Comparison

Cerebo vs Learn Languages with Retriever

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

Learn Languages with Retriever

Features
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Learn Languages with Retriever turns great lives into daily language lessons. Pick the people whose lives you admire and the app builds a course of your own. Each question is spoken by that person — listening, speaking, sentence building and real conversation, a little every day. ■ Four languages English, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese. Choose the one you want and the course is assembled in it. ■ A course built from the people you chose Historical figures and classic literature. The names you pick become the order of your level-by-level curriculum. ■ Lessons in their own voice Every question comes from that person, and each correct answer is praised in your native language. ■ Talk with them Speak and listen as if you were on a call. (The conversation is an AI re-creation, not a real statement by that person.) ■ A little every day One more round today and a daily streak keep the habit small enough to keep. ■ Plus subscription Learn as much as you want, with no heart limit. Everyone in the app is a public-domain historical figure or a character from classic literature. Admiration is the best teacher. Start today.

Screenshots

Cerebo4 screens
Learn Languages with Retriever4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Learn Languages with Retriever at every 3 days against Cerebo's every 2 weeks. Learn Languages with Retriever also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cerebo ships an update every 2 weeks, Learn Languages with Retriever every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Cerebo versus Learn Languages with Retriever: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCereboLearn Languages with Retriever
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPatnuru Satwik Patroapochopo Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Cerebo

No in-app purchases

None

Learn Languages with Retriever

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cerebo free?
Cerebo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Learn Languages with Retriever free?
Learn Languages with Retriever is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cerebo or Learn Languages with Retriever have ads?
Neither Cerebo nor Learn Languages with Retriever shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cerebo or Learn Languages with Retriever?
Cerebo ships an update every 2 weeks, and Learn Languages with Retriever every 3 days. Most recently, Cerebo was updated on October 31, 2026 and Learn Languages with Retriever on November 6, 2026.

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