Decks vs Simply Flashcards
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Decks
Learn languages with pre-made flashcard decks featuring native audio and images. Utilizes spaced repetition to optimize learning and allows users to create their own cards or snap photos to generate them. Offers offline study and progress tracking.
- Ready-made language decks
- Anki-style spaced repetition
- Native audio and pictures
- Photo to flashcards
- AI explanations for cards
- Offline study
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Learn Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, French, German or Korean with ready-made flashcard decks, complete with native audio and pictures. Anki-style spaced repetition brings each card back right before you'd forget it. Pick a deck and start studying in seconds. Nothing to build or set up first. WHY DECKS • Ready-made decks in Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, French, German and Korean, most with native audio, some with pictures • Anki-style spaced repetition plans your reviews for you • Swipe to rate: drag the card to Easy, Good, Hard or Again, or just tap • Photo to flashcards: snap a textbook page or a word list, check the cards, then add them • Make your own decks and cards, on any subject • Ask about any card and get an AI explanation on the spot IN THE LIBRARY Spanish: picture starter, top 5,000 words, sentences and verb conjugation Japanese: hiragana and katakana, JLPT N5–N1 vocabulary, Core 2000 and 6000, and Tae Kim grammar, with furigana Chinese: essentials, top 5,000 words, sentences and HSK grammar French: essentials, top words, 501 verbs and sentences German: A1, A2 and B1 vocabulary, top 5,000 words and sentences Korean: Hangul, first 500 words, vocabulary, grammar and sentences ALSO IN DECKS • Study offline • Streaks, retention stats and a Today panel • Undo a rating; search, merge and reorder your decks FREE AND PREMIUM Every library deck is free to add. Free: study every day, with a daily review limit that suits a steady habit. Premium: set your own daily review limit, as high as you want. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Subscription Terms: https://decksflashcards.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://decksflashcards.com/privacy
Simply Flashcards
Create and study flashcards with ease using this distraction-free application. It offers a simple editor for card creation and supports dark mode for comfortable study sessions.
- Create flashcards
- Study flashcards
- Simple editor
- Dark mode support
- Intuitive UX design
- Ad-free studying
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Simply Flashcards is a completely FREE app that lets you create and study flash cards. There are no ads so you can study with no distractions. Features: * Dark mode support * Intuitive, simple UX design * Create flashcards with simple editor
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Decks at 5.0 against Simply Flashcards's 4.1. Decks also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.5). Simply Flashcards's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (10 vs 3). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Decks sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Simply Flashcards asks for nothing beyond the download.
Decks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 10 respectively.
Decks ships an update every 3 days, Simply Flashcards weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Decks | Simply Flashcards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.1 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dingxuan Yao | You Tang |
Customer experience
Decks
Simply Flashcards
In-app purchases
Decks
- Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
Simply Flashcards
No in-app purchases









