Fresh Cards is a flashcard app that makes it easy to study consistently and remember what you learn. Smart scheduling, flexible study modes, and a clean interface that stays out of your way.
Remember what you study — Every card you review gets automatically scheduled for the right time to see it again, so you're always reinforcing what's fading and not wasting time on what you already know. Just mark cards right or wrong; Fresh Cards handles the scheduling.
Your Study Queue — Just open the app and start. Fresh Cards puts your cards in the best order to study right now — the ones you most need to review first, with new cards waiting at the end. Want a different angle? Switch to Seen or New with a tap, or pick from Weakest, Cram, Manual Order, or Starred when you need something specific.
Three ways to test yourself — Classic card flip, word tile jumble where you arrange the answer, or typed input. Pick the mode that matches how you want to be challenged.
Track your progress — See your streak, daily study history, and a full heatmap of past activity. A look-ahead histogram shows when your cards are coming due, so you can plan ahead and see your workload shrink over time.
Cards that handle anything — Write in plain text, Markdown, or HTML, with MathJax support for math equations. Add images, audio, and text-to-speech to any card. Organize with decks, folders, and tags. Import from a CSV or text file to get started fast.
Capture cards anywhere — Add new cards from any app with the iOS and Mac Share Extension, or use Quick Capture to jot down a card the moment an idea strikes. Siri Shortcuts and App Intents let you wire up your own study flows.
Features at a glance:
- Spaced repetition scheduling — automatic, no manual ratings
- Study Queue that orders cards optimally, plus Seen, New, Weakest, Cram, Manual Order, and Starred filters
- Three study modes: flip, word jumble, and typed input
- Stats screen with streak, bar chart, and full history heatmap
- Look-ahead histogram to plan future study sessions
- Images, audio, and text-to-speech on any card
- Plain text, Markdown, HTML, and MathJax support
- Organize with decks, folders, and tags
- Bulk import from CSV or text file
- Share Extension and Quick Capture for adding cards on the go
- Siri Shortcuts and App Intents support
- Native Mac and iOS apps with iCloud sync
Terms of use:
https://www.freshcardsapp.com/terms/
Privacy policy:
https://www.freshcardsapp.com/help/privacy.html
Great app, my preferred source for all my flashcards and would definitely recommend to anyone. The free version was great and will do the job for anyone, the paid version feels worth it as well. Please add a widget, this app would be a 10/10 if it had a widget. It would be so useful for a widget to be able to remind you of a deck you haven’t reviewed in a while, or to display a certain deck that you’re focusing on, or to display the individual cards in a deck. It would be even more incredible if the widget had interact ability, like the reminders widget does, so that it would display a card, you tap the widget, and it displays the other side, that would be incredible. Personally I use this app in 5-10 minute segments throughout the day, a widget would make that whole process much better in my opinion.
Simple and well worth it
PapaMurphysLaw
If you feel that an app like Anki is too complicated or wastes time with its complexity but you don’t want to pay a subscription then this is the app for you. It is by far the best non-subscription flashcard app I’ve found.I purchased the full version of the app ($15 USD) a couple months ago. The only two cons I can think of are that it has a couple less features than some other flashcard apps and that its layout is not the most intuitive with different locations for where deck vs card settings are stored. However, it has many amazing features that make it 100% worthwhile even if it is behind on a few minor features. It has an uncluttered layout, appealing aesthetics, a unique and useful combination of tags plus “what you see is what you review”, and different modes for reviewing cards and marking them as complete. Some of the missing features are on the roadmap and likely to come soon.The developer has great response time to my questions or feedback and has been friendly in his responses. All of which are bonus points to an already great app.
Great app!
jtcreate
This app is well worth the money. It syncs beautifully across my devices and is very simple and intuitive to use. I'm using it to learn a long list of Spanish words, and it has been incredibly useful. Plus, NO SUBSCRIPTIONS! Thank you to the developers for having a one-time cost on it. I would highly recommend this app.
An excellent app crippled by a single major design flaw
redshift13
The good: Excellent overall in terms of design, intuitive use and speed of creating new cards. A model for other apps.The bad: To me it has a fatal flaw. Say you create a deck of 50 Italian verbs. You then want to review 30 cards. Well, Fresh Cards doesn’t allow you to review all thirty. If first selects 4? 5? cards for you, then displays them again and again. At first I assumed I had the wrong settings, or, making sure those were correct, maybe the program had a significant bug. No—it’s actually designed this way.The problem here is the assumption that memory works with this kind of repeated, quick succession exposure. Can’t remember one card? With Fresh Cards you’ll see it again in 10 seconds. And then 10 seconds after that. Meanwhile, you’re not getting access to the other cards you’ve taken the time to create and want to review. There is, to me, an obvious inefficiency here. Plus, it creates frustration, which is to be avoided if possible in a learning environment. However, the philosophy of Fresh Cards seems to be ‘just power through it’. This is not good educational psychology. The whole point of doing flashcards presupposes that you’re going to be continually frustrated a tiny bit by all the things you don’t remember. But the solution to this is not to amplify the frustration by restricting your access to other cards by continually forcing you to see cards you’ve already seen multiple time before. This should not be a video game where you have to slay a monster to get through the door.Memory doesn’t function in exact parallel with the algorithm that Fresh Cards uses. If you want to create a deck of 100 cards, Fresh Cards won’t allow you to review them unless you first endure its again and again and again and again repeat of 4 or 5 cards. Please know this before you buy.I don’t think the developer yet appreciates what a bottleneck this will be for many. -Including myself. I’m retiring Fresh Cards in search of a better system.
Developer Response
Hi, I'd love for you to give the new version of the app a try. Version 2.0 now offers multiple review modes and a better lesson system. The lesson system reduces re-review of cards, even when you get them wrong. Please give it a try and let me know what you think.
Fresh Cards 3.0 is a complete rewrite of the app with improved UI and more reliable sync.
3.0.5 brings these tweaks:
- Added Due filter and moved Seen filter down to secondary filters. This will allow SRS users to easily see cards that are due.
- Named "Overdue" section "Due" again, as in Fresh Cards 2.
Version 3.0.5
The developer, Allen Ussher, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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