About
We built the study app
we wished existed
when we were students.
Fluera started as a frustration. One of us was a full-stack developer with ten years behind him; the other, a student watching his peers fall into the same trap — apps that felt productive but didn't make anyone remember anything.
We read the research. A lot of it. Bjork, Mueller, Roediger, van der Meer, O'Keefe. The cognitive science has been clear for half a century: handwriting beats typing, retrieval beats rereading, spacing beats cramming, friction is a feature. We couldn't find an app that took any of it seriously. So we built one.
Along the way we wrote a 2D rendering engine from scratch — because Flutter didn't have one that could do pressure-sensitive ink at 60 FPS across six native platforms. That engine is now open for anyone who needs it, under fluera_canvas.
The line
What we won't do.
- We won't have an AI that answers your exam questions for you.
Fluera's AI asks, scaffolds, mirrors. It never finishes your thinking. Using AI to do the cognitive work is using AI to atrophy the muscle we're supposed to be training.
- We won't sell your notebook data.
Your notes are encrypted at rest, end-to-end when synced, and never used to train anyone's models. Including ours.
- We won't run ads, engagement loops, or streaks.
Your relationship with studying shouldn't depend on a push notification. We'd rather you use Fluera less and learn more.
- We won't ship features we can't defend with a citation.
If a feature doesn't trace back to a published finding, or to consistent feedback from our beta, it doesn't ship. Shiny is not a feature. Novelty is not a feature.
Based in Milan, Italy. A longer-form statement of what we refuse and why lives in the manifesto.