Make studying feel like playing.

PDF, EPUB, Word (.docx, .doc), PowerPoint (.pptx), OpenDocument (.odt), RTF, plain text and Markdown files up to 100 MB: textbooks, lecture notes, slides, papers, study guides, novels. The text has to be selectable (scanned image-only PDFs will not work).

Every paid plan includes an upload allowance for turning your own books, PDFs, booklets or notes into games: 250 tokens a week on Exam Sprint (about 12 notes of 1,000 words), and 1,000 tokens a month on Study Quest, Scholar’s Journey and Founding Hero (about one book of 100,000 words, or 50 notes of 1,000 words). Usage is based on the amount of text you upload and what its game is built with: each upload shows its price in tokens before it starts, so a short note costs a few and a long book, with its mindmap and Story mode story, many more; playing never uses any. If a book needs a little more than you have left, it can still go through: the difference is on us. A document needs at least 500 words (about a page), and a plan allows up to 100 uploads a month (25 a week on Exam Sprint). Usage resets every week or month, and unused tokens do not roll over. If a world fails to generate, retrying it is free, and discarding it gives its tokens back.

They all unlock the same Pro, so only the billing differs. Exam Sprint ($4.99 a week) suits a short push before an exam, Study Quest ($12.99 a month) a term, and Scholar’s Journey ($79.99 a year, charged upfront) works out at about $6.67 a month, 49% less than monthly. Founding Hero is one payment for life, for the first 100 buyers only.

Yes, from your billing page. A cancelled subscription stays active until the end of the period you paid for and then stops renewing; moving to a longer plan starts it at once, and you pay only the difference. Worlds made with your plan’s tokens stay saved: without a plan they play as a free preview (the first maps and a few battles), with your progress kept, and open in full again when you subscribe. Worlds you made with extra tokens from book-to-game credits stay yours in full.

Founding Hero is paid once and gives Pro, with an upload allowance of 1,000 tokens a month, for the lifetime of the StudyRPG service. Only the first 100 buyers get it: seats 1 to 25 cost $99.99, 26 to 50 $149.99 and 51 to 100 $199.99, and the offer closes after the 100th.

A few minutes for a typical chapter, longer for a whole book. You can close the tab: generation keeps running on our side and the world appears on your dashboard when it is ready.

Yes. All five modes work on a phone: the games have touch controls, the mini-games and the duels play with a tap, the cards flip with a tap, and the whole site works in a mobile browser. Progress is synced to your account, so you can switch devices.

Yes. Play the five demos on this page without an account (the flashcards demo deals 12 grades), and any free public world with a free account. Premium worlds come with a preview (5 battles, 10 Tower Climb questions and 10 mini-game questions each, plus the flashcards of the first maps). Nothing is charged until you choose a paid plan.

The game is built around active recall. Every fight makes you retrieve an answer, every question you miss comes back in rematches and boss fights until you get it right, and streaks reward staying focused. It is the same repetition a good study session needs, with a reason to keep going. The Flashcards mode schedules every question with spaced repetition, so what you learned stays learned.

Close. The Flashcards mode runs the same SM-2 scheduling Anki uses (learning steps, ease, lapses) on the questions generated from your file, so there is nothing to type in. Grading cards pays XP into your character, and deck mastery earns ranks that dress it. Pro members can add up to 200 cards of their own per world.

Yes. Every world has a Multiplayer section with live duels: send a friend an invite link or play a quick match against one of the world’s characters. You both answer the same question at the same moment, and duels are free to play. On a premium world, a free account duels on the questions of its free maps.