All your studying,
one single app.
Anki-style flashcards, your courses organized as in Notion, your annotated PDFs, timed multiple-choice quizzes and a study planner. No account, offline.
Apple silicon (M1 to M4) or Intel Mac, macOS 10.15 or later
Which year are you in?
Pick your year: the page that opens explains what it is about, how to prepare for it, and what Mnemesia does for it.
A question? Two answers.
The guide answers most of them. For the rest, there’s WhatsApp: Mnemesia’s creator and its users answer there. And to keep up, our social accounts.
Start with the guide.
17 illustrated pages: installing, organizing your courses, annotating, reviewing, taking MCQs.
The WhatsApp community.
Mnemesia’s creator and its users help each other there: a question, a bug, a missing feature, and announcements of new versions. The community chat is in French.
Your phone number is visible to the other members.
Follow Mnemesia.
Every week: demos, study methods and new version announcements.
Instagram
@mnemesia.fr
Features in pictures, student testimonials and what’s new in each version.
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Videos and what’s new in each version, to share with your class.
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Short videos: a study method or an app feature, in under a minute.
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Project news, for medical schools, student unions and partners.
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Short videos as Shorts, and step-by-step tutorials soon.
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Your handouts, annotated.
Highlight, write with a pen or an Apple Pencil, add a sticky note, hide a line under a tape to test yourself, crop an image to turn it into a card. Even a scanned handout becomes searchable.
Cards that come back at the right time.
Anki-style spaced repetition, with import of your .apkg decks. Cards are made from the handout, without leaving the course.
MCQs, just like exam day.
Timed mock exams, practice spread across several tests and past papers on their own, with detailed answers and a list of the questions you missed.
A planner that knows your exams.
Your university timetable imports as an .ics file, your exams go on it, and each course's J-method reviews fall into place through the week, right up to exam day.
Everything stays with you.
No Mnemesia server, no school account, no content to upload. The app opens and works without the internet.
Nothing leaves your device
Handouts, cards and answers stay on the device. No account, no session to sign in to: the app talks to no Mnemesia server, and none of your work leaves your device.
Your folder is your copy
No copy on a Mnemesia server. On the Mac, iPad and iPhone versions from the App Store, you can turn on iCloud: the folder then goes through your own account, and your devices stay in sync. Elsewhere, losing the Mnemesia folder means losing what is in it.
So back it up: Time Machine, an external drive, or a copy of the folder from time to time.
Updates, depending on where you got it
From the App Store on Mac, iPad and iPhone, or from the Microsoft Store on Windows, they arrive on their own. There is nothing to keep an eye on.
Elsewhere, each fix comes as a new version to download from this page. Installing it over the previous one does not touch your data: it lives in your folder, not in the app.
Download Mnemesia.
The same software on all your devices. Version 1.0.17.
On the App Store
Apple silicon (M1 to M4) or Intel Mac, macOS 10.15 or later
The installation steps further down follow this choice. iPad, iPhone, Android tablets and phones: further down.
Install, then get started.
From the App Store or the Microsoft Store, there’s nothing more to do. On Linux, the downloaded file asks for one permission the first time it opens.
On macOS
You choose above, with the three download buttons.
From the App Store
Open the listing, then install
The Download on the App Store badge, above, opens Mnemesia in the App Store on your Mac. You can also search for Mnemesia there directly. Then click Get, and Install.
Open Mnemesia
From Launchpad or the Applications folder.
Later versions then arrive on their own, as with any app from the store.
The first five minutes
The same on Mac, Windows and Linux.
Choose where to keep your courses
On the very first launch, a single button: “Choose folder”, which opens your system’s folder picker. If your courses are already somewhere, select that folder; otherwise, create a Mnemesia folder in your home folder. That’s where your review database, handouts and card decks will live.
Avoid
A folder stored in iCloud, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox or Nextcloud. These services rewrite files behind the app’s back and can damage the review database.
Import your handouts
Organize your courses as year → semester → subject → chapter, then use “Import” in a chapter to add a PDF. You can also copy the files straight into the Mnemesia folder, then ask the app to pick them up.
A handout opens in the studio: highlight, annotate, add a sticky note, crop an image to turn it into a card.
Bring over your Anki decks
In Flashcards, import accepts Anki
.apkgfiles and Mnemesia decks shared by a classmate.Good to know before importing
The content of the cards is carried over, but not their review history. Imported cards all start over as new. If you’ve been using Anki for several years, keep it alongside Mnemesia during the testing phase.
