Wrist Cards vs Swiftflip Flashcards
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wrist Cards
Practice multiplication facts on your wrist with this flashcard app. It offers a basic practice mode and a quiz option, with the ability to focus on specific digits. Designed for standalone watches, it's ideal for kids to practice math anywhere.
- Multiplication flashcards
- Practice mode
- Quiz mode
- Customizable digit focus
- Apple Watch compatible
- Family Setup compatible
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Flash cards on your Apple Watch, compatible with Family Setup. My kids needed a way to practice their math facts anytime, anywhere, and I couldn't find a flash card app that worked on standalone watches. So we made our own! Has a basic practice mode, as well as an option to take a quiz. Can also configure it to only challenge you with certain digits.
Swiftflip Flashcards
Create and review flashcards with rich media and spaced repetition. Sync across Apple devices and track your progress with detailed insights. Offers a free tier with optional premium features for enhanced learning.
- Spaced repetition learning
- Rich flashcards (text, image, audio)
- iCloud sync across Apple devices
- Apple Watch companion app
- Import/export Anki and CSV
- Shortcuts and Siri integration
- Detailed study insights
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Unlimited flashcards with spaced repetition. No account. Import Anki, review on Apple Watch, and sync privately with iCloud. Spaced Repetition Swiftflip uses an FSRS scheduling model to bring each card back shortly before you would forget it. Flashcards Make cards with text, a picture, and audio together on each side. Organize cards into decks, search across them, and edit a card in the middle of practice. Across Your Devices Pick up where you left off with iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. Practice on Apple Watch for quick due-only sessions on the go. Focused Practice Tap to flip, then mark answers to keep moving. A short sound plays when you mark a card, and you can look over every card when a session ends. Hints show you how to flip and mark cards the first time, and Swiftflip follows accessibility settings like Reduce Motion. Practice Both Ways Turn on Practice Both Ways for a deck to keep separate Front → Back and Back → Front progress. Build Custom Practice sessions with the decks, first side, order, size, focus, and retries you choose. Pause Reviews Pause a card or a whole deck when you are not studying it. It stays in the library and comes back with its schedule when you resume. Import & Export • Import from Anki (.apkg / .colpkg) • Import and export CSV • Export as a Swiftflip archive for backup and sharing Shortcuts Use the Shortcuts app and Siri to add a card, practice due cards, practice or open a deck, search your library, view decks, and view insights. Home Screen quick actions help you jump in faster. Insights Stat cards show your streak and how many cards you have. Unlimited decks and cards will always be free. Premium (Optional) • Smart decks (dynamic decks based on filters) • Folders • Custom icons • More answer reveal styles • Full insights: month, year, and custom timeframes, study activity, accuracy trends, library growth, cards by deck, upcoming reviews, and an activity calendar • AI card generation, with saved per-deck instructions for how cards should read Premium is available as monthly and yearly subscriptions, or a lifetime purchase. Made for Apple Devices Swiftflip supports iCloud sync, Shortcuts, and a companion Apple Watch app, plus Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, a Practice Due Cards control for Control Center and the Action button, a Due Cards watch-face complication, optional practice reminders, a due-count badge, Spotlight search, and a Share Extension for creating cards from other apps. Privacy Swiftflip does not track you. Your flashcards sync through iCloud. Cloud AI is included with Premium on iPhone and iPad and asks before it is first used. When it runs, your topic, instructions, and card text are sent to Swiftflip’s Cloud AI, which uses a third-party AI model to write cards. No account is required. Great for exam revision, language vocabulary, and medical or nursing terminology. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://hksw.io/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Wrist Cards at 100% against Swiftflip Flashcards's 0%. Wrist Cards also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). Swiftflip Flashcards's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 39 months). On 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
Swiftflip Flashcards is free to download; Wrist Cards costs $0.99 up front. Swiftflip Flashcards sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Wrist Cards asks for nothing beyond the download.
Wrist Cards holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Wrist Cards's written reviews are positive against 0% of Swiftflip Flashcards's.
Wrist Cards ships an update every 39 months, Swiftflip Flashcards every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wrist Cards | Swiftflip Flashcards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 39 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Spaddlewit Inc. | HK Softworks AB |
Customer experience
Wrist Cards
Swiftflip Flashcards
In-app purchases
Wrist Cards
No in-app purchases
Swiftflip Flashcards
- Monthly Premium7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Yearly Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$59.99
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