Brainscape: Smarter Flashcards

Revise smarter with Brainscape, the AI-powered flashcard revision app built around spaced repetition and active recall. Create flashcards instantly from notes, PDFs, images, and text, or revise with millions of expert-created flashcards for exams, languages, qualifications, and more.

Brainscape’s intelligent revision 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 revising and retain more of what they learn.

How Brainscape works

Revise any subject using smart flashcards designed to maximise retention:
* Actively recall answers instead of passively rereading notes
* Rate your confidence from 1–5 after each card
* Let Brainscape automatically optimise 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 revise more efficiently.

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

1. Expert-created flashcards: Study professionally designed collections covering:
* GCSE subjects
* A-Level subjects
* Foreign languages
* GRE
* NCLEX
* MCAT
* Professional certifications
* And many more

2. Community-created flashcards: Search millions of flashcards created by students, teachers, professionals, and organisations 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, teachers, or colleagues.

Why learners all over the world use Brainscape
* AI-powered flashcard creation
* Scientifically designed spaced repetition
* Active recall learning techniques
* Revision tracking and learning insights
* Millions of existing flashcards ready to revise
* 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 keep your content private, you can upgrade to Pro.

The fine print: The recurring subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled before the renewal period begins. You can manage your subscription in Account Settings. Learn more at brainscape.com/terms.

What’s on the horizon?

It’s our vision to empower everyone, everywhere to rise to the challenge of lifelong learning. Your feedback helps us continue improving Brainscape to make learning more convenient, efficient, and engaging.