Flashcards by Qrayon vs Flashcard Max
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flashcards by Qrayon
Create and study custom flashcards with images and annotations. Organize decks, sync across devices via iCloud, and share with friends. Ideal for test preparation and subject mastery.
- Rapid card creation
- Add images to cards
- Organize into decks
- iCloud syncing
- Share decks with friends
- Shuffle and flip cards
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Quickly master your material with your favorite flash card techniques. Test yourself against your own deck of cards, and check off the ones you have mastered. Go through just the ones you missed until you have mastered them all. FlashCards lets you study anywhere, on your iPhone or iPad. Test yourself while on the bus, or first thing in the morning. Use it standalone, or import cards from Cardflow+. Features: • Rapidly create cards from within the app itself. • Add images to the front or back - even snap photos of existing cards. • Create rich cards with diagrams and annotations with Cardflow+ (see our developer page). • Organize cards into multiple decks. • Store cards in iCloud, or the service of your choice, to automatically sync across devices. • Share your decks with your friends - to study together. • Shuffle cards. • Flip all cards at once (great for two-way language vocabulary). • Perfect for preparing for standardized tests like the SAT, ACT, AP, GRE, MCAT. • Use it to master your favorite subject, be it biology, chemistry, history, or geography (quick, what's the capital of Madagascar?).
Flashcard Max
Create, study, and share digital flashcards with rich media like images and text. Features include OCR for text extraction, customizable study modes, and the ability to cover parts of images. Syncs with a desktop companion app for seamless workflow.
- Create flashcards with text and images
- Extract text from images (OCR)
- Customize study modes
- Listen to flashcards
- Share flashcard files
- Integrates with desktop app
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*INTEGRATES WITH COMPANION DESKTOP APP MAKE FLASHCARDS - Create flashcards with pictures, text, and hints - Create flashcards using lecture slides - Add hints with images & text - Edit + Cover Up key parts of a picture - Extract text from images (OCR) STUDY FLASHCARDS - 2 Study Mode options - Listen to flashcards - Easily customize how you want to study your flashcards - Wrong flashcards are reshuffled into deck during review session - Option to start review with a few flashcards and gradually add more SHARE FLASHCARDS - Share flashcard files with a friend
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Flashcard Max at 83% against Flashcards by Qrayon's 47%. Flashcard Max also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 weeks). Flashcards by Qrayon's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (113 vs 21). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Flashcards by Qrayon holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flashcards by Qrayon has 113 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 47% of Flashcards by Qrayon's written reviews are positive against 83% of Flashcard Max's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Flashcards by Qrayon ships an update every 4 weeks, Flashcard Max every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flashcards by Qrayon | Flashcard Max |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (113 ratings) — better | 4.3 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 47.4% of reviews | 83.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 113 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Qrayon, LLC | Max Myers |
Customer experience
Flashcards by Qrayon
Flashcard Max
User reviews
Flashcards by Qrayon
From 113 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💯 Free to use
- 👍 Easy to edit and create cards
- 🗣️ Voice input for card creation
- 🔄 Flip and shuffle cards
- 📝 Saves notes and vocabulary
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 Freezes with large decks
- 🐛 Syncing issues with iCloud
- 🐛 Imported decks not accessible
- 🐛 Exported decks lose images
Flashcard Max
From 21 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Intuitive and easy-to-use interface
- 💰 Completely free with no ads or in-app purchases
- 🖼️ Ability to add images and screenshots to flashcards
- 📚 Powerful spaced repetition study feature
- 🎨 Customizable text formatting and colors
Room to improve
- 🐛 Data loss issues - cards and text randomly deleted
- 🔄 Poor syncing between desktop and mobile versions
- 🖥️ Cannot use split-screen with other applications
- 🌙 Dark mode incompatibility on some devices
- 📊 Limited card organization and sorting options
Bugs and requests
Flashcards by Qrayon
Reported bugs
13 issues- App crashes during review
- App crashes with large decks (around 77-78 cards)
- App crashes with large image-heavy decks (>900 cards)
- Stopped working, won't open flashcards file
- Synced decks remain greyed out, inaccessible
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- Exporting Cardflow+ decks with images results in decks without images
- App freezes for 20+ seconds every 10 flashcards
- Written cards only show one side, other side is blank
- Flashcards disappear after re-entering the app
- Random non-flashcard files appear in recents
- Does not work properly when integrated with Cardflow+
- Deleted or hidden all flashcards
- Unable to import or re-import flashcards from Cardflow+
Requested features
14 requests- Merge flashcard decks
- Spaced repetition feature
- Integration with Cardflow+ app
- Move cards between stacks
- Share individual cards to existing stacks
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- Support for Apple Pencil
- Time-based notifications for review
- Full-screen card view
- Keyboard navigation (arrows, spacebar)
- Customizable zoom preference
- Categorization of cards (easy, medium, hard)
- Trend graphs for learning progress
- Ability to edit text after exporting as PDF
- Save learned words across reimports
Flashcard Max
Reported bugs
13 issues- Flashcard text randomly deletes or disappears
- Edits on mobile version don't save properly
- Ctrl+Z undo function removes all formatting on card
- App crashes when switching keyboard languages
- App freezes on certain decks requiring force quit
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- Text from one card appears on another card
- Imported cards lose formatting on mobile
- Mobile app crashes when importing files
- Font changes revert unexpectedly
- Blank cards appear after closing and reopening app
- Performance issues with large decks
- Settings section missing on some devices
- Screenshot flashcards cut off in portrait mode
Requested features
18 requests- Automatic cloud syncing between devices (iCloud/Google Drive)
- Subfolder/nested folder organization
- Alphabetical card sorting and sequencing controls
- Batch text formatting for all cards at once
- Export to PDF or printable format
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- Search bar to find flashcards across decks
- Landscape mode support on mobile
- Audio and video support for language learning
- Study games (matching, fill-in-the-blank)
- Direct AirDrop sharing functionality
- Automatic slideshow/carousel study mode
- LaTeX support for mathematical equations
- Bulk import from lists or CSV files
- Italics text formatting option
- Progress tracking and statistics dashboard
- Copy-paste list functionality for quick card creation
- Full-screen study mode
- Keyboard shortcuts for text formatting
In-app purchases
Flashcards by Qrayon
No in-app purchases
Flashcard Max
No in-app purchases
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