Benkyo Box is a flashcard app that is like your notes, but of the things that you want to commit to memory like names, fun facts, or exam material. These are the facts that you don't want to bury in a note taking app, and want to ensure you truly know them. Every flashcard you add to Benkyo Box is added to your daily studies, in which a beautiful study interface shows you the card’s question, you try to recall its answer, reveal it, then rate yourself after seeing the actual answer. Based on that rating, the card is re-surfaced in future with a notification so that you can practice again until you know it. Flexible flashcard content: Flashcards not only have the standard image/text front and back format, they also support in-app sketching and images for both the question and answer. Text supports multiple lines in both the question and answer so you can learn lists in a single flashcard. Powerful annotation cards: It is common to want to learn multiple concepts found on a single image, such as: - the components of a mechanical object - anatomical parts - different elements of a dish Typically, you’d have to use a separate app to crop parts of an image containing these concepts and add them to a flashcard app to study them. Benkyo Box makes this easier with Annotation Cards - simply annotate an image within the app and Benkyo Box creates flashcards from those annotations. It preserves the original image as incredibly useful context. Easily add many cards at once: - Quick Entry: Enter many cards at once by alternating questions and answers in plain text. This is specially helpful for pasting content from LLMs easily, or from a longer note that you can edit in Quick Entry to strip out only the flashcard content. - CSV import: import a spreadsheet with flexible options on how to interpret the columns for the final flashcards - Folder import: select a folder with multiple images, creating a flashcard for each image in the question, filename on the answer. If the folder contains a CSV, the CSV can be used to customize how the images are imported (used as question, answer or both). Shortcuts for everything: Quickly do almost anything that you can do in the app within Shortcuts, like adding cards, checking your study status, importing content, and even updating app settings. Flexible organization: Organize your flashcards using folders and subfolders for all your topics, or keep them in the default unsorted folder if you prefer them that way. Your schedule and trends, at a glance: Open the app and you'll immediately see your study progress for the day and the time for your next study (also available as a widget). Navigate to the calendar to see what you have scheduled for today, the following days and how you scored the previous day. Flexible study sessions: Study a specific topic by navigating to it, or study all topics scheduled for today by studying from the Today view. Study times and flashcard frequencies can be configured in settings. Also if you are feeling like studying a topic but the cards are not available yet, you can always reset the folder and study right away. Privacy: Cards are private information and we have no access to them. If you use iCloud sync, Benkyo Box securely encrypts your content in iCloud with client-side encryption - nobody in the server can read your cards. Themes, each with a Dark Mode version: Choose a theme to match the mood of the study session. Advanced Learner Features: With Advanced Learner, a paid tier, you get features that help you streamline your studies: - Extract cards from text and articles using on devices that support Apple Intelligence - Hidden folders that are ignored from studies until you are ready to unhide them - Deadlines that help prioritize studies before an important date Most importantly, the app is fully functional without Advanced Learner and we work hard to ensure that it’s easy to unsubscribe from it with the least disruption as possible.
| Size | 62 MB |
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| Initial release | |
| Price | |
| Platforms | Mac, iPhone, and iPad |
| Languages | English, French, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, and Chinese |
| Category | Education |
| Website | autorelease.io/benkyobox |
| Compatibility | |
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| iPhone | Requires iOS 18.2 or later. |
| iPad | Requires iPadOS 18.2 or later. |
| Mac | Requires macOS 15.6 or later. |
| Apple Vision | Requires visionOS 2.2 or later. |
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New for Advanced Learner: Annotate images with emoji pins and arrows, a powerful and fun new way to learn from maps, diagrams, and photos. It's also incredibly effective for the Mind Palace technique of associating concepts to a familiar picture (e.g. associate the picture of flowers of your garden with a list of names). There's also a plethora of improvements around annotations and new card creation that we think you'll love. New Features: - New Arrow annotations for Advanced Learner: point to specific parts of an image with arrows customizable with eight colors. Perfect for remembering areas of an image with more irregular shapes. - New Emoji Pins for Advanced Learner: Place emoji markers anywhere on an image to mark locations, landmarks, map regions, and more. Perfect for learning from visual associations. - Picking content to turn into cards with the (+) button is easier: - Select what you want to add first (from the camera, image picker, folder, pasteboard etc), then we'll figure out what you can create from it (image card, annotation, quick entry, etc). No more complex nested menus. - The (+) button allows you to start an audio recording now. With Advanced Learner, it'll also automatically transcribe the text for creating one or more cards using Quick Entry. - Image Playground is now available from the Add Card menu. Improvements: - A more intuitive Annotations experience: - The Annotations Editor can now open without picking an image first, allowing you to choose how to add an image after launching it. Select from different sources, including new methods like drag and drop, and Image Playgrounds. - A new floating toolbar shows you all the tools that you have available and can be tapped for more tool options. - Lasso tool has been replaced with a new Select tool that allows you to more easily pan, zoom and select annotations in an image. Long press while the Select tool is active to activate the lasso. - Tapping on the canvas ends editing on the current annotation, not the whole editing session, so that you can more easily continue editing other annotations. - The keyboard stays active while you add annotations with the keyboard active, so that you can continue typing new ones easily. - Mac: Escape key now correctly cancels editor actions. - Cleaned up Quick Entry's design on both iOS 26 and iOS 18 Fixes: - Fixed pasted Finder images only importing file icons instead of the actual image. - Fixed issues where resizing annotations could accidentally trigger taps, deselecting them.