Whatever you are studying, it already exists as documents. Lecture PDFs and slide decks, a course pack someone scanned in 2019, the exam handbook, a training manual, six months of your own notes. Querent reads what you actually have to learn and builds study material out of it, with the source attached to every single item.
Select the documents, pick a shape, and say what you want it to cover. In your own words, the way you'd say it out loud:
That is the whole problem with generated study material, and it is a quiet one. A card that misreads a table looks exactly like a card that read it correctly, and you will drill it fifteen times before you find out. By then you have memorized the error.
So every card, every quiz question, and every node on a mind map carries a numbered citation back to the passage it was built from. Click it and you are reading the paragraph in your own document. When a card says the threshold is 90 days and something in you says that sounds like 60, you settle it in one click instead of arguing with a flashcard.
It also means Querent never quizzes you on things your material does not contain. Sets are built only from the passages in the documents you selected, which is the right constraint for studying: you are being tested on the syllabus, not on the internet.
Definitions and dates want drilling. Judgment and application want to be tested. A body of material you cannot hold in your head at once wants a picture.
Up to 20 cards a set. Front is a term or a question, back is a one to three sentence answer. Flip, shuffle, and mark what you got. Print them and they come out as front and back pairs you can fold.
About ten multiple-choice questions, four options each, one right answer and an explanation of why. Print one and it comes out as a real practice test, with the answer key at the end instead of beside every question.
A collapsible tree of the material: one root, the major themes as branches, the specifics underneath. Up to 80 nodes and four levels deep. Click any node to see the passages it came from.
What Querent does not do: schedule your reviews. Studying a set is flip, reveal, grade yourself, and there are no due dates or spaced-repetition state between sessions. If a review algorithm is what you are shopping for, Anki is free and better at it. Sets here are about where the material comes from and whether you can check it.
Rarely as one tidy PDF. Usually as a download folder, a photographed handout, and an email attachment you meant to file.
A term of readings arrives as a folder and stays one, and the Google Docs your professor shares come straight from Drive. PDFs, Word docs, slide decks, spreadsheets, and scans all come along with the structure intact.
A handout, a page of a borrowed textbook, a whiteboard. Querent reads the text out of images, so the paper stack becomes searchable material.
Study across a whole unit rather than one file at a time. Each document contributes its own passages, so a set spans the selection instead of over-fitting the longest file.
"Only the sections on negligence." "Just chapters 4 through 7." The focus box takes plain English and the set is built to it.
Every account gets a private Querent address. Forward the syllabus attachment or the reading the moment it lands, and it files itself.
The browser extension saves the readable part of any page, so an online reading or a standards document joins the library beside everything else.
Licensed exam material. An employer's internal training packet. Clinical or casework material with real people in it. Plenty of people quietly paste that into a free study tool because it is the only way to get flashcards out of it, and plenty of those tools are free precisely because your content is worth something to them.
Querent is encrypted in transit and at rest, isolated to your account, and never used to train AI models, ours or anyone else's. We publish exactly which services process your data and what each one receives, in plain English, at querentapp.com/subprocessors. Delete a document and its stored text is gone; answers and study sets you already generated keep their own copies until you delete them. Delete your account and everything, including every study set you generated, goes with it.
The honest boundary: a licence that forbids putting material into third-party services is still a licence, and privacy at rest is not permission. Querent makes the storage safe; whether a given document belongs here is your call to make, and worth making deliberately for anything you did not write yourself.
There are free tools that make flashcards, and for one PDF you will study once, they are the right answer and we will not pretend otherwise. Querent is $10 a month, one plan, everything included.
It earns that when the material is spread across a stack of documents rather than sitting in one, when you will come back to it over weeks rather than one evening, when getting a fact wrong actually costs you something, and when the material is not something you want to hand to a free service. Generating a set counts as five questions against a daily allowance of two hundred, so it is not a thing you have to ration.
The 7-day free trial is the real product, and during the trial the upload limit is tripled, so moving a whole term of material in is painless. Cancel from your profile page in two clicks, no retention dance.
Start your free trialTakes about a minute. Drop in the hardest thing you have to learn and ask for a quiz on it.
Two things. Every card, question, and node cites the exact passage in your document that it came from, so you can check a claim in one click instead of trusting it. And your material is encrypted at rest, isolated to your account, and never used to train AI models, ours or anyone else’s. Querent is also a permanent library rather than a per-session upload: the documents stay, and you keep generating from them.
No, and that is worth saying plainly. Studying a set is flip, reveal, and grade yourself; there are no due dates, no scheduling algorithm, no per-card memory between sessions. If a review schedule is the thing you want most, Anki does that better than we do and it is free. What Querent gives you is sets generated from your own material with a source on every item.
Anyone studying documents they already have: coursework and lecture material, licensing and certification exams, continuing-education credits, professional onboarding packets, board or committee material, a manual for something you are learning on your own. Querent accounts are for adults; the Terms require you to be 18 or older.
Anything you can get into your library. PDFs, Word docs, slide decks, spreadsheets, plain text, and images: JPG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, and scanned PDFs all work, so a photograph of a handout or a scanned course pack becomes usable material. One set can draw on up to 25 documents at a time.
Yes. Every set takes an optional focus, in your own words: "only the pharmacology sections", "just chapter 3", "the terms I keep getting wrong". Without one it aims at the most important facts, concepts, terms, dates, and conclusions across everything you selected.
Check its citation, which is exactly why every item has one. Querent generates only from the passages in your documents, so a card is wrong when it misreads your material or when your material is wrong, and the citation tells you which. Nothing is invented from outside your library.