Upload photos, PDFs, or paste text from your notes. AvaStudyreads your material and automatically creates flashcards, quizzes, and other study games — including questions taken directly from your teacher's review sections. The more you play, the smarter your Study Buddy gets!

For larger study guides, AvaStudy builds a question pool and rotates through it across sessions so you eventually see all of the important material — not just the same few questions each time.

AvaStudy works best with material built around facts, definitions, and concepts— the kind of content where there's a clear right answer. Great examples include:

• ✓History — dates, events, people, causes and effects
• ✓Science vocabulary — biology terms, chemistry definitions, anatomy
• ✓English & literature — themes, characters, vocabulary, grammar rules
• ✓Social studies & geography — capitals, systems, key figures
• ✓Standardized test prep — SAT, ACT, state exams
• ✓Medical & nursing — terminology, procedures, pharmacology basics
• ✓Law & civics — definitions, amendments, case names

Subjects that rely more on performing a skill than recalling a fact are harder to quiz on — things like solving multi-step math problems, lab procedures, music reading, or writing code. AvaStudycan still help you memorize formulas, vocabulary, and rules from those subjects, but it won't replace actually practicing the skill itself.

You can upload in three ways:

• ✦Photos (JPG, PNG) — Great for printed notes, textbook pages, and handouts. Works best when text is clear and large enough to read.
• ✦PDFs — Best accuracy — ideal for digital notes, study guides, and saved textbook pages.
• ✦Paste text — Copy text from any digital source and paste it directly. Fastest and most reliable.

Word (.docx) and PowerPoint (.pptx) files are not directly supported — save them as PDF first, or copy the text and paste it. Handwritten notes work but may have lower accuracy than typed text.

AvaStudy reads the text in what you upload — it doesn't display the pictures themselves. A term or fact next to a picture still becomes a flashcard or question; a question that only makes sense while looking at the picture (like “What is this?” beside an image) is left out, since the games never show that picture back to your child.

Yes. Play a sample guide with no account and no email — a worksheet is on screen along with the games AvaStudy built from it, and you can play them straight away.

It is the same thing that happens with your own notes, just already done. Signing in is only needed once you want to upload something of your own and keep your progress.

A few quick screens: whether you're a student, parent, or teacher, your first name, and your grade. Younger students also name their Study Buddy \u2014 high school, college, and adult learners skip that step.

Then you're on your home screen, where a 60-second demo shows exactly what AvaStudy builds from a single page of notes, so you can see it before uploading anything of your own. Nothing is required beyond your Google sign-in: no payment, no long form.

Yes. AvaStudy builds the guide in the language of your material rather than turning it into English — Spanish notes make a Spanish guide, and the questions, flashcards and answers all come out in that language. We have seen good guides come out of Spanish, Arabic and Korean material.

Material written right to left — Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, Urdu — is laid out right to left in the guide and the games, so it reads the way it was written.

What stays English is the app around the guide: every screen, button, hint and piece of feedback. So a reader who needs the whole app in their language will still be reading English everywhere except their own material. If you are uploading in a language we have not seen much of, a short section first is the quickest way to see how it comes out — and please tell us how it went.

AvaStudytries to preserve every question from your teacher's review sections. For large guides, those questions are saved into a pool and rotated across sessions — each game session shows a fresh set of questions from that pool so you cover more material over time.

Text and PDF uploads tend to be the most accurate. Photos work well too, though very small text or handwriting can reduce how many questions are captured.

For very large question banks (50+ questions), AvaStudy may not capture every single question in one pass — this is a known limitation. Re-uploading with the guide split into smaller files can help in those cases.

Each game earns coins once per day. After your first play of a game, the button changes from Play → to Practice → — you can still play as many times as you want, just without earning more coins for that game until tomorrow.

Practice runs still earn your Study Buddyfull XP, and they complete the daily missions that specifically ask for a practice game. They don't add to coins, badges, or your lifetime correct-answer total — those come from a game's first play of the day.

The results screen shows your score, coins earned, and any badges you unlocked. It can also show up to three highlight cards:

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  Level Up — shown when your Study Buddy reached a new Level this session.
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  Social nudge — shown when you're in a shared study set and you passed a classmate, are close behind them, or are holding the lead.
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  Tricky items — shown when you missed questions that are now flagged for review.

