Bananote is an AI study tool that turns your lectures, PDFs, YouTube links and pasted text into structured notes, flashcards, scored quizzes and a chat that answers questions about your notes. Record a class or upload what you already have, and start studying in minutes, in 100+ languages, on iPhone, iPad, Mac or in your browser.
Record a lecture live on iPhone, iPad, Mac or in your browser, or upload an audio file, a PDF, pasted text or a YouTube link. On iPhone and iPad you can scan printed pages, like a textbook chapter, with the camera. Slides work when you export them as a PDF. Here's more on how to record lectures.
Bananote writes structured notes and a summary, then makes flashcards and a scored quiz with explanations from the same material. A long reading works the same way: see the PDF summarizer.
Take the quiz, flip through the flashcards, and chat with your notes when a point doesn't make sense. Come back to each set the night after class and again the week before the exam.
A lecture or a long reading becomes notes to reread, flashcards to drill and a quiz to check yourself. You don't copy definitions onto cards or write practice questions by hand, so your evening goes into studying, not into making the material. If you only want a deck, the flashcard maker covers that.
Every quiz is scored and comes with explanations, so a wrong answer shows you why it was wrong, not only that you missed it. Testing yourself is active recall: you pull the answer out of memory instead of rereading the page and feeling like you know it. More on the quiz maker.
Ask your notes a question when a point didn't land, or ask what you're missing before a test. Then try the Feynman technique: explain the idea in plain words, as if to a friend who skipped class, and let the chat point out the parts you left out or got wrong.
Bananote transcribes in 100+ languages and translates your notes into any language. If you study in a second language, you can sit through a lecture in English and review the notes in Spanish, Korean or whichever language you think in.
Bananote is an AI note-taking app, so every study session starts from structured notes that stay in your library, sorted into folders by class, with favorites and search. When a flashcard doesn't make sense, the full note it came from is still there. See how students use Bananote across a semester.
Bananote keeps your notes private unless you choose to share them, and the AI providers that make your notes, flashcards and quizzes are not allowed to train on your data.
A study set someone else made covers their class, not yours. Look for a tool that builds from your lectures, readings and notes, so you review what your professor actually covered. Bananote makes every note, flashcard and quiz from the source you give it.
Write down what your courses hand you, then check it against the tool. Bananote takes live recordings, audio files, PDFs, pasted text and YouTube links, plus camera scans on iPhone and iPad. Slides work as a PDF export. For a recorded video lecture, use its YouTube link or upload the audio.
Bananote transcribes in 100+ languages and translates notes into any language. If your lectures aren't in English, try one real lecture in that language before you rely on any tool for exam prep.
Bananote records and takes uploads on iPhone, iPad, Mac and in any browser, and one account keeps your notes, flashcards and quizzes on all of them. You can record offline too: Bananote processes the recording the next time you're online, and your existing notes, flashcards and quizzes stay available for review.