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sometimes cycles through known flashcards more often than desired, and that some pre-made flashcard sets can be outdated.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

Brainscape is an amazing app with…

Brainscape is an amazing app with endless possibilities. I’ve been using it to study German, and it’s been incredibly effective for learning and actually retaining new words. The spaced repetition system works.

Creating new decks is super easy, especially by importing CSV files. The format is straightforward, and you can have entire decks ready in just a few minutes.

Overall, Brainscape has been a super partner for my studies. Couldn’t recommend it more!

October 17, 2025
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Best Revision app ever!

Brainscape is such a helpful revision resource especially for A levels, the cards are always well written and is great for active recall. The only thing I wish is to have discovered or recommended it sooner to help with GCSE's. But im greatful to have it know, im sure it can provide me the A stars if I use it enough. Thankyou so much

October 6, 2025
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent for WSET Studies!

Really wonderful experience with flashcards to study for the WSET2. I don’t know how I’d be able to do it without these cards and their creative way to remember the material. Also that a Master of Wine candidate put them together makes me trust in the reliability of the information!

October 11, 2025
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Benefits of Brainscapes

I really like the idea of having the multiple levels of the cards based on how well you know them. I think that it's really helpful when it comes to learning these words, because the ones you do know shouldn't come up as often as the ones you don't. I think that it's wonderful how you can set up your own category and add a description for it as well. Not to mention that you can create as many flashcards you want for free! Overall I think that this app was a very helpful tool to me as I took a self-study course in Senior year of high school which required me to make flashcards to help me learn with a test for each module every week.

October 8, 2025
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Brainscape is very good

Brainscape is very good. It helped me a lot to learn a language, and it's fun to learn. It's not as boring as books. I highly recommend it to everyone.
Corinna

October 1, 2025
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

When I started to learn German

When I started to learn German, the program had a link to Brainscape where they had created a set of flashcards specifically for each German lessons. This was an invaluable help in my progress. The German course was based on using "chunks or phrases" for learning which was an ideal match with the flashcard methodology for retention and monitor progress.

November 7, 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

No action for copyright violation

Very disappointing service. I work for a company where our intellectual property was used on multiple flashcards, and when flagging this with the customer service team they request proof of every single example before removing it from the website. It required an unnecessary amount of time for such a clear violation, given also that we had already supplied examples, with the college name also stated in the posts.

October 3, 2025
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Reply from Brainscape - Smarter Flashcards

Hi Emma,

Thanks for your feedback, and I’m truly sorry for your frustration. I want to clarify that our policy requires side-by-side proof for each class flagged so that we can properly and fairly verify intellectual property claims. This process is necessary because we cannot rely on class titles alone to take action, as it ensures accuracy and protects all parties involved.

That said, we’ve already taken action on two of the classes you reported the other day. As for the rest of the classes in question, I see that you’ve provided the necessary proof today. Those are currently under review by our team, and we’ll update you as soon as the process is complete.

We really appreciate your patience and diligence in helping us keep Brainscape’s content accurate and respectful of intellectual property.

Chuckee@Brainscape

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Awesome service, awesome company.

Bro this genuinely one of the best companies ever, no cap. Let me explain.

When I first found them, I was looking for an easy way to get digital flashcards. And it does the job very well! However, what I really like is how the company respects you as a customer. Every email I get from them ranges from study tips, little bits of the life of the email writer (such as them mentioning they're currently binge-watching South Park), and reminders to study!

They also recently emailed me saying they would send me some bookmarks and stickers because of how often I use their services. And I didn't need to pay a dime! Both for use of service and the free things!

This company rocks.

September 24, 2025
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Great for study resources

I don't use Brainscape that often because I don't use flashcards often right now and use Quizlet when I do. The website can be a bit slow sometimes. I enjoy the emails about the premade history refresh, some podcasts, I really enjoy the articles, and emails from the founder because I think and hope they are actually from the founder. Great study resources there and accountability/connection to the app and academic journey.

September 22, 2025
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Reply from Brainscape - Smarter Flashcards

Hi there, Malina! Thanks so much for your thoughtful feedback :raised_hands: We’re glad to hear you’re enjoying the articles, podcasts, and Andrew’s emails—yes, those really do come from him! If you ever experience slowness on the desktop site, feel free to reach out to us at support@brainscape.com so we can help troubleshoot. We really appreciate your support and are here to make your study journey as smooth as possible.

Chuckee@Brainscape

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great help for WSET Diploma exam

I'm preparing for the WSET Diploma exam, and they have a massive dedicated set of flashcards based on the very material that needs to be learnt. Very useful!

September 22, 2025
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
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Reply from Brainscape - Smarter Flashcards

Hi there, Praveen! Thanks for sharing your thoughts—we know there’s always room to get better. If you’d like to send specifics to support@brainscape.com or through , we’d love to hear them. Your feedback really helps us improve. Thanks again and looking forward to hearing from you!

Chuckee@Brainscape

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