Sometimes a guide can't be built — a photo comes out too blurry to read, a PDF turns out to be a picture with no text in it, or something on our end falls over.

When it happens we tell you what went wrong rather than just apologising — whether the upload was hard to read, too short to build games from, or our end was busy — and we email you the same explanation, so you find out even if you closed the page.

If a guide sits on the loading screen for more than about ten minutes, we stop it ourselves and mark it as failed rather than leaving you waiting. Uploading again is usually all it takes; if the same material keeps failing, pasting the text in directly always works.

The What's New page lists the bigger updates — new ways to study, classroom tools for teachers, and changes to how study guides are built and checked.

Smaller fixes and tweaks ship most weeks and aren't all written up there.

Generally very accurate for fact-based content — definitions, dates, key people, cause and effect. AvaStudyreads your uploaded material and builds questions directly from what's there.

A few things can affect quality:

• ·Blurry or low-contrast photos may cause misreads
• ·Ambiguous phrasing in notes can produce awkward questions
• ·Very sparse material (a few bullet points) generates fewer questions

Open any guide and tap Editto reword a question, fix a definition, or delete a card — so anything that doesn't look right is a couple of taps to correct. If quality is consistently low, try re-uploading with a clearer photo or pasted text.

A few common reasons:

• ✦Blurry or dark photos — Text that's hard to read produces fewer (or no) extractions. Retake in good lighting.
• ✦Sparse notes — A page with 5 bullet points will generate 5 questions at most. More content = more questions.
• ✦Math-heavy or diagram-heavy material — Equations, graphs, and charts are hard to convert to text-based quiz questions.
• ✦Very short uploads — Single-page uploads with minimal text naturally yield smaller sets.

For best results: upload a full chapter or set of review notes rather than a few isolated lines. Pasting text directly almost always produces the most questions.

Yes — you can take a photo right from your phone and upload it directly. When you tap Upload, you'll be able to choose an existing photo from your camera roll or take a new one on the spot.

Works best for printed notes, textbook pages, and teacher handouts. Make sure the text is well-lit, in focus, and fills the frame. Avoid shadows across the page.

Different games train different skills — mixing them gives the best results:

A good study session: start with Flashcards to review, then Quiz or Fill in the Blank to test yourself, then Practice What You Missed to close the gaps.

You face a boss with a health bar. Each correct answer deals damage to the boss. Each wrong answer costs you one of your 3 health hearts. Lose all your hearts and it's game over — even if the boss is nearly defeated.

Drain the boss's health bar to win. Your score is based on how much damage you dealt and how many hearts you had remaining. The fastest, most accurate runs earn the most.

Your study buddy sends a question as a chat message. Tap the correct reply bubblefrom the options that appear below — it's designed to feel like a real text conversation.

Questions auto-advance after each answer, keeping a fast pace. Wrong answers show a correction before moving on.

A definition appears on screen and you type the correct term from memory. There's no word bank or multiple choice — it's pure recall. Capitalization doesn't matter, but spelling does.

This is the most challenging game mode and the best for deep retention. If you can produce the answer from scratch, you've truly learned it.

A grid of cards appears — some showing terms, others showing definitions. Tap a term, then tap its matching definition to clear the pair. Matched pairs disappear from the board.

First-try correct matches earn bonus coins. The game ends when all pairs are cleared. Fewer mistakes and faster clears mean a higher score.

A concept is shown and you type an explanation in your own words. Your answer is evaluated by AI for accuracy — not exact wording, so you don't need to memorize definitions verbatim. Your pet reacts to how well you explained it.

This mode tests real understanding, not just recognition. It's the hardest to fake — if you can explain it clearly, you know it.

A definition flashes on screen along with several term options. Tap the correct term as fast as you can — speed is factored into your score alongside accuracy.

Wrong answers add a time penalty, so rushing and guessing hurts more than taking a moment to think. The best scores come from fast and accurate answers.

