Your own version

Your own Anki-style flashcards on your iPhone

Anki schedules each card for the moment you're about to forget it, and people love how far it bends. If you want that idea in a simpler app made for one subject, your exam, your instrument, your anatomy module, describe it to Borel. It writes a native flashcard app in Swift with its own review schedule, kept on your iPhone.

Updated . Borel isn’t connected to Anki.

A prompt to start from
“A flashcard app for my pharmacology exam. Cards have a drug name on the front and its class, use and main side effect on the back. After each card I tap Again, Hard, Good or Easy, and the app schedules the next review further out each time. Today shows the cards due. I can scan printed notes and ask the AI to draft cards that I approve one by one. Chart reviews due for the next 30 days.”

About Anki

What people like about Anki

In our words, from what Anki says about itself.

  • Reviews scheduled for when you're most likely to forget, based on how you rate each card.
  • Decks, and cards that hold audio, images, video and scientific markup.
  • Free on computers and Android, with free AnkiWeb sync between devices.

Anki's computer version and AnkiDroid are free, and AnkiMobile, Anki's own iPhone app, is paid to fund Anki's development; its price isn't on Anki's own page.

Made for you

What your own flashcard app can do

What the prompt above builds, and what you can change by asking Borel in plain words.

  • One subject, laid out for it

    A card face made for what you study: a chord chart, a drug with its class, a noun with its gender.

  • A schedule you can read

    Again, Hard, Good and Easy, with the next review date printed on every card.

  • Cards from your notes

    Scan a printed page with the camera and ask the AI to draft question-and-answer pairs that you approve.

  • The month ahead

    Cards due per day for the next 30 days, and how many you've learned, on two charts.

Said plainly

How it's different

  • It doesn't open Anki decks or shared deck files; you make cards inside it.
  • Its schedule is a simple one Borel writes from your description, not Anki's own algorithm.
  • There are no add-ons and no desktop version: it's an iPhone app.
  • Your app isn't Anki and won't look or work like it: it has only what you ask Borel to build, and none of Anki's own content.
  • Your data stays in your own app: on your iPhone by default, or in your app's own database in Borel's cloud if you add accounts.

How to get yours

From the prompt to your home screen

  • 1

    Start from the prompt

    Change anything in it first: names, rules, screens. Borel asks what it needs to know, then writes the app in Swift and SwiftUI.

  • 2

    Use it in your browser

    It opens in a live iPhone simulator streamed from Borel's Mac, at no cost. Building starts free, with 5 free credits a day, up to 30 a month.

  • 3

    Keep it on your iPhone

    With Pro, from $20 a month, Borel Companion installs it with a free Apple ID, up to 3 apps at a time, and renews each one every 7 days while it runs.

How to make a flashcards appThe screens it needs, what it keeps, the iPhone features it can use and what to ask for next.See the guide

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Describe the rule, such as doubling the gap after each Good answer, and Borel writes the scheduling in Swift.

Not directly. If you can get your cards into a CSV file with a front and a back column, Borel can add an import screen for it.

Yes. Add pictures from Photos or the camera and record audio with the microphone; each card keeps its own.

No. Missed cards wait in the due pile, and you can ask Borel to spread a backlog over the next few days.

Make your own flashcard app

Start from the prompt on this page and change it until it's yours. Borel builds it while you watch.