Making great assessment
accessible to every teacher
SimpleQuizMaker was built on a simple belief: teachers shouldn't spend hours writing quiz questions. AI should handle the repetitive work so educators can focus on what they do best — teaching.
Our Mission
We believe every student deserves access to the same quality of practice and assessment that well-resourced schools provide. And every teacher — regardless of budget — deserves tools that save time without sacrificing quality.
SimpleQuizMaker uses AI to turn any document, PDF, or topic into a complete quiz in under a minute. It's free to start, works on any device, and requires no student accounts — because the last thing a teacher needs is another login screen.
136+
Educational guides published
50,000+
Quizzes generated
2 min
Average quiz creation time
100%
Browser-based, no install
What we stand for
Learning-first design
Every feature is grounded in cognitive science. We build what the research says works — retrieval practice, spaced repetition, immediate feedback.
Speed without sacrifice
Teachers have 5 minutes, not 5 hours. We obsess over making quiz creation fast without making it shallow. AI handles the first draft; you refine it.
Accessible to all
The free plan is genuinely useful — not a crippled demo. Students can always take quizzes for free. No credit card, no student accounts, no friction.
The people behind the content
Our editorial team writes and reviews every guide on this site.
Sarah Mitchell
Curriculum Designer & Former High School Teacher
Sarah spent 8 years teaching high school English and Biology before moving into curriculum design. She joined SimpleQuizMaker to build the assessment tools she always wished she had in the classroom.
James Okafor
EdTech Researcher & Instructional Designer
James holds a Masters in Educational Technology and has spent his career researching how digital tools affect learning outcomes. He leads content strategy and edtech partnerships at SimpleQuizMaker.
Emily Chen
Cognitive Psychology Writer & Study Skills Coach
Emily studied cognitive psychology at university and has coached thousands of students through high-stakes exam preparation. She writes about the science of learning and memory for the SimpleQuizMaker blog.
The longer story
SimpleQuizMaker started in 2024 from a specific frustration: building practice quizzes for our own learning was taking longer than the studying itself. Existing tools were either gameshow platforms (great for live energy, weak for serious practice), flashcard apps (great for vocab, weak for reasoning), or generic survey builders (great for nothing). None of them produced the format that cognitive-science research keeps validating as the single most effective study technique: retrieval practice with plausible distractors at the right difficulty.
We built the first version for ourselves. Then a teacher friend asked to use it. Then her colleagues did. Six months in we had thousands of teachers, students prepping for licensing exams, corporate L&D teams, and BuzzFeed-style content creators all using the same underlying engine for very different reasons. The product matured around their feedback, not around our original assumptions.
What we believe about learning
- · Testing isn't the opposite of learning — it's a form of learning. Roediger and Karpicke's 2006 retrieval-practice studies, replicated dozens of times since, are the underlying premise of the entire product.
- · Spacing beats cramming, every time. The same total study minutes spread across multiple sessions produce 2-3× better long-term retention. Tools should make spacing the default, not the heroic discipline.
- · Good questions are mostly about good distractors. Anyone can write a correct answer. The wrong answers determine whether a quiz teaches anything.
- · Generic AI quizzing is a regression. Without subject context and quality filters, AI produces bland recall items. With them, it produces faster authoring than humans alone.
- · Teachers know their students better than algorithms do. Our role is to remove drudgery (typing distractors, formatting questions, exporting to LMS), not to replace pedagogical judgment.
How we make money
Subscriptions. Solo teachers and casual users mostly stay on the Free tier; serious students upgrade to the $4.99/mo Student plan; classroom teachers and L&D teams pick the $19.99/mo Teacher plan. We have no advertising on logged-in dashboards, we don't sell data, and we don't do affiliate deals on competitor pages. The blog has display ads for non-logged-in visitors (so we can keep the free tier funded) and they're served only after explicit cookie consent.
How we're built
SimpleQuizMaker runs on Next.js, deployed via Docker to Hetzner in Germany — not on Vercel, not on AWS, not on any US hyperscaler. Data lives in PostgreSQL on the same infrastructure. AI generation calls OpenAI. We don't use Firebase, Supabase, or third-party auth providers other than Google OAuth. The whole stack is replaceable; we keep dependencies thin so the cost of changing any one piece stays low.
EU data residency is the default, not an enterprise upsell. GDPR was the floor we built to; everything else inherits from that.
What we're working on next
Three big buckets, prioritized by user-request frequency:
- 1. Native LMS integrations. Today: QTI export. Roadmap: LTI 1.3, Canvas LMS deep integration, then Moodle, Blackboard, Schoology.
- 2. Mobile apps. iOS first, Android to follow. The browser experience is solid, but quiz-takers on phones want a native feel. We'll do iOS right rather than rushing both.
- 3. Spaced-repetition scheduling for quizzes. Flashcards already use FSRS; bringing the same scheduler to quiz items so “review what you missed” becomes one click.
Trust signals (the honest list)
- · Not VC-backed. We're bootstrapped. That means we move slower than a funded competitor and faster on what users actually ask for.
- · Public roadmap by way of changelog. Bigger items get a blog post when they ship.
- · 14-day refund on every paid plan, no questions.
- · Open about limits. AI generation isn't magic; some subjects work better than others and we say so.
- · Real humans answer support email. If you write hello@simplequizmaker.com you'll get a reply from someone on the team, usually the next business day.
Try SimpleQuizMaker free
No credit card required. Create your first quiz in under a minute.