Quizlet has helped students ace their tests for over 15 years. For over 14 of those years, its “Learn” feature, which offered multiple choice and free response questions correlating with a flash card set, was free. The feature was one of the program’s best and most unique. However, this feature was recently locked behind a significant pay wall. With many students having developed a reliance on Quizlet over the years, it is important to find a free alternative that works best on an individual level. Getting over a Quizlet crutch can be difficult, but there are plenty of other study tools available online.

The tool that is most similar to Quizlet and completely free is Knowt. It is an online flashcard creator that includes a learn feature, albeit not as well executed as their competition, and a testing tool. While newer and not as fleshed out as other programs, it does allow you to directly convert any of your Quizlet sets to Knowt by just copying and pasting the link. This makes Knowt extremely easy to use as a complementary study method to Quizlet.

On the other end of the web, Kahoot fills in the void of the multiple choice questions that Knowt lacks. Kahoot isn’t just for teachers to use with their class. It may be used individually as well. With its numerous question styles, ranging from multiple choice to typed answers, and multiplayer competitive features, Kahoot is definitely not a study tool to sleep on. While there is a paid version, the free version is not nearly as restrictive as Quizlet’s. Kahoot allows you to make your own questions, or use any question sets made by others.

Quizlet’s biggest rival is Anki, and for a good reason too. It is an online flashcard maker that utilizes the method of recall. Anki will display your flash cards, and after you flip them you can decide yourself how well you know the card. Anki will then decide how frequently you are shown the card. The bigger the time gaps between being shown the cards, the harder you’ll have to try to recall what it was. This works best for vocabularly and learning another language, but not necessarily for other subjects. It also lacks memorization by repetition as it can take hours or even days to be shown a flashcard again if you are using a big deck. Its ultimate downside, though, is that while completely free on Windows and Android devices, it costs $24.99 on iOS devices, rendering it almost as expensive as Quizlet Pro for a year, while lacking Quizlet’s extra features. That being said, it has the best flashcard feature on this list.

While Quizlet has done its job well for years, it is imperative to learn other methods of studying as well. Knowt, Kahoot, Anki, and many other online tools each specialize in different ways to memorize subjects. With the start of a new year, it may be time to find a study method that works better than the ones you’ve used before in order to ace your classes.