Brainscape - Smart flashcards & spaced repetition

Brainscape's SMART FLASHCARDS enhance studying efficiency and strengthen habits to DOUBLE your learning speed, utilizing the most effective method of spaced repetition and active recall found in any flashcard application worldwide! (And likely beyond, unless an advanced alien civilization has outperformed us.)

With a vast repository built by millions of users and experts globally, you can DISCOVER, CREATE, and DISTRIBUTE flashcards anytime, anywhere, and on any device, while ensuring your content remains meticulously ORGANIZED and perfectly IN SYNC across web, mobile, and all your devices.

How does it operate? 

Brainscape’s intelligent study system is crafted based on decades of established cognitive science principles, helping you learn more rapidly and retain information longer than any other flashcard application. (We prioritize serious learning over games.)

Brainscape breaks down subjects into manageable facts (neatly arranged in decks and categories), presented as question-and-answer pairs, compelling you to actively retrieve information from memory. You evaluate your grasp of each concept on a scale from 1 to 5, and Brainscape determines the ideal timing for revisiting that flashcard.

If you have a strong understanding of the answer, you'll encounter that flashcard less frequently; if you're struggling with it, you'll see it repeatedly, at closer intervals, until it's firmly embedded in your memory. This distinctive blend of active recall, self-assessment (metacognition), and spaced repetition is scientifically shown to considerably reduce your required study time!

Where do Brainscape's exceptional flashcards originate? From three primary sources:

TOP EXPERTS WORLDWIDE. Brainscape collaborates with leading publishers, educational institutions, and educators to develop extensive sets of verified flashcards across a range of topics, including foreign languages (we are regarded as the premier tool for language acquisition) and critical exams like the AP series, MBE (bar exam), Series 7, NCLEX, MCAT, and others.

YOUR FELLOW STUDENTS. Outstanding students, academics, teachers, tutoring entrepreneurs, and organizations globally have contributed over 1 million subjects, available for exploration in Brainscape’s Knowledge Genome.

YOU! You can effortlessly design and categorize thousands of multimedia flashcards with text, images, and audio files, using both Brainscape’s website AND the app. Additionally, you can share your decks with peers and collaboratively create content.

What is the cost? 

Creating and sharing excellent text flashcards is FREE. (Great news! Although note, we must charge for image creation for security protocols.) For unrestricted access to ALL user-generated and premium expert-curated content, along with optional features like bookmarks and card reversibility--or to keep your content private, consider upgrading to Pro for $19.99 (monthly), $59.99 (every 6 months), or $95.99 (annually). Alternatively, secure a LIFETIME of learning with Brainscape for a one-time fee of just $199.99.

Important details: The three subscription options (monthly, semiannual, and annual) will auto-renew automatically within 24 hours prior to the end of the current term unless auto-renew is disabled at least 24 hours beforehand. You may cancel auto-renewal anytime via Account Settings, and the cancellation will be effective at the conclusion of the active subscription period. Feel free to learn more about our terms and conditions directly from our resources.

What does the future hold? 

Vision for Lifelong Learning

Brainscape's vision is to empower individuals everywhere to take on the challenge of personalized lifelong learning. The app values feedback from its user community, as it helps in innovating the platform to be more convenient, efficient, and even fun and social.

Features for Optimized Studying

Attack Weaknesses: Brainscape's online flashcards optimize studying by repeating difficult concepts at the perfect interval for maximum memory retention.

Make Flashcards Faster: Users can import vocab lists or question banks. AI can be used to summarize notes or lessons into flashcards, or users can manually create them with text, images, and sounds.

Flexible Content Authoring: Trainers can organize "decks", add images and sounds, and collaborate with multiple editors for real-time content deployment.

Thousands of Subjects: Brainscape offers a wide variety of subjects, including popular ones like NCLEX, WSET ® Level 2, Spanish, MBE, World Geography, MCAT, GRE Psychology, Learn Chinese, World History, Medical & Nursing, CPA, USMLE, SIE Exam, and many more.