Level Up in Real Life
MugUp turns showing up for yourself into a game. Study with AI-built quizzes, read, write, speak, move, and reflect — a few small reps a day. Keep the streak, collect your companions, and watch six real-life stats grow.
Today
Your day in MugUp: eight small commitments. Go on — clear a tile and watch it turn green.
Turn Anything You Need to Learn Into a Game
Rereading notes feels productive — almost none of it sticks. Describe a topic, or generate straight from your own notes, and MugUp builds ready-to-play games in seconds. Then spaced repetition schedules every question for right before you'd forget it.
Describe your topic
Any subject, any level — or upload your notes and PDFs.
AI builds your games
Quizzes, flashcards, blanks, and matching pairs, ready to play.
Reviews keep it stuck
Answer well and the gap grows. Slip, and it comes back sooner.
Which study technique has the strongest evidence behind it?
Four steps, one of each game type — the same mix a real session deals you.
Multiple Choice
AI-generated questions for assessments and quick reviews.
Fill in the Blanks
Recall in context, with hints and alternative answers.
Flashcards
Classic two-sided cards you grade yourself, honour-system style.
Pair Match
Match terms to meanings, words to translations, causes to effects.
Get one wrong and ask “why is that the answer?” — the AI explains it on the spot. Not sure where to start? Browse ready-made decks and clone one into your account.
Already made the deck? Bring it.
Export an .apkg from Anki and drop it in. Subdecks become topics, your notes become flashcards, and the whole deck is playable the moment the import finishes. The file is read right in your browser — it never gets uploaded, only the cards do. On the free plan, up to 200 cards at a time.
Two things we'd rather you heard from us: images and audio don't come across, and neither does your review history — every card arrives new, on MugUp's schedule.
A Few Small Reps, Every Day
Consistency beats intensity — and studying doesn't happen in a silo. The hour before decides the hour: come off twenty minutes of short videos and a page of notes never stood a chance. So the Today row isn't a list of subjects, it's the shape of the evening around them — eight tiny commitments, some two minutes long, none longer than the time you choose.
The daily Review
Every question due today, across every subject, in one session — your memory workout.
Daily puzzles from your material
A Wordle and a Connections generated from what you are actually studying.
Reading and writing sessions
Commit to ten minutes, then read from your shelf or journal against the clock. Minutes decide completion — words are counted, never demanded.
Speaking, body, and spirit
Impromptu speaking drills with AI prompts, plus one-tap logs for exercise and for prayer or meditation.
Break time
0:45“Ten more minutes of the focus talk, then straight back”
Focus built in
A Pomodoro timer with intentional breaks: name what you'll do before the break starts, and if you watch something, the player closes itself the moment the break ends — keeping your place for the next one.
When one stalls, move sideways
Sick of the drills isn't the same as done for the night. The rest of the row is waiting — write something, read a chapter, answer a speaking prompt, move, sit still — so the way out of a session that stopped landing is another tile, not the thing you'd otherwise reach for.
Say It Out Loud, in Your Own Words
Richard Feynman's test for whether you actually understand something: explain it in plain language, as if to someone who has never met the subject. You can't fake your way through a simple explanation. Wherever you reach for jargon, hedge, or trail off mid-sentence is exactly where you don't understand it yet — and ninety seconds of talking finds that list faster than an evening of rereading.
So Speak gives you a prompt from whatever you're studying, a short clock to think, and a longer one to talk. Then it hands you back what you actually said.
Two ways to be put on the spot
Full prompt hands you a question to answer — the classic drill. Topic only hands you a few words and nothing else, so finding the angle is part of the exercise. Both, on both plans.
Your subject, or none at all
Speak about a project or topic you already have, type in anything you like, or hit Surprise me and let the AI choose the subject too. It remembers what it has already asked you, so it moves on.
