Brainscape - Smarter Flashcards Reviews 513

TrustScore 5 out of 5

4.8

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Reviewers overwhelmingly had a great experience with this company. Customers consistently praise the app and website for their excellent user experience, finding them intuitive and easy to navigate. Many users highlight the product's high quality, particularly the flashcards, which are described as well-written and effective for learning and retention. People appreciate the flexibility to create custom content and the seamless experience across different devices. However, some customers noted occasional issues with the website being slow. A few reviewers also mentioned that the algorithm sometimes cycles through known flashcards more often than desired, and that some pre-made flashcard sets can be outdated.

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Awesome tool I use for learning a foreign language. After each class, I create a deck with new words, then practice them in the following days. Cards/words you have more problems with appear more ofte... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I bought the ETS official flashcards from the GRE and it brought me to this website. I've been hooked ever since. It's made learning vocab (my toughest area) fun. I love that this app gives me a strea... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I've been using Brainscape on my desktop and phone to learn new vocabulary, and it's been a truly seamless experience. What I value most is the flexibility—I can create as many custom classes and deck... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Love brainscape genuinely the only way I can study and lock in during finals. It's so easy to make flashcards and the interface/UI is way better than any other flashcard app I have tried. Love the fe... See more


Company details

  1. Software Company
  2. Adult Education School
  3. Education Center
  4. Learning Center
  5. Study at Home School
  6. Studying Center

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The most effective web and mobile flashcard app.✓ Securely find, create, and share digital flashcards, then optimize studying using proven cognitive science. Perfect for educators and students; school, foreign languages, professional certifications, and more! Brainscape's learning system is based on several decades of cognitive science research into how people learn best. Using a combination of active recall, metacognition, distributed practice, spaced repetition, and interleaving study, Brainscape's algorithm ensures that you are studying each flashcard in the format, pattern, and interval that best optimizes your speed of learning and length of retention. If you're a teacher, professor, tutor, or employee trainer, Brainscape also allows you to easily collaborate with many colleagues (or with students themselves) to create the flashcards, and to track over a dozen different metrics about your students study and mastery patterns. With Brainscape, you can feel confident that your students are studying in the most effective way possible, so you can instead focus on what you're best at!


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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

A great app

A regular to use flashcard app that just about gets the ideal balance between brief, repetitive and user friendly.

December 14, 2025
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Amazing resource

Amazing resource!
I use the app importing csv files that I generate using chat gpt and pdf files of the most recent updates on medical guidelines , so that I can keep myself up to date even if I work so much that I have near to zero time.

December 14, 2025
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Using it for years

Using it for years, it is a bit pricey but it's so worth it. I have passed my dental nursing diploma NEBDE with it, my sedation qualification NEBDN, now I am studying ORAL health science at university and still using this app. It's just very helpful, it has it's pros and cons but if you learn to use it. Life saver. I bought subscription fo life

December 11, 2025
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Flashcards for Language Learning

I only needed text flashcards to learn a new language, so Brainscape was the perfect app. It gave me the flexibility to add flashcards to various categories and the space-repetition feature allows me to learn the words as I needed.

December 1, 2025
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

A superior flashcard study app

I love the rating feature in brainscape. This feature along with the percentage trackers really encourage me to study my flashcards regularly. Brainscape is so much better that the popular "Q" flashcard app.

December 3, 2025
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Awesome tool!

This app was great for me as future examenee for Cicerone tests. Flashcards really make a difference on the way the Beer Scholar presents a tool for testers to memorize and actually exercise the knowledge. I even extended the membership after the test to keep using as knowledge base and also to maybe go further into other themes.

July 1, 2025
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

A personal resource and tool

Brainscape has a very smart application for learning using flashcards that are color coded to acquisition level so it allows you to learn directly and easily.

December 6, 2025
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

This app is the absolute best

This app is the absolute best. As a bar exam repeat taker, I am so glad I found brainscape this time around. It has saved me so much time in terms of preparing my own flashcards and allows me to truly focus on learning and memorizing the material in a strategic way.

December 2, 2025
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

really great flashcards

really great flashcards. helped me a lot in reinforcing my knowledge as well as gain new knowledge. Keep up the good work and thanks again!

October 26, 2025
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Perfect flashcard study app

Perfect flashcard study app, I have now passed tests and achieved accreditation for two different subjects in the banking & payments industry and I'm working on my third. Creating Brainscape flashcards alongside the exam prep programs and adding the quiz questions and answers has been a life saver.

November 25, 2025
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

I love all the features that are freely offered, but they could give a little more.

I appreciate how everything is ad-free. On other free flashcard websites there are always SO many ads.
I also love how well the spaced practice part of Brainscape is incorporated into Brainscape, and how they have a Brainscape Academy where I can read all these articles that have all these learning tips and tricks that have helped me so much as a student.
All this is for free!
The only thing that bugs me is that you can't use other Brainscape-certified flashcards(except for something like 3 decks that you can use fully), and after you make 2 classes(in those 2 classes you can study them), you can't study the next class you make. You can study the decks individually, but you can't mix all the decks in a class and study them. It only works for your first 2 classes. You need to pay to get these features.

Edit: What I also dislike is that there's all these things you can do on the mobile app that you can't on the web browser version(for example Smart Study). As someone who doesn't have a phone, that can be frustrating.

November 23, 2025
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Reply from Brainscape - Smarter Flashcards

Hi there! Thanks so much for the love! We know ads can get in the way of studying, so we’re glad you’re enjoying our ad-free platform.

For the classes you created, you should be able to study all of them using our Smart Study feature in the mobile app. Here’s more info:
https://brainscape.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410682062477-How-does-Smart-Study-work-in-mobile

If you need any help, feel free to reach out to our support team anytime at support@brainscape.com. We’re happy to assist!

Thanks again, and happy studying!

Chuckee @ Brainscape

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

The site as a whole is great

The site as a whole is great, only one small problem for me. I feel like there's a disconnection between the online site and the app, like what I learn on the browser site is different to what I learn on the app, despite using the same profile. Otherwise, it has helped me greatly with learning a foreign language on a bigger scale.

November 21, 2025
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Reply from Brainscape - Smarter Flashcards

Hi there — thanks for your feedback! I’m curious which class you’re studying where you’re seeing differences between platforms. If you manually sync the mobile app (pull down to refresh), it should match what you see in the web browser. If not, please email us at support@brainscape.com with screenshots from both platforms and the class link, and we’ll be happy to help.”
Glad to hear everything else is working well for you!

Chuckee@Brainscape

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Easy to Use

I have been using brainscape for around a month and it has been my favorite app in terms of making flashcards and spaced repetition it is very easy yo create classes and make your own flashcards there are some nice features such as using AI to create flashcards which also save a lot of time and it is quite easy to use compared to other websites i really recommend giving it a try once you use it there is no going back.

October 9, 2025
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