Teachers love flashcards. They’re a time honored method for teaching and learning vocabulary, numbers, equations, a new language, or anything where a stack of facts is a requirement. Mac, iPhone, and iPad users should rejoice; especially parents, teachers, and, perhaps less so, students.
Is the best OS X and iOS flashcard system I’ve used to date, and as a teacher I can recommend it to anyone who has a list of anything that needs to be memorized or learned. What Price Flash?
Anki ( Anki - powerful, intelligent flashcards) is the best option. It is open-source, free and very good. Over at The Sweet Setup, Studies was chosen as the best flash card app for iOS. This is a category I never considered before recently. If you want to create cards on your Mac, there is a paid macOS app. I used flashed cards a lot in school, so it makes sense to turn this into a digital category!
Flashcards are about as straightforward as paper. Most of us have encountered flashcards somewhere in our lifetime, whether it was vocabulary drills or multiplication tables. Using a stack of index cards to learn is common.
Mac, iPhone, and iPad users will find Wokabulary to be a digital version of index cards, complete with quiz options and test statistics; an excellent way to quiz yourself or a student, measure progress along the way, and bounce from one device to another, thanks to iCloud or Dropbox syncing. Wokabulary lets you set up a stack of cards for any language and vocabulary, then use the cards as a quiz and track the results over time, both numerically, and graphically. For Mac users, Wokabulary allows you type the answers to the flashcard quizzes, which also helps you to learn faster (teachers know that students learn through their hands, too). The app is free to use for one language in the basic version but has in-app purchase options available for additional features (including multiple languages, Dropbox syncing, popup quiz, graphic statistics, and more). One feature I love is the difficulty levels which can be assigned to each card.
Difficult items are asked more frequently while older and easier items are asked less often during the quizzes. Wokabulary gives you direct access to the wordlists at, an online database for flashcard sets.
This is well done and the free option makes it easy to try. I prefer to setup flashcards on my Mac (you can’t be screen real estate) and then use iPhone or iPad for studies and quizzes (a good way to improve ones French when everything sounds like Greek to me). Just remember that the free try-before-you-buy version is limited. Otherwise, well recommended as a teacher who loves all things digital.