Brainscape: Study Flashcards

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About this app

Learn faster and remember longer with Brainscape, the AI flashcard app that combines scientifically proven spaced repetition and active recall. Create flashcards instantly from notes, PDFs, images, and text, or study millions of expert-created flashcards for exams, languages, certifications, and more. Whether you're switching from Anki, Quizlet, or another flashcard app, Brainscape helps you study more efficiently.

Brainscape’s intelligent study system is designed around proven cognitive science principles that help you learn faster and remember longer. By combining active recall, metacognition, and spaced repetition, Brainscape helps serious learners spend less time studying and retain more of what they learn.

How Brainscape Works:
Study any subject using smart flashcards designed to maximize retention:
- Actively recall answers instead of passively rereading notes
- Rate your confidence from 1–5 after each card
- Let Brainscape automatically optimize review timing using spaced repetition
- Focus more time on difficult concepts and less on material you've already mastered

This unique combination of active recall, self-assessment (metacognition), and spaced repetition is designed to help you learn more efficiently.

Where do all of Brainscape’s awesome flashcards come from? Three places:

1. Expert-created flashcards: Study professionally designed collections covering:
- Foreign languages
- MBE (Bar Exam)
- NCLEX
- MCAT
- AP courses
- Series 7
- GRE
- And many more

2. Community-created flashcards: Search millions of flashcards created by students, teachers, professionals, and organizations around the world.

3. Create your own flashcards: Instantly create multimedia flashcards from:
- Notes
- PDFs
- Images
- Documents
- Text input

Add images, audio, and collaborate with classmates or colleagues.

Why learners all over the world use Brainscape
- AI-powered flashcard creation
- Scientifically designed spaced repetition
- Active recall learning techniques
- Progress tracking and study insights
- Millions of existing flashcards ready to study
- Available across web and mobile devices

How much does it cost? Creating and sharing great text flashcards is FREE. (Woohoo! And sorry, we do have to charge for image creation for security reasons.) And for unlimited access to ALL of Brainscape's user-generated and premium, expert-curated content, as well as optional features, like bookmarks and card reversibility--or to make your content private, you can upgrade to Pro for $19.99 (monthly), $59.99 (every 6 months), or $95.99 (annually). Alternatively, you can unlock a LIFETIME of learning with Brainscape for a one-time cost of only $199.99 American dolla billz.

The fine print: The 3 recurring subscriptions (monthly, semiannual, and annual) will renew automatically within 24 hours before the end of the current period, unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the period. You can cancel auto-renewal any time by going to Account Settings, and the cancellation will apply after the active subscription period is complete. Go ahead and learn more about our Terms and Privacy Policy at brainscape.com/terms.

What’s on the horizon? It’s our vision to empower everyone, everywhere to rise to the challenge of personalized forever-learning. And for this reason, we love hearing from our user community: it’s through your feedback that we can continue to innovate our platform to be more convenient, efficient, and even fun and social to use!
Flashcard maker with AI and spaced repetition. Create, study, learn faster.
Updated on
Oct 14, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    Photos and videos, Audio, and App activity
  • This app may collect these data types
    Personal info, Photos and videos and 4 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

12.8K reviews
Michael Joel
February 19, 2022
useful and easy to use. the only issue I keep running in to is that I'm often trying to edit and add more cards but instead it goes to study mode. I think it would be nice to have a toggle that allows us to default to edit or study, so that when we click the deck it goes to what we need, instead of having to go in to the deck settings every time to edit.
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Brainscape
March 4, 2022
Great idea for something we may be able to incorporate in the future, Michael. A lot of users want to just go straight into studying but I could see how having your own default result if you didn't want to automatically go into study mode. Hopefully, we can add something like this to the app. Thanks for your patience. -- Courtney@Brainscape
A Google user
November 3, 2018
Font rendering is poor. Fonts that are clearly italic on the website are nearly imperceptible as italic in the app. Images attached cards are so small that they become illegible, and there is no way to zoom in. This product just isn't suitable for my needs. I'm going back to Anki flashcards. Creating flashcards maybe more difficult, but the end result is what I need.
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Brainscape
November 26, 2018
So sorry to hear of your struggle with Brainscape, Charles. I know we've discussed this before and hopefully a coming update will address your frustrations and you'll be studying with us happily again. Again, so sorry for any trouble caused in the meantime. -- CH
Kristin Johnston
August 31, 2020
I've been using Brainscape for a little over three years now and it has gotten me through SO many tests and subjects. The algorithm really helps make sure I can focus on cards that I'm struggling with and I like being able to monitor my progress both within the deck and in the overviews of each class. I also love that I can create my cards on the computer which is much quicker but then always have them in my pocket so I can study while I'm on the go. I've mostly used the free version but I temporarily upgraded to pro for a semester when I wanted more advanced functions for a few of my subjects. One thing I would have liked to see in pro version would be the ability to make tables and graphs directly on the cards rather than having to just paste in photos. The other BIG thing thing I would like to see in both free and pro version is the ability to flip the question and answer card within each deck. I use the app a lot my Spanish and it really frustrates me that I can't reverse the order to see the Spanish vocab first if I've originally written out the English on the question question. This seems like a very simple function to have for a flashcard app and it's the one area where I prefer other programs
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Brainscape
September 11, 2020
Thanks so much for your detailed feedback and suggestions, Kristin! Wow, 3 years it's like you're already a part of our team 🤗 We hear you on the ideas you've brought up and hopefully can incorporate them in future updates. Stay tuned, Courtney@Brainscape

What’s new

Wondering if you must get this update of Brainscape? Well, there are some important new additions:
- Customize the Study Algorithm! Just tap the ⚙️ on your dashboard or the bottom of the Study screen to adjust your repetition intervals
- Cards Overdue. Previously rated cards not studied in time for their assigned repetition interval are now marked Overdue. The algorithm will always exhaust Overdue before resuming new cards to minimize cognitive overload.