About Filmina
Filmina is an AI study app for university and college students around the world. You upload your lecture slides, readings and recordings, and Mina, its AI teacher, explains them out loud, slide by slide. From the same material, Filmina builds summaries, mind maps, practice and a study plan up to the exam. It runs in the browser, in English and Spanish, and it's made in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
What Filmina does
Filmina is a web app (getfilmina.com): there's nothing to download, it works in any up-to-date browser on a computer, tablet or phone, and it installs from the browser as an app. You upload PDFs, PowerPoint and Keynote decks, Word documents, books, audio, video and YouTube links, and each subject becomes a place to study it all:
- Record: Record and transcribe lectures with AI, live
- Draw: Annotate lecture slides with pen and color
- Explain: Explain lecture slides with AI, out loud
- Ask: Chat with your slides and PDFs, using AI
- Summaries: Summarize lecture slides with AI, topic by topic
- Podcast: Turn lecture notes into an AI podcast
- Mind map: AI mind map maker from your slides
- Practice: AI practice questions from your slides
- Study plan: AI study planner up to exam day
- Calendar: Study calendar app for your exams
Who it's for
Filmina is for students who study from lecture slides, readings and recorded classes, at any university and in any country: business, economics, law, psychology, medicine, engineering and any other theory-heavy degree.
The app and Mina's voice come in English and Spanish, and Mina explains your material in the language it's written in. It's free to start, with no credit card; what each plan includes is in Pricing.
Who makes Filmina
Filmina was started by Ignacio Prados (Igna), a final-year computer engineering student in Buenos Aires. It began as a tool he built for himself, not as a product: he had an exam coming, a deck of more than a hundred slides, and no way to get through it without falling asleep. The same deck took two hours in class and flew by. The difference was that in class someone was talking.
Before writing any code he tried what already existed. Text-to-speech readers turn a slide into audio, but a slide read out loud is still three short bullets. Chat assistants interpret a PDF well, but their summaries leave parts of the deck out, and you can't tell which. None of them explained the material as you went through it, so he built that: the slide in front of you, a voice that explains all of it in order, and a frame that shows which part it's talking about.
The first version was a Mac app that ran the model on the student's own computer, paid for once, with no credits to run out. Filmina later moved to the cloud, and today it runs in any browser. The whole story is in Why I made Filmina.
Why it's called Filmina
In many Spanish-speaking classrooms, a filmina is a slide, and slides are what most classes are taught with. That's where the name comes from. Filmina the app (getfilmina.com) is not the dictionary word, and it has nothing to do with Filmin, the film streaming service. More on the word is in What is a filmina.
Your files and your privacy
Your material is yours. Filmina doesn't sell data and has no ads, and it doesn't train AI models on your files, your notes or what you say; under the terms of the providers it uses (Anthropic's Claude writes what Mina says, and Google Cloud stores your files and handles the voice and transcription), they can't either. Nobody at Filmina looks at your files unless you ask us to, to fix a problem of yours. You can delete your account and everything in it from Settings at any time. The details, including who processes what and for how long, are in the privacy policy.
Contact
Write to info@getfilmina.com for help with the app, your account or payments, privacy requests or press. We answer in English and Spanish.
Filmina is also on LinkedIn, X, Instagram and TikTok. What changed lately is in What's new, and you can vote on what comes next in What's next.