Comparison

Cerebo vs PicToCards

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

Head to head
About

Cerebo

Create rich flashcards with text, math, code, images, and audio. Utilize spaced repetition for effective memorization. Import existing decks and study across all your Apple devices, including Apple Watch.

Highlights
  • Rich card editor with text, math, code, images, audio, PDFs
  • Spaced repetition algorithm (SM-2)
  • Import Anki decks (.apkg, .colpkg)
  • Offline functionality and iCloud sync
  • Apple Watch app and widgets
  • OCR for text extraction from images
  • Apple Intelligence for answer generation
Features
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Cerebo is a flashcard maker for subjects that don't fit on a plain index card. Build rich cards with LaTeX math, code, tables, graphs, images, audio and PDFs, then let spaced repetition decide what you see and when. BUILT FOR REAL SUBJECTS Most flashcard apps give you two text boxes. Cerebo gives you a block editor: stack text, math, code, tables and media in any order, on the front and the back of a card. • LaTeX math, rendered properly, inline or as display equations • Function graphs: plot curves, or a 3D surface you can rotate with a finger • Syntax-highlighted code, Markdown tables, headings and lists • Images, audio recordings and PDF attachments • Extract text from a photo or scanned page with OCR • Cloze deletions: hide any part of a card and reveal it as you go • Link related cards, read any card aloud, or translate it in place TEST YOURSELF Every deck has a Test button, and tests never change your review schedule. • Match: pair each front with its back against the clock, on any iPhone or iPad • Practice Test, with Apple Intelligence: true or false, multiple choice and written questions. Written answers are checked for meaning • Print a deck or export it as a PDF to study on paper MAKE CARDS, ASK AND QUIZ WITH APPLE INTELLIGENCE On iPhones and iPads that support Apple Intelligence, Cerebo has a chat that runs entirely on your device: • Turn a PDF, Word document, photo, scan or web page into a deck, or record a lecture and make cards from the transcript • Make a study guide from the same document: an overview, the main points and key terms • Pictures come along: a PDF's figures appear on the cards about them, and on iOS 27 Apple Intelligence reads photos, handwriting and diagrams • Graphs, tables, equations and code are added where they help, and you review every card first • Ask questions about your own cards, and see which cards the answer came from • Get quizzed on a deck or a topic: answer in your own words, typed or out loud, and choose the rating yourself • Generate a card's answer, or fill in your own answer template (meaning, synonyms, example) • Share a page from Safari with "Make Cards in Cerebo" SPACED REPETITION THAT DOES THE WORK Cerebo schedules each card with the SM-2 algorithm. Cards you find easy move out to longer intervals; cards you struggle with come back soon. • A per-deck daily limit on new cards. Reviews are never capped • Browse mode to read through a deck without being tested • Statistics with a review heatmap, retention rate and a forecast for the days ahead BRING YOUR EXISTING DECKS • Import Anki .apkg and .colpkg files with media, cloze, reverse cards and nested decks • Paste a Quizlet export to bring a set across • Import into an existing deck, or copy cards between decks. Duplicates are skipped • Import and export CSV and JSON, and export back to .apkg any time EVERYWHERE YOU STUDY • Apple Watch app for reviewing on your wrist • Scan to Cards and Record a Lecture in Control Center, on the Lock Screen or the Action button, and a Quick Capture widget • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets showing what's due, and a Live Activity while you study • A library sidebar on iPad and iPhone Duo • Siri and Shortcuts, daily reminders, and study sessions added to your calendar • Full keyboard, Dynamic Type and VoiceOver support • In English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Cerebo collects nothing: no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking, and the app makes no network calls of its own. The chat runs on your device, so what you write, attach or record is never sent to a server. Everything works offline. iCloud sync moves your decks between your own devices through your private iCloud account, and one switch turns it off. FREE: NO ADS, NO SUBSCRIPTION Cerebo is free. No subscription, no ads, and nothing to buy inside the app. Questions or feedback: satwikdev12@gmail.com

About

PicToCards

Features
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Snap any page. Play to learn. Learning a language with a private teacher or in a group? The most important part of the journey is actually remembering new words. But they end up scattered - notebooks, notes apps, online docs, phone screenshots. You hear a new word, write it down, and never come back to it. Lesson after lesson, the same thing. You want to use a word, you remember writing it down somewhere - but never where. PicToCards fixes that. One place for all your vocabulary. Snap a photo or share a word from any app, and it's ready to practice — instantly. Learn your words in a simple game — any time, anywhere. Come back and repeat them whenever you need. No widgets, no bloat. Just pure learning. HOW IT WORKS 1. Snap a photo of any word list - handwritten notes, textbook pages, or a screenshot 2. Or share text from Safari, Messages, Notes or any other app and pick the words you want 3. The app translates the words automatically; you review them and adjust if needed 4. Choose a game and start learning PRACTICE MODES · Quiz · Flip the Cards · Match the Words · Find the Word · Type the Word KEY FEATURES · Instant text recognition from camera, photos, or files · Share words from any app straight into your sets · Auto translation into your language, or one tap for a single word · Move or copy words between sets · Each set remembers its own languages - learn several at once · Unlimited manual word sets · Daily practice reminders with words from your own sets · Works offline once your sets are saved · Light and dark mode PRIVATE BY DESIGN Text recognition and translation run on your device. No account, no sign-up, no tracking. Any language. Any textbook. Any handwritten notes. FREE AND PREMIUM Free: unlimited manual sets, all five games, 3 photo scans and 3 one-tap translations a day. Premium: unlimited scans and translations, and shared words are translated automatically. Unlimited scans and translations are free for your first 3 days. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pictocardapp.github.io/pictocards-privacy/

Screenshots

Cerebo4 screens
PicToCards4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cerebo at none against PicToCards's 2. Cerebo also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PicToCards sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Cerebo asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cerebo ships an update every 2 weeks, PicToCards monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Cerebo versus PicToCards: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCereboPicToCards
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPatnuru Satwik PatroAnastasiia Kharicheva

In-app purchases

None

Cerebo

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

PicToCards

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Cerebo free?
Cerebo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PicToCards free?
PicToCards is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cerebo or PicToCards have ads?
Neither Cerebo nor PicToCards shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cerebo or PicToCards?
Cerebo ships an update every 2 weeks, and PicToCards monthly. Most recently, Cerebo was updated on October 31, 2026 and PicToCards on October 25, 2026.

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