Spaced Repetition SmartCards+

I’ve only been using this for two weeks and I know I would be floundering without it. I am learning HànZì (Chinese characters) and as the number of characters I am supposed to know increases, the greater the challenge in remembering them all. I am also learning spoken Chinese and that means even more to memorize. Smart Cards allows me to import the ANKI decks from both courses, prioritize cards I’m having trouble with (the app already keeps track of the ones you don’t know) so I don’t waste time on characters, words or phrases I already know well. The decks I’m importing have a small sound clip with the correct pronunciation. SmartCards handles those seamlessly. There are features to this app I haven’t explored yet and I’m sure I’ll get around to it. But, if I can use the app ‘straight out of the box’ and have it work out for me, I think that’s a win for me. And if it’s working this well, that’s five stars in my book.

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This app is wonderful, I use it for medical school and I find it easy to use, however you have to finish a whole deck before it logs your progress, like you can’t do half the deck, close the app and start later, it will delete all your progress and act as if you never did any of the cards in the deck. I can’t get the camera feature to work. When I try to take a picture of illustrations the camera just shows up black as if there is nothing to take a picture of. It is the only app that does that, my camera works fine, so I have to take a picture with the camera, save it, and then add it into the flash card, but I’d save a lot of time if the camera just worked.

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The import from copy paste feature is very limited and doesn’t allow for wildcards like the = determine front of cards versus back of card. The example given doesn’t explain very well nor use any punctuation to allow the user more control over copy paste import function. It only has Google drive and two other flash card websites for archiving. You never know when one of these flash card websites would close. You think that be the ability to make a zip file or I don’t know, use dropbox or iCloud. But they don’t. Pretty much, every Flashcards app on the iPhone has limited features, or doesn’t allow for archiving properly. I’m not sure why someone doesn’t develop an app with the proper features of audio recording image support and archiving. But no one has.

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This has the potential to go the distance. Truly. I’m a flash card fanatic. Before this, ive used THREE different flash card apps simultaneously for different things. I want to see this app bundle all their strengths into one place. For that I would pay an even higher rate- Developers this app is incredible so far. I love the ankii style review system, with the flexible phone friendly card creation of say quizlet. A couple suggestions. Short term- You’ve GOT to give me the ability to organize these into groups. I want to have dozens of decks and not have to lose time scrolling through a list of like 60. Long term- Id love to be able to rate my confidence on my card instead of just a got it/missed it scale. That is, rate it on a gradient and have the review system take that into account. Like brainscape. LONG long term- See and download other people’s decks. Review cards in game form (see quizlet) Again... deck groups seem like the no brainer :/ I feel you might actually be losing people from not having that. All said, AMAZING potential!!

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I want to love this app and I wish that I could support it by subscribing but it just barely misses the mark on some things. You are currently not able to edit multiple cards (like the tag or comment fields) at the same time. When importing from a document, you can’t import separate lines (only spaces). Importing from an Excel or Numbers sheet would be amazing. Also, exiting out of the app for longer than about 2 minutes completely restarts the app coming back—this one is the most frustrating. That said, this is the best thing next to paying the $25 for Anki. The absolute best free option available.