Turn a YouTube video into flashcards, checked against your material
Upload a YouTube video and QuerySpark writes flashcards from what is actually in it, so you can drill the key terms on exactly what your course covers. Any public YouTube video with captions.
Example
Flashcards from Lecture
A sample of what you get from a YouTube video on physics. Yours is written from your own file.
Newton's first law
An object keeps its velocity unless a net force acts on it
Newton's second law
F = ma
Newton's third law
Forces come in equal and opposite pairs acting on different bodies
How we read YouTube videos
Paste the link and we pull the video's transcript, then build questions only from what was actually said, so the set matches the lecture you watched rather than the topic in general.
Get the best results
- Lecture recordings and Crash Course style explainers work best.
- For a playlist, generate one set per video and study them together.
What your flashcards include
- Term and definition cards for every key concept
- Concept cards that ask why and how, not only what
- Cards sized to your material: a short reading gets a short deck
- Spaced repetition built in: no deck settings to configure
How you study them
Flip, rate how well you knew it, and move on. Cards you find hard return sooner; cards you know well fade out until just before you would forget them.
Best for: vocabulary and definitions, formulas and dates, daily ten-minute review.
Things that trip people up with YouTube videos
- Videos without captions cannot be read from the link. Download the audio and upload it as a recording instead.
- Fast-talking explainers pack a lot in; pick a set size that matches the video length.
Questions about youtube to flashcards
Do I need to download the video?+
No. Paste the YouTube link. We only need the captions, which most lectures and explainers have.
What if the video has no captions?+
Upload the audio as a lecture recording instead; we transcribe it before writing questions.
Can I export to Anki or Quizlet?+
Yes. Export any deck as CSV, which both Anki and Quizlet import.
Is the youtube video to flashcards converter free?+
Yes. You can try it free with a 3-day Pro trial and no credit card, then keep using the free plan every month.