Mnema vs Anki, Quizlet, RemNote and NotebookLM

RemNote is a notes app that also makes flashcards. Mnema does one job: it turns your lectures, slides and PDFs into cards and quizzes you can check, and brings them back on a schedule until the exam. Three things set it apart, and RemNote's own pages, read on 1 October 2026, describe none of them. Each AI card says how far to trust it: from your source, source plus AI, or general knowledge. A second check reads each card against its passage, and a card the source does not support is dropped or labelled general knowledge. And with no notes at all, Mnema searches the web and cites the page each card came from (Plus and Pro). Nothing is saved until you approve it with its passage beside it. In study both apps take you back to the source, down to the sentence in your PDF; Mnema opens your slides or Word file there too, highlighted, or plays your lecture from that moment. If you want notes, YouTube videos and offline apps in one place, pick RemNote. If you want AI cards you can check before an exam, pick Mnema.

For different parts of it. NotebookLM, now Gemini Notebook, is better for understanding a pile of sources: chat across them, summaries, audio and video overviews and a quick set of flashcards. Mnema is for remembering them: cards and quizzes that say how far to trust them, checked against their source, kept in decks and brought back on a spaced repetition schedule until the exam. Many students use both.

Mnema shows it before you save: the passage and the page, slide, rough time or web page, a label saying how far to trust the card, and whether a second check read it against the passage. In study it opens your PDF, slides or Word file inside Mnema at the card's sentence and highlights it, opens a web page at its passage where the browser supports it, or plays your recording from that moment. RemNote's pin also opens the exact sentence in a PDF. NotebookLM's chat answers cite their passages, but a source on each flashcard is not described. Quizlet's study guides let you view your original upload. Anki has no built-in AI.

Mnema uses a simplified FSRS 6 with default parameters and a retention target per deck. It has no optimiser that fits the parameters to your reviews and no same-day learning steps, so a card comes back a day later at the soonest. Anki's FSRS 6 has both. If fine-tuned scheduling matters most to you, Anki is ahead.

Yes, both ways. Mnema imports .apkg and .colpkg files up to 200 MB and 50,000 notes, with media, cloze and image occlusion notes; studied cards keep their schedule and your review history comes along (image occlusion notes start as new cards). Back out, Mnema writes an Anki package (.apkg) of a deck, a quiz or all your decks, with pictures, sounds and image occlusion; tick “Include my review progress” and your due dates and review history go with it. CSV and plain text work too.

Not yet. Mnema runs in the browser on laptops, tablets and phones, you can add it to your Home Screen, and it needs a connection. Anki, Quizlet and RemNote have native apps that study offline, and NotebookLM has phone apps too.

Mnema is free during invite-only early access. The planned plans are a free tier with 200 AI credits every 30 days; Plus $9.99 a month or $79.99 a year; Pro $19.99 a month or $149.99 a year.

Yevhen Maltsev, who builds Mnema, checked every Anki, Quizlet, RemNote and NotebookLM fact on that app's own website, help centre, blog or app store page on 1 October 2026, and each links there. Where a page does not describe something, we say “not described”, not “does not have”. We tried to be fair. If anything is out of date, email hello@mnema.me and we will fix it.