DuoCards vs Flashside
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DuoCards
Master a new language with interactive flashcards and video courses. This app helps you build vocabulary, guess words, and track your progress across over 50 languages. Learn effectively through spaced repetition and integrated translation tools.
- Flashcard learning with spaced repetition
- Video language courses with interactive subtitles
- Integrated translator for over 50 languages
- Vocabulary builder and progress tracker
- Guess words and phrases to sharpen skills
- Read foreign language articles
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Build vocabulary from the real content you already enjoy. DuoCards helps you save new words from videos, articles, shared decks, and your own notes, then remember them with smart flashcards and spaced repetition. Why learners choose DuoCards: - Save words and phrases from videos, subtitles, and articles - Practice with an AI tutor for real-life conversations - Improve pronunciation with instant feedback - Review vocabulary with flashcards that adapt to your progress - Learn English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Korean, and 50+ languages - Use ready-made courses, public decks, or your own personal word lists Learn in a simple loop: 1. Discover useful words in context 2. Save them to your personal deck 3. Review, speak, listen, and remember Whether you are learning for travel, school, work, or everyday conversations, DuoCards gives you a flexible way to build vocabulary and keep it in memory. Download DuoCards and start building your language habit today. Terms of use: https://www.duocards.com/termsofuse.html Privacy policy: https://www.duocards.com/privacypolicy.html
Flashside
This app uses spaced repetition to help you learn anything, from vocabulary to exam questions. It creates a personalized study plan based on your available time and exam dates, adapting to your progress. Study offline with rich media support and track your learning visually.
- Spaced repetition learning
- AI-powered study planning
- Exam preparation mode
- Customizable flashcards with rich media
- Offline study capabilities
- Progress tracking and memory charts
- Import and share decks
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Flashside is the flashcard app that plans your learning for you. Make cards for anything — vocabulary, kanji, anatomy, exam questions — and spaced repetition brings each one back at the moment you are about to forget it: after minutes while it is new, then days, then weeks. A few focused minutes a day beat hours of cramming. YOUR PLAN FROM ONE NUMBER Tell Flashside the minutes you have a day and, if you have one, the exam date. It sets the pace, says plainly whether the date is within reach, and every grade button shows when the card will come back. Free for everyone. EXAM PREPARATION • Exam mode: in the last weeks before the date, the deck is drilled until it holds • Quizzes from your own cards, written by hand or generated by AI (Plus); the result keeps your answer beside the right one • A memory chart for every collection: how much you would recall today, the last 30 days, and where it goes if you stop • Start a collection over for the next exam without losing its history A PLAN THAT ADAPTS TO YOU Flashside schedules every review from your answers and keeps adjusting as you learn. • New words come back after a few minutes, and the pause adapts to how well they stick for you • A card you miss comes back sooner, a card you know waits longer • Reminders that move to the hour you actually study Remembering stays your job, because that is the part that makes you learn. EVERYTHING ON YOUR DEVICE Your cards, collections and progress live on your phone. Study on a plane, in the subway, off the grid — no account, no connection, no waiting. Sign in with one tap when you want sync, sharing or the web app at flashside.app, never before. CARDS THE WAY YOU THINK • Rich text, colors, images and audio on both sides, read aloud on request • Flip the direction, shuffle, hold the card to take back an answer • Import ready-made decks from CSV or Excel, paste a list with your own separators, or photograph a page (Plus) • Share whole collections with classmates and friends • Search every card and study from the one you found EARN IT Every session ends on a reward screen: your score, last time's, your streak, and now and then a badge sweeping in. Dozens of badges are hiding in Flashside — for showing up, flawless sessions, mastered collections and a few things you will have to discover. MAKE IT YOURS • Five color themes, each in light and dark • Clean, fast, distraction-free design • Available in 18 languages OPTIONAL HELP WITH FLASHSIDE PLUS Extras for when a card will not stick or an exam is close. You can study without them. • Card doctor: when a card will not stick, it suggests better ways to write it. You pick the fix, or none • A coach card every Monday with what to change this week, and why you missed a card you were sure of LEARNING STAYS FREE Writing and studying cards, the plan, the memory chart, exam mode, syncing and sharing are free, and your cards always belong to you. Plus is for learners with a date: an exam in a few weeks, a language test, a semester to pass. No ads. Learning is never capped. Plus is only the part that costs us money to run. The Plus extras: natural read-aloud voices, translation, AI-written quizzes, the card doctor, importing from a picture and the coach's explanations. Each one is clearly marked, and nothing is charged without your consent. Flashside Plus: €19.99 a year, every device and the web. Whether you are learning a language, prepping for med school, collecting kanji or just tired of forgetting names — start with one card today. Your future self will thank you at review time. Terms of Use (EULA): https://flashside.app/eula Privacy Policy: https://flashside.app/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Flashside at 100% against DuoCards's 63%. Flashside also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). DuoCards's advantage is ratings volume (1.5K vs 3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.6). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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. DuoCards sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month and Flashside sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Flashside holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DuoCards has 1.5K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of DuoCards's written reviews are positive against 100% of Flashside's.
DuoCards ships an update monthly, Flashside fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.
| Parameter | DuoCards | Flashside |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.5K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DuoCards s.r.o | CQUELLE GmbH |
Customer experience
DuoCards
Flashside
Bugs and requests
DuoCards
Reported bugs
4 issues- App freezes and crashes
- Issues with logging in and accessing content
- Inconsistent behavior when adding new words
- Problems with video playback and subtitles
Requested features
4 requests- Offline mode
- More customization options
- Improved spaced repetition system
- Better integration with other language learning tools
Flashside
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DuoCards
- DuoCards Premium2 variants$19.991 Month
- DuoCards Plus$33.003 Months
- DuoCards Premium$34.993 Months
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- DuoCards Premium7 Days trial$64.901 Year
- DuoCards Premium7 Days trial$67.991 Year
- DuoCards Premium1 Year trial$107.991 Year
- DuoCards Premium7 Days trial$109.001 Year
- DuoCards Premium7 Days trial$113.991 Year
- DuoCards Premium1 Year trial$162.991 Year
Flashside
- Flashside Plus Monthly$2.991 Month
- Flashside Plus Yearly$17.991 Year
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