Comparison

Minimal Flashcards vs Tapioca

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

Head to head
About

Minimal Flashcards

Create and study custom flashcard decks with spaced repetition. Review cards daily on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch. Enjoy a focused, ad-free, and tracking-free learning experience.

Highlights
  • Customizable flashcard decks
  • Spaced repetition scheduling
  • Daily review feature
  • Statistics tracking
  • iPad and Apple Watch support
  • Ad-free and tracking-free
Features
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Minimal Flashcards is a focused study app for decks, cards, daily review, statistics, iPad layouts, widgets, and Apple Watch review. Build your own decks, answer with Again/Hard/Good/Easy, and let the local scheduler bring cards back when they matter. No account, no ads, no tracking. On iPhone Duo’s partially folded inner screen, focus on a large question or answer while review controls, daily progress, and Undo stay in a separate area. Folding, unfolding, or rotating preserves your current card and revealed answer. Designed for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and watchOS 26. Free to download. No subscription and no in-app purchase.

About

Tapioca

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Tapioca puts your flashcards on the Home Screen. Tap the widget to reveal the answer, tap again to grade it, and the next card appears without the app ever opening. Most spaced repetition fails because the app never gets opened. Tapioca brings the cards to you, and it can write them for you too. REVIEW WHERE YOU ALREADY LOOK • Add the Tapioca widget to your Home Screen in medium or large. It shows one card at a time, and you answer it right there. • A Lock Screen widget shows how many cards are due. • Grade each card Again, Hard, Good or Easy. Every button shows the interval it grants. • Tapioca schedules reviews with FSRS-6, the modern spaced-repetition algorithm, with learning steps for new and forgotten cards. With enough history it can refit the scheduler to your own memory, and it keeps the fit only when it beats the defaults. • Review in the app too, with undo and haptics. LET TAPIOCA WRITE THE CARDS • Name a topic and Tapioca writes a deck about it. • Paste your notes, a handout or a transcript and Tapioca writes one card per fact. • Photograph a page. The words are read on your phone; the picture never leaves it. • Choose a PDF. Each card notes the page it came from. • Cards appear as they are written. Drop the ones you don't want before anything is saved. Before anything is sent the first time, Tapioca asks. What you choose goes to the Tapioca server and on to Anthropic's Claude to write the cards; Tapioca keeps none of it. You can withdraw permission at any time. AI card writing needs an internet connection and is included in Tapioca Pro within a monthly fair-use allowance. 100 READY-MADE DECKS 2,500 cards across ten subjects: languages, geography, history, science, space, art and music, maths, technology, literature and everyday knowledge. Capitals, flags, hiragana, the periodic table, the human skeleton, constellations, Git commands and more. Add a deck in one tap. BRING YOUR DECKS WITH YOU Import from Anki (.apkg and .colpkg, with pictures, image occlusion and review history), Quizlet, Mochi, AlgoApp, Mnemosyne, SuperMemo, Obsidian and CSV. Tapioca shows you what it read before anything is added. FOUR KINDS OF CARD • Text: a prompt and an answer. • Cloze: a passage with words hidden in it. Anki's {{c1::…}} markers work too. • Picture: a photo with a caption, answered in words. • Blur: parts of a photo or diagram hidden until you reveal them. Write cards by hand with a live preview of exactly what the widget will draw, or turn any deck around so it is asked both ways. KEEP THE HABIT • Reminders built from your real due forecast, and an evening nudge only when a streak is at risk. Optional, and never asked for on first launch. • Stats for reps, recall, mature cards and the days ahead. • Add cards from Siri, Spotlight and Shortcuts. • Light and dark appearance, accent themes and tinted Home Screen support. YOUR LIBRARY STAYS YOURS • Your decks, cards and history are stored on your iPhone. There is no account to create. • A copy is kept in your own iCloud Drive automatically, so a new phone gets everything back. You can turn this off. • Export every card as CSV, or back up everything to a file, at any time. TAPIOCA PRO Tapioca Pro is the app: every deck and card, every kind of card, every widget, the full scheduler, AI card writing, reverse cards and iCloud backup. There is no free tier and no trial. If a subscription ends, everything you made stays on your phone and can be exported at any time. • Yearly: $49.99 per year • Monthly: $14.99 per month • Weekly: $7.99 per week Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed in your App Store account settings. Prices are US App Store prices; your storefront may differ. Terms of Use: https://tapiocaflashcards.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://tapiocaflashcards.com/privacy/ Tapioca requires iOS 26 or later and is designed for iPhone.

Screenshots

Minimal Flashcards3 screens
Tapioca4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Minimal Flashcards at none against Tapioca's 3. Minimal Flashcards also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Tapioca's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Tapioca sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. Minimal Flashcards asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Minimal Flashcards ships an update weekly, Tapioca every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
Minimal Flashcards versus Tapioca: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinimal FlashcardsTapioca
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB14 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperLim SangjinAlexander Herdt

In-app purchases

None

Minimal Flashcards

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Tapioca

Subscriptions3
  • Tapioca Pro Weekly$7.997 Days
  • Tapioca Pro Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Tapioca Pro Yearly$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Minimal Flashcards free?
Minimal Flashcards is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tapioca free?
Tapioca is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Minimal Flashcards or Tapioca have ads?
Neither Minimal Flashcards nor Tapioca shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Minimal Flashcards or Tapioca?
Minimal Flashcards ships an update weekly, and Tapioca every 2 days. Most recently, Minimal Flashcards was updated on October 25, 2026 and Tapioca on October 29, 2026.

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