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Knowt: AI Flashcards & Notes
Knowt Inc. · 9,672 ratings · ★ 4.7
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Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"free"
12 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ ":/. On social media right now, this app is advertised as a free and effective way to study for your exams with unlimited tools. It is not unlimited. The questions are also way easier than how they will be on the exam so you shouldn’t really be …" - dontwasteurtimeonthis
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"subscription"
10 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Helpful but what is going on?. I purchased the weekly subscription for Knowt for $10.61, and it was supposed to last a full week. I canceled it only so it wouldn’t auto-renew, but now I’ve lost access after just a couple of days and it’s asking me to purchase again. Are …" - yahtodashi2dabal
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"knowt"
10 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Helpful but what is going on?. I purchased the weekly subscription for Knowt for $10.61, and it was supposed to last a full week. I canceled it only so it wouldn’t auto-renew, but now I’ve lost access after just a couple of days and it’s asking me to purchase again. Are …" - yahtodashi2dabal
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"study"
7 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ ":/. On social media right now, this app is advertised as a free and effective way to study for your exams with unlimited tools. It is not unlimited. The questions are also way easier than how they will be on the exam so you shouldn’t really be …" - dontwasteurtimeonthis
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"questions"
7 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ ":/. On social media right now, this app is advertised as a free and effective way to study for your exams with unlimited tools. It is not unlimited. The questions are also way easier than how they will be on the exam so you shouldn’t really be …" - dontwasteurtimeonthis
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"doesn"
7 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "💔. doesn’t give free ap tests like it says it does it isn’t unlimited" - yeti_201
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"every"
7 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Bruh ts sucks now.. Trying to study for ap gov. So technically the first amendment protects this because even tho I’m criticizing, it’s the truth and doesn’t promote violence. I used to use this every ap season so I use it for a couple of weeks once a year. W…" - ty.taylor.ty (my tikok)
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"flashcards"
7 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Flashcard problems. Though this app is free to study flashcards everytime i make my flashcards manually and save them, half of my definitions will disapear and its so frusturating. The phots dont save either its like playing a lucky game maybe theyll save mayb…" - urgurlinhere
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"flash"
7 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Flashcard problems. Though this app is free to study flashcards everytime i make my flashcards manually and save them, half of my definitions will disapear and its so frusturating. The phots dont save either its like playing a lucky game maybe theyll save mayb…" - urgurlinhere
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"give"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "💔. doesn’t give free ap tests like it says it does it isn’t unlimited" - yeti_201
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"studying"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Wish it worked. This app would be really cool and useful if it actually worked. I can see how this would help with studying but I always have issues with my app and can almost never use it. Eveytime I open the app it acts as I don’t have a subscription, bu…" - elisezthomas
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"work"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Wish it worked. This app would be really cool and useful if it actually worked. I can see how this would help with studying but I always have issues with my app and can almost never use it. Eveytime I open the app it acts as I don’t have a subscription, bu…" - elisezthomas
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On social media right now, this app is advertised as a free and effective way to study for your exams with unlimited tools. It is not unlimited. The questions are also way easier than how they will be on the exam so you shouldn’t really be using this to study for the MCQs. I don’t know what’s the point of advertising yourself as a free study tool when you have to pay for more AI slop.
Helpful but what is going on?
I purchased the weekly subscription for Knowt for $10.61, and it was supposed to last a full week. I canceled it only so it wouldn’t auto-renew, but now I’ve lost access after just a couple of days and it’s asking me to purchase again. Are they trying to scam me, I am just a student and trying to suffer from AP test.
Scammers
they scammed me out of my money
💔
doesn’t give free ap tests like it says it does
it isn’t unlimited
it isn’t unlimited
Used to work
It keeps updating and breaking. Very buggy. I spent $95 and as soon as final exams come up, it stops working 🥲 already contacted support and they “fix” it but can’t upload anything.
App was good idea but poorly executed
The app is good for studying but the paid features are out of hand. I originally got the app due to the unlimited study features it advertised compared to Quizlet but I can only do like 3 practice runs for AP tests before it tried to get me to pay. Additionally it has integrated way too many ai slop features. It had great promise when it first launched but they ruined it with the excessive push for users to pay to use the app and the ai use.
Ai
This is so buns now idk what happened. Every questions is just ai slop, no real sources, horrible ai generated stimulus aswell.
Flashcard problems
Though this app is free to study flashcards everytime i make my flashcards manually and save them, half of my definitions will disapear and its so frusturating. The phots dont save either its like playing a lucky game maybe theyll save maybe they wont.
