Fresh Cards - Flashcards

I like the stats, it helps me to see my progress.

If you feel that an app like Anki is too complicated or wastes time with its complexity but you don’t want to pay a subscription then this is the app for you. It is by far the best non-subscription flashcard app I’ve found. I purchased the full version of the app ($15 USD) a couple months ago. The only two cons I can think of are that it has a couple less features than some other flashcard apps and that its layout is not the most intuitive with different locations for where deck vs card settings are stored. However, it has many amazing features that make it 100% worthwhile even if it is behind on a few minor features. It has an uncluttered layout, appealing aesthetics, a unique and useful combination of tags plus “what you see is what you review”, and different modes for reviewing cards and marking them as complete. Some of the missing features are on the roadmap and likely to come soon. The developer has great response time to my questions or feedback and has been friendly in his responses. All of which are bonus points to an already great app.

This is such a great app. Really simple to use while still being very powerful. Highly recommended.

Simple, smart, stylish.

The good: Excellent overall in terms of design, intuitive use and speed of creating new cards. A model for other apps. The bad: To me it has a fatal flaw. Say you create a deck of 50 Italian verbs. You then want to review 30 cards. Well, Fresh Cards doesn’t allow you to review all thirty. If first selects 4? 5? cards for you, then displays them again and again. At first I assumed I had the wrong settings, or, making sure those were correct, maybe the program had a significant bug. No—it’s actually designed this way. The problem here is the assumption that memory works with this kind of repeated, quick succession exposure. Can’t remember one card? With Fresh Cards you’ll see it again in 10 seconds. And then 10 seconds after that. Meanwhile, you’re not getting access to the other cards you’ve taken the time to create and want to review. There is, to me, an obvious inefficiency here. Plus, it creates frustration, which is to be avoided if possible in a learning environment. However, the philosophy of Fresh Cards seems to be ‘just power through it’. This is not good educational psychology. The whole point of doing flashcards presupposes that you’re going to be continually frustrated a tiny bit by all the things you don’t remember. But the solution to this is not to amplify the frustration by restricting your access to other cards by continually forcing you to see cards you’ve already seen multiple time before. This should not be a video game where you have to slay a monster to get through the door. Memory doesn’t function in exact parallel with the algorithm that Fresh Cards uses. If you want to create a deck of 100 cards, Fresh Cards won’t allow you to review them unless you first endure its again and again and again and again repeat of 4 or 5 cards. Please know this before you buy. I don’t think the developer yet appreciates what a bottleneck this will be for many. -Including myself. I’m retiring Fresh Cards in search of a better system.

This is ridiculous. The app won't let me review the cards that I have already reviewed.

This flash card app is easy to use and worth every penny! Buy it!

Excellent app. Very simple to use, but does everything you probably want it to. Highly recommended.