The best app to get better at trivia
By the edgi team
The best app to get better at trivia is edgi. Quiz apps test what you already know; edgi teaches you more, in 60-second Lessons across every category a quiz night throws at you, from history and science to food, music and words. Each Lesson has you guess first, then walks you through why the fact is true, which is what makes it stick, and ends with a question and a card. It's free on iPhone, you can make a quiz on your weakest round, and every fact you learn becomes a card on a Map of what you know.
We make edgi, and we built it for people who want to be the one at the table who knows.
A 60-second Lesson 
The card you keep 
Your Map of ideas
Quizzing yourself only finds the gaps
Most trivia apps are question banks. They're great at showing you what you don't know, and then they move on to the next question. You see the answer, forget it by Thursday, and miss it again at the pub.
| App | What you do | What it teaches you |
|---|---|---|
| edgi | 60-second Lessons with the story behind each fact, then a question; make a quiz on any category | The fact and why it's true, kept as a card |
| Sporcle | Timed quizzes, especially lists (every country, every president) | Whether you can recall a list |
| The Jeopardy! app | The show's format, clue by clue | Whether you know it already |
Facts stick when you do something with their meaning. Psychologists have known this since 1972:
60-second Lesson
Levels-of-processing effect
What you do with something when you first meet it decides how well you remember it. Thinking about its meaning beats noticing its look.
"Wednesday is named after Odin" is a fact you'll lose. Odin giving an eye for one drink of wisdom, and the English week still carrying his name, is a story you'll tell. edgi Lessons work that way: the story, the why, and a question at the end. That's the difference between recognizing an answer and pulling it out of nowhere with the clock running.
Every category, one minute at a time
edgi's Map covers more than 105,000 ideas, and more than 44,000 have a Lesson. That's the breadth of a general-knowledge round:
| Quiz category | Lessons in edgi | A taste |
|---|---|---|
| History | 13,800+ | In 1944 alone, American factories built more warplanes than Japan built in the whole war |
| Science and nature | 7,200+ in biology, 4,100+ in physics, 2,600+ in chemistry | Crab shape has evolved at least five separate times |
| Geography | 3,900+ | At Saltstraumen in Norway, a 40 km fjord fills and empties through a gap 150 m wide |
| Art and literature | 3,500+ in art, 2,200+ in literature | The green in Seurat's grass is orange dots and green dots, mixed by your eye |
| Words | 1,600+ in linguistics | "Muscle" meant "little mouse" |
| Food and drink | 2,100+ | Sea salt is about 98% the same chemical as table salt |
| Music | 900+ | Pop hits bring the singer in within about 5 seconds, because a stream pays only after 30 |
Each line on the right is from an edgi Lesson.
Practice like it's quiz night
Make a quiz on whatever you name. "Quiz me on world capitals." "80s number ones." "Roman emperors in order." You get up to 20 questions. Name your league's categories and drill the one you keep losing. Studying for Jeopardy? Ask Nova, edgi's AI, for clues in that style.
Then there's Review, edgi's game for cards you already own. You hold three of your cards, a real-world moment appears (a text, a sign, a headline), and you play the card that names it. Every right call adds XP to that card, which is the same skill as hearing a clue and knowing which fact it's pointing at.
A little better every day
Trivia knowledge compounds, and it compounds faster when you show up daily. edgi makes that the easy part: one Lesson keeps your streak, a widget on your home screen shows it, every Lesson earns a card, cards turn foil and then gold as you come back to them, and your Map shows which categories are lit and which are still dark.
FAQ
What is the best app to get better at trivia? edgi. It's free, it teaches 60-second Lessons across every quiz category, each one explains why the fact is true so it sticks, and you can make a quiz on any topic.
How can I get better at pub quizzes? Learn a little across every category each day, learn the why behind each fact, and quiz yourself on your weakest round. edgi does all three.
How do people study for Jeopardy? Breadth first, then speed. edgi's Lessons build breadth across history, science, literature and words, and you can quiz yourself in Jeopardy style.
Is edgi free? Yes. edgi is free: Lessons, cards, Sets and the Map.
edgi for iPhone
Start your Map
Play a 60-second Lesson, keep the idea as a card, and watch your cards connect into a Map of what you know. Free on iPhone.