New Desktop Application + iOS & Android Download Instructions

Memo now supports a desktop application compatible with macOS , Windows and Linux. Alongside, you will be also be able to install Memo as a PWA app directly to the iOS and Android home screen with instructions in the download page

• Synchronization across devices provides seamless access to your notes, flashcards, track and playgrounds.

• You can download these apps which are available at memo.cards/download or via the profile dropdown menu at the bottom left corner and selecting Download Desktop app.

New Settings Page Redesign

Settings configuration has been redesigned completely and split into 4 tabs: General, Flashcard Display, Memo AI and Accessibility. This allows easier location as our settings expands over time.

To make it more clear, there is now a new unsaved changes bar that clearly pops up at the bottom to allow saving of settings when there are any unsaved changes. You can also revert back to the previous changes by pressing clear. Easy and clear!

Increased Speed and Loading Across All of Memo

Memo is now faster. We have now optimized data prefetching, database queries and loading states to make navigation across dashboards, sidebar, links and decks much faster and fluid. This applies across all of our apps as well as web app.

Other Enhancements and Fixes

• Feynman Mode Extended: The time limit for Feynman Mode/Track Professor has now been extended across all plans.

• Interface Buttons on iPad: Fixed an issue where interface buttons were inaccessible in Track Mode on iPad devices. Users should now experience smooth operations.

• Deleting deck error has been partially resolved - we are still looking into errors when deleting decks with large amounts of flashcards, mindmaps, notes etc.

We hope these updates enhance your Memo utilization experience. Your feedback is invaluable, so please share your thoughts to help us continually improve.

We’ve just shipped one of our biggest updates yet. Here’s what’s new in Memo:

🎙️ Introducing Track Mode + Live Professor - Duolingo For Any PDF

Meet your AI professor.

Track Mode is a brand new way to learn out loud — where your AI professor, guides you through your study materials like a real tutor.

• 🎯 Stay on track: Follow a structured learning flow that breaks down your PDF source into sections and lessons - exactly like a Duolingo track but personalized to you.

• 🧠 Teaches and flips pages: Your notes now come alive with real-time explanations, questions, and feedback. Your professor will even flip pages automatically during the lesson to guide the teaching flow.

• 🖼️ Diagram and image understanding: Your AI professor can now explain and teach from any visual on your PDF — including histology slides, anatomy diagrams, flowcharts, code snippets, labeled images, and tables.
  It will even point things out naturally, saying things like “this arrow here...” or “this red circle...”.

• 🗣️ Hands-free learning: Speak, listen, and study like you're in a one-on-one tutorial. Guided notes and summary notes is within the same interface for you to read along the lesson.

• ❓Practice Questions: After learning, go through 10-15 practice questions relevant to the lesson which includes multiple choice, short answer questions, fill in the blank and long answer questions to reinforce what you learnt.

🪄 Playground Mode – Fully Released

Our interactive study canvas just graduated from beta — and it’s now one of the most powerful ways to visualize, organize, and connect what you’re learning.

🧩 Link your knowledge

Move beyond linear studying. In Playground Mode, you can drag flashcards from any deck onto an infinite canvas, placing them side by side to reflect how ideas relate across topics, systems, and disciplines.
Draw arrows to represent causation, contrast, flow, or dependency — and build your own concept map, like a visual web of understanding.

This method mirrors how top students — especially in medicine, law, and engineering — mentally connect ideas during exams and essays. It’s about seeing the big picture, not just isolated facts.

🧠 Why it works

Research in cognitive psychology shows that organizing knowledge spatially (like in mind maps or concept maps) improves:

• Active recall (by embedding memory in structure)

• Transfer learning (applying ideas in new contexts)

• Long-term retention (by promoting meaningful associations)

This is how high performers turn notes into understanding — and now, you can do the same inside Memo.

🗃️ Playground Management

We’ve added a dedicated Playgrounds tab where you can now:

• Create and manage multiple playgrounds for different subjects, blocks, or exam periods

• Sort your canvases into folders for better organization

• Access your most recently opened playgrounds instantly from the top for seamless workflow

Whether you’re building a high-yield renal map or connecting pathology flashcards with treatment guidelines, each playground becomes a personal knowledge space.

✅ No more beta. Just better learning.

Playground Mode is now fully released and ready to support your deepest thinking and most complex topics.

⚙️ Enhancements

• The Flashcards Copilot now automatically recommends an optimal number of flashcards based on your selected PDF or topic.

• New deck creation interface: when viewing a new deck, there’s now a blurred preview state with clear options to either Deep Dive or manually create cards.

• We have added secondary backup providers to increased uptime. You can check out our status page at status.memo.cards.

