Flashcards by Qrayon vs Zippyflash
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?).
Zippyflash
Create and study digital flashcards to learn new material. This system offers a smart and user-friendly approach to memorization and review.
- Digital flashcard creation
- Smart study system
- User-friendly interface
- Review tools
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A smart, usable flashcard system. Use of this app is subject to Apple's Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Zippyflash at 100% against Flashcards by Qrayon's 47%. Zippyflash also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Flashcards by Qrayon's advantage is ratings volume (113 vs 1) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Zippyflash holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flashcards by Qrayon has 113 ratings behind it against 1, 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 100% of Zippyflash's.
Flashcards by Qrayon ships an update every 4 weeks, Zippyflash every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flashcards by Qrayon | Zippyflash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (113 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 113 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Qrayon, LLC | Grey Heron Software Incorporated |
Customer experience
Flashcards by Qrayon
Zippyflash
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
Zippyflash
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Flashcards by Qrayon
No in-app purchases
Zippyflash
No in-app purchases
