Benkyo Box
Simple continuous learning
Free · In‑App Purchases
Benkyo Box is a flashcard app that is like your notes, but of the things that you want to commit to memory like names, fun facts, or exam material. These are the facts that you don't want to bury in a note taking app, and want to ensure you truly know them.
Every flashcard you add to Benkyo Box is added to your daily studies, in which a beautiful study interface shows you the card’s question, you try to recall its answer, reveal it, then rate yourself after seeing the actual answer. Based on that rating, the card is re-surfaced in future with a notification so that you can practice again until you know it.
Flexible flashcard content:
Flashcards not only have the standard image/text front and back format, they also support in-app sketching and images for both the question and answer. Text supports multiple lines in both the question and answer so you can learn lists in a single flashcard.
Powerful annotation cards:
It is common to want to learn multiple concepts found on a single image, such as:
- the components of a mechanical object
- anatomical parts
- different elements of a dish
Typically, you’d have to use a separate app to crop parts of an image containing these concepts and add them to a flashcard app to study them.
Benkyo Box makes this easier with Annotation Cards - simply annotate an image within the app and Benkyo Box creates flashcards from those annotations. It preserves the original image as incredibly useful context.
Easily add many cards at once:
- Quick Entry: Enter many cards at once by alternating questions and answers in plain text. This is specially helpful for pasting content from LLMs easily, or from a longer note that you can edit in Quick Entry to strip out only the flashcard content.
- CSV import: import a spreadsheet with flexible options on how to interpret the columns for the final flashcards
- Folder import: select a folder with multiple images, creating a flashcard for each image in the question, filename on the answer. If the folder contains a CSV, the CSV can be used to customize how the images are imported (used as question, answer or both).
Shortcuts for everything:
Quickly do almost anything that you can do in the app within Shortcuts, like adding cards, checking your study status, importing content, and even updating app settings.
Flexible organization:
Organize your flashcards using folders and subfolders for all your topics, or keep them in the default unsorted folder if you prefer them that way.
Your schedule and trends, at a glance:
Open the app and you'll immediately see your study progress for the day and the time for your next study (also available as a widget). Navigate to the calendar to see what you have scheduled for today, the following days and how you scored the previous day.
Flexible study sessions:
Study a specific topic by navigating to it, or study all topics scheduled for today by studying from the Today view. Study times and flashcard frequencies can be configured in settings. Also if you are feeling like studying a topic but the cards are not available yet, you can always reset the folder and study right away.
Privacy:
Cards are private information and we have no access to them. If you use iCloud sync, Benkyo Box securely encrypts your content in iCloud with client-side encryption - nobody in the server can read your cards.
Themes, each with a Dark Mode version:
Choose a theme to match the mood of the study session.
Advanced Learner Features:
With Advanced Learner, a paid tier, you get features that help you streamline your studies:
- Extract cards from text and articles using on devices that support Apple Intelligence
- Hidden folders that are ignored from studies until you are ready to unhide them
- Deadlines that help prioritize studies before an important date
Most importantly, the app is fully functional without Advanced Learner and we work hard to ensure that it’s easy to unsubscribe from it with the least disruption as possible.
This update introduces a Live Activity to keep track of your current study session, enables continuing studies on other folders when finishing a study session, adds a setting to help reduce the number of notifications coming from multiple folders, , and brings multiple stability and performance improvements across Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
New Features
- Keep track and resume your active study session with a Live Activity that appears in the lock screen, Dynamic Island, and in Stand By Mode when you exit a study session midway.
- After finishing a study session, other folders that are ready to study can be navigated to and studied directly from the Study Completion screen. Upcoming folders can be navigated to as well.
- Separating notifications by folder can be turned off from Settings, which reduces the number of notifications if various folders become available at the same time. Tapping on notifications on this mode opens "Today’s Cards".
Improvements
- Visual refinements to the Calendar’s Today screen for Liquid Glass
- The Study Completion screen now shows how many cards are left per folder
- Advanced Learner: When hiding a Folder that has subfolders, you can optionally hide its subfolders as well.
- Mac: Annotation text fields now become first responder immediately after being added
Fixes
- Mac: Fixed context menus not appearing on all clickable areas of folders
- Mac: Fixed the background of Settings in light mode
- Mac: Fixed an issue where the Study view could scroll back up unexpectedly when using a trackpad
The developer, autorelease LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- autorelease LLC
- Size
- 61.6 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.2 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.2 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.2 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.6 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.2 or later.
- Languages
English and 5 more
- English, French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Advanced Learner (Yearly) $19.99
- Advanced Learner (Monthly) $2.99
- Copyright
- © 2025 autorelease LLC
