Notion
Pages you already wrote become the cards you get asked about. Connect once with OAuth, pick your pages and databases, and nothing is copied into a store of ours.
Three connectors, and how to pick between them
The connectors are not variations on a theme. Each one reads a different shape of material, and the right choice depends on where your notes actually are rather than on which sounds most impressive.
Todoist (coming soon)
Not connectable in the app yet. The plan: your tasks stop being a list you glance at and close, and become the thing you are actively quizzed on before the app you wrapped opens.
AnkiDroid
Already keeping decks? Keep them, and keep AnkiDroid’s SM-2 scheduling. Popcue becomes purely the interrupt layer in front of them.
Your own LLM
Point Popcue at any MCP-compatible endpoint you already run and pay for. Your material goes to your model, not to ours.
Notion
Connect a workspace once with OAuth, pick pages and databases, and get recall cards from the writing you did not have to do twice.
Todoist (coming soon)
Not connectable yet. What the connector is planned to do, including a worked example of a recurring task becoming a cloze card.
AnkiDroid
Keep your decks and keep SM-2. The honest competitive picture, including two free apps you do not need us for.
Your own MCP-compatible LLM
What MCP is in plain language, how to point Popcue at an endpoint you already pay for, and where the current method is rougher than we would like.
Why a live connector beats an exported file
This is the part that separates Popcue from the rest of the category, and it is worth being blunt about how the rest of it works. Every other quiz-gate asks you to get your material into their silo first: export a CSV, upload a PDF, or copy text across by hand. Then your notes live in two places, and one of them is a copy you now have to keep in sync.
The bridge is not hypothetical. It is a manual step that people describe as costing them hours, because a person is the sync mechanism, and a person does it badly and late. The Notion page carries two sourced customer quotes from a competitor’s own pricing page that evidence exactly this, attributed and dated.
A live connector is not free for us to explain away either. It means Popcue holds an OAuth token for your workspace, handles a refresh when that token expires, and breaks visibly when you revoke access. A one-time CSV upload fails more gracefully. We think the live version is worth it because the copy is the thing that goes stale, but it is a genuine trade rather than a free win, and we would rather name it than let the word “live” do all the work.
What the connectors have in common, and what each one costs you to think about:
| Connector | How you connect | What Popcue reads | What it replaces |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notion | OAuth, once | The pages and databases you select | Copying notes into a flashcard app by hand |
| Todoist (coming soon) | OAuth, once, when it ships | The tasks in the projects you select, when it ships | Re-reading a list you glance at and close |
| AnkiDroid | Android permission | Your existing decks, on their existing SM-2 schedule | Nothing. It reads decks you already maintain. |
| Your own MCP endpoint | An access key, entered in the app | Whatever the endpoint can reach, per your instruction | Sending your material to a model you did not choose |
What leaves your device, and what does not
“Live” raises a fair question, so here is the honest version rather than the reassuring one. Popcue reads your material from the service that already holds it. It does not build a second copy of your workspace in a silo of its own, and it does not read what happens inside the apps you wrap.
- What Popcue reads about your wrapped apps
- Only the fact that an app you selected came to the foreground, which arrives through Android’s usage access permission. No messages, no browsing history, no location, no clipboard, nothing about what happens inside the app once it is open.
- Who reads your notes
- Whichever service holds them. A Notion page is read by Notion, an AnkiDroid deck is read from your device, and an MCP card is handled by the endpoint you already run and pay for. In every case the material goes to the service whose data it is, which is also where it already was.
- What Popcue stores itself
- Your connector configuration and settings, the card state the SM-2 scheduler needs, and your ratings. Not a copy of the source material presented as Popcue’s own library.
- What Popcue never sees
- Anything from an app you did not choose to wrap. Nothing inside an app you did wrap beyond the launch event. And nothing from a service you never connected.
The connector you pick changes the privacy story, which is why each page below states it in full rather than deferring to a generic policy. The privacy policy is the whole document; the MCP page is the strongest version of this story, because you already pay for and control that endpoint.
What the connectors cost
Nothing, on any tier. Every connected-tool path is unlimited and free on Free and on Pro, with no cap on how many you connect. Pro is ₹149 a month or ₹999 a year, and what it buys is the other kind of source: the AI-written learning-path cap. Free includes five active AI-written paths; Pro removes the cap and unlocks the starter-deck library.
That split is deliberate. A connected path costs us almost nothing to serve, because the work happens at Notion, in your AnkiDroid deck, or on your own endpoint. An AI-written path costs us a model call. Charging for the first would mean charging you for your own notes, and we would rather be free and obvious about it. The full pricing page has the comparison.
You do not need a connector to use Popcue. If you would rather not connect anything, name a topic and let Popcue write the deck, or type the questions yourself. Five AI-written paths are free with no connection at all. The connectors are the option that stops you maintaining the same material twice.
Questions people ask about the connectors
Are the Notion, AnkiDroid and MCP connectors really free?
Yes. Every connected-tool path is unlimited and free on every tier, Pro included, and charging for them would be charging you for your own notes. What Pro costs ₹149 a month, or ₹999 a year, is the AI-written path cap: Free includes five active AI-written paths, and Pro lifts it. Todoist is coming soon.
Does Popcue copy my Notion workspace or my AnkiDroid decks into its own storage?
No. Popcue does not copy a connected workspace into a silo of its own. It reads the pages and decks you selected from the service that already holds them, and the material is read by whichever service does the reading: Notion for a Notion page, your device for an AnkiDroid deck, the endpoint you already run for MCP.
What happens to my material if I disconnect a connector?
Popcue stops reading that source, so no new cards arrive from it and Popcue cannot keep serving the cards it already drew from it. Your notes were never moved in the first place: they stay in Notion, in AnkiDroid, or on your own endpoint, under their own account and their own export.
Where to go next
How the interrupt works
The per-launch ratio, the two required taps, and why there is no skip button.
AnkiDroid, honestly
Two free apps that already do most of this, and the two things Popcue does differently.
Pricing
Free is the real product. Pro is ₹149/month or ₹999/year and lifts the AI-path cap.
Setup
Five steps, about three minutes, including the two Android permissions.