Flashcard Maker

A flashcard maker that stays in your browser

Flashcards are about as simple as study tools get: a question, a term or a word on the front, the answer on the back. This flashcard maker lets you build a deck in a few minutes, study it on screen with flip and shuffle, and print it as real cards to cut out. There is no account and no upload. Your cards live in this browser tab, and only if you tick Save my decks on this device do they stay after you close it.

The page opens with a small example deck that explains the controls. Study it once to see how everything works, then press New deck or replace the cards with your own.

Making cards

Type a front and a back for each card. Both are plain text and can run over several lines, so a back can hold a short definition, a formula or a list of steps. Each side can also have a picture from your device, which is handy for maps, diagrams, artwork or vocabulary with images. Pictures larger than 800 pixels on the longest side are scaled down so a deck with many of them stays small.

If you already have your terms somewhere else, open Paste a list of cards and paste them in, one card per line. Three formats work:

• Tab: mitosis, a tab, cell division. Further tabs on the line become spaces in the back.
• Space, hyphen, space: mitosis - cell division. Only a hyphen with a space on both sides splits the line, so words like well-known stay whole, and a leading bullet is removed.
• Comma (CSV): mitosis,cell division. Text in double quotes can hold commas and line breaks, as in any CSV file.

Auto uses tabs when the text has any, and otherwise picks whichever of the other two separators reads more cards. The preview tells you how many cards it found and which lines it skipped, with the line number, before you add anything.

Studying with flip, shuffle and repeat

Open Study to go through the deck one card at a time. Click or tap the card, or press Space, to flip it. Then mark it: Know if you got it right, Don't know if you did not. The bar on top shows how far you are in the round and how many you knew so far. Shuffle mixes the order each time a round starts, and Show first: Back lets you practice the other direction, for example from the English word to the foreign one.

When the round ends, you see your count of known cards. Repeat the missed cards starts a new round with only the cards you marked Don't know, so each pass gets shorter. When none are left, Study all cards again starts over with the whole deck. Made a mistake? Undo takes back the last answer.

On a keyboard, Space or Enter flips, the right arrow or K marks a card as known, the left arrow or J as not known, and Z undoes. On a phone or tablet, swipe the card right for Know and left for Don't know.

Printing cut-out flashcards

Open Print and pick a layout. Two-sided prints a page of fronts and then a page of backs, placed so that each back lands behind its front when the sheet turns over. Which position that is depends on how the sheet turns. Flipped on the long edge, the left and right columns swap; flipped on the short edge, the top and bottom rows swap. Pick the same flip edge here and in your print dialog. The cards sit in the middle of the page with equal margins all around, so on paper the backs mirror the fronts exactly. A printer that shifts the sheet slightly while feeding can still move them a millimeter or two apart, which is why a test sheet is worth it.

Each card carries a small number on both sides, so after cutting you can check that every front has the right back. Print a single test sheet before a whole deck; it costs one page and shows at once whether your printer and settings match.

If your printer cannot print on both sides, pick Fold-over. Each card then prints as a strip with the front on the left and the back on the right. Cut out the strip, fold it along the middle, and you have a two-sided card from one-sided printing. Very long texts print in a smaller type, so short backs work best on paper.

Saving, exporting and privacy

Without saving, your deck exists only while the page is open. Tick Save my decks on this device to keep all your decks in this browser, with their pictures; untick it to delete them from this device again. If the browser has no room left, for example for a deck with many pictures, the tool tells you that saving failed. Export CSV gives a plain text file with a front and a back column, which you can also open in a spreadsheet. Export JSON keeps the pictures too and is the best way to move a deck to another device or keep a backup. Import reads both back in.

Your cards never go into a link and are never sent to a server. If you want to share a deck, send the exported file. For other study helpers, see the grade calculator and the GPA calculator.

How to use the flashcard maker

1. 1Press New deck, give it a name and type a front and back for each card, or paste a whole list. Add a picture to a side if it helps.
2. 2Open Study, flip each card and mark it Know or Don't know. At the end, repeat the missed cards until you know them all. Turn on Shuffle or Show first: Back to change things up.
3. 3To learn on paper, open Print, pick two-sided or fold-over cards and print. To keep your deck, tick Save my decks on this device or export it as CSV or JSON.

Built by Tobias Kurth, designer. Updated October 13, 2026.

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