Studyshelf / Features

Studyshelf 1.0

Your whole study library, in one place

  • Bring in PDFs (with their original pages), Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, text and photos

  • Scan handwritten or printed notes with the camera

  • Share files and text straight in from other apps, or drag them in on iPad

  • Mark up pages with Apple Pencil or your finger

  • Syncs between iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud, with a space-saving option

Organised for you

  • Topics found across all your files, sized for one study session

  • Grouped into categories you can rename, merge and rearrange

  • New files are filed into the structure you’ve built

  • Tidy up a whole shelf in one go

Find anything

  • Search every word in every file, including Japanese and Chinese

  • Ask questions and get answers from your own notes, with the sources shown, even about diagrams on your pages

  • Save the answers worth keeping

Remember it

  • Flashcards made from your topics, with spaced repetition, a daily review and a streak

  • Quizzes from your topics or the files you choose, and a retry for the ones you missed

  • See how confident you are in each topic

Made for language learners

  • Tap a Japanese or Chinese word to see its furigana or pinyin

  • Switch Japanese to kana or romaji, and Chinese to pinyin, simplified or traditional

  • Quizzes that test grammar in real sentences

Private by design

  • No account needed; your library lives in your own iCloud

  • Export topics or a full study guide as a PDF, and back up any shelf

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