Study Blocks is a block-placement game inspired by Block Blast. Each correct answer earns you a random block piece to place on the 7×7 grid. Wrong answers skip the piece — so studying well gives you more to work with!

Tap a piece in the tray to rotate it, then tap the board to place it (or drag it directly). Filling a complete row or column clears it and earns you 5 bonus coins and 17 points per line — so aim for combos!

Your board is persistent: it saves after every session and picks up exactly where you left off. Each study set has its own board. Once it fills up — or when you tap New Board — that board is complete and a fresh one begins. The Board Ncounter tracks how many you've built.

Answer questions correctly to stack blocks and build your tower as high as you can. Each correct answer adds a block to the top. Each wrong answer shakes the tower, knocks the top block off, and costs you one stability heart.

You start with 3 stability hearts. Lose all three and the tower falls — game over! But you can earn hearts back: every 5 correct answers in a row restores one heart (up to the max of 3).

Your score is the final block count when the game ends — so keep building and protect those hearts!

Coins are earned by playing games, hitting milestones, and unlocking badges. Spend them on background colors, hats, glasses, and frames for your Study Buddy in the Pet Closet!

If a teacher assigns a guide with a due date, they can also turn on a bonus for finishing on time — you'll get a note from the class with the coins to accept.

Per game

Each correct answer

+3

Complete any game

+8

Perfect score (100%)

+15

Active streak bonus(per game)

+5

Complete daily challenge

+20

Perfect daily challenge

+10

3-day streak (one-time)(one-time)

+25

7-day streak (one-time)(one-time)

+50

Milestone bonuses (one-time each)

Create your first study guide

+15

Complete your first game

+10

Complete your first daily challenge

+10

Give your buddy a name

+5

Dress up your buddy

+10

Install AvaStudy

+20

Share your first study guide

+20

Build a second study guide

+10

Build a third study guide

+10

Build a fourth study guide

+15

Try a practice round

+5

Take a Mini Practice Quiz

+10

Play 3 different games

+10

Turn on notifications

+10

Join a friend's study set

+15

Set up a class (teachers)

+15

Run a live game (teachers)

+20

Assign a due date (teachers)

+15

Check your class gradebook (teachers)

+15

Badge bonuses (one-time each)

Perfect Score!

+15

Speed Demon

+25

Daily Champion

+25

Game Explorer

+30

Boss Slayer

+30

Daily Warrior

+40

Scholar

+75

Coins are purely cosmetic— they're used to buy pet backgrounds, hats, glasses, frames, and new animals. They have no effect on your scores, question difficulty, or what content you can study.

There's no pay-to-win and nothing academically useful is locked behind coins. Parents can feel confident that spending (or not spending) coins doesn't change how well the app teaches.

Visit the My Study Buddy page (tap the paw icon) to customize your buddy and unlock new animals.

• ✦Background colors — 15 to choose from. Three are free plus the plain option; the rest unlock for 100–1,000 coins. Shown everywhere your buddy appears.
• ✦Hats, glasses & frames (Pet Closet) — range from free to 250 coins. Bought items are yours forever.
• ✦New animals — rarer animals cost more and may require earning specific badges first.

Not necessarily — if you have Streak Freezes, you're covered. A freeze kicks in automatically the next time you play after missing a day — no action needed. 1 freeze covers 1 missed day, 2 freezes cover 2 consecutive missed days.

Without freezes, yes — missing a day resets your streak to zero. Everyone earns one free Streak Freeze on reaching a 3-day streak. Subscribers keep earning another at every 7-day milestone, up to 3 at a time.

Complete the Daily Challenge or play any Study Guide game each day to keep your streak alive. Each day you play earns a streak bonus per game (+5 coins). Hit 3 days in a row for a one-time +25 coin bonus, 7 days for +50, and 30 days for the legendary Legend badge!

Missing a day resets your streak — unless you have a Streak Freeze. Everyone earns one free freeze at a 3-day streak; subscribers keep earning another at every 7-day milestone (up to 3 at a time). A freeze kicks in automatically the next time you play after missing a day — no action needed. 1 freeze covers 1 missed day, 2 freezes cover 2 consecutive missed days.

