The flashcards app for medical students who have too much to remember

Medicine is a memory sport, and cramming loses it

Studies of medical students consistently find higher exam scores for those who review with spaced repetition instead of re-reading, and the sheer volume in medicine makes the gap bigger: you cannot re-read pharmacology every week, but you can answer fifty due cards a day. FSRS keeps that number as low as your retention target allows and tells you what a week before the exam looks like.

Built for the way med students actually study

• ✓Drop a lecture PDF or a photo of a slide and get question-and-answer and cloze cards you review before saving
• ✓Import the Anki decks your class already uses: .apkg with subdecks, cloze and images
• ✓Cloze cards for drug classes, mechanisms and lab values; image cards for anatomy
• ✓Retention per deck and a due forecast, so you know where you stand before the block exam

Notes and cards in the same place

Write or paste your lecture notes in Cogni's editor, highlight what matters, and generate cards from the highlighted passage. Every card links back to its note, so a confusing card is one tap from its context, and the notes you took in week one are still where you left them in week twelve.

Ready-made decks to start from

The Cogni library includes anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, microbiology, MCAT and USMLE decks you can download and edit. Start with a shared deck, then add your own cards from lectures.

From the lecture hall to the wards

The iPhone and Android apps work offline, so the fifteen minutes between rounds count, and everything syncs to the web app when you are back online. Ten minutes on the bus and a session on the laptop are the same queue.

From zero to your first review

1. 01

   Drop today's lecture PDF, or import the .apkg deck your class shares

2. 02

   Approve the cards and add cloze for drug classes and lab values

3. 03

   Review what is due between lectures; FSRS plans the rest