Swiftflip Flashcards vs Gloss Cards
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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/
Gloss Cards
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You already know thousands of words in your native language. Gloss helps you build that same effortless recall in any new language, without grinding through boring study sessions. Most language apps overwhelm you with gamified fluff. Gloss cuts straight to what actually works: spaced repetition, backed by memory science, in an app that feels good to use every day. Gloss uses the FSRS algorithm, the same science behind the most effective memorization systems in the world. It learns how your memory works and schedules each review at exactly the right moment. You study less, but remember more. Type in a topic like "French restaurant vocabulary" or "JLPT N5 verbs" and AI builds a ready-to-study deck instantly. Or create your own cards exactly the way you want them. Tap any card to hear it spoken with natural pronunciation. Slow it down when you need to. Speed it up when you're ready. Your ear gets trained alongside your memory. Set a daily goal. Watch your streak grow. Open your analytics and see real progress, not just points, but cards mastered and vocabulary retained over weeks and months. Organize decks into collections however makes sense to you. By language, by class, by trip, by textbook chapter. Gloss adapts to how you learn, not the other way around. Supports 30+ languages including French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Arabic, Portuguese, and Italian. The free plan gives you everything you need to get going. When you're hooked, upgrade to Pro for unlimited cards, unlimited decks, and AI card generation. Stop forgetting what you study. Start building vocabulary that sticks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Swiftflip Flashcards at 4 against Gloss Cards's —. Gloss Cards's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price 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. Swiftflip Flashcards sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Gloss Cards sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Swiftflip Flashcards | Gloss Cards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | — |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HK Softworks AB | Aaron McMullan |
In-app purchases
Swiftflip Flashcards
- Monthly Premium7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Yearly Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$59.99
Gloss Cards
- Gloss Pro$8.991 Month
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