Slay School
Slay School turns lecture notes, PDFs, videos, links and handwritten pages into AI-generated flashcards, multiple-choice quizzes and essays. Built for students, it exports to Anki and Quizlet and runs on web, iOS, Android and Chrome.
What is Slay School?
Slay School is an AI study assistant that takes whatever raw material a student already has and turns it into things they can revise from. You upload a file, a video, a link or a photograph of handwritten notes; it comes back, within seconds, as flashcards, multiple-choice questions, open questions, transcripts or a drafted essay. The accepted inputs are deliberately broad: PDFs, YouTube links, text pasted from the web, Google Docs imports, audio, images and handwriting, which the tool reads through OCR. The homepage sums up the workflow in three steps: upload your lectures, paste your notes or drop a link; let the cards autogenerate; then test yourself or export the deck.
The Anki heritage is explicit. Decks travel out to Anki, Quizlet and CSV and back in again, and the card types students expect are supported: cloze deletions, image occlusion and handwritten notes. Around that sits a curated question bank with online quizzes, answers marked with immediate personalised feedback, and question variants generated on request to keep drilling a weak point.
Two further strands share the same app. A writing assistant paraphrases, shifts text into a more academic register and checks for plagiarism, aimed at essays, applications and emails. A note-taking strand records and transcribes lectures, workshops and meetings, extracts takeaways, and lets you chat with AI tutors about the material you uploaded, with shortcuts such as Elaborate and Explain Like I'm 5.
The audience is stated openly, and it leans hard towards medicine: a dedicated Anki page addresses med and pre-med students, the resource pages host medical school notes, and the testimonials are from students and residents. A separate strand serves teachers, who can create a quiz straight after a lesson, share a class link, read progress analytics and lean on assisted grading; Microsoft, ClassLink, Canvas, Google Classroom, Clever and Blackboard appear as supported providers. It runs as a web app, on iOS and Android, and as a Chrome extension, with the interface shipped in twenty languages.
What it does
- Generate flashcards from notes, PDFs, images, web links and YouTube videos
- Build multiple-choice and open-ended questions from the same source material
- Mark typed answers and return instant, tailored feedback with fresh variants on demand
- Export decks to Anki, Quizlet or CSV, and import existing decks from Anki or Quizlet
- Record and transcribe lectures, workshops and meetings, then pull out the key takeaways
- Redraft text with the writing assistant: paraphrasing, a more academic tone and plagiarism detection
- Share a class link, track student progress and pre-grade submitted work
When to use Slay School / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Slay School is the right fit.
When to use Slay School
- Medical and pre-med students who already live in Anki and want decks built for them in seconds rather than evenings
- High school and university students revising from lecture slides, PDFs, recorded classes and their own handwriting
- Teachers and lecturers who want to push a quiz to a class straight after a lesson and see who actually understood it
- Tutors and test-prep coaches assembling question banks for AP, MCAT and comparable exams
- Self-directed and homeschooled learners who need study structure without having to build it themselves
When not to use Slay School
- Developers hoping to embed study-material generation in their own product: there is no API and no developer documentation
- Schools and universities with formal procurement: no data processing agreement, no security certification and no stated hosting location
- Anyone who must document whether uploaded material is used to train AI models, since the site never addresses the question
- Teams needing seat-based or enterprise billing: only individual subscriptions and a three-account bundle exist
- Learners after long-form writing or sourced research rather than recall, memorisation and self-testing
How to use Slay School
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Open the web app at app.slayschool.com, or install the iOS app, the Android app or the Chrome extension
- Create a free account, signing in with Google if you prefer
- Upload a file, paste your notes, drop a link or a YouTube video, or import from Google Docs
- Let the AI read the material and generate flashcards within seconds
- Add, edit or delete individual cards until the deck matches how you actually study
- Generate multiple-choice and open questions from the same material to test recall rather than recognition
