How it started
Most flashcard apps make you type every card by hand. That is fine for ten cards. It is soul-crushing for two hundred. We built Mneva because we were students who needed to study from lecture slides, textbook PDFs, and YouTube recordings, and no existing tool could turn those into flashcards without hours of manual work.
The first version was crude: paste text, get cards. It worked just well enough that we kept using it. Then we added PDF uploads. Then YouTube transcripts. Then voice memos. Each addition came from a real study session where we hit a wall and said, “this should be faster.”
Spaced repetition came next. We started with a basic Leitner box system and later adopted the SM-2 algorithm, the same one Anki uses. We added four-button rating because binary right-or-wrong is not how memory works. You can almost remember something, or remember it easily, or completely blank. The algorithm should know the difference.
Today Mneva is a small, independent product. We answer support emails ourselves. We read every feature request. We use Mneva to study for our own exams. That is not marketing copy. It is the only quality control that actually works.