the single most effective study technique backed by cognitive science — but only if you actually have time to write them. That’s where Distill’s AI flashcard generator comes in. Drop in a lecture recording, an upload, a YouTube link, or a PDF, and Distill produces a full deck of study-ready flashcards within minutes: clean question-and-answer cards for definitions and concepts, cloze deletions for fill-in-the-blank recall, and image occlusion cards for diagrams and anatomical figures.
The cards aren’t randomly picked sentences — Distill identifies the key terms, definitions, named entities, and exam-relevant phrases from your lecture and builds each card around them. It deduplicates overlaps, groups related cards into tags, and schedules them into a spaced-repetition queue using the same SM-2 algorithm that powers Anki. You can review cards inside Distill, export a native Anki .apkg deck, push to Quizlet, or dump everything as CSV.
If you’ve been searching for an Anki alternative or an AI flashcard maker that actually understands subject matter — medicine, law, engineering, languages, finance — this is it. One click from lecture to long-term memory.
Not another note app. A real shortcut from lecture to long-term memory.
Before: A single 90-minute lecture needs 30–50 handcrafted flashcards. That’s 2+ hours of writing before you even start studying.
With Distill: Distill drafts the full deck in minutes — you spend your time reviewing, not writing.
Before: Plain Q&A cards alone don’t cover diagrams, definitions, or tricky fill-in-the-blanks.
With Distill: Get Q&A, cloze deletions, and image occlusion cards — the three formats used by every top med-school Anki deck.
Before: If you’re deep in the Anki ecosystem, switching platforms is a dealbreaker.
With Distill: Distill exports native .apkg Anki decks, CSV, JSON, Quizlet-compatible TSV, and Mochi JSON — so you can study wherever you already live.
From first tap to ready-to-study — a few minutes, max.
Any recording, upload, YouTube link, or PDF you’ve processed in Distill.
Choose density (lite / standard / aggressive), card types (Q&A / cloze / image occlusion), and subject hint.
Swipe through draft cards — keep, edit, or reject. Distill learns your preferences and calibrates future decks.
Review inside Distill’s built-in SRS player, or export a native .apkg deck and load it straight into Anki.
Stay in your preferred SRS tool — Distill meets you there.
We love Anki — Distill is designed to complement it, not replace it. But here’s an honest comparison.
| Feature | Koydo Distill | Otter.ai | Notta | AudioPen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI generates cards from audio | ✓ | — | — | — |
| AI generates cards from PDFs | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Cloze deletion support | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Image occlusion | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Anki-compatible export | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Spaced-repetition algorithm (SM-2) | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Cross-platform mobile + web | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manual card-writing tools | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Free tier card limit | Unlimited review | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Comparison based on publicly listed features as of 2026. Data sourced from vendor pricing pages.
Here's how different learners put this feature to work.
Medical student
Yuki uploads the year’s pharmacology lectures. Distill produces 1,400 subject-specific cards — drug name, class, mechanism, side effects — ready to merge into her existing AnKing deck as a custom subdeck.
Language learner
Ahmed records his Japanese tutoring sessions. Distill pulls out new vocabulary, builds cards with audio prompts (the tutor’s voice) on the front and English + kanji on the back.
Bar exam prep
Emma uploads her BarBri lectures. Distill generates cloze cards for every legal rule — ‘Battery requires (1) [[intent]], (2) [[harmful or offensive contact]], (3) [[causation]]’ — then exports to Anki.
“I used to spend 3 hours after class making Anki cards. Now I spend 3 minutes reviewing Distill’s output and hitting ‘export.’ My schedule got an hour a day back.”
“The cloze deletions are the killer feature. They’re grammatical, they’re testing the right word, and they don’t have that awkward AI-generated feel.”
“Switched from Quizlet Plus to Distill. Better cards, Anki export, and I don’t have to see an ad every 3 reviews.”
It depends on density and lecture length. A standard 60-minute lecture produces 25–40 cards on ‘lite’ density, 40–70 on ‘standard’, and 70–120 on ‘aggressive.’ You can always regenerate with different settings.
Yes. Every draft card opens in a swipe interface — keep, edit, or reject. Distill remembers what you rejected and calibrates future decks to match your taste.
Yes. Distill generates flashcards in 40+ languages. You can also run cross-language decks — English lecture, Spanish answers — which is fantastic for language study.
Distill generates a native .apkg file that includes cards, tags, media (images/audio), and card types. Import it into Anki desktop or mobile with a single tap. Decks are grouped by subject automatically.
Distill uses SM-2, the same algorithm Anki is built on. Ratings (Again / Hard / Good / Easy) are preserved when you export to Anki so your study history carries over.
Yes. Upload the PDF, mark the chapter range, and Distill generates cards from just that section. Great for preparing for specific chapter tests.
Distill is more than auto-generated flashcards— it's a whole studio for your lectures.
The same lecture that feeds flashcards also gets you a chapter-by-chapter summary.
Read more →Go beyond flashcards — test yourself with AI-generated multiple choice and short answer.
Read more →Send your cards to Anki, Quizlet, Mochi, or straight CSV — whatever your workflow needs.
Read more →Join thousands of students who stopped re-reading slides and started actually learning.