On tablets and phones too.
The same courses, cards, MCQs and planner, without a connection. On iPad and iPhone from the App Store, on Android from Google Play.
iPad and iPhone
iPad or iPhone, iPadOS or iOS 16 or later
no account · a real folder, just like on the computer
Open this badge from the iPad or iPhone, or search for Mnemesia in the tablet’s App Store.
The folder, and what it changes
- The Files app shows it under “On My iPad”, named
Mnemesia. - Handouts are organized there by year, semester, subject and chapter, and both the annotated PDF and the cards sit next to the handout.
- You can add your handouts there yourself, then tap Sync in the app.
Deleting the app erases the folder
As on Android: iOS erases everything that belongs to an app when you uninstall it, and no iPad app is allowed to write anywhere else. Reinstalling therefore starts from scratch.
Keep a copy of your handouts elsewhere, and nothing is lost: you can put them back in the folder in one go.
On iPhone (since version 1.0.8), the same listing installs a version made for spare minutes: review your cards, take your MCQs, check your planner. Nothing is created there and course PDFs don’t open on it: everything is prepared on Mac or iPad and arrives through iCloud. On Mac, it’s the same listing again: it’s further up.
Android
Tablet or phone, Android 11 or later
no account · a folder the Files app shows, just like on iPad
Open this badge from the tablet or phone, or search for Mnemesia in the Play Store. Updates then arrive on their own.
The folder, and what it changes
- No permission to grant: the app keeps your courses in its own space, and the Files app shows it under “Mnemesia”, next to Drive and Downloads.
- You can read, copy and add your handouts there, just like in any other folder.
- As on iPad, uninstalling the app erases this folder: copy it first, from the Files app, if you want to keep it.
Installed the file from this site? Copy the Mnemesia folder from the Files app first: Google Play may ask you to uninstall the old version, which erases its folder. Before version 1.0.6, courses lived in a MNEMESIA folder at the root of the tablet; tap “Bring back my old folder” (home screen or Settings) to copy them over.
Without installing anything, from the browser
A lighter version opens in the tablet’s browser and sits on the Home Screen like an app, offline use included. It has no folder, however: on iPad as on Android, the two options above do better, and they’re where you should start.
Open this address on the tablet:
https://api.mnemesia.fr/tablette/What this option can’t offer
No visible folder. Neither iOS nor Android gives one to an app installed from the web: handouts live in the app’s storage, and importing goes through the file picker, one PDF at a time.
Uninstalling, or clearing the browser’s data, erases the work done there.
On iPad, with Safari
The Share button (the square with an arrow), then “Add to Home Screen”.
Safari, not Chrome: on iPad, only Safari can add an app to the Home Screen.
On an Android tablet, with Chrome
The ⋮ menu at the top right, then “Install app”.
Open the icon, not the address
The icon opens the app full screen, with no address bar, and it then works offline.
In every case, the tablet starts out empty. An Android device doesn’t sync with anything: what you do on it doesn’t show up on the computer. An iPad or an iPhone can stay in sync with the App Store Mac version through iCloud, if you turn it on in the settings of each device.
What’s new in 1.0.17.
Steps for each EDN item, past papers that file themselves, and a workspace you can split as you like.
Courses
A workspace you can split as you like
Split the screen into as many panes as you need, with a single tool island for all of them. Photos can be annotated like handouts, and comments sit on both sides of the page, in columns, at the height you choose.
Flashcards
Today’s count tells the truth
Before “Review”, you see what the session will actually give you: reviews, new cards and the estimated time.
MCQs
Past papers file themselves
A test whose title says “annale” goes to Past papers, and you can practise on several past papers at once.
Your settings follow you
The correction, going back, timer and scoring you pick stay the same for all your tests. At the end of a test, “n more questions” or “Retake the exam”.
Planner
Steps for each EDN item
In clinical years, the Items tab tracks rank A and B rounds, anchors, QIs, DPs, past papers, the summary sheet and cards for each item, or your own steps, with dates and statistics.
A problem? That’s what this testing phase is for.
Bugs, unclear screens and features you can’t find are as useful as compliments.
Please include three details: your system, the version shown at the bottom of this page, and what you were doing when the problem happened. A screenshot is often worth all the rest.