Want to quiz yourself from your own notes? ScrollScholar turns your class material into AI-generated quiz questions. Upload a PDF, Word doc, PowerPoint, or a photo of handwritten notes, and ScrollScholar builds question sets from that exact material, then puts them between you and your distracting apps so that answering them earns you screen time.
What can you turn into a quiz?
- PDFs: lecture slides exported to PDF, textbook chapters, study guides.
- PowerPoint files: upload the deck straight from class.
- Word documents: typed notes, outlines, essay drafts.
- Photos of handwritten notes: snap a picture of your notebook; ScrollScholar reads it and quizzes you on it.
If it's legible, ScrollScholar can generally quiz you on it. Questions come from your material (the terms your professor actually used, the examples from your actual lectures), not a generic question bank.
Why quiz yourself instead of rereading?
Testing yourself (active recall) is one of the most consistently supported study techniques in cognitive science. Retrieval practice, forcing your brain to produce an answer rather than recognize one, produces stronger and longer-lasting memory than rereading or highlighting. The effect has been replicated across hundreds of studies, with Roediger and Karpicke's 2006 experiments the standard modern demonstration, and a major review rated practice testing one of only two "high utility" techniques out of ten (Dunlosky et al., 2013). The problem was never whether self-quizzing works; it's that making flashcards is tedious and doing them is easy to skip.
ScrollScholar removes both barriers: the AI writes the questions for you, and your own phone habit supplies the motivation to answer them.
The twist: your quiz unlocks your apps
Other AI quiz generators make studying easier. ScrollScholar also makes scrolling harder. It blocks the apps you choose (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and any others) using Apple's Screen Time framework. Answering questions from your uploads earns points, and points buy timed unlock windows for those apps.
Every time you reach for a blocked app, you hit your coursework instead. The craving you already have becomes the study schedule you could never stick to.
How it compares
| Flashcard apps (make your own) | AI quiz generators | ScrollScholar | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Builds questions from your files | No, manual | Yes | Yes: PDF, Word, PowerPoint, photos |
| Handwritten notes support | No | Varies | Yes |
| Makes you actually do the reps | No | No | Yes, your apps stay locked until you do |
Frequently asked questions
Does it work with handwritten notes?
Yes. Take a photo of your notebook page and ScrollScholar generates questions from it.
Are the questions any good?
They're generated from your exact material, organized into courses and question queues you control. You can preload question sets for each class.
Is my material private?
Your uploads are used only to generate your questions. You can delete your account and all data from inside the app. See our privacy policy.