Study your flashcards without looking at a screen. Learn vocabulary, a language or exam topics on your commute, at the gym or on a walk, with spaced repetition.
Audio Flashcards lets you study without looking at a screen. Each card is a short recording of a question and its answer. You listen to the question, think of the answer, then listen to the answer to check yourself. Grade how well you knew it, and spaced repetition decides when the card comes back.
It works anywhere you can listen: on a walk, in the car, at the gym or while cooking. Use it to learn a language, build vocabulary, prepare for an exam, or memorize anything you need to know.
Review hands-free
Turn on autoplay and each card plays by itself, with a pause you choose before the answer. Grade cards and move between them with voice commands, in your own language. On iPhone you can also grade from the Lock Screen or the Dynamic Island, and your headphone and car controls work too.
Create cards in minutes
Record the question and the answer in your own voice, then trim or fix any part of the recording. Prefer typing? Choose a voice to read your text aloud: the voices built into your device, natural Kokoro voices that run offline, or Amazon Polly and OpenAI through your own account. You can also import a spreadsheet or a folder of audio files.
Spaced repetition that fits you
Audio Flashcards schedules reviews with FSRS, a modern spaced repetition algorithm. Grade each card Again, Hard, Good or Easy, choose how much you want to remember, and the app plans every review for you. Practice sessions let you study ahead without changing your schedule, and statistics show your progress and streak.
Your cards on every device
Organize cards into folders, each with its own settings. Transcribe your recordings and search the words you said. iCloud keeps iPhone, iPad and Mac in sync, and the Mac app has a sidebar, menus and keyboard shortcuts.
Shared Cards
Browse collections made by other learners, listen before you download, and keep your progress when a collection is updated. Publish your own for everyone, or share it privately with a link.
Free to use
Audio Flashcards is free with ads on iPhone and iPad. A subscription or a one-time purchase removes them, and the Mac app has no ads. Cloud voices use your own provider account.
Questions or ideas? Contact me in the app under Settings > Contact.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
I’ve been using this app to help with vocabulary building for a foreign language that I have general fluency with, and it is a GREAT resource, especially if your language learning needs don’t fit the one-size-fits-all that many apps offer. Creating audio flash cards is a simple process, you can customize and re-record them as needed, and the developers are super responsive to feedback - I asked if there was a chance to add the ability to review cards with the answer first and within a week, the developers had added the feature! Highly recommend this app for anyone looking for a customizable way to study something, especially with the ability to review via audio.
Glad this exists but…
FlyingEar
First, when I was thinking this would be a great way to prep for stuff, I was surprised that there weren’t more options and, at the same time, very glad there was this app which had most of what I wanted. While I wish I could type in or import stuff so that a generated voice could read it, the fact that it will play both the prompt and the answer with a definable pause as well as continue playing without any user interaction makes it perfect for use while driving. I also appreciate the ability to make edits even if it’s basically re-recording then trimming/deleting the first version. In addition, I like being able to have nested folders that all play if the parent is chosen for review. The biggest downside to this app is lack of documentation (new explanations for some things but could use more) and behavior (why does it think I’m done reviewing for the day after one pass through and which of the other methods will mimic normal review?). It would be great to just keep the whole stack on repeat with a random order; perhaps, using the microphone, it could be set to determine if you gave the wrong answer and prioritize those. I’d also like the ability to review with the screen off and/or in the background while doing other stuff on my device. Finally, while I appreciate the fact that it can be used hands free, you can also hold it and mark your successes and failures. Unfortunately, if you mark a success before the playback is complete (or mostly), it’ll count it as skipped then going back takes a little more effort than you’d think plus you still have to listen again rather than simply marking it as complete. Basically, that mode is more frustrating than it is useful (don’t think it maintains stats). All in all, glad to have this app and glad it’s free.
Great for a new language
Kryssy7312
This app has really helped me excel in learning a new language. Instead of reading the words, hearing them, and hearing your own pronunciation, has helped me to nail down some words faster. I also love that I can set it and go hands free on long commutes to work. Two fixes I think that could make the app better: 1) being able to search for flash cards that you have named. I have hundreds of flash cards and when I come across one I have pronounced wrong, I’m unable to edit from the review screen. Going back to the main deck of cards and scrolling through 100s to find the one that’s wrong is very challenging. Or at the very least have the option to sort alphabetically.2) if item 1 gets updated this is less important, but I flagged 20 cards that were wrong or hard to understand. I went to re-record them and after marking one as unflagged, it lost all the other flagged cards. Thank you for making this app! It’s so close to perfect and really a game changer in my progress!
Developer Response
Thank you for your review! Great news search functionality is coming in the next version, and it’s almost ready for release. I will look into the mentioned bug with flagged cards.
Learning Music by Ear
Sydney DeV
I’m very happy with this app so far! Love that you can make folders and each flash card has lots of options when making it. It’s great it also keeps the statistics and gives you different practice options. For anyone else trying to learn music my ear, this is great! I record a little clip of me playing the note on the bass ( or other instrument) to play back and then can practice when I’m not at home.
• Fixed the Resume, Insert and Replace controls after scrolling the recording timeline.
• Additional crash and stability fixes.
Version 2.0.4
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