Flashcards by Qrayon vs cardFlash
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?).
cardFlash
This free flashcard application offers two study modes: Flashcard Mode for traditional review and Adaptive Mode, which uses a smart algorithm to ensure mastery of terms. It allows for easy creation and import of study sets, including from Quizlet, and is completely ad-free.
- Adaptive Learn Mode
- Flashcard Mode
- Quizlet Import
- 100% Ad Free
- QR Code Set Sharing
- Folders
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No one likes paying for educational tools. Quizlet's paywalling harms thousands of students by taking away a valuable study resource. Hence, cardFlash is completely FREE! My mission with cardFlash is to provide everyone with equal access to the tools to be successful in whatever educational they pursue. A simple, clean flashcard app to help you learn what you need to learn. cardFlash will ALWAYS remain completely free and without ads (because ads suck). cardFlash makes studying for that French or Spanish test super easy! If your teacher has a set on Quizlet, you are able to quickly to import it in to cardFlash. Otherwise, you can also easily create a brand new set inside of cardFlash. Once you have your set, you can either choose to study with Flashcard Mode or Adaptive Mode. Flashcard mode allows you to go through the set just as if you had physical flashcards. Adaptive mode tests you with multiple choice and writing questions to help you learn the terms. Adaptive mode will guarantee that you know your stuff, the algorithm won't let you move past a term till you can get it right many times in a row. Adaptive mode is also super customizable, with its settings page that allows you to tweak everything about of the algorithm to best suit you. CURRENT FEATURES: - Adaptive Learn Mode - Flashcard Mode - Smart Flashcard Mode - Easily Edit Your Sets - 100% Ad Free - Quizlet Import - QR Code Set Sharing - Folders FEATURES TO COME: - Image Support - TTS Support - Online Sharing of Sets Request new features here: https://itsmichaelyu.github.io/cardFlashFeature Report bugs here: https://itsmichaelyu.github.io/cardFlashBug
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Verdict
Flashcards by Qrayon and cardFlash both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 94% of cardFlash's written reviews are positive against 47% of Flashcards by Qrayon's. cardFlash also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). Flashcards by Qrayon's advantage is ratings volume (114 vs 26). On price, rating, update cadence 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Flashcards by Qrayon against 4.7 for cardFlash. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 114 and 26 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 47% of Flashcards by Qrayon's written reviews are positive against 94% of cardFlash's.
Flashcards by Qrayon ships an update every 4 weeks, cardFlash every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flashcards by Qrayon | cardFlash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (114 ratings) | 4.7 (26 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.4% of reviews | 94.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 114 — better | 26 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Qrayon, LLC | Michael Yu |
Customer experience
Flashcards by Qrayon
cardFlash
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
cardFlash
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Flashcards by Qrayon
No in-app purchases
cardFlash
No in-app purchases
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