Review
Not intuitive.
New update makes it impossible to work
I’ve just spent an hour trying to figure out how to make a flash card set because of the new update and I still can’t figure it out. If you want to upload a picture it has to go through your files which takes a super long time to load. What happened Knowt you guys used to be so good!
Better, Duolingo
This thing’s weird, but you have to pay if you want to get through all of it please fix this issue
free until it wasn’t
Knowt what happened to free features for students worldwide?? I was using the ap practice features and it was working great until a second ago and now they’re all locked behind a paywall. I can’t do any of my ap practices that used to be free because of this. I’ve been relying on knowt all through my high school years and it used to be genuinely good…
Absolutely worthless
Not only does this app grossly over-use AI to function, the questions it generates are so straightforward and basic that they won't help you study for any actual exam. Some questions try to mimic historical cartoons, but it's painfully obvious that the images are AI and they are either hard to understand or completely nonsensical. The AI also makes the app very slow, which is very ironic since it's supposed to "speed up" the studying process. Download quizlet, not this slop
Great when it works, devastating when it doesn’t
Twice now, on 2 separate flashcard sets, Knowt’s auto-save feature failed to work and deleted hours of work. The AI support bot can’t help restore the lost flashcards so I have to wait hours for a human agent to respond and restore them. I edit only on my iPad and don’t understand why this happens. I like Knowt’s UI much more than other flashcard apps but this unreliability is extremely frustrating and I will be switching to something else because I can’t keep wasting my time on an app I can’t trust.
DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME
Id give this app a 0 if I could Ive spent HOURS making flashcards for the apo to delete them ALL. Horrible app. I could not recommend less.
SCAMMERS
I CLICKED ON THEIR IN APP AD FOR A FREEEEEEEEE TRIAL.
I CLICK CONFIRM AND THEY CHARGED ME FOR UNTIL 2027 AND LEFT ME WITH $20 IN MY BANK UNTIL PAY DAY, WHY? I CLICKED FREE TRIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I CLICK CONFIRM AND THEY CHARGED ME FOR UNTIL 2027 AND LEFT ME WITH $20 IN MY BANK UNTIL PAY DAY, WHY? I CLICKED FREE TRIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not worth it
Good features are hidden behind a pay wall and uploading pictures is a pain.
Solve gone
I don’t know what happened in this update but , the solve feature is gone !
THEY REMOVED SNAP AND SOLVE
for people buying this also to use snap and solve the removed it :/
Kept charging me and bad customer service
I got a free subscription from my friend. It was a gifted Ulta which is FREE. I got charged $119 on my card and I was so confused. Like why is this happening? Then I texted the stupid AI and they didn’t even give me good advice! They told me the $119 transaction was just an ‘authorization attempt’. HELLLOO?? WHY WOULD THEY CHARGE ME SO MUCH MONEY FOR AN AUTHORIZATION ATTEMPT?? And do NOT do a subscription on safari because it will not work and all the customer service will say is ‘cancel it through the app’ ‘cancel it through the app store’. LIKE I CANT BECAUE IT WAS PURCHASED ON SAFARI. GIVEME MY MONEY BACK
Auto paraphrase
I pay for this app and I’m tired of it paraphrasing my documents when I try to convert them into flashcards. Please make an option where it just copies the words as is. I am tired of the more important features (google doc conversions) being broken as well.
Knowt Fell Off
built the whole platform off of being the free alternative to quizlet just to cave and become EXACTLY like quizlet - now theres ads on every corner im trying to do my flash cards and my entire screen gets covered by an ad and theres literally no way to get rid of it without refreshing, absolutely annoying this site fell off so bad
Freezes
Freezes on the “leave a review” screen and no matter how many times I close and reopen the app, I can’t get any further to be able to actually use it.
Can’t look at AP exams
I hate this so much
The reason I got this app was to study for ap exams and it wont load ever
The reason I got this app was to study for ap exams and it wont load ever
Faulty App
At first the app was great but not everyone I try to make a new flashcard set is closed me out of the app repeatedly, even when I try to edit a previous flash card set I am shut out.
