Cogni vs Lecture Recorder & Flashcards
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cogni
This app uses AI to generate flashcards from various sources like PDFs, notes, or audio. It employs spaced repetition for efficient memorization and allows importing existing decks. Study notes can be generated alongside cards, and a library of pre-made decks is available.
- AI flashcard generation
- FSRS spaced repetition
- Anki deck import
- Notes alongside cards
- Offline study
- Pre-made deck library
- Cross-platform sync
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Cogni is a flashcard app with FSRS spaced repetition, AI flashcard generation and Anki deck import. Study on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web: your decks and progress sync through one account, and reviews work offline. MAKE FLASHCARDS WITH AI Upload a PDF, photograph your notes or textbook pages, upload a lecture recording, paste text or type a topic. Cogni drafts question-and-answer and cloze cards. You check the drafts and keep the ones you want. FSRS SPACED REPETITION Every card is scheduled with FSRS, the open-source algorithm that predicts when you are about to forget. After each answer, rate your recall (Again, Hard, Good or Easy) and see when the card comes back. Each day you review only what is due. IMPORT YOUR ANKI DECKS Save an .apkg file in Files, tap + in Cogni and choose “Import .apkg”. Cards, subdecks, cloze cards, images and audio come with it. Anki's review history stays in Anki: FSRS builds a new schedule from your answers in Cogni. NOTES NEXT TO YOUR CARDS Generate study notes together with your cards and read them in Cogni on the web, linked to the cards they produced. READY-MADE DECKS Browse a library of 5,000+ decks for languages, medicine, anatomy and more, add a deck and start studying. BUILT FOR - Medical, nursing and pre-med students - Language learners building vocabulary - Students preparing for exams - Anyone moving their decks from another flashcard app FREE TO START Create cards, import decks, sync and study up to 40 card reviews a day for free, and try one AI generation. Cogni Premium removes the daily review limit, adds text-to-speech and includes AI generation within your plan's allowance. Terms of Use: https://cogni.cards/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://cogni.cards/privacy/
Lecture Recorder & Flashcards
This app uses AI to automatically generate study guides, quizzes, and flashcards from recorded lectures. It aims to help students improve their grades by providing efficient and ethical study tools.
- AI-generated study guides
- Automatic quiz creation
- Flashcard generation
- Lecture recording
- Ethical AI use
- Trusted alternative
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Turn lectures, recordings, and videos into clear study notes in seconds. cobNote helps you record audio, transcribe speech, summarize key ideas, and generate quizzes and flashcards so you can study faster. Use cobNote to: - Record lectures and meetings - Transcribe voice notes instantly - Create structured summaries - Generate quizzes and flashcards - Study from YouTube videos, PDFs, and long documents - Translate and share your notes Built for students, teachers, and busy professionals who want organized notes without rewriting everything by hand. Start your free trial and turn your next recording into ready-to-study notes. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://cobnote.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Cogni at 1.7K against Lecture Recorder & Flashcards's 2. Lecture Recorder & Flashcards's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Cogni sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Lecture Recorder & Flashcards sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Lecture Recorder & Flashcards holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cogni has 1.7K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Cogni ships an update every 9 days, Lecture Recorder & Flashcards every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cogni | Lecture Recorder & Flashcards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.7K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.7K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 146 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | COGNIFLY LTD | Emre Ozturk |
Customer experience
Cogni
Lecture Recorder & Flashcards
Bugs and requests
Cogni
Reported bugs
2 issues- App no longer available after paying for annual subscription
- Occasional crashes
Requested features
4 requests- Integrate ChatGPT or Claude for automatic card creation
- Add sub-decks for larger decks that need more review
- Improve algorithm for hard/again ratings to better target struggling cards
- Add subsections for decks to study different sections separately
Lecture Recorder & Flashcards
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cogni
- Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Premium Monthly$7.991 Month
- Premium Monthly$14.991 Month
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- Premium Annual$19.991 Year
- Premium Annual$24.991 Year
- Premium Annual$29.991 Year
- Premium Annual$49.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$69.99
- Premium Lifetime$99.99
Lecture Recorder & Flashcards
- Premium Weekly$0.997 Days
- premium7 Days trial$2.957 Days
- Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
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- Premium Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- premium3 Days trial$9.997 Days
- Premium Yearly3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Premium Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
- premium14 Days trial$49.991 Year
- 10 AI Credits$3.99
- 30 AI Credits$9.99
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