Lovelydeck vs RemNote
RemNote is a notes workspace with flashcards inside it. Lovelydeck is a study app that writes the cards from your lecture slides and checks them before they enter your deck. Each is the better pick for a different way of working.
If you take detailed notes and want your cards to fall out of them as you write, RemNote is built for exactly that. Its outliner, its PDF annotation and its bidirectional links make one connected workspace, and the flashcards live inside it.
Lovelydeck starts from the other end. You upload the lecture, cards are proposed with the slide each came from, a card whose sentence is not in your file is refused, and you are told which slides got nothing. Notes exist, but they are not the point. The cards are.
| RemNote | Lovelydeck | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A notes and knowledge workspace with flashcards built in: an outliner, PDF annotation, links between notes. | A flashcard app for students. Cards come from your slides and chapters, each citing its slide. |
| Making cards | You write notes and turn lines into cards with inline shortcuts. AI card generation from documents is in the Pro with AI tier. | Cards are proposed from the uploaded lecture. Each carries the sentence it came from and the slide. You add, fix or skip. |
| Checking cards | Cards are yours to edit. There is no check that a generated card quotes the source. | A card whose sentence is not in your file is refused before you see it. |
| Knowing what was missed | No report of which pages of a document became no cards. | The slides that produced no card are listed by title before you add anything. |
| Scheduling | Its own spaced repetition scheduler, with FSRS available in beta. | FSRS. |
| Anki import | Imports .apkg files, including cloze and image occlusion cards, with schedules preserved. | Imports .apkg files with decks, cards, tags, media and review history. |
| Notes and PDFs | The whole product is notes. Unlimited PDF annotation on paid plans. | Notes per lecture, PDF annotation, any line becomes a card. No outliner, no links between notes. |
| Price | Free with limits on PDFs, image occlusion and file size. Pro from $8 a month billed yearly. Pro with AI $18 a month. | The study app is free. Plus is $9 a month, billed monthly. |
Facts checked 2026-09-08. Sources: RemNote pricing, RemNote: importing from Anki. Prices change; each company's own page is the authority.
Choose RemNote
Choose RemNote if you want your notes, your PDFs and your flashcards in one outliner, and you make most of your cards yourself as you write.
Choose Lovelydeck
Choose Lovelydeck if you want flashcards written from your own lecture slides, each citing the slide it came from, checked before they enter your deck, with the slides that got no card listed, plus FSRS scheduling and Anki import.
Start freeFAQ
Straight answers.
For one job, yes: turning a lecture into cards you can trust. Lovelydeck writes the cards from your slides, cites the slide on each, refuses a card whose sentence is not in the file, and lists the slides that got nothing. For note-taking, RemNote is the better tool; its outliner and links are the product, and Lovelydeck does not try to match them.
Yes, in its Pro with AI tier at $18 a month. Lovelydeck includes card generation in the free plan up to your credits and without a count in Plus at $9 a month, and every generated card cites its slide and is checked against the file.
Lovelydeck imports Anki .apkg files. If your RemNote cards can be exported to an .apkg, they come across with their schedules. There is no direct RemNote import.
It has notes filed under each lecture, highlighting and comments on the PDF itself, and any line of a note can become a card. It does not have an outliner or links between notes. If those are what you use RemNote for, RemNote is the right choice.
Both have free plans. Lovelydeck Plus is $9 a month. RemNote Pro is $8 a month billed yearly and Pro with AI, the tier with AI card generation, is $18 a month. Prices checked 2026-09-08.