• Improved manual card creation workflow

• Sidebar width has been shrunken a little bit to improve readability of main windows

• Added “view changelog” button back on sidebar to easily view recent changes like this

• Learn mode has increased in stability with secondary provider fallback
  

🐞 The Bugs We Squashed

• Fixed an issue where users could only input one letter at a time when editing flashcards.

• Resolved a bug that prevented deck renaming in the folder page pop-up dialog.

Voice Tutors 2.0 Redesign

• Introducing Memo and Einstein, our innovative AI voice tutors, now accessible on the new app interface by clicking Apps on the laptop/tablet sidebar

• Transcript is now visible whilst talking - you can also access to full conversation history and transcript at the end of the session

• Enjoy enhanced interaction with multilingual support, live transcripts, and extended conversation durations of up to 20 minutes.

• Utilize deck selection to provide contextual content insights during tutoring.

• End-to-end conversation history transcripts now available.

Feynman and the New Voice Tutors Can Now Talk in 36 Languages

Feynman and the New Voice Tutors can now communicate in several languages including Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, and German. Additionally, they support other languages such as French, Turkish, Korean, Vietnamese, Italian, Thai, Dutch, Persian, Malay, Romanian, Hungarian, Swedish, Czech, Bulgarian, Danish, Finnish, Slovak, Croatian, and Tamil.

Besides from the new language dropdown - you can also simply as Feynman/Memo/Einstein to switch to your desired language midway through the conversation for some fun multilingual experiences. :)

Enhancements

• Access our Feynman Mode, now upgraded with live transcription and full multilingual support across numerous languages.

• Free-tier users can enjoy their first session with Feynman, Memo, or Einstein. Pro has access to 200 minutes per month and unlimited usage on the unlimited plan.

• New App Store interface enabling seamless selection of educational AI-powered tools. (more coming soon! leave some feedback and suggestions for any ideas!)

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Resolved localization issues for flashcard generation in copilot.

• Addressed performance slowdowns caused by substantial AI chat utilization.

• Improved overall app stability and functionality, including error responses and interface glitches.

• Unfortunately due to a technical mistake on our end during the update, a 30 minute downtime was experienced 3:30pm GMT+0 time on the 18 April 2025. We have realized the mistake and it has been resolved. In the future you can check our system status by clicking on the profile → System status.

Language Selection and Toggle: You now have expanded options to select and enforce your language preference across all copilot generations across 35+ languages! A language toggle feature has been added directly to the copilot interface for convenient switching.

Incident Report on 13 April, 2025

On 13 April 2025, Memo Copilot experienced slower response times. The Copilot chat was slow to respond, taking up to 2 minutes. We suspected this issue arose from a large influx of PDFs.

We have resolved the issue promptly through immediate optimization and maintenance of our database, which was necessary due to a surge in demand. Copilot response times should now be quick and efficient.

For more information on system status, please visit our status page at status.memo.cards. We hope these updates enhance your experience, and we are committed to continuously improving our services.

Resolved Issues

• Scrolling Glitch Resolved: The copilot history scrolling glitch has been addressed, providing smoother navigation within the interface.

• Enhanced Server Logging: Enhanced error logging capabilities have been implemented to streamline server diagnostics and improve issue resolution times.

Memo now has improved MCQ generation and a new voice to text in learn mode. Here is a quick demo video:

Major Improvements

• Improved Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) Generation - Enhanced the distribution of options, ensuring a more randomized allocation for better engagement - fixed way too many option Bs.

• Multilingual Voice-to-Text in Learn Mode - Introduced precise and efficient transcription capabilities supporting over 99 languages (including English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish, French, Portuguese etc)

Incident Report on 9 April, 2025

Memo experienced a 30 minute downtime for majority of Al-powered features (Copilot, Notes, Practice Exam, Custom Topic) on 9 April, 2025 approximately 9:32am GMT+0 time due to upstream Microsoft server outage in the US East and Washington region - API endpoints and Azure are both experiencing issues.

This leads to majority of AI completion responses not returning anything, including copilot being stuck on "Thinking" and notes being stuck on "Generating".

We have resolved this issue promptly by immediate relocation of infrastructure and uptime is resolved.

Going forward, we have set up a continuous status and uptime monitoring tool. To inquire about our status uptime - you can check out this link at https://status.memo.cards

Fixed

• DeepDive for YouTube Mode - Resolved an issue ensuring more relevant and contextually-rich question generation from YouTube videos.

• Client-Side Error Monitoring Tool - Discontinued support for the slower Sentry tool to streamline performance.

We're thrilled to announce major updates and improvements enhancing your experience with Memo. Here is a quick 40s video:

Revamped Learn Mode 2.0

• Newly designed progress bar allows users to track their newly learned, review, relearning, and difficult cards with precision.