A short 3-question quiz that refreshes every day. Questions come from your most recent study set and from general knowledge topics. Finishing it is worth 20 coins, plus 3 for each question you get right, plus 10 more if you get all three — 39 coins for a perfect round. It also counts toward your Daily Challenge Streak, and you can only do it once per day.

Smart review: If you have tricky items in your study set, AvaStudy will include one of them in your daily challenge automatically — so your weakest spots get extra practice even when you're not in a full game session.

Three missions refresh every day — one Easy, one Medium, one Hard. Each has a coin reward. Complete them for bonus coins on top of what you earn from playing.

Missions include things like: play a specific game type, score above a threshold, get a set number of correct answers, or try practice mode. Each mission links directly to the relevant game — just tap it to jump straight in.

Missions reset at midnight. Partially completed missions don't carry over — each day starts fresh.

Your Study Buddy earns XP every time you play. Here's what each action gives:

Practice sessions count too — so replaying games still earns XP even after coins stop. Going for perfect scores and completing the Daily Challenge every day is the fastest path.

All pets play the same games and earn XP at the same rate — there are no stat differences or gameplay advantages between animals.

Where they differ: personality. Each pet has its own set of speech bubble messages, reactions, and idle lines that reflect its character. A dragon talks differently than a bunny.

Cosmetic and personality differences only — no pay-to-win, no ability gates. Rarer pets cost more coins but don't give you any learning edge.

Every animal on the My Study Buddy screen has a rarity tier. Rarer animals cost more coins and may require earning a special achievement to unlock.

Animals are sorted on the screen as a progression ladder — your active buddy appears first, then other unlocked animals, then locked ones ordered by rarity and cost.

Your Study Buddy represents your learning friendship — it grows every time you study together. Playing games earns XP, which raises your Level. There's no cap — your bond keeps growing as long as you keep learning.

XP comes from correct answers (5 XP each), completing a game (+20 XP), perfect scores (+30 XP bonus), daily challenges (+25 XP), and streak milestones (+15 XP). Early levels take 2–3 games; later levels gradually require more.

You can share any study set with classmates using a 5-character share code. Anyone who joins with the code can play all the same games on that material.

Shared sets have a leaderboard showing everyone's best scores per game type. AvaStudy also shows Challenge nudges on your home screen when a classmate has recently passed you, you're within striking distance of them, or you're ahead and should keep your lead. Tap the nudge to jump straight into the relevant game.

Joining a shared set is always free — no subscription required. It doesn't count toward your 3-a-month limit either.

The moment someone joins a set you shared, your Classroom page (for teacher accounts) or your Stats pageshows how the group is doing — who has joined, who hasn't started, and which concepts the most members still find hard. Those concept figures are group totals: whoever shared the set never sees which individual person missed which question, or anyone else's personal practice history.

Challenge nudges can be dismissed and won't reappear for 24 hours.

If the owner archives a shared guide, everyone keeps it and can still play it, but the unit is treated as done: the leaderboard freezes and it leaves the Daily Challenge rotation. Stopping sharingcloses the code and removes the guide from members' libraries — but their coins, XP and history stay.

Yes. On any study guide you can log the grade you actually got on the test — a card on the guide page. It then shows your score next to how many games you practiced first.

It is completely private. No one else sees it — not other students, and not a teacher who shared the guide with you. It is only used to show you the practice-to-result picture, and in the weekly parent email if one is set up for the account.

Absolutely. When you sign up you pick an account type — student, parent, or teacher. Teachers get a Classroom: set up a class with a join code, add students, and assign guides with due dates. When you assign one you pick how hard the turn-in bar is — Easy (play a game), Medium (also reach a score), or Hard (also cover every topic — nothing left in “Needs Work”) — and the student is alerted right away, then sees an in-app homework banner that tracks their progress toward the bar and marks it “Turned in” once met. A missed deadline does not lock the assignment — it is review practice, so a student can still finish it and it still counts, just flagged “late” in the grid and the parent digest. Each assignment has a completion grid (who is done, games played, best score, time-on-task) you can nudge, export to CSV, or print, plus a per-student progress report — with a “concepts solid” figure over the whole guide — for conferences.

