Brainscape - Smart Flashcards Reviews

Too expensive

robodog girl

I find it hard to believe that I would have to pay so much money for something as needed as resetting my "confidences" if I'm trying to study a second time. It really frustrates me that I'm stuck with this app because I do not want to have to recreate my many decks of flashcards on a new app.

Excellent study tool. Use it all the time

ehenning

If bought this when I started studying Chinese. The combination of creating my own flash cards from my textbook and downloading other people’s Chinese study flash cards has made my studies fly! Thanks for a great tool.

Great way to Memorize. Buggy app.

afeedback

This app has great potential. It allows me to go over words that i don’t know over and over again until it becomes solidified in my head. I almost considered buying the premium version of the app. However, as much as Brainscape is a great app for its flash cards, it is extremely buggy. First, it relies heavily on its internet connection. If you try to study these flash cards while in the middle of a commute and the mobile network becomes spotty it crashes when you finish. If you want to double check a meaning on a card and you quickly switch apps and come back, the app freezes. It somehow saves progress which I assume is due to its constant connection to the internet, but my inability to switch between apps while memorizing is hindering to my learning process. I even tried to find a way to contact someone from Brainscape to talk about these things, but for some reason it says that there’s no email attached to the app even though when I go to my account my email info is in there. There was even a Brainscape representative that emailed me to promote the premium version so they do have my contact info so why doesn’t the app reflect that. I love the way the app works and would like to use it for a longer period of time, but if these problems persist it’ll become hard for me to do so.

Awesome

Molhobics

It's a good app for who wants to memorize words, specially for me that study Japanese.

Worth buying premium if in college

badboys213

Have been using the free version for years and it has helped me passed multiple tests and exams, but once I came to college I realized the premium price wasn’t too much of a steal if it meant passing classes. The ability to shuffle, reset confidences and the random mix are essential to my studying practices, and I believe the algorithm is what makes this app the best flashcard app. Small problem that has never been resolved for years, using an ampersand (&) while writing cards in the app will result in Unicode when studying those cards (and&).

Great way to study?

cmc051201

This is an amazing app and I use it every time I have a vocab quiz before this app I would fail my vocab quiz, but when I was introduced to this app I got amazing results and got perfect scores on my vocab quizzes. GET THIS APP ITS WORTH IT!!!!!

So much to learn, so little time

Skayell

The subjects I am working on now: Chinese Vocabulary and ‘Survival Chinese.’* Why? Because I live in an apartment complex with about 80% occupancy of Chinese graduate students, who all speak English, but why shouldn’t I learn some of their language? (*Gotta love that name!) Knowledge Rehab Why? Because high school and college were a long time ago! (62 yo now) World Geography Why? Because when we had geography in the early 70’s, they didn’t think it was important to cover anyplace but North America, Europe and a little of the Middle-Eastern countries. Oh, sure, they pointed out India, China (they called it Red China back then!) and Australia. Oh, they included Egypt and South Africa in the list, also. Of course we all knew about North and South Vietnam, but most couldn’t point to them on a map. So, since I never learned much about the rest of the world, and since many of the names and boundaries have changed, why not learn something? Brainscape is for people who want to learn something specific and for people who just want to learn something new and for folks who want to “brush up.” Yes, it’s true that some decks are better than others. But all I’ve seen are an improvement over ignorance or incomplete knowledge. Why not learn something starting today?

Pretty interface but missing basic functionality

youbreakyoubuy

Like I said, it’s pretty. I love the interface. It’s also nice that you can have multiple decks within one course. It keeps track of your mastery level which is great. However it’s missing several basics: - it’s difficult to import cards from excel and word. This should be a basic function. You have to jump through a bunch of hoops to import the right file type, encoding, and format. It’s not fun. - once you create a deck, you can’t change the order of the cards in the deck. If you want to add a card it goes to the bottom of the deck. This is terrible when you want to organize an outline and you forget to add a card. You would have to copy cards, create a new deck, delete the cards in the original deck, paste cards from the new deck into the original deck Ughh... that’s just if you forget once. Imagine wanting to add several new cards. - the pc version does not allow you to browse the cards in order. You are forced to use their spaced repetition algorithm. You can browse on your mobile device but not your pc. That’s annoying af especially when studying a subject that contains many layers like law: rule, elements, exceptions, examples. I paid for the full lifetime membership assuming these basic functions were included. Silly me.

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