# Benkyo Box — Simple continuous learning

> Flashcard app for memorization with rich media and annotation features. (iPhone/iPad app by autorelease LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/benkyo-box/id6475318444 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [autorelease LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/1502054942)
- Category: Education, Productivity
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 4 App Store ratings · 2 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.2 · 87 MB
- Languages: British English, French (France), German (Germany), Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2025-04-04
- Data updated: 2026-08-15
- Monetization: freemium
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/benkyo-box/id6475318444/reviews.md

## What is Benkyo Box?

Benkyo Box is a flashcard app that is like your notes, but of the things that you want to commit to memory like names, fun facts, or exam material. These are the facts that you don't want to bury in a note taking app, and want to ensure you truly know them.

Every flashcard you add to Benkyo Box is added to your daily studies, in which a beautiful study interface shows you the card’s question, you try to recall its answer, reveal it, then rate yourself after seeing the actual answer. Based on that rating, the card is re-surfaced in future with a notification so that you can practice again until you know it.

Flexible flashcard content:

Flashcards not only have the standard image/text front and back format, they also support in-app sketching and images for both the question and answer. Text supports multiple lines in both the question and answer so you can learn lists in a single flashcard.

Powerful annotation cards:

It is common to want to learn multiple concepts found on a single image, such as:
- the components of a mechanical object
- anatomical parts
- different elements of a dish

Typically, you’d have to use a separate app to crop parts of an image containing these concepts and add them to a flashcard app to study them. 

Benkyo Box makes this easier with Annotation Cards - simply annotate an image within the app and Benkyo Box creates flashcards from those annotations. It preserves the original image as incredibly useful context.

Easily add many cards at once:

- Quick Entry: Enter many cards at once by alternating questions and answers in plain text. This is specially helpful for pasting content from LLMs easily, or from a longer note that you can edit in Quick Entry to strip out only the flashcard content.
- CSV import: import a spreadsheet with flexible options on how to interpret the columns for the final flashcards
- Folder import: select a folder with multiple images, creating a flashcard for each image in the question, filename on the answer. If the folder contains a CSV, the CSV can be used to customize how the images are imported (used as question, answer or both).

Shortcuts for everything:

Quickly do almost anything that you can do in the app within Shortcuts, like adding cards, checking your study status, importing content, and even updating app settings.

Flexible organization:

Organize your flashcards using folders and subfolders for all your topics, or keep them in the default unsorted folder if you prefer them that way.

Your schedule and trends, at a glance:

Open the app and you'll immediately see your study progress for the day and the time for your next study (also available as a widget). Navigate to the calendar to see what you have scheduled for today, the following days and how you scored the previous day.

Flexible study sessions:

Study a specific topic by navigating to it, or study all topics scheduled for today by studying from the Today view. Study times and flashcard frequencies can be configured in settings. Also if you are feeling like studying a topic but the cards are not available yet, you can always reset the folder and study right away.

Privacy:

Cards are private information and we have no access to them. If you use iCloud sync, Benkyo Box securely encrypts your content in iCloud with client-side encryption - nobody in the server can read your cards.

Themes, each with a Dark Mode version:

Choose a theme to match the mood of the study session.

Advanced Learner Features:

With Advanced Learner, a paid tier, you get features that help you streamline your studies:
- Extract cards from text and articles using on devices that support Apple Intelligence
- Hidden folders that are ignored from studies until you are ready to unhide them
- Deadlines that help prioritize studies before an important date

Most importantly, the app is fully functional without Advanced Learner and we work hard to ensure that it’s easy to unsubscribe from it with the least disruption as possible.

## Key features

- Custom flashcard creation
- Image sketching and annotation
- Quick entry and CSV import
- Folder organization
- Daily study scheduling
- Progress tracking and trends
- Shortcut integration

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Advanced Learner (Monthly) | $2.99 | per month |
| Advanced Learner (Yearly) | $19.99 | per year |


## Recent user reviews (2 of 2)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/benkyo-box/id6475318444/reviews.md

### 4/5 — really good app but…

*2026-05-06*

the app looks great and runs smooth theres just a few minor things that could be better, first and most important would be being able to have a picture as well as having text on the same side, also a glitch on macOS that happens is when you start tying in the ‘question’ section of the card the word question stays above what you are typing until you click off, so it makes it hard to see what your typing, and another small thing is id like to be able to edit the order of cards, i don’t know why but sometimes when i click the plus to make a new card it will go at the top but sometimes at the bottom which makes it feel unorganized, this app would be a easy 5 stars with these simple fixes!

**Developer response:** Useful feedback, thank you!

1. I've added looking into including text with images to our tasks. It could be simple to add as a caption, but full, text + embedded image support is more involved. Sending us a quick example on how you plan to use it would help inform its design: https://www.autorelease.io/benkyobox/support.php

2. I've added the "Question" text bug to our tasks. I'll do more testing on this, since it didn't reproduce with some quick tests on Mac OS Tahoe.

3. Regarding ordering: the app orders by "next study time", so new cards should always default to the bottom (as they should always be scheduled after existing cards). The idea is that they appear in the same order that you'll see them when you study them. I added a ticket to investigate why you are seeing them go to the top sometimes: that's a bug. I'll first look into this, and if we feel that we would find any value in manual ordering even after this is fixed, I'll look into manual ordering later.

