Brainscape - Smart Flashcards Reviews

Great Classroom App

jpaxtor

This is by far one of the best apps for teachers. I’m a Spanish teacher, and I use this app all the time for my students. I have used it for years. I always add the vocabulary words for my students because I know they wouldn’t really study vocabulary if I didn’t make it easily accessible to them. This has saved quite a few of my students! They love it!

Good, but...

Mtkaczuk9

It’s a good app if you don’t mind making all of your own cards, but it’s a pain to edit them, or even do some very simple things unless you pay a monthly fee or like $200 for life. It is too expensive, and not worth it. I’d recommend trying some new flash card apps

Very helpful app overall with some glitches

pcbrp

The overall app is quite good and provided me a valuable certification study aid that is more portable and flexible than a stack of 3x5 cards. The breadth of available topics is huge and the cost reasonable. Ease of use and fast downloading of decks get positive marks. On the downside the decks that I made use of had some inaccuracies and errors. While there is a mechanism for submitting feedback it is very glitchy and relies on the user to know realise the error exists. While it’s probably understandable that given the breadth of topics available that internal company monitoring for accuracy is not feasible it means that “buyer beware” prevails and the quality of a deck appears dependent upon whoever uploaded it in the first place for the quality and accuracy of questions and answers.

Great App

Tveillon

Have used Pimsluer, Rosetta Stone, Babel, Duolingo and others. This app is about "learning" Spanish, not "studying." With this app you quickly see your weak points/strong points and know what you need to work on. Support is better than I have seen in a while. Had a problem after paying for the app, upgraded from the trial version within the app. The upgrade did not take affect. One email and had a response within an hour. Fixed the problem within minutes. This happened on a weekend, wasn't expecting a response till Monday. Great Support!!

Could be better in my opinion

ms. tiffie

I only have 3 stars because I wish more lessons were free and you did not have to pay for premium services to receive.

Great potential but

Alyious

I love that this app allows you to rate how confident you are BUT it’s incredibly stupid how you have to PAY to simply reverse it(given answer instead of question) AND to shuffle the cards. Like quizlet is much more appealing when it lets you do both for free.

Excellent

Ajlmac

Flash cards covering an array of subjects. Card re-exposure intervals are determined by an algorithm designed to maximize memory efficiency. Essential for effective studying!

Nice but one tiny improvement

RaD0m0sITy

Love the app and use it for studying, but I think a nice feature would be during browse mode that swiping right lets you return to the previous slide and swiping left moves forward. Overall a great app

Memorize anything.

Jaxgray22

Amazing app. I've used it for years. I can memorize anything I want with such ease. Love it.

Great design, poor business practices

Lyledub

I bought the spanish app last year, before it was a subscription based service; with a recent update they removed functionality for both my paid app and for a previously free sample chapter of spanish. I typically prefer paid apps to avoid these sort of retroactive changes based on business decisions. After a lot of research, I have settled on Quizlet, which has similar functionality without the drawbacks.

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