Ask Maeve
Turns slides, books and lectures into summaries, flashcards and practice exams
Ask Maeve is an AI study tool that turns uploaded slides, books and lecture recordings into summaries, flashcards, practice exams and spoken quizzes. It is aimed at students, with subject coverage listed for medicine, law, statistics, biology, math, finance, history and psychology.
The company says more than 600,000 students use the tool, and it describes its goal as helping students pass 1 million exams. Maeve is made in Belgium and offers its interface in a long list of languages, from Dutch and English to Spanish, German, French and Japanese.
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What Ask Maeve does
Summaries from your own material
Upload slides or books and Maeve produces a summary in a length you choose: clear, detailed or concise. The summary page says it extracts key ideas and structures them so you can review a chapter without rereading it.
Practice questions and mock exams
Maeve generates practice questions from anything you upload, in multiple choice, true or false and open-ended formats. The exercises page describes creating unlimited practice questions and mock exams from your course material.
Flashcards and mind maps
You can create, share and study flashcards, with an unlimited Learn Mode for drilling them. Mind maps are listed alongside flashcards as part of the same study feature.
AI lecture notetaker
Record a lecture and Maeve returns detailed, structured notes from the recording, so you are not writing everything down live.
Voice tutoring
Mae quizzes you out loud on whatever material you have uploaded, which turns a written summary or set of notes into a spoken question-and-answer session.
How to use Ask Maeve
- 1Create an account with Google, Apple or an email address; the site says no credit card is required to start.
- 2Upload the slides, book or notes you want to study, or record a lecture with the notetaker.
- 3Pick a summary length and generate the summary, then add flashcards or a mind map from the same material.
- 4Generate practice questions or a mock exam and work through them to spot gaps.
- 5Switch on voice tutoring and let Mae quiz you out loud on the uploaded material.
Popular for
Exam revision
Students preparing for a specific test upload their course material and work through generated mock exams to find the topics they still need to review.
Medical and law students
The site lists medicine, admissions tests and law as usage situations, and subject pages cover medicine, biology, statistics and psychology among others.
Heavy memorisation subjects
For material that has to be memorised, flashcards with Learn Mode and spoken quizzing give two ways to repeat the same content.
Keeping up with lectures
Recording a class and getting structured notes back suits students who want a written record without transcribing by hand.
Ask Maeve pricing
Freemium- Ask Maeve uses a freemium model.
- The Starter plan is €0 / month and is described as always free and aimed at beginners; it includes all Maeve features with limited use, capped at 2 documents.
- Signing up is stated to require no credit card.
Pros
- Summaries, practice exams, flashcards, lecture notes and voice quizzing sit in one tool instead of five.
- Practice questions come in several formats, including multiple choice, true or false and open ended.
- Flashcards can be shared and studied in an unlimited Learn Mode.
- Lecture recordings are converted into structured notes automatically.
Cons
- The free Starter tier is limited to 2 documents.
- Downloading summaries as PDFs is listed as a paid-tier feature, not part of the free plan.
- No team, classroom or institution plan is listed; the product is built around individual students.
- The site's use cases are all academic, with nothing listed for workplace or professional training.
Ask Maeve FAQ
Is Ask Maeve free?
Yes. There is a free Starter plan at €0 / month that includes all Maeve features with use limited to 2 documents, and the site says no credit card is required to start.
What is Ask Maeve used for?
It turns your own course material into summaries, practice questions and mock exams, flashcards and mind maps, lecture notes and spoken quizzes.
Which subjects does Ask Maeve cover?
Subject pages list statistics, biology, math, finance, design, history, psychology and medicine, and the site names medicine, admissions tests and law as usage situations.
Can Ask Maeve record a lecture?
Yes. The AI lecture notetaker records a lecture and returns detailed, structured notes from the recording.
Does Ask Maeve work in other languages?
The interface is offered in a long list of languages, including Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Swedish, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic.
Where is my data stored?
The company states that Maeve is based in Belgium, complies with GDPR, and encrypts data in transit and at rest with storage in Europe.
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