Quizlet: Digital flashcards and online study tools Reviews 633

Quizlet: where dreams go to die, one flashcard at a time. Logging into this site is like willingly stepping into a memory black hole, where time stretches, motivation vanishes, and your will to study is pulverized by endless, repetitive soul-numbing click-fests.

At first, it lures you in with promises of “easy learning.” But what you actually get is a loop of digital torment — the same five cards showing up over and over like a broken record of academic suffering. You will forget the one term you actually needed, and Quizlet will remind you of that failure with the grace of a wrecking ball.

Their auto-generated definitions? Straight out of a robot's fever dream. I once saw a history term explained in a way that made less sense than a toddler describing quantum physics. And the matching game? Designed specifically to make you feel like you’ve just failed kindergarten.

Oh, and don’t think the “upgrade to premium” pop-ups will stop. They appear more often than actual helpful content — I’ve seen less begging in a Shakespearean tragedy.

To summarize: I’d rather recite the entire dictionary backwards while walking on LEGO pieces than use Quizlet again. A betrayal disguised as a study tool. May it be forever deleted from my bookmarks.

Blocks function allows for incorrect answers:

I have been using this to revise for exams and since I take History as a subject, there are a lot of dates I need to revise:

Say for example, we look at when public executions and executions in prisons were abolished, these events both happened in 1868 however the platform allows me to type in 1968. It is the day of the exam today and I am going over my cards on Quizlet and now I am finding out.

This came as a VERY nasty shock to me and I don't think that having this wiggle room in answers to do with dates is a very good idea. Therefore, I suggest that any answers given to the program must be exact which would prompt people to streamline their answers down to only include the key points which is a lot better as it teaches them to isolate useful information. I have never felt more panic than now.

Please fix this issue in the upcoming weeks as this is exam week and you are a platform who does have content and revision activities for exams such as GCSEs and A-Levels. With all due respect, I do expect this to be fixed as soon as possible so that other people do not have to deal with the same problems as I did here.

BEWARE!!! The site has reasonably good content. However, DO NOT get a subscription. I spent 45 minutes trying to cancel my subscription. They DO NOT send renewal reminders, so I had to get through PayPal to cancel them and to get a refund. Their website's cancellation instructions do not match the website.

I've used Quizlet for years now, and used to adore it due to the countless times it's saved me 5 minutes before an exam/vocab quiz. However, in its current day state, it is objectively both useless and money hungry. The ads make the site take forever to load and move through the UI efficiently. All the fun features that used to make it unique are under a paywall. I guarantee you that you can do Quizlet's capabilities for free at home. Get some flashcards, write down what you need to know, and test yourself like the now paid activities used to work.

At first, it was a great study tool, but after the latest update, it’s an absolute nightmare!
You can’t move sets between folders/classes efficiently, you can’t select individual cards from sets and reorganize them into a new set.
It’s also impossible to create a folder with older sets, because you can’t select them – even the individual set settings don’t allow adding them.
Completely user-unfriendly – I spend more time trying to figure out how to make something work than actually studying productively.

I’ve used Quizlet for years, but this recent experience was terrible. As a business based in the EU, I need invoices that meet basic legal standards, customer name, address, tax ID, etc. Quizlet doesn’t provide this and refuses to even offer a blank field to enter billing info.
Their customer support is a joke, it's like talking to a bot copy-pasting scripted replies with zero regard for the actual issue. They clearly don’t care about long-time users or about operating professionally in international markets.

If you’re a business, avoid Quizlet. They make things unnecessarily difficult and don’t seem interested in improving.

Money grubbing website that is trying to profit off struggling college/high school kids. Is Ad revenue not good enough???

Requires an account for no reason, and has too many ads to even scroll through the page.

Without any prior notification or opportunity to correct an issue, Quizlet deleted my account with an accusation that I had committed copyright violations. This was shortly after I renewed my subscription and they did not even notify me after the fact or refund my money. Although I used their answer feature which provided several answer selections for a term or question, I am unaware of any violations but would certainly and very willingly removed them if I had been given the courtesy of a notification or warning. I don't even know which violations they are referring to - they just deleted my entire account which included my OER images that I created and OER lecture questions. Because I had to quickly recreate review sheets for my students, I located Revisely. It is so much better than Quizlet, it is very engaging, and they will be adding more features. Check them out if you are unahappy with Quizlet.

I literally need to pay for everything and it won't even let me properly study. I can barely do anything without this fly telling me to pay. This is terrible and I'm sure it will continue to fall off because they are so damn greedy and keep trying to grab money.

its okay I guess but even if I get it right MUTLIPLE times they keep showing the same question, and none of the other questions that I actually need to learn

Horrible, so horrible.

Every feature costs money now, and it isnt even cheap

If the features were reasonably priced it would be okay.

Quizlet is falling off, their interface has become outdated, not letting people enjoy the comfort and immediately force to buy a subscription. Quizlet, if you want to save yourself contact me and I will try my hardest best.

Even though their AI system for language learning conversation was flaky, it was nevertheless a good idea. Suddenly they required an upgrade to use it (with no warning) just after my subscription had auto renewed. So i have another year of this very poor flashcard system. support@quizzlet is no longer answered. Not a good service

This app is so greedy. Should educational sources not be more accessible? It is so astounding to see a resource I used in high school be completely downgraded due to paywalls and inaccessibility. Corporate greed is just another contributing factor to increased illiteracy rates.

You can't even use the "learn" mode without paying and watching video ads anymore. 100% anti-consumer app.

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They don’t send you ANY sort of email notifications besides 1 email (30 days prior to your subscription renewal) and then the next one with the receipt of your subscription charge.

Very upset that this company obviously is doing this intentionally as others do as well.
I have been charged for 3 years now with only the 1 reminder email each year ONE MONTH from the charge and then the following email is the receipt.
No user updates? No service changes? No support team comms? Nothing??? Just one email reminder and one receipt. Also, receiving the emails about the charges in the middle of the night. Sounds very shady if you ask me but I’ll let that go somewhat due to time zones and locations but not convinced fully this isn’t a part of their marketing scheme here.

Veryyyyyy dissatisfied with this company. Will not recommend to anyone and will be sure to let them know of their extremely minimal communication styles and tricky tactics to keep you subscribing.

i used a free version and is satisfactory for me
thank you