- Type your answers, read the instant feedback, and ask for variants to keep drilling weak spots
- Record a lecture when you need a transcript and a set of takeaways rather than cards
- Export the finished deck to Anki, Quizlet or CSV, or share it by link with classmates
- Upgrade from app.slayschool.com/payments if you outgrow the free limits; cancellation is one click inside the app
Pros & Cons
Pros
- The free plan is genuinely usable rather than a teaser: unlimited flashcards and Anki export are included in it
- Unusually wide range of accepted inputs, from YouTube videos and audio to photographs of handwritten pages
- Open export to Anki, Quizlet and CSV means the work you produce is never locked inside the product
- Available on web, iOS, Android and Chrome, with the interface shipped in twenty languages
- Low paid entry point at USD 7.99 per month on the annual plan, plus a one-off lifetime option
- The teacher-facing side, with class links, progress analytics and assisted grading, is part of the same product
- The learning method is stated openly and rests on spaced repetition and active recall rather than novelty
Cons
- No refunds at all, an explicit chargeback fee equal to the full disputed amount, and liability capped at CAD 100
- Nothing is published about where data is hosted: no country, no region, no infrastructure provider
- No data processing agreement, no security certification and no trust or security page of any kind
- Complete silence on whether uploaded material trains AI models, and no opt-out is documented anywhere
- No minimum age is published, even though the product is openly aimed at high school students
- No API and no developer documentation, so nothing can be integrated into another system
- Visible neglect on the marketing site: Lorem ipsum left above the reviews, dead links, staging pages indexed in the sitemap, and contradictory dates in the terms
Pricing & Plans
A permanent free plan is available and covers unlimited flashcards, chat with your notes and export to Anki, subject to caps of three file uploads, one hundred question-bank generations, fifteen pages per file and fifteen minutes per YouTube video. The cheapest paid entry point is USD 7.99 per month, billed as twelve months prepaid; the equivalent rolling monthly subscription is USD 12.99 per month. All prices are quoted in US dollars.
- unlimited flashcards and chat with notes
- Anki export
- 3 file uploads
- 100 question-bank generations
- max 15 pages per file
- max 15 minutes per YouTube video
- unlimited flashcards
- MCQs and Anki exports
- 10 file
- video
- YouTube
- audio
- image and link uploads
- 100 question-bank generations
- as above plus 10 writing assistant files
- unlimited uploads
- question-bank generations and exports
- as above plus unlimited access to AI tutors
- everything unlimited
- faster support and priority access to new features
- USD 29.99 per month monthly
- or USD 9.99 per month on the prepaid annual plan
- possibly free
- arranged by email with the publisher
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Slay School handles your data.
GDPR overview
Concrete GDPR mentions are present and specific. The privacy policy names Regulation EU 2016/679 for European users and enumerates the rights it grants: information and access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, portability, freedom from automated decision-making, objection to direct marketing, withdrawal of consent and complaint to an EEA supervisory authority. It states that no automated decision-making or profiling is used, names its processors (Posthog Analytics, customer.io and Stripe), gives retention periods in years, and describes contractual safeguards for transfers outside the EEA. What is absent is just as concrete: compliance is never asserted in so many words, no Article 27 EU representative is designated, no data protection officer is named beyond a Canadian Privacy Officer, and the complaint route put forward is the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada rather than a European authority.
Who owns the data?
The terms state plainly that Rally Technologies Inc. claims no ownership of user-generated content. In the same clause, though, uploading anything grants the company a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual and irrevocable licence to use that content as part of the service: ownership stays with you, but the permission you hand over never expires and cannot be withdrawn. You alone warrant that you hold the rights to what you upload, and you alone answer for any infringement. The company separately owns all intellectual property in the site and its underlying systems. Under the privacy policy it acts as data controller and may pass personal data to partners, subcontractors and, in a sale or reorganisation, to an acquirer.
