Flashy

Android · free to start

Flashcards you write by hand.

Equations, kanji, circuit diagrams, a phrase in an alphabet your keyboard doesn't have. Write or draw either side of a card with a stylus or a finger, so the card looks like what you'd have written on paper.

No account. No sign-in. Works with no signal.

Question

circular motion a = ?

Answer

a = v2/r towards the centre

Don't RememberIn 1 day
Kind of RememberIn 3 days
RememberIn 7 days

A card, and the three buttons that schedule it.

Most flashcard apps assume your cards are text.

Plenty of what is worth learning is not. Chemical structures. Kanji and hanzi. Circuit diagrams, anatomy sketches, a derivation that only makes sense written out.

Flashy lets you type a side when typing suits it, and write it when it doesn't.

The pen

Built for a stylus.

And forgiving of a finger.

  • Pressure-sensitive

    A stylus thickens and thins the way ink does. A finger writes at full width instead of a faint one.

  • Two fingers to undo, three to redo

    Without reaching for a toolbar, and without leaving the card.

  • Fifteen ink colours, four widths

    The colours you last used sit beside the pen, so the ones you actually work in are always one tap away.

    The palette, as it ships.

The shelf

Organised the way you think.

  • Folders, as deep as you like

    A term, a subject, a chapter. Nest them however your course is actually shaped.

  • Due counts roll up

    A folder counts the cards due underneath it, so you can see where the work is without opening anything.

The desk

Three ways to study.

what's due

Review

The cards your schedule says are due. See the question, reveal the answer, grade yourself.

before the exam

Cram

Draw from any decks you pick, due or not, weighted towards the cards you know least well.

no stakes

Practice

Cycle one deck at random for as long as you like. Nothing recorded, no due dates moved.

The schedule

You set the spacing.

Each of the three grades pushes a card out by a number of days you choose, so the schedule fits how you actually study instead of someone else's model.

What a fresh install starts with:

Don't Remember1day
Kind of Remember3days
Remember7days

Your cards

Yours, and nobody else's.

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  • No account, no sign-in

    Nothing to register. Open it and start writing.

  • No analytics, no advertising, no tracking

    Of any kind. There is nowhere for your cards to go.

  • Works on a plane, and on the underground

    Everything runs on the device. A signal is never part of it.

  • Backups you can hold

    Export the whole library, or a single deck, to a file you choose. Import it on another device just as easily.

  • Sync through your own Google Drive

    Optional, and off until you connect it. Flashy keeps a folder of its own in your Drive. No Flashy account, no server of ours in the middle, and nothing in there readable by anything but this app.

The price

Free, and honest about it.

Unlocking removes two limits and changes nothing else. No feature is held back, and there are no adverts anywhere.

Free

Flashy Free

  • Three decks
  • Forty cards in each
  • Every feature on this page
Unlocked

Flashy, unlocked

  • As many decks as you like
  • As many cards as you like
  • Monthly, or buy it outright once and keep it
The Flashy icon: a pen over a lightning bolt

Write the card. Flashy remembers when to ask.

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