Brainscape - Study Flashcards

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• Brainscape Pro Lifetime — $199.99

Last verified 5 Sep 2026

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Last verified 7 Aug 2026

4.8 21258 ratings · App Store

1. 3/5Still one important feature is missing

   Update after 9 months: The text to speech feature was promised for 2025, but it is still not here. I am starting to look for an alternative app. Very disappointing. Update after 6 months: I am still waiting for the text to speech functionality. Not sure why it’s taking so long, there are so many other apps that have this built-in. I am taking away one star and will switch to another app if this is not added soon. ORIGINAL REVIEW: I have tried many flashcard apps over the years and this one truly stands out for the ease with which one can create and review cards. What I really like is the seamless synchronization between the browser version and the app version. I use the browser version to create the cards by copying and pasting material from various sources. Then I switch to the app version for the actual learning. I am using the free version and I am not missing much in terms of functionality. The one feature for which I will be very happy to pay a lifetime subscription for is “text to speech.” This will be especially helpful when learning foreign languages as you can have one side of the card being read out in English and the other one in the foreign language, for example German. I hope to see this feature soon.

   911toM3to911 · 5 Sep 2026

2. 2/5Great way to Memorize. Buggy app.

   This app has great potential. It allows me to go over words that i don’t know over and over again until it becomes solidified in my head. I almost considered buying the premium version of the app. However, as much as Brainscape is a great app for its flash cards, it is extremely buggy. First, it relies heavily on its internet connection. If you try to study these flash cards while in the middle of a commute and the mobile network becomes spotty it crashes when you finish. If you want to double check a meaning on a card and you quickly switch apps and come back, the app freezes. It somehow saves progress which I assume is due to its constant connection to the internet, but my inability to switch between apps while memorizing is hindering to my learning process. I even tried to find a way to contact someone from Brainscape to talk about these things, but for some reason it says that there’s no email attached to the app even though when I go to my account my email info is in there. There was even a Brainscape representative that emailed me to promote the premium version so they do have my contact info so why doesn’t the app reflect that. I love the way the app works and would like to use it for a longer period of time, but if these problems persist it’ll become hard for me to do so.

   afeedback · 5 Sep 2026

3. 2/5New version a disaster

   This was literally my favorite app until it was “updated” a few days ago. Now, my investment in creating dozens of lesson plans is down the drain. Fundamentally, it just doesn’t work. When I try to bring up my lessons I get an error message. I have to sign out, sign back in, then download all the lessons each time I use it. Once I do get it to work some of the most important features have been eliminated. For example, reverse testing is a must for language learning. You need to test for the vocabulary both ways. That’s been eliminated in this version, basically rendering it half useless. The card formatting is all screwed-up with words that were formerly in lists now just running together. I’ve had to go in and reformat dozens of cards. In the old version it would run through the card stack in order. Now i get repeats before all the cards in a test appear. I could go on and on but what’s the point? My subscription is up in a few weeks and I’m not sure what I’ll do. A week ago I wouldn’t have given it a second thought, but the new version is basically unusable for me so I need to start to explore alternatives.

   DownOnDerby · 5 Sep 2026

4. 5/5Better than Anki! Mastery metric on point!

   I LOVE this app!!! I’ve used it for the MCAT, throughout my first 2 years of medical school and am now using the pre-made USMLE deck for my board exam prep. I love the percent mastery metric. It is ALWAYS within 3% of my exam scores (including the MCAT)! I only wish there was a plug in or connection with Picmonic that allowed quick search of Picmonics. 100% prefer the spaced repetition algorithm over Anki! I don’t need to fiddle with settings. Brainscape shows me what I need to see when I need to see it. The search function for terms is ok, but I wish I could search and it would leave the list of results up instead of having to search the term again after looking at the first one. Also, I preferred the browse mode from the older version. When I do a quick review for exams I just want to flip through them. But this new version only shows a preview and you only have the option to study the deck from that card. Please allow for quick edits in the app. Overall, I am very happy with the new version!! It is much quicker!

   KristenMLV · 5 Sep 2026

5. 3/5I want it to be good again

   Im trying Brainscape, I’m a lifetime member and I’m trying to being able to say I support this app but the devs are making it hard. They refuse to listen to feedback from longtime users. They changed it because they wanted to and not from feedback. Here is a great little piece of feedback, being back the confidence setting in the browse mode. It went from one keystroke to set confidence in a card to four. I.e. when I first set up cards I like to go through and set my predetermined confidence. I used to be able to just do that automatically in the app on the side via a drop down menu . Now, I have to open the card up, flip it over, rate confidence, be sent to another card, flip it over, rate it…oh wait, you rated your previous card a 1, you have to see that one again….or, you have to back out of browse mode, scroll down to the next unrated card and repeat the process all over again. It’s stupid. If you bring back one thing or change one thing, WHICH YOU SHOULD!!! Bring that back. It makes the app unusable. At this point I would rather ask for a refund and go back to quizlett.

   Mr.Basix · 5 Sep 2026

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