Excellent but buggy – Bitsboard Flashcards PRO Review

I'm a linguist using Bitsboard Pro to learn and document the language of a tribal people in Papua New Guinea. This app is brilliant and by far the most versatile digital tool my team uses. We are essentially creating our own "Rosetta Stone" for this language, daily recording audio samples and taking pictures in order to create "boards" with which we can practice our language skills and supplement our immersion in the culture. Each member of my team can create his own board and then AirDrop it to each other member as often as we need. This function saves us hours of data syncing and reconfiguration. These capabilities put us miles ahead of where the previous generation of linguists began. And more so, my own children are already able to utilize this tool for learning multiple languages simultaneously. My three year old can navigate to the "Photo Touch" game, choose the board created for him, and practice his basic nouns for as long as we'll allow him because the reward sound for choosing the correct picture makes it exciting. And since he's hearing audio, seeing the visual, and physically choosing the picture, he's engaged on multiple levels and learning quickly. I cannot rate this app a full five stars because it has been riddled with bugs. I understand that's simply the slow process of creating something like this, but I've lost weeks of work in a single moment when my classes synced backwards and deleted themselves, and the AirDrop function still fails more often than it works. It has been stressful relying so heavily on this app with all its imperfections, but its sheer capability and the versatility of its programming make it well worth the risk.
Review by From a linguist on Bitsboard Flashcards PRO.