If you are curious about the status of these tasks, you can see their status at the "Public Board" section of our site https://www.autorelease.io/benkyobox/.

### 5/5 — I love it

*2025-04-05*

Easy to use very intuitive it help me pick up new knowledge like types of connectors in my spare time. Great apps!

## Frequently asked questions about Benkyo Box

### What is Benkyo Box?

Benkyo Box is a flashcard application designed to help users commit information to memory. It offers a flexible study interface and supports various content formats for flashcards.

### How does Benkyo Box help with learning?

Benkyo Box uses a spaced repetition system where flashcards are re-surfaced based on user self-ratings. This ensures consistent practice until the information is memorized.

### Can I add images and sketches to my flashcards in Benkyo Box?

Yes, Benkyo Box supports images and in-app sketching for both the question and answer sides of flashcards. It also allows for annotation of images to create flashcards from specific parts.

### How can I import many cards into Benkyo Box at once?

Benkyo Box offers several import methods, including Quick Entry for plain text, CSV import from spreadsheets, and Folder import for images, with options to customize how they are used.

### Does Benkyo Box have ads?

No, Benkyo Box does not contain advertisements. The app is free to use with optional in-app purchases for advanced features.

### What are the subscription options for Benkyo Box?

Benkyo Box offers an 'Advanced Learner' subscription available monthly for $2.99 or yearly for $19.99, providing access to enhanced features.

### On which devices can I use Benkyo Box?

Benkyo Box is available on Mac, iPhone, and iPad, allowing for cross-device study and organization of learning materials.

### How often is Benkyo Box updated?

The latest version of Benkyo Box is 1.10.0, and it was last updated on June 18, 2026. This indicates a regular update schedule for the application.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.12.2 — 2026-07-25

This update fixes a crash on launch that slipped past our tests. Sorry about that.

### 1.12.1 — 2026-07-23

This update focuses on polishing the annotation experience with undo/redo, adjustable emoji sizes, easier-to-see text scanning, tap-to-zoom annotations when studying, faster image loading, and other reliability fixes.

New Features:

- Undo and redo changes in the Annotation Editor.
- Choose from different sizes when adding emoji annotations.
- Tap the current annotation answer while studying to zoom in or out.
- Scoring multiple selected cards from the Card List is now available on iPhone.

Improvements:

- Scanned text in the annotation editor is easier to see.
- Canvas answers now zoom more smoothly and accurately based on image and annotation size, while respecting Reduced Motion.
- Improved image loading performance in the Card Editor, widgets, and Live Activities.

Fixes:

- Reduced memory use in the app and widgets, which fixes a widget crash that would sometimes happen.
- Fixed thumbnails sometimes missing from widgets and Live Activities.
- Fixed archive import/export changing the file type of images unnecessarily.
- Mac: Fixed image loading progress and stale overlays in the Card Editor.

### 1.12.0 — 2026-07-07

This update adds a new Advanced Learner feature: LaTeX equations, which make it easy to create, study, print, and share mathematical flashcards. The equation editor has easy-to-use snippets and autocomplete so that you can start creating equations without having to know LaTeX syntax.

### 1.11.0 — 2026-06-30

This update is mostly bug fixes and quality of life improvements, adds a demo folder, and improves study scheduling to better handle deadlines and longer spaced repetition intervals.

Improvements:

- Improved study scheduling so cards remain available until their deadline instead of completing early.
- Added 2-month and 6-month study intervals.
- Larger emoji thumbnails make image annotations easier to recognize.
- Mac: Improved the screenshot tool with side resize handles and prevented zero-size screenshot selections.

Fixes:

- Fixed Quick Entry resetting the text cursor position while typing.
- Fixed the score context menu not appearing when right-clicking on Mac.
- Fixed arrows and freeform shape colors not being preserved when archiving and restoring cards.
- Mac: Fixed the screenshot overlay sometimes requiring an extra click before drawing a selection.

Thank you all for your feedback and being part of improving Benkyo Box.

### 1.10.0 — 2026-06-18

This update brings new free features: draw irregularly-shaped annotations and hidden regions (perfect for map regions), choose annotation colors, turn off specific study intervals (for those who prefer less frequent studies), and a new Recents section in folder pickers. Benkyo Box is also now available in German and Brazilian Portuguese.

New Features:

- Highlight, label, and hide irregular areas of an image with freeform shapes.
	- Tap on the tool button to see the options
- Choose colors for annotations and hidden regions.
- Customize your learning schedule by disabling individual study intervals in Settings -> Study Intervals. Tap or click on an interval to disable it.
- Folder pickers now have a "Recents" section that allow you to quickly access recently picked or created folders (it appears if you have more than 5 folders).
- Translated the app to German and Brazilian Portuguese.

Improvements:

- Mac: When adding pin annotations, clicking places the pin pointing directly where you click.
- Mac: Folder pickers now restore expanded and collapsed folder state.
- Mac: Badges that show remaining studies look better with larger numbers.

Fixes:

- Fixed shortcuts that create folders not updating the folder list immediately.
- Mac: Fixed the app not activating when launching folders via the menu bar icon.
- Mac: Fixed the app unexpectedly quitting sometimes after deleting items.
- Mac: Fixed widget and App Shortcuts colors not always matching the selected theme.

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