The AI Anki card maker that shows its work.
Point Clozely at what you're reading: a PDF chapter, a slide deck, a website, a lecture recording. It drafts cloze cards for you, and every draft is linked to the exact sentence it came from, so you can check it before it ever reaches your deck.
Windows & macOS · AI add-on from $9.99/mo ($4.99 student) · Works with Anki
Three ways to point the AI.
You choose the scope; the AI stays inside it.
A whole document or page range
Hand it the chapter and get a first pass over everything. An AI Anki deck maker for the nights the reading list is longer than the night.
A box you draw
Drag a box around a table, a figure, or a pathway diagram and the AI drafts cards from exactly that: the content generic text tools can't read.
A selection you make
Select a paragraph and draft from just that. Good for the one dense passage in an otherwise skimmable page.
Drafts, not decrees
AI cards arrive as drafts in the panel. Click one and Clozely highlights its source sentence so you can verify it. Approve the good ones; the rest never touch your deck.
A tighter loop than copy and paste.
The usual workaround is pasting a passage into a chatbot, asking for flashcards, and copying them back one at a time. Fine for a paragraph. It gets old fast on a forty-page chapter.
Nothing to copy or paste
The document is already open in Clozely, and the drafts land in the card panel beside it. You are never moving text between two apps.
Every card shows its source
Click a draft and Clozely highlights the sentence it came from, so you can confirm it against the page in one click instead of re-reading to find it.
Real cloze formatting
Drafts arrive as genuine Anki cloze notes with the deletions, decks, and tags already set. Nothing to reformat before it reaches your deck.
Reads figures, not just text
Tables, pathway diagrams, and figures go through area select, so the parts of a page you cannot paste anywhere still become cards.
Questions, answered
Can AI really make Anki cards from a PDF?
Yes. Open the PDF in Clozely, hit Generate, and choose the whole document, a page range, or an area. Image-only PDFs work too; Clozely reads them first. See PDF to Anki for the full workflow, including the manual one.
Do I have to use the AI to use Clozely?
No. The whole manual studio (highlighting, cloze editing, image occlusion, sending to Anki) comes with the one-time purchase and never needs a subscription. AI drafting is an optional add-on.
Does it work on lectures?
Yes. Recordings become timestamp-cited study docs you can draft cards from. That's the video to Anki workflow.
What does the AI cost?
The AI add-on starts at $9.99/mo ($4.99 with a student .edu address). Lecture study docs are part of AI Pro. The app itself is a separate one-time purchase with a free 14-day trial. Full detail on pricing.
Will bad AI cards end up in my deck?
Not without your say-so. Every AI card is a draft until you approve it, and each one links back to its source sentence so you can check it in seconds.
Let the AI take the first pass tonight.
Download the app free for 14 days, then add the AI when you want the heavy lifting done for you.