Your browser writes down what you said
Speech-to-text runs on your own device as you talk — free, in Chrome, Edge and Safari. Firefox can't do it, and the drill still runs there without it. You can fix whatever it misheard before the round is saved.
The recording never leaves the tab
Your audio exists only in the page, so you can play the round back to yourself. It is never uploaded — there is nowhere on our side for it to go. What gets saved is the text.
Harder means less thinking and more talking
Three presets, and both clocks are yours to drag anywhere from fifteen seconds to ten minutes.
- Easy90s prep · 60s speaking
- Medium60s prep · 90s speaking
- Hard30s prep · 120s speaking
Three shapes to hang an answer on
Three, not ten — with a minute to plan, the value is having one structure memorised, not a menu to pick from. They sit on the setup screen, before you start.
- PREP Point → Reason → Example → Point
The default. Say your answer first, back it up, make it concrete, then land it again.
- PEEL Point → Evidence → Explain → Link
For anything you have studied — the Link forces the "so what" instead of stopping at the fact.
- Past → Present → Future Past → Present → Future
For causes, trends and "how did we get here" prompts. Works when you have no evidence to cite.
A coach that read what you said — Pro
On Pro, the AI reads the transcript and tells you which shape your answer took — if it had one — what you covered and the angle you most obviously missed, where a smart outsider would have got lost (quoting the phrase that lost them), the filler you leaned on, and one concrete thing to do differently next round. You can rewrite the rubric it marks against.
Nothing here scores how you sound. No accent, no pronunciation, no fluency rating — the coach only ever sees text, so it judges what you said and never how you said it.
The free plan gets one prompt a day, which is enough to find out whether talking to yourself about mitochondria is your thing. Pro removes the limit and adds the analysis.
Reading and Writing Run on the Same Clock
Commit to ten minutes — or five, or thirty — and the countdown is the whole target. Both pay out once a day, however long you stay, so there is nothing to farm and no reason to sit there resenting it.
Reading
Put a PDF, a text file, or your own notes on the shelf and read it inside MugUp against the clock — it remembers the page you stopped on. Two books on the free plan, unlimited on Pro.
A book on your shelf stays a book: reading material skips the AI entirely, so nothing quietly turns your novel into a quiz. If you do want questions out of a file, that's the study upload, and it's a different shelf.
Writing
Same clock, different verb. Take a prompt — a reflection on today, something to be grateful for, a freewrite opening line, or a recap of what you actually studied — or open a blank page and journal privately.
Minutes decide when you're done. Words are counted and reported, never demanded. Forty words of honest thinking on a bad day is not a failed session, and the day the habit most needs to survive is exactly that one.
All three feed the Life Card — Speaking, Reading and Writing are three of its six stats. See what's free and what's Pro.
Your Life Has a Card Now
Six real-life stats — Learning, Reading, Writing, Speaking, Physical, Spiritual — rated like a footballer's card, from Bronze up to Legend.
You already know this loop. Whole evenings have gone into grinding a GTA character's stats or dragging a FIFA rating up two points — and it felt good, because watching a number climb because of something you did is genuinely satisfying. Same loop here, one difference: the character you're levelling up is you.
Ratings measure your form, not your trophies: they weigh the last 28 days, so skipping a week visibly drops the number, and showing up brings it climbing back. It's the most honest progress bar we could build.
That card is a simulated first month — thirty days of ordinary showing up, Bronze to Legend, bad week included. Play it, or scrub it day by day. Every number on it is computed by the same formula your real card uses, so the sag around day ten is what four skipped days actually cost — and the climb back out is what they cost to undo.
Becoming the best version of yourself isn't a feeling — it's your form across six disciplines, earned by showing up, day by day.
Progress You Can Hold On To
Everything you do earns XP and coins. Neither can be bought — the only way forward is showing up.
✨ Adept
750/900 XP · 150 XP to level 10
⚡ Scholar at level 10
30-day streak!
A full month. Genuinely impressive.
