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Brainscape - professional & personal!
Brainscape has a variety of flash cards and ways to use them to prepare for tests, certifications, and other professional or academic goals. I’ve used Brainscape to successfully prepare for a Certified Personal Training proctored exam, to improve test scores for an anatomy class, and to improve Hebrew language comprehension. Some of the flash card options are directly from the “source” while others are from study sources.
I also use Brainscape for “fun” to improve my vocabulary for Scrabble and Wordle. It’s a great app and I hope you’ll love it as much as I do.Show lesshibye
GREAT BUT…. NETWORK ERROR CONSTANTLY
I am new to BRAINSCAPE and so far Im liking it. I have a few stuff it could modify. 1st. Every time I finish a card and select to go to the next card it says “network error” and that entire card is gone, deleted, erased- no where to be found. This is frustrating because i have to start all over again and sometimes i forget what i typed. 2nd: Bolding words and being able to highlight would be a nice feature to add. I am big on bolding or highlighting words that are important. 3rd: I wish there would be options to upload more than one pic ON THE QUESTION SIDE AND THE ANSWER SIDE. In science, we use many pics to understand the topic- at least myself and my study friend. 4th: Every time i copy and paste from another page, Brainscape always asks “paste from outside source” it would be nice if it did not ask this constantly! If there is an option to remove this, please direct me to it. Its a great app to study but the app def needs more options. Especially if im purchasing it.Show lessC.M$.$
Developer Response
Hi C.M$.$, Oh no! That first bug does sound frustrating we'd love to get to the bottom of what might be causing that issue for you. Could you please send us a message to support@brainscape.zendesk.com include your Brainscape account email address and the class/deck you're running into this issue on? 2. You can bold/italicize and edit with a few other options. It's explained in more detail via the "?" on the toolbar when you're on the edit screens in the app. 3. We may be able to add multiple images in the future. For now, if you use a service like Canva (it's free), you can create a collage-type image with more than one image seen at one time and then upload this single image onto the flashcard. 4. Sorry, we don't have a way to disable this at the moment but we are hoping to add some new features that make creating flashcards from other sources quick and easy in 2023, stay tuned for updates! Hope this helps, Courtney@BrainscapeReally good could be great
The interface is ok. I don’t really use the algorithm/system of reminders. I just study whole decks at my own pace. But the stock Spanish Course is really really good and the reason I pay for a subscription. Two main requests. 1. Please make a dark mode. It’s so bright at night with the white background and I like to use as lying in bed. Almost every other app I use regularly has this feature yet I pay more for this app than anything else on my phone. Frustrating. 2. Please let us flip a flash card without hearing the audio. It makes no sense that you can’t turn this off. I like to listen to music while flipping through cards but it stops the phone audio to play the card and doesn’t return to the song or whatever is playing. It’s also annoying when I flip through while somewhere I don’t want the audio playing out loud as I need to turn the whole phone volume off. I’ve seen this requested for a long time and seems simple to offer. Please make these simple things happen!Show lesswatson emerson
Developer Response
Hey Watson, First off, we hear you and hope to be able to make these suggestions happen. I'm sure you understand that, as a small team, we have to prioritize features and updates. And what may seem simple sometimes isn't due to many reasons out of our control (the story of technology). Your suggestions are valid, though; I've just double-checked that they are both on our product roadmap. Please stay tuned, and thanks so much for your patience in the meantime. Courtney@BrainscapeLanguage Learner Has Gotten So Much Easier!
I never knew there were apps where you could create your own flash cards! This has simplified my life so much! I am learning a language, but I’m intermediate to advanced. The language-learning apps are too basic for my level. I don’t need to know how to say please and thank you; I’m well beyond that. But if I use an app to learn words, I have to suffer through all the words I already know.
So this ability for me to make my own cards helps me to learn just the words of need to. The app is pretty basic and thanks ok. In fact the only reason I did give this I didn’t give it 5 stars is for the inability to reorder the words/flash cards. Other than that, it suits my purposes. Bravissimo!Show lessLKC_001
Great Alternative to Quizlet
So as most of us know by know, Quizlet is now making us pay to use some of their most important features. As I was scrambling trying to look for alternatives for a big test approaching, a friend recommended me this app. It’s basically digital flash cards designed to help you memorize things. It will prompt you with a question, and you have to guess the answer. It will ask how well you knew the answer, and the ones you may not know, it’ll keep prompting you with it to get better. All in all, this is a great app for studying for tests with.Show lesskdalpha07
Room for improvement?
Love this app and that I can study anywhere even when I only have a few minutes! Would love to get through ALL the cards in the deck before seeing repeats, though. Sometimes I’m seeing the same purple card five or six times before moving on to new info. It’s easy to remember when I just saw it two cards ago. I understand the why behind seeing it more frequently, but it’s hard to get to more cards without fudging on knowing the material.
Thanks for a great app!Show lessKris73533
App
I really enjoy this app..but I don’t like the most recent update. I had the list on certain cards in a bullet point format but with this update it has changed them to look like a sentence. Please fix it…this is an old review it seems like to have a clean format you have to pay which is fine with me. Now my issue is the time lapse it takes when I make new cards on my laptop to how long it takes to sync to my phone. Also can you bring back the function where I can set it to like 30-50 cards instead of always have to do either continuous study or the check point studyShow lessBebeskid87
Love this one
I’ve been learning Spanish for a little over a year as I’ve been traveling around central and South America. Spanish apps are a part of my daily practice and I’ve tried a bunch of them. I found Brainscape last week and I’ve been really loving it. The rhythm of how they roll out the vocabulary has been super effective. Retention of the words themselves feels strong with this system but its not just learning how to say words.. it gives you context, comparisons and a deeper understanding of their applicationShow lessbest gym ever
Great for Classical Conversations
Homeschooling dad here. I use this app to help my memory master. Don't waste time on material that is mastered. Spaced repetition is the way to go!
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All of the above is still true but the older version of this app was better in many functional ways. In the old app: I could tilt the screen for horizontal app orientation. I could tap images in the cards to enlarge them (this one is huge). If I accidentally mis graded a card I could double tap the card and go back one card to change the grade. I could set a number of cards to review in a session. I even think that the graphic layout design and color scheme was better.Show lesspauldunlap
Very Organized
As someone who loves learning languages this has been a very good app for learning languages. I find this app to be very organized and you can even make topics and have individual decks for each lesson/chapter and it’s supper nice to have that feature. I love using the teach yourself series books and they have chapters where they I introduce new words to you so if makes it nice to divide up the words from each chapter in that language. This app is way better than Anki. Anki with the flash cards would’ve made it a decade to find stuff but with app you can find it because you can make individual things and it be super convenient!!!!!Show lessWannabe Legendary Polyglot
