Kyoku Flashcards

I wanted the convenience of being able to make a flashcard anywhere i was without needing to bring too many supplies with me so this was a game changer for me to be able to take out my iPad and write out a flashcard if im studying at a coffee shop or library etc. The synchronization is wonderful it syncs to my phone and iPad so I could study wherever on my phone! The folders and decks on this app make it possible to keep everything organized on the app too.

I’m telling you right now this app single-handedly improved my gpa by almost one whole point and got me on the deans list. If you’re a student and you have an iPad, an Apple Pencil and a phone, but don’t have this app, I’m going to beat you up personally! The best way that I use this app is to make flash cards of important terms right after lecture using my iPad and Apple Pencil, and then to go over them throughout my week using my cellphone in landscape mode, as if I am holding a flash card. There is one small issue that I have with this app, but it may just be my device only. When I draw shapes they look really messy, and normally, Apple has this feature where you can hold the pencil in place after drawing a shape and boom. It’ll be fixed. I have tried this using the flash card app and sadly, it hasn’t quite worked yet. This would be an amazing feature to add to this already amazing app.

I think Kyoku flashcards is a very intuitive Flashcard creation app, but it can benefit from a few improvements. The main issue with it is that it doesn’t have a text tool, which makes using it difficult. Here are some areas where I think this app can improve: (1) Please add a text tool to Kyoku Flashcards. I know that Kyoku is advertised as a flashcard app for the Apple Pencil, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t also have a text tool. I purchased this app on my iPhone, which doesn’t support the Apple Pencil. I’m forced to write with my finger in order to use this app, which I don’t like. This app isn’t usable to me on my iPhone unless we are given the ability to add text. The absence of this feature is the reason why I took off one star from my rating. (2) It would help a lot if a feature such as image occlusion was added. This is a time-saving feature because it would allow us to use diagrams that contain many labels (think of anatomy diagrams that contain numerous labels). We can draw boxes on each label to cover them up, and tap on a box whenever we want to reveal the answer. This feature can also be used to conceal certain words in a sentence, which gives users a chance to guess the hidden words before revealing the answer. (3) Lastly, I wish there was a way to search for specific flashcards that I’ve created. Currently, it’s not possible to do this because there is no search bar. It’s hard to keep track of flashcards within a large deck, but I want to avoid repetition. I want to know what flashcards I have already created, and what I still need to create. Sometimes I might realize that I made a mistake on one of the flashcards, and I want to edit it or delete it, but this is not easy because searching manually is time-consuming. It’d be very useful if there was a way to at least make the titles of each flashcard searchable, even if nothing else in the card is searchable.