Cardivate is an Anki add-on that reads your lecture PDFs and generates ready-to-study cards — basic, cloze, MCQ, image occlusion, and more — so you spend your time learning, not making notes. Used by medical students preparing for USMLE Step 1, COMLEX, PLAB, and other high-stakes exams.
Four real workflows — drag a lecture, get cards, study.
One add-on for generating, refining, auditing, and quizzing — all inside Anki.
Basic, cloze, MCQ, true/false, short answer, summary, vocab, listening, image occlusion — pick what fits the page.
Cardivate looks at the actual page image, so it understands tables, anatomy plates, charts, and slide layouts — not just text.
Generate vocabulary, gap-fill, reverse-translation, and bilingual sentence cards in any language pair.
Listening-vocab and listening-sentence cards include native-quality audio rendered server-side, ready to review.
All AI runs through our server with your license. Your OpenAI account is never asked for and never billed.
Buy a credit pack once. Each card uses one credit. No monthly fees, no hidden costs, top up when you want.
Chat with the AI inside the preview window — make a card harder, simpler, shorter, add an example, fix grammar. Preview before applying.
Cardivate finds the cards you've lapsed on, identifies the themes behind them, and generates targeted practice cards for those weak spots.
Open any PDF and chat with a tutor that answers only from the document — then turn the answer into a deck with one click.
Timed, randomised quiz over any deck. MCQ / cloze / T-F graded automatically; free-text answers AI-graded with feedback.
Built by a med student, for med students
"I was spending 2-3 hours per lecture writing Anki cards by hand. Cardivate cuts that to 10 minutes, and the cards are usually better than what I'd type at 1am the night before an exam."
— Cardivate beta user · medical student preparing for USMLE Step 1
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The whole flow lives inside Anki. No copy-pasting, no separate apps.
Download the .ankiaddon file from the welcome email, drag it onto Anki, and paste your license key. Takes about a minute.
Drop a lecture, textbook chapter, or slide deck. Choose how many cards per page and which types you want.
Preview the generated cards, edit anything you don't like, and add them to a deck. Anki takes over from there.
No. Cardivate runs the AI on our servers using your license credits. You never share or pay for an OpenAI key.
If Anki runs, Cardivate runs. We support Anki 2.1.55 or newer (24.xx and later) on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
You're never charged for failed generations. Credits are returned to your balance automatically if our server returns an error.
Yes. Each license activates on up to two devices. Need more? Contact us — we're flexible.
No. Once you buy a pack, the credits are yours until you spend them.
PDFs are processed in memory and never stored. We log only the technical usage we need to bill credits and fix bugs. See our Privacy Policy.