Repeto
Repeto turns a single typed word, a PDF, a lecture recording or a photo of your notes into editable flashcard drafts, then schedules every review with FSRS. Anki .apkg files import and export both ways.
What is Repeto?
Repeto is an AI flashcard maker built on top of a spaced-repetition engine. Its organising idea is that the deck decides the card: each deck carries its own plain-language instructions, so one input becomes a translation card in a Spanish deck, a definition in a biology deck and a retrieval question in a history deck. Type manzana into a Spanish-to-English deck and you get the translation, the grammatical gender and an example sentence, without touching a template.
The input side is unusually wide for a flashcard tool. Repeto accepts a typed term, pasted notes, PDF, Word, text and Markdown documents, article URLs and Wikipedia pages, YouTube transcripts, audio or video lectures that it transcribes first, and photographs of textbook pages, slides, whiteboards or handwritten notes. Large sources run as background jobs with visible progress.
What comes back is deliberately unfinished. Repeto returns an editable batch of drafts and asks you to compare names, dates, numbers, formulas and negations against the source, split overloaded questions and delete duplicates before anything enters review. Approved cards are then scheduled by FSRS, the open Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler also found in modern Anki: you rate each recall Again, Hard, Good or Easy, and the scheduler estimates that individual card's memory state to choose its next interval.
Anki compatibility runs both ways. Repeto imports .apkg packages with decks, cards and media behind an import preview, and exports decks back to .apkg at any time, so trying it never means surrendering a collection. The web app keeps decks, due cards and card creation in one place, saves locally first, syncs when a connection returns and supports keyboard review. A remote Model Context Protocol server lets Claude, ChatGPT or another compatible client search, create and improve cards under narrow permissions, with a preview-then-apply step and an undo receipt on every write.
Repeto is candid about its own maturity: its comparison pages describe version 2.2 as a pre-release, call the Android surface unreleased, and ask that the iPhone and iPad update not be presented as shipped.
What it does
- Write a complete flashcard from a single typed word, in the format that deck expects
- Generate card batches from PDFs, Word documents, pasted notes and Markdown files
- Pull material from an article link, a Wikipedia page or a YouTube transcript
- Transcribe an audio or video lecture and draft cards from the transcript
- Read a photo of a textbook page, a slide, a whiteboard or handwritten notes
- Import and export Anki .apkg packages, media included, in both directions
- Schedule every review with FSRS from your own Again, Hard, Good and Easy ratings
When to use Repeto / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Repeto is the right fit.
When to use Repeto
- Existing Anki users who want faster card creation without giving up .apkg portability
- Language learners building vocabulary decks with translations, grammatical gender and example sentences
- Students turning lecture PDFs, recordings and textbook photos into review material
- Self-directed learners who insist on editing every AI draft before it enters review
- People already working in Claude or ChatGPT who want their study deck reachable from the conversation
When not to use Repeto
- Android users, since the site states its Android surface is unreleased
- Anki power users who depend on add-ons, custom note types and HTML or CSS templates
- Anyone who needs a proven tool today: Repeto calls its own version 2.2 a pre-release
- Learners who want a guided, gamified language course rather than cards from their own material
- Organisations that require a named legal entity, a data processing agreement or a stated hosting jurisdiction
How to use Repeto
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Open the Repeto web app and sign in with your email address, since there is no password to set
- Create a deck and describe, in plain language, what a useful card in that subject should contain
- Optionally drag in an Anki .apkg file and inspect the import preview before confirming the move
- Type a term for a single card, or add several terms at once to draft a batch
- Or attach a source instead: pasted notes, a PDF, a link, a Wikipedia page, a YouTube video, a recording or a photo
- Let large sources run as background jobs and follow their visible progress
- Read the proposed batch against its source, fix wording, split overloaded questions and delete duplicates
- Approve only the cards worth reviewing, so the rest never reach your queue
- Review as cards come due: try the answer, reveal the card, then rate Again, Hard, Good or Easy
- Connect an MCP client over OAuth, or export a deck back to .apkg whenever you want a portable copy
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Reviewing is free forever: the free plan never charges you to study your own cards
- Generated cards arrive as editable drafts rather than an answer key you are asked to trust
- Two-way .apkg export keeps the decision to try Repeto reversible
- Deck instructions are written in ordinary sentences, with no templates to maintain
- An unusually wide range of accepted sources for a flashcard tool, photos and lectures included
- The MCP connector never exposes a tool that submits review ratings, so FSRS history stays human
- Pro is inexpensive at 3.99 USD a month, or 29.99 USD a year
Cons
- Repeto itself calls version 2.2 a pre-release and describes its Android surface as unreleased
- No legal entity, postal address or legal notice page is published anywhere on the site
- No hosting country or region is stated, only 'rented server infrastructure'
- Nothing is published about training on customer data, and no opt-out is documented
- No data processing agreement, no Article 27 EU representative and no named data protection officer
- The free plan caps AI generation at ten a week, and generating from material is Pro-only
- Support runs through a single mailbox, with no social presence and no help centre
Pricing & Plans
Repeto operates a permanent free plan at no cost, with no card details required to start. A single paid tier, Pro, is offered at 3.99 USD per month, or 29.99 USD per year, an annual saving of 37% announced on the pricing section. Web billing is handled by Polar, while purchases made through the App Store are Apple in-app purchases.