Unimpressed
I’m starting grad school and I heard about this app off of TikTok and I purchased a subscription. However, every time I go try to manually make flashcards it kicks me out of the app. $120 down the drain
glitchy
it is so glitchy and i can’t edit my flash cards without the app closing
Scam Disguised as a Free Trial
Knowt is one of the most deceptive apps I’ve ever encountered on the App Store. It lures users in with a so-called “free trial,” but instead of honoring that, it immediately charged $102 from my bank account. There was no clear warning, no transparent confirmation, and no honest disclosure of what I was actually agreeing to. This is not how a legitimate subscription works - it’s how users get scammed.
To make matters worse, after taking that money, Knowt did not even provide a full one-year subscription, which is what a charge of this size would reasonably imply. So not only was the charge deceptive, but the service itself was incomplete and misrepresented. That is false advertising and failure to deliver what was paid for.
This app relies on intentionally confusing wording, dark-pattern design, and vague trial language to trap users into expensive subscriptions they never knowingly agreed to. It feels predatory, especially considering this app targets students. Nothing about this experience was honest, transparent, or ethical.
I am disputing the charge, reporting this app to Apple, and warning others to stay far away. If you value your money, do not download Knowt, do not start the “free trial,” and do not trust this company’s billing practices. Apps like this give the App Store a bad name and should not be allowed on the platform.
To make matters worse, after taking that money, Knowt did not even provide a full one-year subscription, which is what a charge of this size would reasonably imply. So not only was the charge deceptive, but the service itself was incomplete and misrepresented. That is false advertising and failure to deliver what was paid for.
This app relies on intentionally confusing wording, dark-pattern design, and vague trial language to trap users into expensive subscriptions they never knowingly agreed to. It feels predatory, especially considering this app targets students. Nothing about this experience was honest, transparent, or ethical.
I am disputing the charge, reporting this app to Apple, and warning others to stay far away. If you value your money, do not download Knowt, do not start the “free trial,” and do not trust this company’s billing practices. Apps like this give the App Store a bad name and should not be allowed on the platform.
Being scammed for the subscription
This app has been extremely frustrating. I clicked the trial button for the subscription, but instead of receiving the Ultra plan trial, I was charged $119 while still on basic plan. I am unable to cancel or get a refund. When I tried contacting the AI agent, I was told that a 3.5% processing fee would apply. I haven’t received any services, yet I’m being charged. Please help me resolve this, as no agent has been able to assist so far.
SCAM
scammer beware and the app sucks
Pay
Over all 3 fay trial was decent but colldge students all ready pay there student loans so free would be alot better/easier
Awful
I expected what the title insisted. A way to create Ai flashcards and notes. As a student this seems amazing until you realize how misleading this app is. Absolutely every useful feature about this app is behind a pay wall. Just use an other ai.
Wish it worked
This app would be really cool and useful if it actually worked. I can see how this would help with studying but I always have issues with my app and can almost never use it. Eveytime I open the app it acts as I don’t have a subscription, but I do… 12.99 a month and just for it to not work. The call Kai doesn’t always work either no matter what buttons I press
Bruh ts sucks now.
Trying to study for ap gov. So technically the first amendment protects this because even tho I’m criticizing, it’s the truth and doesn’t promote violence.
I used to use this every ap season so I use it for a couple of weeks once a year. When did they start charging for every little thing?? If I want to do practice mcq more then 3 times a day I have to pay?? What gives?? Also if I randomize them, it’s the same easy, repetitive questions. They asked me 3 questions on Marbury v Madison in a 7 question span, and the question was the same as the previous ones, just in a different format. And all the other questions are ai slop. Why do I need a photo of ai George Washington when the question is about brown v board? It’s all unnecessary and non-useful.
I’m heading back to quizlet it seems.
I used to use this every ap season so I use it for a couple of weeks once a year. When did they start charging for every little thing?? If I want to do practice mcq more then 3 times a day I have to pay?? What gives?? Also if I randomize them, it’s the same easy, repetitive questions. They asked me 3 questions on Marbury v Madison in a 7 question span, and the question was the same as the previous ones, just in a different format. And all the other questions are ai slop. Why do I need a photo of ai George Washington when the question is about brown v board? It’s all unnecessary and non-useful.
I’m heading back to quizlet it seems.
Overpriced and underdeveloped
I’ve been using this app for two weeks and while it has been great for the first couple of days I’ve run into a few issues as I’ve used it such as the text boxes in the mock exams not writing properly. I’ve troubleshooted across many devices and have had the same problem. And btw if you are taking an exam do not exit out of it or else it will not save your progress. I had to find out the hard way whenever I couldn’t submit my exam and was told to refresh the app come to find out that it completely destroyed all of my progress and didn’t give me a grade at all. 2 hours flushed down the drain. The questions became repetitive and I would love to see some more stimulus on the questions such as graphs or tables.
