Gizmo: AI Flashcards 4+

I don’t usually leave reviews - but I love this app. If you are someone who hates usual cue cards and finds it monotonous. THIS IS THE APP FOR YOU! Now some do say the lives in annoying, it can be but you can optimise this, such as making a mindmap in the 10 mins. Trust me it improves your performance SO much. The ai is insanely good. I love how you can have decks within decks and colour coding! Also love the way you get cut of at a word limit, it really does help you learn better!

I have 100% seen results with using this app everyday. Alongside blurting on a whiteboard and practice questions, I went from Cs and Bc to A*s. It is truly impressive! Obviously a lot of that was my own discipline.

The team behind this app are also lovely and genuine, I can only ask they stay this lovely and working just to make revision more accessible. I wish I had this for my GCSEs!! I recommend it to everyone I know, everyone LOVES it. It’s such a change of pace.

Highly, highly recommend if you need something more interactive (plus, the sounds and rewards you get from getting things right is like a conditioning method.)

I can’t say I’m a huge fan of the rebrand - but the app itself is amazing so don’t let the cheesy style put you off!!! Ps. Hope to see more of the little star popping up throughout the app. He’s so cute.

Many thanks to this team for making revision accessible and so enjoyable. I can’t believe I get excited to revise now!

At first I liked gizmo as the collaborative aspect of it is good and the fact I can see how other people in my school are getting on. Now it’s just a pain, especially if you are making your own flashcards, you have a specific word count before your card has to be split up into multiple cards and it is so annoying because when it does split your cards up with the AI it removes specific key words and has some questions that are too vague? This is understandable as it is an AI and it doesn’t understand what exam board I’m doing etc but why not let me continue writing my own long flashcard? It works for me. Aside from that the whole app is slightly glitchy, it doesn’t work well with my apple pen and it doesn’t really work well as a mobile app. I haven’t even touched on the whole lives thing which is just dumb but I can still flip through my cards so it isn’t too much of an issue. Overall the app is okay to use but it gets frustrating at times and makes it take way longer to make flashcards. I would move back to Knowt if I could but most of my flashcards are on here now 😑

I have been using this since summer 2022 and it’s come a long way. Going to write another review cause I think they do read all of these and try to improve that app.

1. Key concern- it’s happened once and will it happen during A-Levels? There was a period of time when the app stopped working and users could not study. I have over 2000 Flashcards and need to use them for A-Levels this summer. With more users than ever is there a way to fix the glitchiness and unreliability?
2. Ineffective studying. The entire concept of the app is amazing and unique but some parts aren’t executed too well. If I have a flashcard more than 2 sentences it will only ask me for the first highlighted word then class it as ‘learnt’ so basically I am not learning half the content of my flash cards. The suggested multiple choice options are also sometimes questionable with isn't an issue but would be nice if we could change these on game mode so with the other options of ‘edit highlighted words’
3. The option to highlight multiple words on a device without a mouse e.g. iPad

Everything else though is wonderful - easy and accessible, free (please keep it this way and instead of really needed introduce add after AND ONLY AFTER 15 hearts are used - learning should not be inaccessible so right now is good), Active recall, fun concept, good use of ai, great use of streaks and overall a great app.

4/5