Brainscape: Smarter Flashcards

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4.4
9.68K reviews
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About this app

Brainscape’s SMART FLASHCARDS foster hyper-efficient studying and strong habits to DOUBLE your learning speed, with the strongest implementation of spaced repetition and active recall of any flashcard app on the planet! (And probably in the universe, assuming some super intelligent alien species out there hasn’t beaten us to it.)

With a knowledge bank created by millions of global users and experts, you can FIND, MAKE, and SHARE flashcards anytime, anywhere, and on any device, while keeping all your content meticulously ORGANIZED and seamlessly IN SYNC across web, mobile, and all your devices.

How does it work? Brainscape’s intelligent study system has been designed in accordance with decades of proven cognitive science to help you learn faster and remember longer than with any other flashcard app. (And we don’t waste time on games. Our flashcards are for serious learners.)

Brainscape distills any subject down into bite-sized facts (neatly organized into decks and classes), which are posed as question-and-answer pairs, compelling you to actively recall information from scratch. You then rate how well you know each concept on a scale of 1 to 5, and Brainscape determines the perfect time interval at which to repeat that flashcard again.
If you know the answer well, you’ll see that flashcard less often; if you don’t know it well, you’ll see it again and again, at frequent intervals, until it’s deeply ingrained into your brain. And it’s this totally unique combination of active recall, self-assessment (metacognition), and spaced repetition that is scientifically proven to significantly slash your required study time!
Where do all of Brainscape’s awesome flashcards come from? Three places:

THE WORLD’S TOP EXPERTS. Brainscape partners with top publishers, schools, and educators to create comprehensive collections of certified flashcards for a diverse array of subjects, from foreign languages (we are the best language-learning tool in the world) to high-stakes exams like the AP series, MBE (bar exam), Series 7, NCLEX, MCAT, and more.

YOUR PEERS. Top students, professors, teachers, tutorpreneurs, and businesses around the world have created over 1 million subjects that are available to search on Brainscape’s Knowledge Genome.

YOU! You can easily create and organize thousands of multimedia flashcards featuring text, images, and even audio files, both on Brainscape’s website AND within the app itself. You can also share your decks with your classmates and collaboratively develop content together.

How much does it cost? Creating and sharing great text flashcards is FREE. (Woohoo! And sorry, we do have to charge for image creation for security reasons.) And for unlimited access to ALL of Brainscape's user-generated and premium, expert-curated content, as well as optional features, like bookmarks and card reversibility--or to me your content private, you can upgrade to Pro for $19.99 (monthly), $59.99 (every 6 months), or $95.99 (annually). Alternatively, you can unlock a LIFETIME of learning with Brainscape for a one-time cost of only $199.99 American dolla billz.

The fine print: The 3 recurring subscriptions (monthly, semiannual, and annual) will renew automatically within 24 hours before the end of the current period, unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the period. You can cancel auto-renewal any time by going to Account Settings, and the cancellation will apply after the active subscription period is complete. Go ahead and learn more about our Terms and Privacy Policy at brainscape.com/terms.

What’s on the horizon? It’s our vision to empower everyone, everywhere to rise to the challenge of personalized forever-learning. And for this reason, we love hearing from our user community: it’s through your feedback that we can continue to innovate our platform to be more convenient, efficient, and even fun and social to use!
Updated on
Nov 7, 2024
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Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Photos and videos, Audio and App activity
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Photos and videos and 4 others
Data is encrypted in transit
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Ratings and reviews

4.4
8.99K reviews
Michael Sager (Michael Sager)
October 18, 2024
In my opinion this is Anki done right! I really enjoy the simplicity of this app and how well it works. Its very user friendly and has a pleasant interface. There is only one aspect of this app I don't like and it's how long each card takes to save. It takes a surprising long time for each card I input to save before I can add another card. It makes adding more than 5 or ten cards at time very time consuming .
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Brainscape
October 19, 2024
The ‘Anki done right’ medal? We’ll take it! 🏆 So glad you’re enjoying the user-friendliness. And about that save lag—just like all good things, it’s about to get faster so stay tuned. Thank you so much, Michael! Chuckee@Brainscape
Don Alan
September 13, 2024
I discovered Brainscape by watching YouTube reviews of Flashcards APPs. I used a different flashcards app when I was getting my Bachelor's degree, but it no longer exists. I am loving the web interface and how it syncs to my phone. I can use text, images and sound! And of course formatting of text. The algorithm learns from my input and reduces the display of items that I get right, and increases the frequency of things that I need to become more proficient on. Totally five stars!
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Brainscape
September 15, 2024
Hey Don, we appreciate the five-star shout-out! Glad you’ve found your study soulmate in Brainscape—compatible, versatile, and always syncing up just right. Keep up the great work, and happy learning! Chuckee@Brainscape
Bryan Eichorn
September 11, 2024
I created an account online using my phone. The app was automatically downloaded onto my phone without my permission a day later! Not cool!! I can't say whether this is the fault of Brainscape, the Google Play Store or Samsung, but being it has never happened before in almost a year of owning this phone, I'm guessing it's Brainscape. Needless to say I'm deleting the app as well as my online account, and notifying Google. I was so excited for the content, too. 😩
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Brainscape
September 12, 2024
Hey Bryan, that's odd! Our app doesn’t do surprise downloads—it's a manual job from the Google Play Store. It sounds like there may have been some confusion or a setting on your device that caused this issue. If you could reach out to [email protected] with more details, we will look into this further. Thank you! Chuckee@Brainscape

What's new

Time to try out the new AI card-creation powers in Brainscape:

- New AI-powered “Summarize from Content” allows you to create hundreds of flashcards in SECONDS from your lesson or notes
- You can either paste, upload, or take a picture of long-form text, and BAM — flashcards!