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Brainscape - Smart Flashcards 4+
Revise More Efficiently
Brainscape
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Brainscape’s SMART FLASHCARDS foster hyper-efficient studying and strong habits to DOUBLE your learning speed, with the strongest implementation of spaced repetition and active recall of any flashcard app on the planet! (And probably in the universe, assuming some super intelligent alien species out there hasn’t beaten us to it.)
With a knowledge bank created by millions of global users and experts, you can FIND, MAKE, and SHARE flashcards anytime, anywhere, and on any device, while keeping all your content meticulously ORGANIZED and seamlessly IN SYNC across web, mobile, and all your devices.
How does it work? Brainscape’s intelligent study system has been designed in accordance with decades of proven cognitive science to help you learn faster and remember longer than with any other flashcard app. (And we don’t waste time on games. Our flashcards are for serious learners.)
Brainscape distills any subject down into bite-sized facts (neatly organized into decks and classes), which are posed as question-and-answer pairs, compelling you to actively recall information from scratch. You then rate how well you know each concept on a scale of 1 to 5, and Brainscape determines the perfect time interval at which to repeat that flashcard again.
If you know the answer well, you’ll see that flashcard less often; if you don’t know it well, you’ll see it again and again, at frequent intervals, until it’s deeply ingrained into your brain. And it’s this totally unique combination of active recall, self-assessment (metacognition), and spaced repetition that is scientifically proven to significantly slash your required study time!
Where do all of Brainscape’s awesome flashcards come from? Three places:
THE WORLD’S TOP EXPERTS. Brainscape partners with top publishers, schools, and educators to create comprehensive collections of certified flashcards for a diverse array of subjects, from foreign languages (we are the best language-learning tool in the world) to high-stakes exams like the AP series, MBE (bar exam), Series 7, NCLEX, MCAT, and more.
YOUR PEERS. Top students, professors, teachers, tutorpreneurs, and businesses around the world have created over 1 million subjects that are available to search on Brainscape’s Knowledge Genome.
YOU! You can easily create and organize thousands of multimedia flashcards featuring text, images, and even audio files, both on Brainscape’s website AND within the app itself. You can also share your decks with your classmates and collaboratively develop content together.
How much does it cost? Creating and sharing great text flashcards is FREE. (Woohoo! And sorry, we do have to charge for image creation for security reasons.) And for unlimited access to ALL of Brainscape's user-generated and premium, expert-curated content, as well as optional features, like bookmarks and card reversibility, you can upgrade to Pro for $19.99 (monthly), $59.99 (every 6 months), or $95.99 (annually). Alternatively, you can unlock a LIFETIME of learning with Brainscape for a one-time cost of only $199.99 American dolla billz.
The fine print: The three recurring subscriptions (monthly, semiannual, and annual) will renew automatically within 24 hours before the end of the current period, unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the period. You can cancel auto-renewal any time by going to Account Settings, and the cancellation will apply after the active subscription period is complete. Go ahead and learn more about our Terms and Privacy Policy at brainscape.com/terms.
What’s on the horizon? It’s our vision to empower everyone, everywhere to rise to the challenge of personalized forever-learning. And for this reason, we love hearing from our community of users: it’s through your feedback that we can continue to innovate our learning platform to be more convenient, efficient, and even fun and social to use!
What’s New
Version 4.20240821
Wondering what's new in this edition of the world's best flashcard app?
- AI card creation! While you may already love the recently-added ability to paste / import pre-existing flashcards into Brainscape, you may now choose "Tell AI What I Want." (Example: "Make me 15 flashcards on the pituitary gland.")
Ratings and Reviews
Excellent learning and teaching tool
This is excellent value for money - I have paid for the lifetime membership and use it frequently during the week, especially on my iphone to review language vocabulary while waiting for family etc. I have created my own cards for learning French and Spanish for the levels I'm working at. I love the 'knowledge rehab' section and have used it tutoring my sons (we home educate) and while there may be quibbles with the sets you can download, you're always free to do your own versions and include images to help learn quicker. I have also used it extensively for memorising the technical aspects of judo using images to help learn the various grades - I coach youngsters but have also used it to recently pass my dan grade theory. In the recent past I created a large deck of vocabulary for A-level psychology students of mine which was fantastic for checking their basics. After Babbel, this is my most used app - highly recommendable! Dr Alexander Moseley
Premium but desktop version is buggy, laggy and advanced editor cannot be undone
Im a med student using this app to get through my qualifying exams as a doctor and have paid premium to unlock certain features like being able to access others flashcard decks. Have enjoyed using this app as the interface is appealing and organisation of decks is well done. However, in the last few months ive noticed that the desktop version is extremely laggy and Im memorising a set of cards. It can take up to 30 seconds or so for the next card to come up which Is really annoying especially when you are in a timecrunch. Is there any way that the interface can be made less laggy, currently it feels as though every click is loading a completely new HTML/ webpage. Another disappointing feature is the inability to change back from advanced editor back to simple. Once you change to advanced editor, while youre able to add in images and format text, the original format is destroyed and i have to go over the whole deck again to re-format it (all the text becomes one paragraph if previously formatted bullet points). I pay for the premium Brainscape and I expect that the service provided should either remain the way it was half a year ago or improve not decline!
Re-reviewed
Update:
The redesign has some good new features, especially ‘random mix’, but if ‘study in reverse’ has been removed from iOS, this is a major backward step, pedagogically speaking. Why remove an important tool?
As my previous review has mysteriously disappeared, I'll try again. I do like this app but one of French 'packs' contains errors, in both definition (e.g., histoire is feminine, not masculine) and pronunciation. Be especially wary of words ending in ‘en’ or ‘ien’. For instance ‘le tien’ is commonly pronounced as le ‘teean’ but it’s pronounced as le ‘teeon’. Or ‘plus que’ pronounces the ‘s’ when it shouldn’t, and ‘le plus’ doesn’t when it should. The more I’ve used the app, the more errors I’ve noticed. There also appear to be grammatical errors. For instance, shouldn’t ‘je suis enrhumé’ be ‘je me suis enrhumé’? These problems and those of definition might give the Académie Française a fit. For instance why translate ‘excited’ as ‘enthousiaste’ rather than ‘excité’? Or why translate an ‘essay’ as une ‘rédaction’ (which more commonly refers to ‘writing’) rather than the more usual ‘essai, composition or dissertation’? But there are still things to like - excepting the not infrequent errors, it tends to focus on the more commonly used words, presents a mix of easier and more difficult words at each level, and allows you to ‘reverse’ the deck etc.
App Privacy
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Information
- Provider
- Bold Learning Solutions, Inc.
- Size
- 41.7 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.4 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.4 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.4 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 Bold Learning Solutions, Inc.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Brainscape Pro £17.49
- Brainscape Pro £83.99
- Brainscape Pro £52.99
- Brainscape Pro Lifetime £199.99