Feyn vs Smooth For Students
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Feyn
Create and review flashcards by drawing with your Apple Pencil or typing. Utilize spaced repetition for effective memorization on your iPhone or iPad. Share decks with friends and sync across devices via iCloud.
- Handwritten flashcard creation with Apple Pencil
- Spaced repetition learning system
- Cross-device synchronization via iCloud
- Flashcard sharing with friends
- Image and text input options
- iOS Quick Note and Handoff support
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Use flashcards, spaced-repetition, and your Apple Pencil to study with Feyn! Taking your own notes by hand and spaced-repetition are the best way to learn new concepts, and with Feyn you can do just that. Open up a book on your iPad and comfortably draw your flashcards right there using your Apple Pencil in Feyn. The flashcards are phone-sized so that you can then take them on the go and comfortably review them on your iPhone! Their vertical shape also makes them easy to write while multi-tasking on your iPad, and perfect for learning languages written top to bottom like Japanese. If you don't feel like drawing, just type some text using your keyboard or drop images into your flashcards. In this way, you *learn* on your iPad as you think of how to you summarize new concepts into flashcards, and *memorize* on your iPhone while you review them on the go! Feyn is fully featured, you can share flashcard to study with your friends. Your flashcards will automatically synchronize between your devices using your iCloud drive. Feyn also supports iOS' Quick Note, Handoff, and keyboard input: type away on your iPad or on our macOS app! Feyn uses spaced repetition to aid in learning. It will ask you to review flashcards depending on how well you recall them, flashcards you miss will be asked more often, and flashcards you get right less often. This way you minimize the total time you spend studying and maximize retention! Feyn Pro ads some nice to have extra features like study charts, to see how well you're learning, and flashcard importing. All other features are free and unrestricted. We guarantee that you will always be able to have a complete study experience for free. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Smooth For Students
This app organizes your course deadlines from your school's learning platform into a single, prioritized list. It helps you track upcoming assignments, visualize your progress, and manage your tasks effectively to avoid missing important due dates.
- Prioritized list of all assignments
- Urgency color-coding
- Weekly progress tracking
- Custom task addition
- Local reminders and daily digests
- Manual due date adjustment
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There's more to life than school, Smooth is for the rest of it. Every deadline your classes throw at you: assignments, readings, quizzes, labs, the lecture you keep forgetting - it all lands in one app. You open it, you see what's next, you close it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Smooth For Students at 5.0 against Feyn's 4.3. Smooth For Students also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). Feyn's advantage is ratings volume (91 vs 3). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Feyn sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Smooth For Students asks for nothing beyond the download.
Smooth For Students holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Feyn has 91 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Feyn's written reviews are positive against 100% of Smooth For Students's.
Feyn ships an update every 9 days, Smooth For Students every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Feyn | Smooth For Students |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (91 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 91 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joaquin Alori | Stem Forward Co. |
Customer experience
Feyn
Smooth For Students
Bugs and requests
Feyn
Reported bugs
3 issues- Cards sometimes disappear after updates
- App crashes on iOS 16 devices
- Palm rejection issues when writing
Requested features
6 requests- Add option to import/export flashcards
- Implement more review modes (e.g., front-to-back, back-to-front)
- Introduce a zoom function for better writing experience
- Add support for adding images/diagrams to cards
- Implement nested folder structure for better organization
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- Provide more customization options for cards (colors, layouts, etc.)
Smooth For Students
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Feyn
- Feyn Pro (1 Month)7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Feyn Pro (6 Months)7 Days trial$19.996 Months
- Feyn Pro (1 Year)7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Smooth For Students
No in-app purchases
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