Flashcards by Qrayon vs Study Cards App
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?).
Study Cards App
Create custom flashcard decks for effective studying. Review your cards with interactive study modes and share your creations with friends to collaborate on learning.
- Create custom study card decks
- Study using created decks
- Share decks with friends
- Interactive study modes
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Study Cards helps you study. Create your own deck of study cards, study using the decks you create, and share your decks of cards with friends.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Flashcards by Qrayon at every 4 weeks against Study Cards App's every 33 months. Flashcards by Qrayon also leads on ratings volume (112 vs 11). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. 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 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flashcards by Qrayon has 112 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Flashcards by Qrayon's written reviews are positive against 44% of Study Cards App's.
Flashcards by Qrayon ships an update every 4 weeks, Study Cards App every 33 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flashcards by Qrayon | Study Cards App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (112 ratings) — better | 4.4 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 47.4% of reviews — better | 44.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 112 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 33 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Qrayon, LLC | PawEng, LLC |
Customer experience
Flashcards by Qrayon
Study Cards App
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
Study Cards App
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Flashcards by Qrayon
No in-app purchases
Study Cards App
No in-app purchases
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