Get Smarter with Brainscape

Brainscape

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About this app

A powerful learning tool for general knowledge.

‘Get Smarter’ is the ultimate collection of smart, digital flashcards that cover the baseline essentials of everything you should know about the world around you, from history’s greatest artists to the names of the common birds in your backyard, from the spices you should add to your foods to the capital cities of the world’s countries. And so much more.

There is scarcely a subject we haven’t touched upon nor an expert we haven’t left unconsulted in our grand goal of bringing to everyone, everywhere, the world’s most comprehensive collection of general knowledge flashcards.

Now, you can efficiently learn (and remember) everything you wish you’d learned in school and life with our ‘Get Smarter’ collection of flashcard classes, FREE with every Brainscape account:

Knowledge Rehab—everything you wish you’d learned in school
Street Smarts—everything you wish you’d learned in life
Vocab Builder—new words to advance your language

Cultural literacy for the 21st Century!

General knowledge isn’t only for trivia lovers or bar quiz heroes. Learning surface-level facts about various topics and subjects unlock vast worlds of intrigue, curiosity, and connection between us.

Suddenly, that wine menu becomes demystified because you know the difference between Cabernet Sauvignon and Sauvignon Blanc; or you’re understanding better why the Mona Lisa draws millions of visitors to the Louvre in Paris every year.

Repeat across any subject you can think of—classic authors, science, health & nutrition, history, travel, basic first aid, food & drink, engineering, etc.—and you’ve got a comprehensive education that’ll make you smarter, more worldly, and more interesting to talk to!

This is what Brainscape’s ‘Get Smarter’ collection promises.

Through a multi-year project involving hundreds of students, teachers, professors, and experts (and even a few hipsters), Brainscape has compiled a critical base set of knowledge across many subjects and topics of interest.

We’ve organized it into three classes—Knowledge Rehab, Street Smarts, and Vocab Builder—all of which are FREE and automatically loaded with every Brainscape account.

How Brainscape helps you learn faster and remember for longer

The brain is hardwired to learn and remember information in a certain way.

The Brainscape™ flashcard app was born out of the question: what if we leveraged this hardwiring to help students learn more efficiently? Fueled by curiosity, our team of cognitive scientists from Columbia and Yale spent years developing a scientifically optimized learning platform to boost your learning.

Our "secret sauce" is a learning algorithm that delivers information to your brain in a way that optimizes its ability to retain that information. And it’s the spaced repetition of general knowledge content at precisely the right interval for YOUR brain that makes Brainscape so effective for remembering the facts.

With Brainscape’s Get Smarter course, you get the following:

Knowledge Rehab with 27 decks packed with essential facts about the world, art, history, science, and so much more.

Street Smarts with 22 decks bursting with essential facts about survival, home maintenance, common birds, foreign language greetings, and so much more.

Vocab Builder with 9 decks containing super useful, yet complex English words, complete with definitions, sample sentences, and synonyms.

Easy access to study online or in Brainscape's mobile apps for iOS and Android.

A spaced repetition learning system customized to your unique pace of learning.

Bookmark tools to make it easy to quiz yourself and your classmates.

Lots of scores, analytics, and progress metrics so you can easily track your studies and build good study habits.

Social features and leaderboards to see how your progress compares to others worldwide.

Dive in and start improving your knowledge, for free!

Ratings and reviews

I really like the app, it does its job and has a sleek design. There's only a minor inconvenience throwing me off. I'm not sure if it's just my device, but when I write something in the "answer" section of the notecard, I see the text in the textbox jitter a bit. It's barely noticeable but the blurry text messes with my eyes a bit. Aside from that minor nitpick, again, it's a great app!

This has replaced all of my physical note cards. It shows you note cards frequently enough for you to learn them. It bases how often to show it to you on how well you report knowing the card (1-5). It's a great environmentally friendly alternative to note cards as well as more convenient because you're much more likely to have your phone on you than your note cards if you want to study at random moments throughout the day. Love it!

I've been using Brainscape for a little over three years now and it has gotten me through SO many tests and subjects. The algorithm really helps make sure I can focus on cards that I'm struggling with and I like being able to monitor my progress both within the deck and in the overviews of each class. I also love that I can create my cards on the computer which is much quicker but then always have them in my pocket so I can study while I'm on the go. I've mostly used the free version but I temporarily upgraded to pro for a semester when I wanted more advanced functions for a few of my subjects. One thing I would have liked to see in pro version would be the ability to make tables and graphs directly on the cards rather than having to just paste in photos. The other BIG thing thing I would like to see in both free and pro version is the ability to flip the question and answer card within each deck. I use the app a lot my Spanish and it really frustrates me that I can't reverse the order to see the Spanish vocab first if I've originally written out the English on the question question. This seems like a very simple function to have for a flashcard app and it's the one area where I prefer other programs

What’s new

What’s new? Not much. We''ve been chilling. You know how it is. Squashed some bugs, trimmed some code, and made Brainscape even smoother. We're feeling pretty good. To recreate the same vibe, clean your room and light a candle. Study on, tidy genius.