Amazing but could be Perfect
Im a grad student going for his doctorates and I have not found a better studying app worth my time than Gizmo. The time I have saved using the ai feature to make flash cards has made my studying 100x more efficient. The overall concept behind the app is amazing and I am grateful for the creators of it! However, having used another flashcard program called Anki I would say that the only area Gizmo struggles to compete in is the active recall component. Whenever I am studying a deck with over 100+ cards, I notice the program struggles to give me older cards and keeps repeating the same ones even though I’m guessing them correctly. I believe the spaced repetition should be better tuned to bring up older cards faster so that I don’t have to wait 30 days whenever I guess a card right 3 times in a row because I guarantee you I will not be guessing that correctly a month from now and starting out that card cycle all over again. Where as a program like Anki will have you see that same card a day from now, then maybe 3 days then 10 days and so on. The only other thing I would say could make the app perfect is having more options when it comes to selecting the type do flash cards you want to like “mixed” “true or false” etc. Gizmo has 2 options, either mix all of them or only 1 other type a time which I think is a flaw because sometimes I only want to do certain types but I want more than one and not all of them if that makes sense. Other than that I truly do love the app I’ve been using to study for my state board exams and I feel confident in my ability to pass them with Gizmo!