Brainscape - Smart Flashcards Reviews – Page 10
5/5 rating based on 208 reviews. Read all reviews for Brainscape - Smart Flashcards for iPhone.
Brainscape - Smart Flashcards is free iOS app published by Bold Learning Solutions, Inc.
Second year with premium
tommyp7
No me gusta a pagar para apps, pero... enough of that. This marks the second year of renewing my premium membership and while the cost is a tad high, the quality and value make this app a bargain. I’ve been using the app to learn (and relearn) Spanish and have found my ability to speak and to comprehend others speaking in Spanish vastly improved without being fully aware of my own progress. The Spanish course is 5 courses and there are several other Spanish courses available for download and study.
Only had for an hour and can’t put it down
TC2276
On a friend’s recommendation I got this app to help with a promotional exam. After only a short time I can tell this will be a huge leap toward mastering the information.
Brainscape anything you want to learn
Gatemeister
I’m enjoying Brainscape as a tool for memorizing Bible verses. I’m excited about the potential to apply this tool to things I need to memorize at work. Maybe it can help me remember names better, too! The point is you can learn what you need at your own pace. Glad I stumbled across Brainscape.
4
vanacker88
I like it better than other study apps but I wish there was an easy way to delete decks and classes that I don’t use anymore .
Great App for studying
Roseann Loves Learning
I really like the feature that you can rate yourself and then the deck will Bring back words you’re not very great at recalling yet.
Board study favorite
Dr.Brown down in Alabama
I have been using this app to study for USMLE and COMLEX and I really like it! It is easy to use, and I like how it prioritizes cards I need to see more based on my confidence level. It has been great for reinforcing spaced repetition and improving memory.
This could be so much better...POV of Teacher and Student
Antipyretic
Pros: this app is wonderful for studying and sharing flashcards among students and teachers and it’s study method works well in small volumes...when it works Cons: - there’s been a lot of syncing issues from both this app and the webpage version to the point where i had to abandon using this as a method of review for my students. As some students were able to access my content and others were not. Which brings me to - pricing. I think it’s ridiculous to charge users for options that were free on their previous app and if I was to pay for a subscription for an app they could at least make more of an effort to stabilize it and get rid of the bugs - No other language support as I was using this app to make flash cards for my students whose parents do not speak English - not available in other in the Chinese android markets. Again this is an issue for those who are planning to use this for their classes in China - My biggest one: the method of studying is not effective for LARGE volume of flashcards. What was great about the previous app flashcardlet you are able to review ALL the cards and measure that session the old fashion way: the cards you don’t know stay in rotation while the cards you memorized are out of rotation in the session. There are two problems with Brainscape method: 1) dealing with a large amount of cards (I’m going to say about 50 as that’s the average amount of vocabulary I need to study per lesson )you may not even see all the cards that are in the deck. For example I got a deck of 70 cards and in my session first I have to SET the amount of cards I want to review. ( Every session you have to set the amount cards you have to review. You’ll see the problem with this in this example.) but in that session I may only see half of those cards as the cards I rated low will appear in that session more than once so that means that I will not being seeing any of the new cards in the session because I’m too busy studying the same 6-10 cards over and over again and then I have to repeat sessions numerous times before I even have a session where I am reviewing ALL the cards I made equally. With flashcardlet I know when I review a deck I will see the cards that are in that deck at least once. 2) no way to effectively study without using rating method. Don’t get me wrong I completely get the philosophy behind Brainscape but they should at least be a little more flexible to their students needs Comparing it’s previous app Flashcardlet to Brainscape here’s the study experience Flashcardlet You select a deck, you see a card if you know you check it off and it will not reappear in the session. If you don’t know it it stays in the rotation until you check it off. Brainscape: you select a deck, you see a card if you know it you’ll rate it and you may see it AGAIN in you rotation if you don’t know it you rate it and you’ll see it again in your rotation until the number of cards in your review session reaches zero. They suggested using browse mode and infinity mode to avoid rating cards but the problem is the cards you deem to know STILL STAY in your rotation in infinity mode and with browse mode every card gets thrown off rotation whether you know it or not until you create a new session The end result of Brainscape method is that you’ll spend a lot of time reviewing cards that you have seen without actually getting to cards you didn’t see yet as well as constantly making a new session to get to those cards thus increasing the time it takes to memorize an entire deck or feel like you are mindlessly reviewing without a sense of competition My suggestions for this app to be great as it should are: 1. bring back flashcardlet style of studying cards and make that FREE to your users or continue to support flashcardlet allowing people upload their decks on Brainscape again. 2. Constant updates to your users letting known problems and let us feel like you guys are working on something. 3. Ask the users what they would like to see in this app and how can they make the study experience 4. Find away to make this app more international both region and language wise so that it’ll be easier for those using this as a study for foreign language to access this app. I’ll really be happy to help in this department