Because reading isn’t studying. Retrieval is.
Recallivo turns any USMLE textbook — First Aid, Pathoma, Sketchy, Harrison’s — into a personalized question bank in 60 seconds. MCQs, flashcards, fill-in-the-blank. Built-in spaced repetition. Your book. Your gaps. Your schedule.
50 questions free every month. Pro starts at $12/month.
THE PROBLEM
You’re putting in the hours. You’ve read the chapters. You can explain the concepts to a friend.
Then you sit down with a UWorld block — and blank.
It’s not that you didn’t study hard enough. It’s that your brain stores information differently than it retrieves it. Passive reading creates recognition memory. Exams test retrieval memory. They are not the same thing.
The students who score 250+ aren’t reading more. They’re testing themselves more — on their own material, at the right intervals, before they forget. That’s active recall + spaced repetition.
HOW IT WORKS
TEXTBOOK EXAMPLES
COMPARISON
UWorld is excellent — we’re not here to replace it. But UWorld tests you on UWorld’s questions, not the gaps in your understanding of your material. Recallivo fills the gap between learning and drilling.
STUDENT REVIEWS
I uploaded the renal pathology chapter from Robbins and had 40 questions in under a minute. Some were easier than Step 1 level but most were exactly what I needed to drill before my shelf.
I'd been using Anki for two years. Building cards was eating 2 hours every study day. Switched to Recallivo and I get better questions in 60 seconds with zero setup.
The Pathoma questions are genuinely good. Not just definition recall — they're asking me mechanism → presentation → next step. That's Step 1 logic.
FAQ
Yes. The free plan gives you 50 questions per month with no credit card required. Pro International is $12/month and includes unlimited question generation, all question types, and the full spaced repetition scheduler.
Yes. Any PDF works. Upload the full book or a single chapter — Recallivo generates questions from exactly what you upload. Most students upload one chapter at a time to keep sessions focused.
UWorld is a fixed question bank. Recallivo generates questions from your specific PDF — so if you're reading a specific edition of First Aid or your professor's annotated slides, the questions reflect that exact content. They're complementary: Recallivo for mastering your material, UWorld for timed exam simulation.
Recallivo generates USMLE-style multiple choice questions (4 answer choices + explanations), flashcards, fill-in-the-blank, and true/false questions. All four formats are generated from a single upload.
Recallivo tracks which questions you answered correctly and which you struggled with. It schedules each concept for review at the optimal interval before you'd naturally forget it — based on the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve. You don't manage the schedule. You just answer questions when Recallivo prompts you.
Yes. Upload any clinical textbook, case collection, or review resource — Master the Boards, Step-Up to Medicine, Case Files — and Recallivo generates questions from that content. The question style works across all Steps.
Anki is powerful but requires you to manually create every flashcard — which takes 4-5 hours per chapter. Recallivo generates all question types automatically from your PDF in under 60 seconds. Anki's spaced repetition is excellent; Recallivo adds AI generation so you spend time studying instead of building.
Yes. Your uploaded documents are private to your account and are not shared with other users or used for training without your consent.
You have the books. You have the dedication. The one thing between you and a 250+ score is retrieval — and retrieval is a skill you build by practicing it, repeatedly, on your own material, at the right intervals.
The students who score 250+ aren’t smarter. They test themselves more.
Upload Your First Chapter →Pro International: $12/month — unlimited questions, all question types, full scheduler.