Brainscape - Smart Flashcards Reviews – Page 2
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.
Great App, looking forward to its future
ErininAir
I love brainscape- I got it in middle school and used it all through University to study. I’m now living abroad and use brainscape to help me with my vocabulary. I don’t feel like I’m killing time boosting my confidence on things I already now. I use brainscape apps and make my own, too. I hope that picture and sounds capability will be more user friendly and available on the app in the future.
Brainscape the best app for learning ever !!!
Lishy11?
This is a really cool app, that can teach you how to speak French English Spanish Chinese Japanese or many more. It also can help you with studying for a test like math or earth science. But the game just doesn’t do that it does a lot more that I cannot talk about but to sum things up this app will not let you down if you’re trying to learn a new language or a certain skill.
Possible to make some pro features through App
Jailbreakid
Love the app but some pro features like continuous study and others not found on here but Would be complete and perfect for the app version.
Core features are pay-to-play; User experience and app aesthetic circa 2007
mwhatsoever
I installed this app several years ago, and at the time I was looking for a flashcard app the would deliver on some relatively basic and reasonable features, because I was just too busy to go build one myself: User sortable topics (My classes) - not currently supported to my knowledge User sortable decks - not currently supported to my knowledge User sortable cards - they finally got this one in A reasonable approximation of the “Leitner System” algorithm; the well known, and often used approach to surfacing cards based on how well you know/learned the content / ranked your knowledge of the content - Kind of, but it seems homegrown and really just not good, in my opinion The ability to reset confidences back to zero on Topics (My classes), Decks, and even at the card-level - pay-to-play The ability to add media: images/drawings, audio, video, and even map integration for geography studies - kind of? An intuitive UX (User Experience) - if you remember the old days of iOS apps… that’s what you get… really outdated, and clearly antiquated, and severely lacking an intuitive design; just not good and it hasn’t changed since the app came out Now, some of the features I mentioned above, actually exist in the application, and I’m sure I’m missing some that Brainscape is really proud of, but I’ve got no use for, but it should be said that pretty much all of what I would consider core features a user should have at click you pretty much have to pay to get. Gone are the days when solid functionality is included in an app. Everything is subscription based/upgrade pricing only, even those features that should be, or once were considered core and reasonable in any flashcard application such as this. I’m so disappointed with the fact that the maker of this application has overly prioritized their own or third-party content purchases, a subscription pricing model, and/or upgrade pricing as opposed to simple core features that should `always-be-on` no matter the application entry point. For instance, resetting confidences… that was enabled once before, and now… well… I have to pay to enable it, as they don’t grandfather-in functionality, not that it should even matter. Resetting confidences should be a core always-on feature. Ever feel the need to review content you’d once mastered, but you want to test yourself all over again? Well you have to pay for the luxury of a reset in this application. You might as well go buy your own notecards, and build your piles 1-5 yourself so you can easily reset and start again whenever you like - sad when an analog approach is still a better experience than a purpose-built application. To be clear: I’m a Software Engineer that’s been in the customer facing application world for over twenty years, and the mobile application development world for as long as it has been around, and there are a lot of things that I find really cool, and a lot of things that I find really disappointing. In this application… it’s disappointment. The outdated user interface is one of the biggest disappointments - it’s not still 2007, is it? The main issue and the reason I just don’t want to ever use this application or patronize any company related products? The pay-to-play model for reasonable core features and functionality that any and/or every flashcard application should just have. Brainscape has completely and utterly alienated me. I’m pretty sure, at this point, that I am not the customer Brainscape wants or wants to keep, as I want to create my own content, I want a UX that doesn’t nickel and dime me for every feature I believe should be core, and I could give less than two-cents about accessing my content via the web or allowing other folks to consume my self-produced content - I’m a sharer, but it’s not why I wanted a flashcard application in the first place. I believe Brainscape is, and has been leaning heavily into institutional learning, and if you’re an educator, or a heavy content consumer looking to expand your mind with other folks’ content then this might be a reasonable choice that you will absolutely “pay” for. So, from when I bought this application to now… 1 star, because it’s devolved into defying the original reason I installed it in the first place, not to mention the regression of features due to a play-to-play model. If you’re looking for a straightforward, easy-to-use, reasonably feature packed flashcard application that doesn’t charge to enable every stinkin’ feature, or just might start charging you for features you once had, you’ll want to look elsewhere. This is definitely not the application for folks like us. PS. I don’t often review applications. I think this might be the first time I have… I can’t remember. That being said, using this app has become such a trying and distasteful experience that I could not longer suppress my frustration.
Terrible
RaistlandO
While this app has many beneficial tools, the software is a joke. I have subscribed to brainscape pro several times through Apple and while it charges me, it does not let me access the Pro tools. Then when I try to submit that complaint directly, it won’t even let me send it. Waste of money.
Indispensable for learning via flash cards!
SixthSamurai
Excellent app that let’s you create your own or download standard sets of flash cards. Very easy to use and track progress. Very flexible. Web interface is also quite good. Language packs include pronunciation. Invaluable.