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Yes. The free plan is free forever and needs no credit card. It includes the planner and Eisenhower matrix, the energy clock and sleep log, your habits, the vision board, rules and life lessons, reading, writing, speaking, the daily puzzles, streaks and your Life Card, plus 3 new AI games a day across 3 projects. Pro removes the generation limits and adds the daily Review workout, lecture notes and file upload (questions generated from your own material), and everything we ship next.

Anything you can describe: exam subjects, certification prep, language vocabulary, medical terminology, history dates, interview questions. If it can be tested, MugUp can turn it into a game — and spaced repetition makes sure it sticks.

Your life, rated like a footballer's card: six stats — Learning, Reading, Writing, Speaking, Physical, Spiritual — from Bronze up to Legend. Ratings weigh your last 28 days, so they measure the shape you're in now, not what you did once. Skip a week and the number drops; show up and it climbs back.

Separate apps can't see each other, and you often pay for several of them. In MugUp they are one account and one dashboard, so the parts use each other: a word you save while reading becomes a flashcard (on Pro), the time you log waking up starts your energy clock, and studying, reading, writing and your habits all keep the same streak. The study part also does what most flashcard apps don't: AI builds the quiz games for you and MugUp schedules the reviews.

Yes, and on the free plan. Export an .apkg and import it: subdecks become topics, your notes become flashcards, and the file is read in your own browser rather than uploaded. Free imports up to 200 cards at a time and Pro up to 10,000, as many times as you like. Pictures come across on Pro — tick “Bring the pictures across” on the import screen and every image lands where the note put it, counted against your 100 MB of image storage; audio never comes across. Your review history transfers too, but only if the export had “Include scheduling information” ticked in Anki, so a card due in three weeks stays due in three weeks. Decks downloaded from AnkiWeb never have it and those cards arrive new — MugUp tells you which happened before you commit. Scheduling only, though: streaks, XP and coins start fresh here.

Yes, on Pro. Every topic has a Notes tab with a proper editor in it — type the lecture up as it happens, it saves as you go, and “Save & index” turns that note into material the generator can build questions from. You can upload files instead or as well: PDF, plain text and markdown, up to 20 of each per topic, 10 MB apiece. Then a dial above the generate button decides how far the AI may stray, and it starts at the strictest setting — every question from your files and notes, nothing invented. It also works through the material section by section rather than circling the first page, and the line above the button names the section it is going to next.

Every project has a Roadmap tab: give it at least two topics and it works out which ones should come before which, and draws them as a flowchart. It is a suggested order, not a schedule — there are no dates on it, nothing is ever late, and topics that can be studied in any order are deliberately left unlinked, so a sparse chart is the honest answer rather than a broken one. It is on the free plan (three generations a day; unlimited on Pro). Every ready-made deck in the library comes with one, and cloning a deck keeps it.

Yes, on Pro. Paste screenshots straight into either side of a flashcard — several at once, in among what you are typing — or drag them in, and they stay where you put them. Two limits worth knowing: a picture supplements the text rather than replacing it, so both sides still need words, and flashcards are the only game type that takes them — multiple choice, fill in the blanks and pair match are text. You add every picture yourself; nothing in MugUp generates an image or goes looking for one. Pro comes with 100 MB of image storage, which also covers pictures brought across from an Anki import.

No. Start with the one thing you actually want to do, whether that is the games, reading or a single habit, and leave the rest. A tile you ignore costs you nothing; your streak counts any tile you do that day.

No. MugUp has no push notifications and sends no reminder emails. A task with a deadline shows a countdown, and when the deadline passes MugUp tells you, but only while it is open in a browser tab. Repeating tasks, a life lesson that is due and your rule of the day are on your dashboard the next time you open MugUp.

