Rote memorizationflat
Cards sit in a queue with nothing between them. Recall one and the rest stay dark — you can answer the question and still miss the idea.
Now in open beta
Learn what connects.
Not just what you recall.
Branchy is a mindmap-first study tool. You draw how ideas relate, then practise recalling the connections — not only the facts — and watch each one move from shaky to mastered.
Built for university students, high schoolers & self-learners
The problem
Flashcards store facts side by side. Understanding lives in the edges.
Higher-order learningbranching
In Branchy you write the map by hand — ideas, branches and the links between them. Reviews sit next to that structure, so retrieval practices thinking: compare, explain, apply, transfer.
What you get
Three systems, one canvas.
Mindmap knowledge graphs
Draw a topic the way you actually hold it — freehand text, sketches, branches and cross-links on one infinite canvas. No templates, no forms; you create the structure.
Retrieval practice from your map
Every canvas gets its own deck. Write cards from what you mapped, hit Study to quiz yourself, and each card tracks from Learning to Familiar to Mastered as you get it right. The deck's coverage view shows which topics you're still thin on.
Real-time collaborative canvases
Share a link or QR code and build the map together, cursor by cursor. Your own devices can be in the same canvas at once — draw with a stylus on the tablet while the desktop holds the wide view and your deck, or sketch on your phone on the bus and find it waiting mid-stroke.
Two aesthetics
Study on paper. Or in the dark.
Long sessions want calm and paper; late, unplanned ones want everything but the page to disappear. Branchy ships both, switchable any time from your account menu — pick one here and the app you open follows.
7 / 203 live
Clay
on this page nowWarm cream, brown ink, flat terracotta accents. No glow, no gradients — a lit desk instead of a lit screen.
7 / 203 live
Noir
Near-black ground, cyan traces, high contrast. Late sessions, dim rooms, one thing lit at a time.
The canvas
Your map, wired for review.
One infinite canvas: draw freely, build a deck alongside it, and study straight from the structure you built.
canvasBIO 204 — Cell signallingshared · link
3 liveTPMKAR
GPCRcAMP ↑PKA cascadeCa²⁺ releasegene expressionamplifies →
Second messengers
MK
zoom 82%synced · desktop + tablet
This deck7 / 20 mastered
canvas deck · cell signalling
Why does one hormone molecule change thousands of enzymes?
Still learningGot it
Deck coverage
Receptors86%
Second messengers54%
Transcription22%
Open beta · free while we build
Initialize your first branch.
The full study engine — free while we’re in beta.
Open Branchy
Opens in Clay — switchable in the app