Comparison

Spaced. vs Truly Simple Flashcards

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

Head to head
About

Spaced.

This minimalist flashcard app helps you remember information through spaced repetition. Create custom decks with text, images, or audio, and review efficiently by focusing on what you need to learn. It's designed for privacy with no ads or tracking.

Highlights
  • Spaced repetition learning
  • Customizable decks
  • Text, image, and audio cards
  • AI-assisted deck creation
  • Starter decks included
  • Private by design, no ads or tracking
Features
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Remember what you learn, one card at a time. Spaced. is a minimalist flashcard app for iPhone and iPad. Create decks for languages, classes, trivia, lyrics, work concepts, or anything else you want to keep in memory. Review with spaced repetition, and Spaced. brings each card back when it matters most. Why Spaced.? • Study less, remember more Cards you know well come back later. Cards you miss return sooner. Your sessions stay focused on what needs attention. • Simple, fast reviews Flip a card, recall the answer, then swipe right if you remembered or left if you missed it. No clutter, streak pressure, or complicated setup. • Make the decks you actually need Create your own collections, decks, and cards with text, images, and audio. Reorder things, search decks, and track progress per deck. • AI-assisted deck creation Use an AI assistant you already have to draft a deck. Paste the JSON into Spaced., review the cards, and add it to your library. Spaced. does not run AI inference or require an AI account. • Starter decks included Begin with built-in French, Indonesian, and Japanese decks, including Japanese kana with pronunciation audio. • Private by design No ads. No tracking. No Spaced. account. Your user-created decks and progress stay on your device and can sync through your private iCloud account. Spaced. is free to use, with optional one-time tips for people who want to support development.

About

Truly Simple Flashcards

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Truly Simple Flashcards is a clean, no-subscription spaced-repetition app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Whether you're a student cramming for exams, a language learner building vocabulary, a professional studying for boards, or an Anki refugee looking for a modern alternative, this app does the core job exceptionally well and stops there. Make decks, add cards, and study. The app decides when to show each card again using FSRS, which is the same modern spaced-repetition algorithm power users trust. By asking you to grade how hard a card was to recall, the schedule adapts, so you spend your time on the cards you're about to forget. Format your cards with bold, italics, and colors, keep related decks together in groups, and add audio when hearing something matters as much as reading it. Bring in your existing decks from Anki or a spreadsheet, export your decks to use elsewhere, study seamlessly across all your Apple devices, and own your software forever. Features: • Smart scheduling: Uses the proven FSRS algorithm to adapt to your memory, with an adjustable "target retention" rate per deck. • Two card types: Create classic front-and-back cards, or use fill-in-the-blank (cloze) cards to memorize words in context. Images are fully supported on either side of the card. • Formatting and color-coding: Make words bold, italic, or underlined, and color-code your cards with five text colors and four highlights. Colors stay readable in light and dark mode. • Audio on your cards: Attach audio to the front, the back, or both. Add an existing audio file, or record it right in the app. • Deck groups: Keep related decks together, like every topic in a unit. Groups fold away when you don't need them and show what's due inside. • Simple imports: Bring your existing decks with you. Import Anki files (.apkg / .colpkg, including the newest formats) or CSV/TSV spreadsheets. Anki subdecks arrive as groups, with their formatting intact. • Two-way study: Turn on two-way review to test your recall back-to-front, which is especially effective for learning vocabulary words. • Paced learning: Set a daily limit for new cards so a huge imported deck doesn't overwhelm your study session. • Study ahead: Caught up for the day and want more? Study tomorrow's cards early. • Undo a grade: Tapped the wrong button? Undo brings the card back so you can answer it again. • Flip-through mode: Review a deck casually without affecting your spaced-repetition schedule. • Reliable device sync: Your decks sync privately and securely through your own personal iCloud account across your Mac, iPad, and iPhone. • Genuinely accessible: Built natively for Apple devices with full VoiceOver support, Dynamic Type for comfortable reading, light/dark modes, and calm, minimal motion. • Pay once, keep forever: Use one deck for free with unlimited cards. Unlock unlimited decks with a one-time, lifetime in-app purchase. No subscriptions, no ads, no hidden fees or data-harvesting.

Screenshots

Spaced.4 screens
Truly Simple Flashcards3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Truly Simple Flashcards at every 6 weeks against Spaced.'s every 5 months. Spaced.'s advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Spaced. sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Truly Simple Flashcards sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Spaced. against 5.0 for Truly Simple Flashcards. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spaced. ships an update every 5 months, Truly Simple Flashcards every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Spaced. versus Truly Simple Flashcards: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpaced.Truly Simple Flashcards
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperClement BoissiereColin Wright

Customer experience

Spaced.

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Truly Simple Flashcards

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Spaced.

One-time2
  • Small Tip$4.99
  • Large Tip$9.99
1 purchases

Truly Simple Flashcards

One-time1
  • Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Spaced. free?
Spaced. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Truly Simple Flashcards free?
Truly Simple Flashcards is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Spaced. or Truly Simple Flashcards?
Spaced. and Truly Simple Flashcards are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Spaced. or Truly Simple Flashcards have ads?
Neither Spaced. nor Truly Simple Flashcards shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spaced. or Truly Simple Flashcards?
Spaced. ships an update every 5 months, and Truly Simple Flashcards every 6 weeks. Most recently, Spaced. was updated on October 8, 2026 and Truly Simple Flashcards on October 25, 2026.

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