The Complete Flaevo Guide: How to Actually Study With It, on Your Phone and on a Laptop

Most people who open Flaevo see a lot of features. Courses, an AI tutor, quizzes, flashcards, podcasts, a focus timer, a planner, a code editor. It looks like a toolbox, so they use it like a toolbox — they poke one tool, it works, they close the app, and nothing much happens.

That is not what it is. Flaevo is one loop, with tools hanging off it. If you learn the loop, everything else falls into place, and the app starts doing the thing it was built to do. If you do not, you have a very capable app that you use once a fortnight.

So this is the whole thing: the loop first, then a normal day, then exactly where each piece lives on a phone and on a laptop.

The loop

Five steps. This is the entire product.

Step 1 — Give it your own material. Upload your lecture slides, your handout, your textbook chapter. Flaevo reads it and rewrites it as proper lessons: real sentences, real headings, worked steps where the material has working. Not the three-words-a-line PDF your lecturer exported from slides.

Step 2 — Read it, and interrupt. Open a lesson and read. Every time something does not land, ask Flae right there. Type @, pick the course, and she answers from your material rather than from a textbook's idea of your subject.

Step 3 — Turn it into a question. In Flae's message box, tap + and choose Quiz Me or Make Flashcards. Do the quiz. Get things wrong — that is the point, and it is the step people skip because it is uncomfortable.

Step 4 — Come back tomorrow. Open Smart Review. It shows you the things you got wrong, at roughly the point you are about to forget them. This is the day the app starts working, and it cannot happen on day one.

Step 5 — Revise from what she already wrote. Every explanation Flae gives is saved as a note automatically. You never press save. Revision later is reading, not searching.

Read those five again and notice what they have in common: you are being asked, not told. Re-reading feels like studying and mostly is not; being asked is what builds recall. Every feature in Flaevo is either feeding that loop or living off it.

What a normal day looks like

Twenty minutes. Not two hours.

Minutes 1 to 6 — Smart Review. Open it first, before anything else. It is short by design; it only shows what is actually due. Some days it is four cards.

Minutes 7 to 15 — read one lesson, and interrupt it. One. Open a session in the course you are furthest behind in, read it, and ask Flae the moment something is unclear, with @ pointed at that course.

Minutes 16 to 20 — one quiz on what you just read. Tap + in Flae, choose Quiz Me, take five questions. Anything you get wrong goes into Smart Review automatically, which is what makes tomorrow's six minutes worth opening.

That is the day. It does not need a desk, a printer or a quiet library. It needs twenty protected minutes.

On your phone

Five things sit along the bottom of the screen and they are the whole app.

Home — where you land. Your streak, what to pick up next, one-tap topics, and the Ask bar with a camera icon beside it.

Study — your uploaded courses, written up as lessons. This is also where you add a course. Open any session and you get Notes, Listen, Quiz, Cards and Flae for that session.

Flae — the middle button, the AI tutor, and the centre of the app. Your Notes live in here too: tap the notes button in her header and you get two tabs, Notes for the teaching and Chats for the raw conversations.

Review — Smart Review. The one to open daily.

You — profile, stats, plan and Settings.

Everything else is reached from inside those five. Quizzes and flashcards come from the + button in Flae or from a course. The Focus Timer and Stats sit under your profile and the tools menu.

Three things the phone genuinely does better than a laptop:

The camera. Photograph a question from a past paper, a diagram, a page of a textbook, or your own working, and send it straight to Flae. She reads it — and if you send your attempt at a problem, she marks the working rather than just handing you the answer.

Your voice. Tap the voice button in the message bar and talk to her out loud. Best for the back-and-forth of understanding something; for heavy maths, type instead so the equations stay on screen where you can look at them.

The home screen widget. Long-press an empty part of your home screen, tap Widgets, find Flaevo, and drag Ask Flae on. It opens straight into the tutor with the keyboard already up. This is the single most effective thing you can do for your streak, because opening an app is a decision and tapping a bar on your home screen is not.

On a laptop

Open flaevoapp.com in a browser and sign in with the same account. Everything syncs.

The laptop opens as the Study Desk, and it is a genuinely different way to work: three columns, side by side.

Left — your material. Your courses and documents, and also your own weak spots: the questions you have got wrong and the cards you keep failing. The app has been recording those since you signed up.

Middle — Flae. The same tutor, the same history, the same limits.

Right — what you can build from it. Quizzes, flashcards, podcasts.

The point of the desk is the tick boxes on the left. You tick the material you want to work from, and everything on the right aims at exactly that selection. Ticking your weak spots as the source and then asking for a quiz is the fastest revision loop in the app — and it is a laptop-only move, because it needs all three columns visible at once.