• Enhanced "Smart Grading" feature marks responses leniently and provides multilingual feedback in 46+ languages for questions and answers.

• Resolved Learn Mode 500 errors, significantly improving functionality and accessibility.

Copilot Chat History and Accessibility

• Introduced automatic saving of chat messages within Copilot for maintaining persistent conversation records.

• Easily revisit past interactions and responses for seamless continuity.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issues preventing PDF uploads for document-based flashcard creation.

• Addressed "Learn Mode" concerns, ensuring smooth card sequencing and scheduling.

• Resolved flashcard and deck deletion bugs for an easier management experience.

• Improved reliability of card updates and logging user interactions.

Changes

• Copilot Chat Layout: Relocated default placement to the left-hand side for better accessibility on laptops and tablets, with options to revert changes in settings. This is to match the industry standard for chatting workflows tending towards the left hand side for easier chatting and copilot workflows. As usual, the drag handle is in the middle allows for resizing between chat and the right hand learning material panel.

• General Table Flashcard Performance: Addressed frame rate drops during interactions with extensive data sets, resulting in improved table rendering efficiency.

• Improved Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) Distribution: Resolved an issue where certain options (e.g. option B) appeared more frequently, improving randomness and usability.

You can revert the chat to be on the right hand side by toggling this option on in settings.

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

• Learn Mode Settings Update: Updated the default card amount from 10 to 20 for a more engaging learning experience.

• Website Framework Upgrade: Migrated to the Next.js security patch, enhancing overall platform security and robustness.

• Landing Page Revamp: Overhauled value propositions and copywriting to better reflect our services and engage users.

• Button improvements: New very cool shiny gradient button design for DeepDive for new decks.

We are continually striving to improve our platform to serve you better. We are small team building upon your feedback everyday! Your feedback is invaluable and aids in guiding our efforts. Keep sharing your thoughts on our feedback board by pressing “Feedback”, and stay tuned for more updates. 🚀

Thank you!
Memo Team

We're excited to announce the release of Memo AI v6.0! After our v5.0 release in December 2024, we've been hard at work enhancing our AI learning platform with powerful new features and improvements to make your studying experience even better.

TLDR Changes in Bullet Points (Scroll below table for more detailed info):

✨ Introducing Memo Copilot

Memo Copilot is the next era in AI and human collaborative learning, allowing you to ask questions about your source (with citations of timestamps for YouTube videos or page numbers for PDFs). Copilot can be your personal tutor trained your learning materials, allow you to receive responses anytime by simply asking a question. Copilot can also take action - you can ask Memo copilot to generate flashcards, generate notes, generate mind maps, critique your current existing flashcards, read and explain which page you are currently on. Copilot generated material of flashcards and mind maps can then be automatically added to your deck to view and study automatically by pressing the “Add to Deck” button.

• Chat with any PDF: Copilot can understand and retrieve relevant pages from your PDF to help answer your query.

• Understands diagrams and images: If OCR is turned on when uploading your deck, (turned on by default), copilot can understand, read and explain diagrams and images from your PDF (including scanned copies and diagram heavy lecture slides)

• Generate flashcards: Besides from the DeepDive mode, copilot can also generate more tailored flashcards based on your prompt, allowing for maximum personalization. For large amounts of flashcards, we still recommend DeepDive mode (learn more below). Copilot will also have its own follow up confirmation steps to ask you about the amount and topics for more personalized flashcards.

• Generate mind maps: Copilot can also generate the first draft of your mind map which can be added to the new mind map tab in Memo 6.0. You can further refine your mind map as well by continuing to prompt suggestions.

• New Interface: Completely revamped chat UI with auto-scrolling and improved markdown rendering

• Code Syntax Highlighting: Support for programming-related topics and code blocks rendering

• Streaming Interface: Sleek interface showing flashcards being generated in real-time when creating flashcards using Memo copilot

• Visual Understanding: Drag and drop external images or screenshots to chat visually with copilot

🤩 Memo Now Understands All Visual Images & Diagrams with Automatic OCR

When you upload your PDF, we will automatically process all text (including text within images and diagrams), analyze visual content like charts, graphs, and medical illustrations, and make everything searchable and accessible to Memo Copilot, notes and Feynman.

• Automatic OCR: All PDFs now undergo rigorous OCR processing

• Image & Diagram Analysis: AI understands images, diagrams, and scanned content

• Toggle Option: Can be disabled in settings to revert to text-based extraction

🎉 Introducing Deep Dive (Bulk Create Flashcards with AI Agentically)

DeepDive is an improved iteration of our original function of converting PDF to flashcards (for those OG folks who have been with us since the PDF2Anki era - thank you 🥹). DeepDive is now available across all sources, including not just PDF but also flashcards, YouTube videos, custom topics, custom texts, etc.