You can also run a live game — put any guide on the projector as a real-time quiz, students join on their own devices, scoring is Kahoot-style with a scoreboard and podium (or accuracy-only if you prefer). Teaching several sections? Assign the same guide to each class; every one is tracked separately.

Privacy boundary: in a class a teacher sees a student's name, assignment completion, and scores on assigned work — never their pet, coins, streak, other guides, or personal practice history. Prefer no roster? You can still share a single guide with a code and students jump straight to practice.

Parents can run their child's account or keep their own for family learning, and adult and college learners are covered too — the grade picker goes from kindergarten through College. You can change your account type later in Settings.

Joining a shared set is always free and never counts toward your 3-a-month limit.

If your school shared an AvaStudy link with a code in it (like avastudy.com/s/YOURSCHOOL), signing up through it tags your account with that code so we can see, in aggregate, whether the outreach is working. It changes nothing about how the app works, and you can view or clear it in Settings.

Yes — all your study guides are saved to your account automatically and accessible from any device you sign into. They stay there indefinitely unless you archive or delete them yourself.

Archived guides are removed from your active list but not permanently deleted. Deleted guides are gone permanently. Your coins, XP, streaks, and pet data are also saved to your account and sync across devices.

AvaStudy is free to use — on the free plan you can build 3 study guides a month, with full access to all 11 games, all pets, coins, streaks, the readiness score, and a short Mini Practice Quiz. Your allowance resets at the start of each month. A guide counts against that month's 3 even if you delete it, and guides you build while subscribed never count against it. A guide that fails to extract is never counted.

AvaStudy Unlimited ($6.99/month or $59.99/year) adds unlimited uploads plus the Test Prep layer: a full Practice Test that covers every concept in a guide, and a personalized study plan built from what you know and what you don't. The monthly plan can start with a 3-day free trial — cancel before it ends and you are not charged.

Every game mode, pet and cosmetic stays free for everyone. The paywall is on how many guides you build a month and on the deeper test-prep tools — never on playing.

This is beta pricing: the rate goes up as Practice Tests, the study plan and the AI tutor get more capable. Subscribe now and you keep this price for as long as your subscription stays active.

Joining a shared study set from a classmate or teacher is always free — it never counts toward your monthly limit. The 3-a-month limit only applies to guides you create yourself.

You can manage or cancel your subscription at any time from Settings → Subscription. Billing is handled securely by Stripe — we never store your payment information.

By default AvaStudy looks the same for everyone — the Ava theme. AvaStudy Unlimited adds a small set of alternate themes — Focus (a calm navy/slate look), Ocean, and Forest — that you can switch between in Settings → Experience.

Themes only change colors, gradients and backgrounds. They don't change how anything works, what games you can play, or any of your progress. It's a separate setting from the Playful home screen — you can mix and match.

You can cancel at any time from within the app — no need to contact anyone.

1. 1.Tap the gear icon (⚙) to open Settings
2. 2.Tap "Subscription"
3. 3.Tap "Manage Subscription" to open the billing portal
4. 4.Select "Cancel plan" and confirm

After canceling, you keep unlimited access through the end of your current billing period. After that, your account reverts to the free plan. Every study guide you already made stays — along with all your progress, coins, and pets. You can still build new guides up to your free allowance of 3 — and guides you made while subscribed don't count against it.

Yes! Adding AvaStudyto your home screen makes it load instantly, hides the browser address bar, and makes it feel like a real app. You'll earn +20 coins the first time you open it from your home screen — look for the coin reward popup when it launches!

The coin reward fires automatically the first time AvaStudy opens in its own window, on a phone or a computer.

You can permanently delete your account and all associated data at any time directly from the app — no need to contact anyone.

1. 1.Tap the gear icon (⚙) in the top-right corner to open Settings
2. 2.Tap "Reset progress or delete account" to go to Parents & Safety
3. 3.Tap "Delete My Account" and confirm with "Yes, Delete Everything"

Deletion is immediate and permanent. Everything is erased — your profile, coins, XP, streaks, badges, pet, all study sets you created, and your entries on any shared leaderboards. You will be signed out automatically. This cannot be undone.