How to get your flashcards out of Quizlet (2026)

Updated August 18, 2026 · verified against real Quizlet sets

The short version:

Quizlet's Export button now appears only on sets you created — and often not even then. But Print still works on every set you can open, including sets you copied or found. Print the set, save it as a PDF, and you have your cards in a file any good importer can read.

Your flashcards are hours of your life — yours, or a classmate's that you built on. Quizlet used to let anyone pull a set out as plain text with two clicks. Then, quietly, the button started disappearing: officially it only exists on sets you created, and plenty of free accounts don't see it even there. And since most of us study sets we copied, most of us ended up with no way out at all. I went looking for the exits, tested them on real sets, and this is what actually still works.

The funny part: Quizlet's own help pages suggest printing your sets. It reads like a brush-off, but it's accidentally the loophole that matters, because a printed set saved as a PDF isn't paper. It's a clean, machine-readable file with every card in it. Here are both routes, most useful first.

Route 1 — Print → Save as PDF (works on any set you can open)

On a computer, go to quizlet.com and open the set. (This doesn't work in the mobile app or on the mobile site — Quizlet only offers Print on desktop.)
Click the ••• menu near the set's title and choose Print.
Quizlet shows a print preview with layout options. Either layout works for import purposes; Glossary is the most readable if you also want a human-friendly copy.
In the print dialog, set the printer to Save as PDF and save the file.

That's it — the PDF has every term and definition in the set. It's even numbered, which is a nicer gift than it sounds: the document says how many entries it holds, so a careful importer can check its own work against Quizlet's count instead of quietly losing cards.

What to do with the PDF

Import it into a flashcard app that reads Quizlet's print format directly. This is the zero-friction path when it's available (disclosure below: our app is one that does this).
For Anki: Anki can't read the PDF directly, so this one takes elbow grease: select all the text, paste it into a spreadsheet or editor, wrangle it into term[tab]definition lines, save as a text file, File → Import. It works. It's also mildly miserable — the Table layout especially pastes badly, because its columns have no separator character to grab onto.
Keep it as a backup. Even if you change nothing today, a PDF of every set you rely on means no future pricing decision can strand your cards.

Route 2 — the Export button (if you still have it)

On desktop, open a set you created.
Click the ••• menu → Export.
Choose your delimiters (tab between term and definition, new line between cards is the convention every other app expects) and click Copy text.
Paste into any app's import box, a spreadsheet, or a text file.

If Export isn't in the menu, you're not doing anything wrong — it's just not offered to you on that set, or on your account tier. Don't burn time hunting for it. Use Route 1.

What about the copied sets in "Your library"?

Copied and saved sets almost never show Export — which stings, because those are usually the ones you actually study. They do all show Print. Route 1 covers your whole library, one set at a time.

Things that don't work (and one to avoid)

The mobile app: no export, no print. This is desktop homework.
Copy-pasting the set page itself: you'll get terms and definitions mashed together with UI text; the print view exists precisely because the page view isn't clean text.
"Quizlet downloader" browser extensions and sites: some are scams harvesting your login, the rest violate Quizlet's terms and break whenever Quizlet changes their pages. You don't need them — Print is enough, and it's within the rules, since it's a feature Quizlet themselves offer you.

FAQ

Is this allowed?

You're using Quizlet's own Print and Export features on sets your account can open, exactly as offered. Nothing here scrapes, automates, or bypasses anything.

Does this keep images?

No — both routes carry text only. Image-heavy sets will need their images saved separately.

Can I do this for many sets at once?

Not officially — it's one set at a time, and yes, that's tedious. Do the handful you actually study first; a 400-set library is mostly sunk cost wearing a nice UI.

Full disclosure, since you're on our blog: I make Crammed, a flashcard app with real spaced repetition, and part of why this guide exists is that I built the import that reads Quizlet's Print PDF directly — both layouts, no cleanup, and it checks its card count against the numbers in the document so a bad import gets caught instead of shipped. Importing is free and you don't need an account to study. Every deck you make in Crammed exports right back out, too — charging for the exit is the exact move this post exists to route around, and I'm not going to build my own version of it. But everything above works fine without us. If Anki or a spreadsheet is where you're headed, godspeed — the whole point is that they're your cards.