Not good enough
If you’re studying for an AP exam this is basically useless. The questions are too straightforward and basic to actually learn anything. For the FRQ section when you try to type it is heavily bugged and barely functions. If you type over 5 words per minute it glitches and barely functions. You need to combine this with other sources. This is not adequate enough to get a five on your AP exam.
Not working
Love this app, helped me with my studies but lately I am not able to upload my notes and if I do it’s very blurry and now I’m not able to uploaded anything. Mind you I paid for a whole year of subscription
Fix the lags, random freezing, or when my data from call with Kai doesn’t even save.
I love the app… however the only reason why I use it for the call with Kai feature. The feature is good at first but then it lags soooo bad and it’s so annoying. It’s the only reason why I won’t pay for the full subscription or why i whined up cancelling and not even using the app. Fix the Ai “Call with Kai” feature and this app will be golden.
Great Until it Wasnt
I was using the mcqs feature, until an error cane up saying it wasn't available. A few days later, it kept the mcqs behind a paywall. I went to customer support, which was unhelpful and did not solve any of the problems (because I thought mcq practice was supposed to be free?) Even if I were to buy a subscription, Fiveable would be cheaper by at least $30 which I already have. I only used knowt for the mcqs, but now that that's gone I have no reason to use the app or website.
Latest update
Due to the latest update the text box does not fit anymore. Half of the flashcards answers dont show because the textbox has been shortened. Its become bigger but its cut off as if the text was.
Magnified.
Magnified.
New Update Terrible for Educators
Originally the app was great and it was wonderful that it was free, but this new update prevents educators from using the app. Literally, I can’t even log in or access anything on the app anymore because I have an educator account. Apparently, educators should only be able to access their accounts from the internet. But what’s the point of having the app in the first place then?? Deleted.
Not Free
As soon as you sign up and rate they try and push a paid version. Kownt is pushy about it - I don't even get to use the app before presented with payment plans. Let me use the app first, like it, and if I determine I need the paywall features then I'll cough up money. However, this is getting 2 stars because Knowt advertised itself as a free Quizlet and there's expensive subscription plans in the app.
Crashes during recordings
It crashes too much especially during a lecture audio recording!! Lost the audio
Does not support Goodnotes or Notability
As both a Goodnotes and Notability user, I was using this app to recorded my lectures and note take for me. I would try translating these notes to Goodnotes and notability. There would be errors whenever I’d download the pdf version and upload it to either app. I’d try copy and pasting the lecture notes into both apps, but the formatting would NOT translate so I’d have to reformat them. If you’re trying to be efficient with your time by using this app and trying to move it over to using Goodnotes or notability, this app is not for you. I also tried to get a refund when it automatically renewed - BE WARNED >>>> they do not give refunds as much as you try to request a refund from Apple. I tried emailing their support team and hopefully they are willing and considerate to refund me or take this review as feedback to improve their services and app.
not bad but not great
just started using this app to make flash cards for my final. i clicked to create the set and it deleted nearly thirty of the flash cards i MANUALLY TYPED IN, with no warning or reason. gonna fail now thanks
Ehh
I came to Knowt for the notecard formatting. However, when studying the notecards, the app is very laggy, doesn’t keep up, mix and matches definitions and terms randomly. Still looking for a quizlet alternative.
2 stars !!!!
the app has some things available, but the most important features are locked away and you have to pay for them. I do not recommend this app if you need to study for cheap.
Wrongful Time Periods During Practice Tests
I downloaded this app, specifically to use the practice tests for my AP classes. But every time I start a test, it gives me wrong information about what i’m supposed to be tested on. For example, I used the practice test for AP U.S History. When I click a specific period I want to be tested on, it gives me questions that are related to periods later. I have already checked multiple times to make sure that I haven’t clicked anything else. I now have to find something else to test myself on.
knowt lags my computer so bad
i have to wait for the page to be responsive on my computer and if it does load, none of the buttons work and i can’t edit my flash cards. it’s memory usage is super high and my progress doesn’t sync up with it on my phone
Great but…
This app is fantastic for studying! However, while I mainly use it for it’s photo flash card feature, every time I made a card set it deletes half my terms. Help!
Sentiment summary
95%
Positive (4-5★)
1%
Neutral (3★)
5%
Negative (1-2★)