Flashcards

Flashcards are Myzo's built-in study system. Your kid (or you) builds a set of cards for something they're learning, studies it during focus time, and Myzo tracks which cards keep tripping them up. This page covers how the system works from your side, every control you have over what your kid can and can't do with it, and how to build sets yourself.

Sets are grouped by subject

Every set belongs to a subject: Math, English, Science, History, or Other. When your kid (or you) picks Other, Myzo asks for a Class name — "Spanish", "Art", "Robotics" — and that class becomes part of your kid's shared class list. The same list is used on the Tasks screen, so a class added on flashcards is right there when it's time to add a Spanish task.

Class names collapse case-insensitively (so "spanish" and "Spanish" are one class), and when a school year ends the active custom classes archive with that year so next year starts fresh.

Every set has a name your kid chose

When a set is created, Myzo generates an automatic title ("Science flash cards - set 1") and then asks whoever created the set to Name this set — a real name like "Solar System Basics" or "Chapter 7 Vocab". This is required; the set can't save without one.

The chosen name is what appears everywhere the kid sees — the Flashcards dashboard shingled cards, the study screens, past sets, the set detail page. The auto-generated title sits above the chosen name as a small eyebrow.

You'll see the same treatment on your side.

Two per-child toggles you control

Both live in Parent → Child Settings for each kid:

• Flash card visibility — turns the Flashcards tab on or off in the Kids app entirely. Off = the tab is hidden. On = your kid can study any sets that exist for them.
• Let [name] create flash cards — decides whether your kid can build their own sets (scan pages, type in cards) or only study sets you've made for them.

Both toggles are set on the Flash Cards step when you add the kid and are editable any time.

The access-request flow

When either toggle is off, the corresponding control in the Kids app still appears but is locked. If your kid taps it, Myzo offers to send you an access request.

Here's how it lands on your side:

• An alert appears on your Child Dashboard for that kid — you'll see it the next time you open the Parents app (and get a push if notifications are on).
• Tap the alert to open a small modal that names exactly what they're asking for: "Let [name] see flash cards" or "Let [name] create flash cards."
• Flip the switch inside the modal and their app unlocks the moment it next syncs. No trip to Settings needed.

If you'd rather not enable it, dismiss the modal — nothing changes on your kid's side and they can try again later.

Parents can build sets too

You have the same flashcards workflow on your side as your kid does. Open the Flashcards section of your Child Dashboard and you can:

• Create a new set — pick a subject (and class name for Other), either type cards in or scan pages of study material, and give the set a name.
• Add more material to an existing set — scan additional pages or add cards; Myzo merges them into the same set.
• See the shingled dashboard of active sets, the same way your kid sees it.
• Move a set to Past when it's no longer active — it disappears from the main dashboard but stays available if you want to revisit it later.
• Study a set yourself if you want to preview what your kid will see.

Sets you create show up on your kid's device the next time it syncs.

Scanning study material

Both the kids' scanner and the parent scanner send the photos to Anthropic (our AI provider) to generate the cards. Photos are transmitted encrypted and are not retained after processing under Anthropic's Zero Data Retention terms. Anthropic is listed as an AI sub-processor in our privacy notice.

Multiple-choice cards fill their wrong answers from other cards in the set — you'll never see a card with dashes for the distractors.

Studying

Study is meant to happen inside a focus session, but sets can also be opened directly. For each card the kid reads the front, tries to answer, reveals the back, and marks themselves Got it, Almost, or Missed. Missed cards come back more often; a Mastered card (marked Got it on multiple days) shows up less.

A card with a lot of text scrolls inside the card so nothing is clipped, and there's a small gap between the card and the End Session button so the button never covers the last line.

The back button on a study screen exits to the set's mode picker (not one card back through what was already reviewed), so switching modes doesn't require swiping back through the deck.

Editing and deleting

Both you and your kid can edit any card at any time. Deleting a set deletes every card in it; sets, like tasks, are soft-deleted for 30 days before being purged.

What's next

• Managing tasks — subjects and class names on tasks work the same way (shared registry per kid).
• Focus sessions — the timer flashcards study inside.
• Grades + progress — how test grades feed into subject averages.
• Privacy + COPPA — Anthropic as an AI sub-processor and the safety layers around kid-initiated actions.