Updated August 29, 2026 · 6 min read
Quizlet has a built-in export tool, and it's free to use. It only works on sets you created yourself, it only runs on the website (not the mobile app), and it doesn't carry over images. This guide covers what the export actually gives you, how to run it, and what to do with the text once you have it.
A few things about Quizlet's export are worth knowing before you start, because they trip people up:
That's it. You now have a block of text where each line is one card: the term, a tab, then the definition.
Paste it into a plain text editor first (Notepad, TextEdit, or similar) and save it before you do anything else. Pasting straight into a word processor can silently convert the tabs to spaces or add smart quotes, which breaks the format you need for the next step.
If the set belongs to someone else, or you copied it into your library without creating it, the Export option won't appear. There's no official workaround for this. Quizlet's export is tied to authorship, and there's no in-app way to inherit that on a copied set even if you've since edited it.
The practical fallback is copy-paste by hand:
It's slower, and for a set with a couple hundred cards it's tedious, but it works for anything you can see on screen. There are third-party browser extensions that claim to export sets you don't own; treat those carefully; they work outside Quizlet's own tools and can break whenever Quizlet changes its page structure, and they raise the same authorship questions as any other scraper.
Once you have your terms and definitions as tab-separated text, the most common next step is moving them into a spaced-repetition app like Anki, which is built specifically for the kind of recall practice Quizlet's Learn mode only partly covers.
Importing into Anki:
If your exported text needs cleanup first, such as extra blank lines, a header row, or fields that got merged, running it through the Quizlet to Anki converter can save you the manual editing. Paste your Quizlet export in, and it parses each line into front/back pairs and gives you back a clean file formatted for Anki's importer.
If you exported into a spreadsheet instead of Quizlet's raw text format (for example, after doing the copy-paste fallback above), the CSV to Anki converter does the same cleanup for comma or tab-separated CSV files.
Both tools run entirely in your browser. Nothing you paste in gets uploaded anywhere.
How do I export from Quizlet? Open a set you created, click the ••• menu, choose Export, and copy or download the text. See the step-by-step section above. This only works for sets under your own name in Your library.
Can you export Quizlet flashcards for free? Yes. Export isn't a Quizlet Plus feature. Any account, free or paid, can export sets it owns.
I don't see an Export option on the set page. Two likely reasons: you're not the creator of the set (it's a copy, or a public set you're studying), or you're on the mobile app. Switch to a desktop or mobile browser and confirm you're viewing a set from Your library that you made yourself.
My exported text looks fine in Quizlet but breaks when I import it elsewhere. This is almost always a separator or line-break problem introduced after export, usually from pasting into an app that changes tabs to spaces or adds its own formatting. Paste into a plain text editor first, confirm each line still has exactly one tab between the term and the definition, and re-copy from there.
Can I export more than one set at a time? No. Quizlet's export tool works one set at a time. For several sets, export each one separately and combine the text files afterward if you want a single deck.
Quizlet's export tool is narrow but reliable: your own sets, text only, web only, free. For anything within those limits, exporting takes under a minute. For sets you don't own, copy-paste is the only path Quizlet supports today. Either way, once you have tab-separated text in hand, getting it into Anki is a short trip, whether you use Anki's importer directly or run it through a converter first to clean up the formatting.