It is the Feynman technique on a clock. Explaining something in plain words, out loud, is the fastest test of whether you understand it — you cannot fake your way through a simple explanation, so wherever you reach for jargon or trail off mid-sentence is exactly what you have not learned yet. MugUp gives you a prompt from your own material (or a topic and nothing else, if you want to find the angle yourself), a short window to prepare, and a longer one to talk. Then it hands back what you said so you can go restudy the fuzzy parts.

No. The recording lives only in the browser tab so you can play the round back to yourself, and it is never uploaded — there is nowhere on our side for it to go. The camera works exactly the same way, and whether it starts on depends on which mode you are in: in the practice drill it is off unless you switch it on, and in the video journal — the free-talk mode, where being on camera is the entire point — it is on by default. Either way the switch is on screen before anything is asked of your camera, and there is a download button, because that copy in the tab is the only one there is. The transcript is written by your own browser as you speak, on your device, which is why it works in Chrome, Edge and Safari and not in Firefox, where the drill still runs perfectly well without it. You can correct anything it misheard before the round is saved. The video journal has no transcript at all — it keeps how long you talked and whatever title you gave it, and nothing else. On Pro, the AI coach reads the drill’s text and comments on structure, coverage, clarity and filler — it never hears you and never sees you, so nothing in MugUp scores your accent, pronunciation, fluency or how you look.

No — minutes are the only target. You commit to ten minutes (or five, or thirty), and the countdown decides when the day is done. Your words are counted and reported back to you, never demanded, because forty words of honest thinking on a bad day is not a failed session. Both pay out once a day however long you stay, so there is nothing to farm. Reading material also skips the AI entirely: a book on your shelf stays a book, and nothing turns it into a quiz behind your back.

No, and you never will. Coins are earned by showing up — sessions, streaks, daily habits — and companions are bought with coins or granted at level and streak milestones. There is nothing to whale on; the only way to the rarest companions is consistency.

Yes, and we would rather be straight about it than pretend the streaks are an accident. The streak, the levels, the rare companions and the leaderboard are the same mechanics the apps competing for your evening use, aimed at studying, reading, writing and moving instead. What we left out is the extractive half: there is no feed and no ads, coins are earned and can never be bought, your Life Card rating drops when you skip a week rather than only ever climbing, and the focus timer's breaks end on their own — if you watch a video, the player closes itself when the break is over, keeping your place for the next one.

You can follow friends, compete on the XP leaderboard, and share your decks publicly for anyone to play or clone. You can also challenge someone to a live match: send them a link and you both race the same questions in the same order, watching each other’s progress move, with a running win–loss record between you.

Yes. MugUp runs as a Discord Activity — the real app, embedded in the client, not a bot posting buttons into chat. Anyone in the server can play a public deck without an account; someone with Manage Server runs /setup to pick the deck the server works through, and the channel gets the same twelve questions a day plus a leaderboard once the day wraps up — every run is timed, so the same score in a faster time takes the day. Connect your MugUp account and those runs start earning XP, a streak day and a real review schedule, and you get your own review queue inside Discord. Two connected players can also race the same deck head to head — the invite is an open seat in the channel rather than a link. There is a full setup guide at mugup.app/discord.

You give MugUp a topic — and optionally a description of what to focus on — and it generates a set of questions and answers tailored to it. On Pro you can point it at your own material instead: notes you typed on the topic's Notes tab, or PDFs and text files you uploaded, with a setting that keeps every question inside them. Want more practice? Add more questions to any game with one click.

Yes, on Pro. Copy your MugUp link from Settings, add it to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini CLI, Cursor or GitHub Copilot as a connector (any app that can add an MCP server works), sign in to MugUp and press Allow. Then ask it for a deck in plain words. It makes the projects, topics and questions in your account using whichever model you picked, so it uses none of your MugUp generations. It can add and edit, but it can never delete anything, and you can disconnect it from Settings at any time.

No. Sign up and start playing right away. You only add payment details if you upgrade to Pro, and you can cancel anytime.

MugUp is fully responsive and works great in your phone's browser — no install needed. Add it to your home screen for quick access, and play anywhere.