Comparison

BRAINYOO Flash Cards Learning vs FlashCards

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

BRAINYOO Flash Cards Learning

This app helps you memorize vocabulary and study for various subjects using customizable flashcards. It employs special algorithms to optimize your learning speed and retention, with modes for quick review before tests and long-term memory consolidation.

Highlights
  • Customizable flashcard creation
  • Specialized learning algorithms
  • Power mode for test preparation
  • Long-term memory mode
  • Study group creation and sharing
  • Offline study capability
  • Multimedia flashcard content
Features
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BRAINYOO is the flashcard app you can use to quickly and easily quiz yourself on large amounts of educational content. It helps you memorize vocabulary and study for classes like medicine, law, history biology and many more. BRAINYOO is perfect as an app for your classes in school, to help you prepare for your finals or to prep you for exams in your college classes. Do you want the opportunity to learn more effectively, faster and better? You can create your own flash cards to go along with your school or college classes. Our index card app quizzes you using special algorithms perfectly adjusted to your own memorization speed, saving you a lot of time in the process. Shortly before a test, you study with your flash cards using BRAINYOO’s specially developed power mode to help you pass the test with confidence. The index card app shows you your individual progress, so you always know how far you are from your goal. After the test, you switch to Leitner’s long-term memory mode, which saves the latest knowledge in your memory for your high school or college final exams. BRAINYOO is one of the best learning apps for schools, because teachers can also use the flashcard app to create and share their own flash cards with their students in study groups. Teachers can also access their students’ learning statistics and even administer tests such as vocabulary tests in the learning app. With BRAINYOO, you can work on virtually any subject – all languages, including English, French, Spanish and Italian, as well as math and science: Use the flashcard app to prepare for your tests in all school and college subjects – all languages, including English, French, Spanish and Italian, plus math and science too: – Study and practice English, French, Spanish, Italian and many other foreign languages with our special vocabulary, cloze and matching flash cards – Study for biology and history – Study for math and use our LaTeX formulas to create your own flashcards – Share index cards with your fellow classmates or fellow students – Study and practice English and other foreign languages – Study offline when you are on-the-go, for instance on public transportation, no internet necessary – Use the learning app for homeschooling – Study for college classes in law, medicine, business administration, history and many other subjects – Easily create multiple-choice index cards, cloze texts, matching exercises and flashcards with open-ended questions using our flashcard software for Win/Mac software and synchronize them in the flashcard app – Incorporate pictures, eBooks, videos, audio, LaTeX formulas and links into your flashcards and format the flashcards however you choose. The premium version of the learning app enables you to use our app a lot more effectively: – Create study groups, share your own content with them and track the learning statistics of your school or college students or employees – Simulate tests and evaluate the results right there in the flashcard software – When learning languages, you can take a picture of a book page with the flashcard app and automatically create index cards with any words you don’t know – Use the dictionary function to learn the vocabulary – At school, you can easily convert the vocabulary pages of your textbook into flash cards by taking pictures of them, and then use them to study – More memory and unlimited creation of flashcards – Export your index cards as XML – Tell your learning coach which index cards you need to have in your brain for the test and by which date, indicate when you will have time to study and your learning coach will completely organize your studying for you. Or you can get the inexpensively priced Premium-Light upgrade, so you can study without seeing advertising.

About

FlashCards

Create, learn, and share digital flashcards for effective studying. Optimize your learning with spaced repetition based on the forgetting curve. Ideal for subjects like languages, history, and science, from school tests to standardized exams.