The rail on the left edge also reaches Courses, Flashcards, the Quiz Engine, Smart Review, the Focus Timer, the Library, Stats, Practice Pad and Settings.

The Library — for finding books you do not already have — is a computer feature. It was cut from the phone deliberately: reading a full book on a phone screen is not something anyone does twice, while on a laptop it is reasonable.

Use the desk for a long revision session. Use the phone for everything else.

The parts people miss

These are the things that separate "I tried the app" from "the app is how I study".

@ is the whole difference. Ask any AI about equilibrium and you get a correct textbook answer, in notation your lecturer does not use, covering two things not on your syllabus and skipping the one that is. It is right, and it is not what you are being examined on. Attach your course and you get the buffer question the way your course asks it.

Task Mode. In the + sheet, under Modes. She quizzes you and will not let you skip — ask her to just give the answer and she politely refuses until you have attempted it. It is slower and it is the one that makes things stick. Its opposite, Homework Helper, gives you a straight fast answer with no lesson attached. Both are legitimate; be honest with yourself about which one you are choosing, because Homework Helper on material you have not learned is how people arrive at an exam surprised.

Exam Mode, before the exam. No feedback while you answer, no going back, a visible countdown, and it auto-submits when time runs out. Use it to build stamina, not just knowledge. Free plans get 5, 7 or 10 questions; Pro goes up to 25 and Max to 100.

Podcasts for the trotro. Open a course session, find the Audio Podcast card, generate it on wifi, listen later on data. Making it is the expensive part; listening again is free. Solo narration is on every paid plan, while the two-voice Duo and Debate styles are Max.

Lock-in Mode. Toggle it before you start the Focus Timer. Fullscreen, screen kept awake, every time you leave the app counted as a distraction, and +15 XP if you finish with none. Save it for the sessions where distractions genuinely cost you.

Study with someone. A Tutor Room puts you and your friends in one conversation with Flae, everyone watching the same answer appear — worth knowing that the questions are charged to the host's account, so take turns hosting. Co-op does the same for a quiz: same questions, live progress, and the comparison at the end shows you where your gaps differ from theirs, which is far more useful than revising the same things together.

Most of it works with no data. Your notes, any course you have opened before, a full flashcard review with the scheduling worked out on the device, and every past quiz attempt. What needs data: asking Flae something new, generating a quiz or a deck, uploading a file, and opening a course for the very first time. Going offline shows a strip at the top, not a wall — you keep going, and it syncs itself later.

Your first week

Day 1 — set it up properly. Answer Flae's onboarding questions honestly: your level, your real subjects, what you are working towards. Everything she says afterwards is shaped by those answers, so five careful minutes here changes every conversation you will ever have with her. Then upload one course. One, not eight.

Day 2 — read and interrupt. Open the lessons Flaevo wrote from that upload. Read one. Ask her every time something does not make sense, with @ pointed at the course. This is the habit that matters most and the one people skip.

Day 3 — make it a question. Tap + and choose Quiz Me on what you read. Do it. Getting things wrong fills your Review queue.

Day 4 — come back. Open Smart Review. It shows what you missed on day 3. This is the day it starts working.

Day 5 to 7 — build the loop. Add a second course. Turn on a study reminder in Settings so the app comes to you. Put the Ask Flae widget on your home screen. Keep the streak.

The mistakes that make it feel flat

Uploading everything on day one and never coming back. The most common one by a distance. One course, three questions a day and Review every morning beats any amount of uploading.

Skipping Smart Review because it feels small. Six cards is not a small day, it is a correctly spaced one. Get an item right and it climbs the ladder — 1, 3, 7, 14, 30, then 180 days. Get it wrong and it drops all the way back to one day, however high it had climbed. That drop is the system working, not you failing.

Reading without interrupting. If you read a whole lesson and asked nothing, you have re-read a document. The asking is the studying.

Only opening it the night before. It will not save you then. It is built for twenty minutes a day, and it is close to useless as a once-a-term tool.

Never touching @. You are using a general AI when a tutor with your lecturer's own material was one keystroke away.

Where everything lives

The bottom line

Upload one course. Read one lesson and ask three questions with @ pointed at it. Let her build you a quiz. Come back tomorrow and open Review.

That is ten minutes today and six minutes tomorrow, and it is the entire app. Everything else — the desk, the podcasts, the timer, the planner, the code editor — is there for when you want it, and none of it substitutes for those two sittings.

Get Flaevo on Google Play, or open flaevoapp.com on your laptop and sign in with the same account.