FlipStudy Index Cards vs Qards
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FlipStudy Index Cards
Create and study digital flashcards with a simple, gesture-based interface. Add notes, drawings, and images to your cards, then flip through them quickly for effective memorization. Organize your study topics and access them easily on the go.
- Gesture-based card flipping
- Freehand drawing and typing
- Image and photo uploads
- Organize by topic with colors
- Portrait and landscape support
- Apple Pencil compatible
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Big exam tomorrow? Presentation on Monday? Quickly jot down all your notes on Flashcards then flip through them with your fingers on your way to the exam room. Have a friend flip through your cards before your elevator pitch. The Fastest, Cleanest, Simplest, pure gesture based Flashcard app. * Swipe left and right to flip through cards * Draw freely with your finger (or Apple Pencil) * Press and hold to Flip card over * Shake to see a random card * Swipe down to cancel * Swipe up to delete Features * Quickly add new flashcards on the fly with one tap * Freehand draw with your finger or type with your keyboard * Easily erase parts of your drawing with your finger * Swipe though multiple flashcards, press and hold to flip each card over * Supports both front and back side of flashcards * Store and organize multiple flashcard topics with different colors * Take photos, upload images * Use in both portrait and landscape * Apple Pencil Compatible
Qards
Organize your thoughts and prepare for presentations with digital note cards. Create, edit, and arrange cards within decks, then swipe through them in full-screen. Your notes sync automatically across all your devices.
- Create and edit decks of note cards
- Arrange note cards within decks
- Full-screen card swiping
- Automatic cross-device syncing
- Organize everyday thoughts
- Prepare for speeches and presentations
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Create Note Cards for your everyday thoughts, or write down keywords and cues for your next speech. Structure your Note Cards in decks and swipe through them in full-screen. Qards is the perfect tool when you want to make notes for your next speech or presentation! With Qards you can: - Create and edit decks of Note Cards. - Edit and order a deck's Note Cards as you please. - Swipe through a deck of Note Cards in full-screen. And all your Note Cards are of course automatically synced and made available across your devices!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Qards at 100% against FlipStudy Index Cards's 52%. Qards also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). FlipStudy Index Cards's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. FlipStudy Index Cards sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Qards asks for nothing beyond the download.
Qards holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 42 and 18 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of FlipStudy Index Cards's written reviews are positive against 100% of Qards's.
FlipStudy Index Cards ships an update every 3 weeks, Qards every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FlipStudy Index Cards | Qards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (42 ratings) | 4.6 (18 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 42 — better | 18 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | A2DWebs | Thomas Asheim Smedmann |
Customer experience
FlipStudy Index Cards
Qards
Bugs and requests
FlipStudy Index Cards
Reported bugs
34 issues- Double card in a deck
- Link to second deck not working
- First or last card only displayed
- Cards not put in random order
- Missing new set of cards
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- Deleted all cards after update
- Cloud sync never worked
- Glitchy syncing
- Cards get deleted on iPad
- App deleted half of cards
- Backside of cards deleted
- Majority of backside cards deleted again
- Cards appear blank
- Text disappears from cards
- Information not saved
- Lose data
- Cloud sync doesn't work well
- Lost card stacks
- Information lost after update
- App stopped working after update
- No way to go back and change/correct written content
- No way to delete unwanted cards
- Cannot make a new topic
- Writing looks very angular
- Lag when using Pencil
- Eraser doesn't delete entire stroke
- Writing on back of card deleted when changing front
- Cannot adjust stack colors
- Cannot view all cards clearly
- Basic functionality doesn't save
- Copying text converts 'a' to '&'
- Erases the back of index cards
- Accidentally erased notes
- Lost new card after creating it
Requested features
45 requests- Audio playback for language learning
- Ability to insert audio playback
- Undo button for bin
- Ability to share flashcards
- Flashcards transfer to new phone
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- Default to keyboard for editing
- Change font type in Pro version
- Resize images
- Tagging system for cards
- Multi-colored tags
- Select and drag text/drawings
- Sync app between iPad and iPhone
- Random card picking without shaking
- Enlarge text size
- Folders for organization
- View all cards at once
- Go to beginning/end/middle by touching dot
- Eraser instead of cleaning entire card
- Import photos from library
- Scale and position photos
- Reposition text
- Blank template card
- Randomize button
- Button to flip flashcard
- Line width options for Apple Pencil
- Ability to import photos
- Resize and position photos and text manually
- Change writing color
- Push text to top of cue card
- Print cards
- Add photos to cards
- Check-mark mastered cards
- Star or bookmark difficult cards
- Write answer under question on front side
- Add an eraser
- Palm rejection
- Share created cards via email, Facebook, or other iPads
- Change order of topics
- More difficult to delete a topic
- More color choices
- Save button
- Delete part of a note with Apple Pencil
- Change Apple Pencil line width
- Copy and paste functionality
- Cloud sync functionality
Qards
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
FlipStudy Index Cards
- Get Ad Free Upgrade$0.99
- Get All The Things$3.99
Qards
No in-app purchases
Questions
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