Reuse rights
What you make with the tool is yours to reuse without asking. Exporting decks to Anki, Quizlet or CSV is offered on every plan including the free one, a deck can be shared by link in a single click, and teachers share a class link the same way; nothing in the terms claims a licence over what you take away. The restrictions run in the opposite direction, protecting the site rather than limiting your output: scraping, deep-linking, harvesting, data mining, robots, spiders and automation are all forbidden without written agreement, access is meant to happen through standard web browsers only, and even placing a link to the site requires prior written permission requested by email.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
No hosting location is published. The site names no country, no region and no infrastructure provider, and there is no trust or security page where such information would normally sit. What is established is the jurisdiction: the publisher is Canadian, the terms are governed by Canadian law with the Courts of Canada holding non-exclusive jurisdiction, liability is expressed in Canadian dollars, and the complaint route offered is the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. The privacy policy anticipates transfers outside the European Economic Area and says these are covered by contractual safeguards, with explicit consent sought in some circumstances. Three processors are named: Posthog Analytics, which stores the analytics data it gathers on its own side, customer.io for marketing and Stripe for payments. Beyond those, no subprocessor list exists, and no certification such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001 is claimed anywhere on the site.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Slay School.
- Generated cards remove the effort of writing them, and that effort is part of what makes material stick: the time saved can quietly cost you depth of learning
- Placing too much trust in AI-generated questions and feedback matters more than usual here, since the product leans towards medical and scientific material where an error carries consequences
- Essay drafting and plagiarism checking sit close to the line drawn by academic regulations, and the disciplinary risk falls on the student, not the tool
- Nothing is said about model training and no opt-out is documented, so proprietary course material and personal notes are uploaded without any stated boundary
- No minimum age is published although the product targets high school students, while the privacy policy describes collecting geolocation, IP address and social media profiles
- Uploading grants a perpetual and irrevocable licence over your content, and the commercial terms leave little recourse: no refunds, a full-value chargeback fee and liability capped at CAD 100
- The publisher is under a notice of intent to dissolve for overdue filings, which is a reason to keep exporting your decks to Anki rather than trusting the platform to be there next term
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low. The main experience is a web app that needs no installation: create a free account, sign in with Google if you prefer, and you are working. Mobile apps for iOS and Android and a Chrome extension are optional additions. A first usable result takes three actions, upload, generate and revise, with no configuration, no API key and no hosting to set up. The only mildly technical step is optional, exporting to Anki or Quizlet, which assumes you already know those tools. On the teacher side, sharing a class link replaces any LMS deployment.
Deployment
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Behind Slay School
Fundraising
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Frequently asked questions
Is Slay School free to use?
What can I upload to generate flashcards?
Can I export my cards, and does that cost extra?
Are there mobile apps?
What does the cheapest paid plan cost?
Can I get a refund if I change my mind?
Is my material used to train AI models?
How long is my data kept, and how do I delete it?
Is there a minimum age to use Slay School?
Is there an API for developers?
Should you pick Slay School?
Slay School is a more complete product than its slightly unkempt marketing site suggests. The functional range is real: broad inputs, genuine two-way traffic with Anki and Quizlet, a question bank with marked answers and feedback, lecture transcription, a writing assistant and AI tutors, delivered across web, iOS, Android and Chrome in twenty interface languages. The free plan is generous enough to be worth using on its own, the paid entry point is low, and the teacher-facing side comes in the same box rather than as a separate enterprise product.
The reservations sit almost entirely on the governance side. There is no data processing agreement, no security certification, no trust page and no statement of where data is hosted. The question of whether uploaded coursework trains AI models is never raised, so no opt-out exists to look for. No minimum age is published, which is a conspicuous gap for a product marketed to high school students. The commercial terms are unusually hard: no refunds, a chargeback fee equal to the full disputed amount, and total liability capped at CAD 100.
Two further signals deserve weight. The site itself shows signs of light maintenance, with placeholder text left above the testimonials, dead links, draft pages exposed in the sitemap and terms that contradict their own update date. And the Canadian federal register records two overdue annual filings against the publisher, with a notice of intent to dissolve issued, even though the service is plainly still operating.
For an individual student who exports their decks and keeps a copy, the balance is favourable and the price is modest. For an institution that must document its processing chain before signing anything, the missing paperwork is decisive.
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