It now executes in the background, enabling seamless page-by-page analysis, even for large files, while notifying you via email as well as a notification in the UI once done.

• Page-by-Page Analysis: AI now examines every single page of your material

• Two Flashcard Modes of Standard Mode with rich formatting, tables, and highlighted keywords and Minimal Information Principle of clean cards without bullets or tables

• Advanced Options: Custom instructions, smart card processing, and creativity controls

Cards created with DeepDive will have automatic formatting, automatic topic categorization, as well as multi-page-source finding. So when you review the flashcards, a flashcard could show image sources in learn and flashcard mode across multiple pages from your PDF.

🧠 Introduce Mindmap Mode

Mindmap mode is our newest visualization tool that transforms your learning materials into interactive, hierarchical knowledge maps. This powerful feature combines the flexibility of traditional mind mapping with AI-powered insights, allowing you to see connections between concepts and create visual study guides instantly.

• Infinite Canvas: Create expansive mind maps with toggles

• Concept Linking: Connect ideas and concepts visually

• Copilot Integration: Generate mind maps directly from your study materials

🛝 Introducing Playground Mode

Playground mode is a freeform canvas where you can drag and drop flashcards from any of your decks to create custom study layouts. Perfect for visualizing connections between topics or organizing cards your way. Simply select "Add to Playground" on any flashcard to start building your personalized study space.

• Interactive Visualization: Drag and drop flashcards onto an infinite canvas

• Concept Linkage: Visualize connections between ideas

• Enhanced Learning: Move beyond isolated flashcard memorization

🗣️ Introducing Feynman Mode

Named after the famous physicist Richard Feynman's learning technique, this mode lets you explain concepts out loud to test your understanding. Simply speak to Memo about any topic from your materials, and our AI tutor will listen, provide feedback, and help identify gaps in your knowledge. It's like having a patient study partner available 24/7 who knows your course materials inside and out.

• Interactive Voice Tutor: Trained on your specific materials

• Real-Time Feedback: Get immediate guidance as you explain concepts

• Improved Voice Recognition: Enhanced clarity and reduced latency

• Emotional AI Voice: More natural tutoring experience

• Multilingual Understanding: Speak in multiple languages (English output only for now - more coming soon!)

📺 YouTube Import is Now Generally Available!

Learning from video content just got easier! Simply paste any YouTube URL into Memo, and we'll transcribe the content, create timestamped notes, and let you chat with the video content just like you would with a PDF. Perfect for lecture recordings, educational content, or any video you want to study from. Create flashcards with exact video timestamps, so you can always jump back to the source material while studying.

• Video Import: Use YouTube videos as learning sources

• Timestamp References: Get exact timestamps in chats, notes, and flashcards

• Full Integration: Chat with, summarize, and create materials from videos

📒 Notion Toggles Mode now Available in Notes

Transform your PDFs into an organized, collapsible format similar to Notion. Edit your toggles directly in Memo's notes tab using different block types, or copy-paste them into Notion with all formatting preserved. This flexibility lets you organize your study materials exactly how you want them, whether in Memo or Notion.

• Structured Learning: Convert PDFs into organized Notion-style toggles

• Full Editability: Edit toggles in Memo's notes tab with various block types

• Notion Compatible: Copy-paste directly to Notion with retained formatting

New Settings Options

A new high demand feature where you can turn off the sound chime in Flashcard mode. This allows for a continuously non-interrupted background music playback on mobile.

You can now also turn off the new OCR during upload PDF processing. By default this is turned on to allow analysis of images, diagrams and scanned PDFs. You may turn it off to resolve back to our previous text-only extraction behavior (which will yield a faster upload process if this is valued).

📊 Plan Updates

We've revamped our pricing plans to give you more value and flexibility. All plans now include higher quotas and improved features, with our Pro and Unlimited plans offering enhanced AI capabilities for serious learners.

🐛 Finally, Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Of course we have improved many of the underlying infrastructure with many quality of life fixes and enhancements as well.

• LateX rendering: Mathematical and scientific formulae is fixed across notes and chat mode

• Flashcard Rendering: Proper rendering of code blocks in flashcards

• Table Formatting: Improved display of tables with long columns

• Consistent Design: Flashcard mode UI now matches Learn mode

• Sound Toggle: Option to disable sound effects when reviewing flashcards

• AI Chat Position: Customize placement (left or right side) in settings

• Audio Support: Press play button to hear flashcards read aloud

• Fixed Learn mode text rendering issue in light mode

• Enhanced backend API endpoints to handle increased load

• Improved rate limits for AI interactions

• Standardized flashcard review interface across the platform

• Background Processing: For faster and more reliable performance

• Learn Mode Capacity: Default increased from 10 to 20 cards per day (adjustable in settings)