Practise from your notes.
Add your notes and StudyHone asks you about them, one question at a time. You answer from memory, it marks you against what you wrote, and each idea comes back just before you would forget it.
What does the inner membrane of a mitochondrion fold into, and why does that matter?
Cristae. The folds give the electron transport chain more surface area.
One question at a time, until it sticks.
Add your notes
Paste text, upload Word, PowerPoint or PDF files, or add a public article. StudyHone turns it into questions you can answer.
Answer from memory
One question per screen. You type what you remember, so there is no list of options to guess from.
Come back when it is due
Each idea returns on a schedule set by how well you knew it. Weak ones come back sooner.
It does the one part of revising that works.
Most revision apps hand you a pile of tools: flashcard makers, highlighters, mind maps, chatbots. StudyHone does one thing: it turns your notes into questions and asks them at the right time. Every improvement goes into that.
Built only from what works
A large review of study techniques found that testing yourself and spacing out your reviews work best, while rereading, highlighting and summarising help much less. StudyHone uses only the two that work.
It adapts to you
Every answer changes what comes next. Ideas you know come back less often, ideas you miss come back sooner in new words, and your weakest areas go first. It starts from your notes, so it fits a beginner or an expert.
The idea, not the card
A flashcard asks the same words every time, so you can learn to recognise the card without knowing the idea. StudyHone asks each idea from new angles, such as an example or a scenario, and can link two ideas once you know each one.
Research: Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Nathan and Willingham (2013), “Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques”, Psychological Science in the Public Interest 14(1).
Marked against what you wrote.
Each answer is checked against your own notes, so the feedback names the idea you left out instead of quoting a textbook you never read.
Partly right
Cristae. The folds give the electron transport chain more surface area.
More surface area means more ATP can be made at once.
Watch the gaps close.
Each idea is one bar: tall and blue once you have recalled it on your own, short and coral while it still needs work, grey until it has been asked.
Before you start
- What is StudyHone?
- A revision web app that turns your notes into questions. You answer from memory, it marks your answer against your notes, and it brings each idea back just before you would forget it.
- Does StudyHone have flashcards?
- No. There are no flashcards, decks, mind maps, note editors or chatbots. StudyHone does one job: it makes questions from your notes and asks them at the right time.
- How is StudyHone different from other revision apps?
- Most revision apps give you many ways to study, including ones research rates as weak, like rereading and highlighting. StudyHone only uses practice testing and spaced reviews, which research rates as the most useful, asks each idea a different way each time instead of repeating one card, and adapts to every answer. Because recall is all it does, all the work goes into making that one thing better.
- Who is StudyHone for?
- Anyone 13 or over with something to remember: school, university, a work exam or a hobby. Questions come from your notes and adapt to your answers, so it suits someone new to a subject as well as someone revising it for the tenth time.
- Who is StudyHone not for?
- If you like making your own flashcards, drawing mind maps or chatting with an AI tutor, StudyHone won’t do those things, and it isn’t trying to. It’s for people who want the shortest route from their notes to remembering them.
- Does StudyHone ask the same question every time?
- No. Each idea is asked from several angles, such as a description, an example or a scenario, and practice moves to a new angle each time. Later checks start short, with the idea’s name, and work up to what it means and how to use it. That way you remember the idea itself, not how one question was worded. You can turn this off on your account page.
- What happens when I get something wrong?
- You see the right answer and a short reason why it’s right, taken from your notes. Later in the same session the idea comes back once more, asked a different way, so you have to recall it rather than recognise the question. That second try is practice; the real check comes in a later session.
- Are there levels or rewards?
- Yes, for remembering. Answers from memory earn XP, and a right answer earns more the longer it has been since you last saw the idea, because that is the memory that lasts. You get levels, a daily run that survives one missed day a week, and milestones for ideas you still knew a week or a month later. There are no leaderboards, and nothing is locked.
- Can the AI get questions wrong?
- Yes, sometimes, so it’s checked. Every question must point to the part of your notes it came from, and a second AI check removes questions your notes don’t support before you see them. That check is also AI, not a teacher, so a mistake can still get through: if a question or mark looks wrong, dispute it, and use your notes as the final word.
- What if I answer in my own words?
- That’s fine. Answers are marked on whether they contain the ideas from your notes, not on matching exact words. If the AI isn’t sure, it says it couldn’t mark your answer instead of marking you wrong.
- How does StudyHone use AI?
- AI writes questions from your notes and marks your typed answers against them. When each idea comes back is worked out from your answers, not by the AI.
- Does it work with case studies?
- Yes. When your notes describe a case study, such as a client’s software project or a company, StudyHone asks about its facts: who it was for, the problem, what was built and what happened. You start with a short summary and explain the project in your own words, then each fact comes back on its own schedule. Put your course notes in the same set, and once you know both, it asks how an idea from them applies to the case.
- Can StudyHone find material for me?
- Yes. Type a topic and StudyHone searches the web several times, reads up to eight useful pages, leaves out passages that repeat, and makes questions from what they explain. Each passage links back to the page it came from, and nothing is written by the AI. Check the pages against your course, since they may not match your syllabus.
- What notes can I use?
- Paste text, upload Word, PowerPoint, PDF, plain text, Markdown or subtitle files, or add a public web page. Pictures, scanned pages and equations are skipped, so type those out.
- Does it help before an exam?
- Yes. Add an exam, choose the notes it covers, and in the week before it every idea you have learned from those notes comes back at least once. One exam can cover several sets of notes.
- Do I need to install anything?
- No. StudyHone runs in any web browser, on a phone or a computer.