Brainscape - Study Flashcards

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4.8of 5 · store
20,937ratings on the App Store
492reviews read

An editorial reading of the saved reviews

Brainscape is one of the few apps in this batch that genuinely implements spaced repetition with user-rated confidence. The method works, and the interface is cleaner than most competitors. The main limitations are around session control and text-to-speech.

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What people use it for

Students and self-learners with ready-made card sets or who want to build their own. Especially good for people who study on both phone and computer.

What reviews praise

A five-point confidence scale on every card directly drives review frequency this is honest SRS.
Cross-platform: easy to create decks in the browser, easy to study on your phone.

What reviews complain about

You can't set a fixed number of cards per session.
No text-to-speech.
The algorithm sometimes resurfaces cards you just reviewed while ignoring ones you haven't answered.

What users experience

3 excerpts from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.

Free version is fine if you just want flash cards. Needs a lot of work to actually be a worthwhile app. If you accidentally add the same word - the app can't flag duplicates. Extremely tedious to delete cards. Also the "algorithm" to help interval learning the cards is absolutely not functional. I h

I'm a paid user and am extremely annoyed by the app's inability to show flashcards in a random order, starting from unanswered cards first. The app keeps showing flashcards that I just saw a few minutes ago and marked as needing to study, while hundreds of unanswered cards are still available to go