How to make flashcards on iPhone, step by step

Quizlet is a free download (read 17 Oct 2026), and AnkiMobile costs US$24.99 once on the US App Store (read 13 Oct 2026). Typing is the slow part: Migaku, which sells a competing tool, uses 30 seconds per card in a worked example (read 13 Oct 2026).

How do you make flashcards in Quizlet on iPhone?

In Quizlet's iPhone app, you make a set by typing a title, then a term and a definition for each card. These steps come from Quizlet's help centre article on creating sets, updated 8 Oct 2026.

1. Open the Quizlet app.
2. Tap Create.
3. Tap Flashcard set.
4. Type a title for the set.
5. Type the term.
6. Type the definition.
7. Tap + to add the next card.
8. Repeat steps 5 to 7 for every card.
9. Tap Done to save and publish the set.

The app needs iOS 17 or later. On 17 Oct 2026, its US listing showed a 4.8 average from about 1.13 million ratings.

What can't you do in Quizlet's iPhone app?

Quizlet's iPhone app lacks some card features that its website or its Plus plan has. Each line below comes from Quizlet's own help centre, read on 17 and 18 Oct 2026.

• Pictures: the iPhone app takes 1 picture per card, on the definition side only. Uploading your own picture needs Quizlet Plus.
• The free image gallery: it works on the website only.
• Your own audio: recording it needs Quizlet Plus, and it works on the website only.
• Text to speech: the help centre says it may not cover every language you study.
• Scanning a page: making a set from a camera scan needs Quizlet Plus.

Quizlet's iPhone app can show a set in both directions. Flashcards shows the definition first, and the Card Orientation setting in its Options menu switches the side (help centre, updated 17 Oct 2026).

Use the Quizlet website if you want spaced repetition. Its help centre, updated 17 Oct 2026, says the feature is only there, though the App Store listing names it among the app's features.

A 2-star App Store review of Quizlet says it plainly: "I wish typing cards was as efficient as it used to be."

How do you make Anki cards on an iPhone?

On an iPhone, Anki is the AnkiMobile app, which costs US$24.99 once on the US App Store (read 13 Oct 2026). You add a card by tapping Add while reviewing, choosing a note type and typing into each field.

These steps follow the AnkiMobile manual, read on 17 Oct 2026.

1. Start reviewing the deck you want to add cards to.
2. Tap Add.
3. Tap Type at the top of the screen.
4. Choose Basic (and reversed card).
5. Tap the Front field.
6. Type the word.
7. Tap the Back field.
8. Type the meaning.
9. Tap the save button.

The paperclip button is optional. It attaches a photo, a file or a microphone recording to the field you're in.

Step 4 matters for languages. Anki's manual says Basic (and reversed card) creates 2 cards from one note: front to back, and back to front.

Plain Basic gives you one direction only. Reversing cards has confused people. A 1-star App Store review of AnkiMobile, from August 2022, says "So I have to make two versions of every flash card."

AnkiMobile can read a card aloud through TTS tags in a card template, using the voices built into iOS.

Can you make Anki cards on an iPhone for free?

Yes, through AnkiWeb in Safari. Anki's AnkiWeb page says it can "create basic text-only cards and review them" without any app (read 18 Oct 2026).

For pictures, audio and shared decks, the same page says you also need Anki's free computer app.

AnkiMobile's App Store listing says you can "add content on a computer and then study it on your mobile". Anki's desktop app and AnkiWeb sync cost nothing.

What does a language flashcard need on an iPhone?

A language flashcard needs audio and practice in both directions, and a picture helps you remember it. Here's where each app stood on 17 and 18 Oct 2026.

The Brainscape column shows its plans. Brainscape's pages don't say which of these features work in its iPhone app.

Which flashcard app should you use on an iPhone?

The right flashcard app on an iPhone depends mostly on your subject and on how much typing you'll accept. Here's how the 3 typing routes compare.

• Any subject, and typing is fine: Quizlet. It's a free download, and its website handles import.
• Any subject, with full control of every field: AnkiMobile at US$24.99 once.
• Any subject, with no money to spend: AnkiWeb in Safari, for basic text-only cards.
• Language vocabulary, without typing the cards: one of the routes in the next section.

More on this: flashcard apps for language learning and Anki alternatives on iOS.

Can you make flashcards on an iPhone without typing every card?

Yes. 3 tools write cards for you, and a shared deck gives you cards someone else wrote. At 30 seconds per card, Migaku's worked example, 1,500 typed cards take about 12.5 hours.

• Quizlet Smart Assist turns pasted notes, an uploaded file or a topic into draft flashcards. Quizlet's article doesn't say which plan it needs, or whether it works in the iPhone app.
• Brainscape's Basic plan says you can "Use AI to make 100s of flashcards" (pricing page, read 17 Oct 2026). The page doesn't say whether that works in Brainscape's iPhone app.
• An Anki shared deck gives you cards other users made. In AnkiMobile, the manual says the Shared Deck List opens AnkiWeb.
• Verbamor, which I build, writes language cards from a word you save, a text you paste or a lesson you record.

How does Verbamor make a card without typing it?

I build Verbamor, so weigh my view of it accordingly. It makes vocabulary cards in 5 languages only: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Russian.

It's paid, and AI writes every card with no human review. You can't edit the card text or write a fully custom card.

For anatomy, law or any other subject, or to write every card yourself, use Anki or Quizlet.

In Verbamor's Translate tab, a card takes these steps:

1. Open the Translate tab.
2. Type a word or a sentence.
3. Tap Translate.
4. Tap the word you want to keep.
5. Tap the add button at the bottom of the screen.

Each card arrives with the word, an example sentence, a picture and 2 native-accent recordings of the sentence. Each new word becomes 2 cards.

You can also paste text of up to 80,000 characters, or record a lesson of up to 90 minutes. Recording other people needs their permission first.

The guide to automatic cards from lessons covers the recording route. Verbamor costs US$19.99 a month, or US$129.99 a year with a 7-day free trial on the yearly plan (US prices, read 21 Sep 2026).

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