Highlights
  • Create unlimited flashcards and learning sets
  • Spaced repetition based on forgetting curve
  • Share learning sets with other users
  • Import learning sets from text files
  • Test modes with swiping and random order
  • Supplementary memos on cards
Features
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Easy to use yet powerful. Best for learning language, history, science etc. ・Just swiping card right or left ・Optimized studying based on the forgetting curve ・Create and Share flashcards ・Helpful for from test in school to big exams like the SAT or ACT ・Learn language, science, social studies, and so on ▶MAIN FUNCTION ・ Create flashcards freely ・ Because you can create multiple learning sets, it can be used for various memorization, study and learning ・ You can create an unlimited number of learning sets and cards in them ・ Supplementary memos can be written on each card, so it is possible to add example sentences etc. ・ The created learning set can be uploaded and shared with other users ・ In the test of learning achievement, you can learn easily by swiping left and right with "understand" and "not understand" ・ Because you can choose “random according to correct answer rate” as well as “in order” in the test questions, you can memorize according to the degree of achievement ・ You can be in the homestretch before the test by setting the narrowing mode so that you do not ask questions that you have answered correctly ▶OPTIMAL LEARNING BASED ON FORGETTING CURVE Based on Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve theory, efficient learning with emphasis on review is possible. Repeat review at appropriate timing along the forgetting curve, memorizing retention rate is also up! ▶IMPORT LEARNING SET Learning set can be imported from text file (.txt tab-delimited UTF-8 is recommended)

Screenshots

BRAINYOO Flash Cards Learning4 screens
FlashCards4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: FlashCards at 4.5 against BRAINYOO Flash Cards Learning's 3.6. FlashCards also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (48 vs 7). BRAINYOO Flash Cards Learning's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. BRAINYOO Flash Cards Learning sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $4.49 per month and FlashCards sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

FlashCards holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FlashCards has 48 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 86% of BRAINYOO Flash Cards Learning's written reviews are positive against 83% of FlashCards's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BRAINYOO Flash Cards Learning ships an update every 2 months, FlashCards fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and August 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
BRAINYOO Flash Cards Learning versus FlashCards: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBRAINYOO Flash Cards LearningFlashCards
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (7 ratings)4.5 (48 ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.2% of reviews — better82.8% of reviews
Number of ratings748 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.412.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size152 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrainyoo Mobile Learning GmbHToshiki Motomura

Customer experience

BRAINYOO Flash Cards Learning

All ratings7 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%
Written reviews58 reviews
Positive86.2%
Neutral8.6%
Negative5.2%

FlashCards

All ratings46 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral2.2%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews198 reviews
Positive82.8%
Neutral6.1%
Negative11.1%

In-app purchases

11 purchases

BRAINYOO Flash Cards Learning

Subscriptions2
  • BRAINYOO Premium (Monatlich)3 Days trial$4.491 Month
  • BRAINYOO Premium (Jährlich)3 Days trial$21.991 Year
One-time9
  • 1 Monat BRAINYOO Premium$4.99
  • BGB-Lernkartei – Diringer$11.90
  • Ausbildereignungsprüfung$17.90
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  • Familienrecht / Soziale Arbeit$17.99
  • Medizin f. MFA – Prüfungen$17.99
  • Kinder- und Jugendhilferecht$19.99
  • Kälteanlagentechnik II$22.00
  • Brandschutzbeauftragte Prüfung$24.90
  • Kaufmann/-frau Versicherungen$45.00
1 purchases

FlashCards

One-time1
  • Premium Upgrade Flashcards$3.99

Questions

Is BRAINYOO Flash Cards Learning free?
BRAINYOO Flash Cards Learning is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FlashCards free?
FlashCards is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BRAINYOO Flash Cards Learning or FlashCards?
FlashCards is rated higher. BRAINYOO Flash Cards Learning averages 3.6 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while FlashCards averages 4.5 from 48 ratings.
Do BRAINYOO Flash Cards Learning or FlashCards have ads?
FlashCards shows ads; BRAINYOO Flash Cards Learning does not.
Which is updated more often, BRAINYOO Flash Cards Learning or FlashCards?
BRAINYOO Flash Cards Learning ships an update every 2 months, and FlashCards fortnightly. Most recently, BRAINYOO Flash Cards Learning was updated on September 21, 2026 and FlashCards on August 30, 2026.

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