A Gizmo alternative
Gizmo is a mobile-first study app. Ace the Test is a web application with a native iOS companion, built around generating practice questions from documents you upload. Here is the difference in practice.
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What Ace the Test does
Upload from the web
The upload and generation flow is designed for a browser, where PDFs and scans usually already live.
Study anywhere
Materials, quiz sets and history sync to the iOS app on the same account.
Keep the record
Accuracy, elapsed time and weak topics accumulate across sessions on both platforms.
Web-first, with a phone in your pocket
The practical difference is where the work starts. Uploading a chapter PDF, a scanned handout or a folder of photographed pages is a desktop task; answering ten questions while waiting for a train is a phone task. Ace the Test is built around that split rather than trying to do both from one screen.
That means the web app is the better place to create material and generate sets, and the iOS app is the better place to sit them. Everything is shared on one account, so the split does not cost you anything.
If you want a purely mobile experience with no desktop step at all, that is a genuine reason to prefer a mobile-first app. The honest answer is that generating a fifty-question paper from a scanned chapter is not a good phone workflow, and pretending otherwise would waste your time.
No claims are made here about Gizmo's current features or pricing — their site is the source for that.
Choose Ace the Test if
- Your source material is PDFs and scans rather than typed-in text
- You want a desktop upload step and a mobile practice step
- You want explanations on every question
- You want full-length papers of up to 50 questions
- You want one account shared between web and iOS
Pricing
Free
5 study materials · 5 quiz sets · 10 questions per quiz · Explanations, scoring and history included
Premium — $14.99/month
Unlimited study materials · Unlimited quiz sets · Up to 50 questions per quiz
Billed in US dollars through Stripe. The iOS app sells an annual plan through the App Store instead.
Questions people ask
Is there an Android app?
Not currently. The web app works in a mobile browser, and there is a native iOS app. Android is browser-only for now.
Can I generate a quiz from my phone?
Yes, through the web app — photographing notes and generating from them works on a phone. Long documents are simply easier to handle on a desktop.
Does my history sync between web and iOS?
Yes. The same account carries materials, quiz sets and session history across both.
Start on the web, practise on your phone
Upload one document and generate your first set free.