PDF Study turns the PDFs you read into flashcards. Highlight a sentence in your textbook, lecture slides or class notes and it becomes a study card. Spaced repetition schedules each review just before you would forget, so you remember more with less time. No account, no upload: your documents and study data stay on your phone.
Built for students preparing for exams: university courses, medical and nursing school, law, certification and language exams.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Open a textbook, lecture slides, a scanned handout or any PDF
2. Highlight the key facts, definitions and formulas as you read
3. Review the cards PDF Study schedules for today, a few minutes a day
4. Take a quick quiz before class and follow your exam plan to the test day
WHAT STUDENTS USE IT FOR
• Vocabulary and grammar from language course books
• Definitions, laws and formulas for biology, chemistry, physics and math
• Anatomy, pharmacology and case notes for medical and nursing exams
• Cases and statutes for law school, chapters for professional certifications
HIGHLIGHT, THEN REVIEW
• Every highlight becomes a flashcard: fill in the blank (cloze), recall the passage, or question and answer
• Add a note to a highlight and the note becomes the question
• Type "Capital of Peru :: Lima" in a note for a quick question card
• Review with Again, Hard, Good and Easy; each button shows when the card comes back
• "Open page" jumps to the exact page in the PDF for context
• Cards follow your highlights: edit or delete a highlight and the card updates
QUIZ YOURSELF
• Multiple-choice quiz built from your own cards, up to 10 questions
• Wrong answers come from your other cards, so the quiz tests what you studied
FOCUS TIMER
• Pomodoro-style 25-minute focus sessions with short and long breaks
• Link a PDF and open it straight from the timer
• Focus minutes and reviewed cards build your study streak and a 7-day chart
EXAM PLANNER
• Pick an exam date and a page range
• Home shows today's pages and how many days are left
EXPORT YOUR NOTES
• Export highlights and notes to Markdown, grouped by page
• Export flashcards to Anki (.txt with Basic and Cloze notes) or to CSV
• Back up and restore your study data to a file you choose
A FULL PDF READER
• Fast reader with search (whole word, match case), contents and bookmarks
• Search inside every PDF in your folders at once
• Select text to copy, highlight, add a note or look it up in your dictionary app
• Reading ruler that dims everything except the lines you are reading
• Text reader mode that reflows a page into plain, resizable text
• Night, sepia and grayscale themes, auto-scroll, trim margins, two pages in landscape
• Read aloud with your phone's own text-to-speech voice
PDF TOOLS FOR CLASS
• Scan paper notes and handouts to PDF, recognize text with OCR
• Image to PDF, merge PDFs, split and extract pages
• Fill PDF forms and sign assignments
• Organize, rotate and delete pages
• Add page numbers or a watermark
• Compress a PDF, export pages as images, protect with a password
• Print or share any PDF
FREE AND PRO
Highlighting, flashcards, spaced review, quizzes, the focus timer, one exam plan, Markdown export and the PDF reader are free. The free version may show ads, never while you read or review. PDF Study Pro removes ads and adds Anki and CSV export, more exam plans, custom timer lengths and the advanced PDF tools. Choose monthly, 3-month or yearly subscriptions, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Prices vary by country. Subscriptions can be cancelled any time in Google Play.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No account or registration
• Documents are processed on your phone and never uploaded
• No "All files access" permission: the app uses the Android file picker
• Anonymous diagnostics can be turned off in Settings. Ads use an advertising ID, see our privacy policy.
Turn PDF highlights into flashcards. Spaced repetition, quiz, focus timer, exams