- unlimited manual cards
- unlimited review forever with FSRS included
- 10 AI card generations a week
- Anki .apkg import and export
- sync across devices with offline use
- and 100 MB of media storage
- everything in Free
- plus generation from material such as PDFs
- links
- YouTube
- audio and video lectures and photos
- no weekly generation limit
- and 5 GB of media storage
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Repeto handles your data.
GDPR overview
Repeto addresses the GDPR without ever claiming compliance in so many words. The privacy policy, last updated on 22 July 2026, tells readers in the EEA, the UK or any comparable regime that they hold rights of access, rectification, export, deletion and objection, and notes that most are built into the product: content is editable in the app, decks export as .apkg, and account deletion is self-service. It also points users to their national supervisory authority. The omissions matter just as much. No data protection officer is named, no Article 27 EU representative is designated, no data processing agreement is published, and no hosting jurisdiction is stated. Every data question routes to one mailbox, support@repeto.ai.
Who owns the data?
The terms are explicit: decks, notes, cards and anything you import remain yours. You grant Repeto only the limited licence it needs to run the service, namely storing, processing, syncing and displaying that content back to you, plus the right to forward whatever you submit for generation to third-party large-language-model providers, which the privacy policy leaves unnamed. Nothing is sold and no third-party advertising runs against it. Decks stay private unless you choose to publish one to the marketplace; publishing grants Repeto hosting and distribution rights and gives every other user a non-exclusive licence to save, study and adapt that deck inside Repeto.
Reuse rights
Reuse is unrestricted and needs no permission. You can export your whole collection to Anki .apkg whenever you like, and edit, correct or delete any generated card freely, since the terms treat generated cards as drafts rather than a finished answer key. Deleting your account from Settings erases everything held on Repeto's servers. The restrictions target abuse rather than reuse: you may not break authentication, circumvent rate or plan limits, scrape other users' content, generate illegal material or resell access, and you must only import or publish content you hold the rights to.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
No hosting country or region is disclosed. The privacy policy says only that Repeto runs on rented server infrastructure and that synced data sits in its database on those servers; the provider is not named. Study data, meaning decks, notes, cards, review history and FSRS state, is stored server-side so it can sync, while reviews are saved to the device first. Uploads submitted for generation are stored so they can be processed and attached to a deck, and the content itself is forwarded to unnamed third-party model providers. Named processors are Polar for web billing, Apple and RevenueCat for iOS purchases, PostHog for a restricted set of product analytics with automatic click capture, session replay, heatmaps, form capture and IP-based location disabled, and Pexels, from whose servers optional card images load directly, exposing your IP address to Pexels. Review reminders are local device notifications, with no push server involved. The domain resolves to a Cloudflare anycast address, which reflects content delivery and says nothing about where data is stored.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Repeto.
- Generated cards can be wrong, and Repeto says so: a mistake you approve gets rehearsed by FSRS until you have memorised the error
- Photo and scan input degrades with image quality, and formulas, digits and negations are the first casualties
- Writing a card is itself an act of learning, so outsourcing that step can hollow out the understanding that review is meant to consolidate
- Fast generation encourages deck bloat: duplicates, trivia and overloaded questions that cost review time without paying it back
- Everything you submit for generation is forwarded to third-party model providers the privacy policy does not name
- An anonymous device account that is never linked to an email cannot be recovered if the device is lost
- The streak garden is designed so that missed days stare back at you, which can turn a study habit into anxiety
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low for normal use. Repeto is a web app with nothing to install: sign-in is passwordless by email, no card details are needed, and on iOS you can use Sign in with Apple or an anonymous device account. Deck instructions are written in ordinary sentences rather than templates, and importing an Anki deck means dragging in an .apkg and checking the preview. Repeto suggests starting with ten terms or one short section of notes. The only technical step is the MCP connector, which asks you to add a remote server in your AI client and authorise it over OAuth.
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Behind Repeto
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Alternatives
Tools that compete with or complement Repeto.
Frequently asked questions
Is Repeto free?
What can Repeto make flashcards from?
Is it compatible with Anki?
Can I edit the generated cards before studying them?
What is FSRS?
Is there an iPhone or iPad app?
Can I connect Repeto to Claude or ChatGPT?
What does Pro cost?
Who is behind Repeto, and what happens to my data?
Is there a minimum age?
Should you pick Repeto?
Repeto sets out to remove the hour spent making flashcards without handing you a pile of generic trivia in exchange, and its design choices follow that promise more closely than most AI study tools manage. Cards arrive as drafts you are expected to check and prune. Reviewing stays free forever, on the stated principle that Pro pays for the AI rather than for your own memory. An .apkg export is always available, so trying the tool never means surrendering a collection. Even the MCP connector refuses to expose anything that could submit review ratings on your behalf, which keeps the FSRS history honest.
The reservations are equally clear, and much of the evidence comes from Repeto itself. Its comparison pages, which openly disclose a commercial interest, describe version 2.2 as a pre-release, call the Android surface unreleased, and ask that the iPhone and iPad update not be presented as shipped. Round-trip fidelity for Anki packages is described as still needing corpus testing.
The larger gap is corporate. No legal entity, postal address or legal notice appears anywhere; the site names only 'the Repeto team'. No hosting country is disclosed, no data processing agreement is offered, no Article 27 EU representative is designated, and nothing at all is said about whether submitted content trains models. For an individual learner the entry cost is close to zero and the exit is guaranteed by .apkg, which makes the risk easy to carry. For a school, a clinic or any organisation with a procurement checklist, those blanks are the deciding factor, and they will need filling before Repeto can be assessed seriously.
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