2freezes banked — each covers a missed day
Streaks that forgive
Banked freezes cover a missed day, and streak commitments let you put a target on the line — keep it and the payout scales.
Coins are earned, never bought
Spend them on companion packs — collectible creatures from Common to Mythic. The rarest can only be earned, never purchased.
Friends and leaderboards
Follow friends, climb the XP leaderboard, and share your best decks for anyone to clone.
Pip
Common
Ember
Rare
Zephyr
Epic
Verdant
Legendary
Phoenix
MythicA few of the companions. Phoenix only comes home after a 100-day streak.
Two Kinds of Technique, Both Borrowed on Purpose
None of this is decoration. Half of it comes from what actually makes things stick — you answer instead of reread, and questions come back spaced out. The other half is lifted from the apps built to take your evening: streaks, levels, a number going up, something rare to open. Those mechanics work. We just aimed them at the thing that pays you back.
How the learning is built
- Recall, not rereading. Every game type makes you produce the answer before you see it. Recognising a highlighted line feels like knowing it; pulling it out of your head is knowing it.
- Spaced on purpose. Each question comes back around the time you'd start to lose it. Answer well and the gap grows; slip and it returns sooner.
- Mixed, not blocked. One run deals you multiple choice, blanks, flashcards and pairs, and the daily Review pulls from every subject at once. Switching is harder than drilling one thing — that difficulty is the point.
- What you missed comes first. Anything you got wrong or skipped is at the front of the next session, ahead of the questions you already have.
- An answer to “why”. Get one wrong, ask why that's the answer, and it explains on the spot — while the mistake is still fresh enough to fix.
How the coming back is built
- A streak you'd rather not break. The oldest mechanic in the app store, and it works. Ours banks freezes, so one bad day costs you a freeze instead of the month.
- A bar you can almost fill. XP on nearly everything, a level to reach, and today's row going green one tile at a time.
- Something rare to open. Companion packs, Common through Mythic. The pull is real — the difference is that coins come from showing up and can never be bought.
- People to keep up with. Follow friends and watch the leaderboard. The competition is who shows up more.
- A character worth checking on. Six stats, Bronze to Legend. It's the same reason you'd open a save file just to look at the numbers, except this save file is your month.
And the parts we left behind
No feed, no ads, nothing to scroll. There is no surface here designed to hold you past the fifteen minutes, and your attention is not being sold to anyone.
Nothing to buy your way past. No energy to refill, no gem packs. Coins are earned only, and the rarest companions can only be earned.
The number is allowed to go down. Ratings weigh your last 28 days, so a week off shows. Anything that keeps you here has to stay honest about how you are doing.
The break ends by itself. Name what the break is for before it starts, and if you watch something, the player closes itself the moment time is up — your place kept for next time.
The day has a ceiling. New questions arrive at a pace you set, reading and writing pay once a day however long you stay, and the Review ends when the due cards do. There is nothing here to farm.
Made for Whatever You're Working Toward
Students & exam preppers
Turn a syllabus into games the night it's assigned, let the daily Review carry you to exam day, and start from ready-made decks when you don't want to build your own.
Certification & career learners
Upload your study guide and generate questions grounded in your own material — AWS, Security+, CFA, USMLE, language exams. Fifteen minutes a day beats a weekend cram.
Habit builders
Here to read more, journal daily, or just spend your screen time becoming someone? Start with one tile, keep one streak, and let the Life Card keep you honest.
Simple, Honest Pricing
Start free forever. Upgrade only if you hit the limits.
Free
- 3 new AI games per day, 3 projects
- Anki import — 200 cards at a time, free
- Daily habits: reading, writing, speaking, puzzles
- Streaks, XP, and companions included
Pro
- Unlimited projects, topics, and generations
- Daily Review workout across every project
- Upload notes and PDFs to generate from
Frequently Asked Questions
Day One of the Streak Is Today
It takes about a minute to build your first game — and one green tile to start the streak. See for yourself.