Comparison

Benkyo Box vs Deckly

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

Head to head
About

Benkyo Box

Create and study custom flashcards with rich media support, including sketching and image annotations. Organize your learning with folders and track your progress with daily study schedules and trend analysis.

Highlights
  • Custom flashcard creation
  • Image sketching and annotation
  • Quick entry and CSV import
  • Folder organization
  • Daily study scheduling
  • Progress tracking and trends
  • Shortcut integration
Features
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Benkyo Box is a flashcard app that is like your notes, but of the things that you want to commit to memory like names, fun facts, or exam material. These are the facts that you don't want to bury in a note taking app, and want to ensure you truly know them. Every flashcard you add to Benkyo Box is added to your daily studies, in which a beautiful study interface shows you the card’s question, you try to recall its answer, reveal it, then rate yourself after seeing the actual answer. Based on that rating, the card is re-surfaced in future with a notification so that you can practice again until you know it. Flexible flashcard content: Flashcards not only have the standard image/text front and back format, they also support in-app sketching and images for both the question and answer. Text supports multiple lines in both the question and answer so you can learn lists in a single flashcard. Powerful annotation cards: Looking to learn concept of an image? Like: - the components of a mechanical object - anatomical parts - different elements of a dish Benkyo Box makes this easy with Annotation Cards - simply annotate an image with arrows, rectangles and other tools, which automatically turn into flashcards. It preserves the original image as incredibly useful context. Easily create study material: - Natural Language: No need to enter questions and answers in flashcards! Enter a statement you'd like to learn, and with Apple Intelligence, we'll rewrite it as question and answer (Advanced Learner feature). - Quick Entry: Enter many cards at once by alternating questions and answers in plain text. This is specially helpful for pasting content from LLMs or adding multiple cards during a meeting. - CSV import: import a spreadsheet with flexible options on how to interpret the columns for the final flashcards - Folder import: select a folder with multiple images, creating a flashcard for each image in the question, filename on the answer. If the folder contains a CSV, the CSV can be used to customize how the images are imported (used as question, answer or both). Shortcuts for everything: Quickly do almost anything that you can do in the app within Shortcuts, like adding cards, checking your study status, importing content, and even updating app settings. Flexible organization: Organize your flashcards using folders and subfolders for all your topics, or keep them in the default unsorted folder if you prefer them that way. Your schedule and trends, at a glance: Open the app and you'll immediately see your study progress for the day and the time for your next study (also available as a widget). Navigate to the calendar to see what you have scheduled for today, the following days and how you scored the previous day. Flexible study sessions: Study a specific topic by navigating to it, or study all topics scheduled for today by studying from the Today view. Study times and flashcard frequencies can be configured in settings. Also if you are feeling like studying a topic but the cards are not available yet, you can always reset the folder and study right away. Privacy: Cards are private information and we have no access to them. If you use iCloud sync, Benkyo Box securely encrypts your content in iCloud with client-side encryption - nobody in the server can read your cards. Themes, each with a Dark Mode version: Choose a theme to match the mood of the study session. Advanced Learner Features: With Advanced Learner, a paid tier, you get features that help you streamline your studies: - Add cards using natural language - Extract cards from text and articles using on devices that support Apple Intelligence - Hidden folders that are ignored from studies until you are ready to unhide them - Deadlines that help prioritize studies before an important date Most importantly, the app is fully functional without Advanced Learner and we work hard to ensure that it’s easy to unsubscribe from it with the least disruption as possible.

About

Deckly

Features
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Deckly is a clean, local-only flashcard app for anyone memorizing anything — vocabulary, terminology, formulas, trivia, or facts for your next exam. No accounts. No sync. No clutter. Just your decks, on your device. THREE WAYS TO STUDY, ONE TAP AWAY Review — proven SM-2 spaced repetition with Again / Hard / Good / Easy ratings that schedule each card at exactly the right interval. Quick Study — a lightweight "got it / didn't" pass for low-stakes practice that won't touch your spaced-repetition schedule. Quiz — auto-generated multiple choice questions drawn from the rest of your deck, so every session feels fresh. BUILT TO FEEL CALM Tap a card to reveal the answer. Rate how it felt. Move on. Deckly handles the intervals so the right cards come back at the right time — no manual scheduling, no complicated settings. At the end of every session, a quick summary shows you cards reviewed, your accuracy, and what's due next. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything lives locally with SwiftData. Nothing leaves your device. No sign-up required, no tracking, no nags, no subscription. PERFECT FOR Students cramming for exams, language learners building vocabulary, professionals studying for certifications, hobbyists memorizing facts, and anyone who wants a no-fuss way to remember more. Make a deck. Add a card. Start remembering.

Screenshots

Benkyo Box4 screens
Deckly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Deckly at none against Benkyo Box's 2. Benkyo Box's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.2 vs 26.0). On price and ads 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. Benkyo Box sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Deckly asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Benkyo Box versus Deckly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBenkyo BoxDeckly
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.2 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size153 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerautorelease LLCCarrie mckeegan

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Benkyo Box

Subscriptions2
  • Advanced Learner (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Advanced Learner (Yearly)$19.991 Year
None

Deckly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Benkyo Box free?
Benkyo Box is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Deckly free?
Deckly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Benkyo Box or Deckly have ads?
Neither Benkyo Box nor Deckly shows ads.

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