Bitsboard Flashcards PRO

I have used this app for over 5 years, yes back when there were only 8 games, and it just keeps getting better. If you read a bad review trust me they never asked support for help because if you do, you’ll get it. When iOS 10 came out there were some pretty big snags, but they have been fixed. My students love this app. As a teacher I love being able to manage classes remotely, see usage and data for each student and adjust the content, delivery, and settings for each game they see and being able to turn off features they don’t need, can’t use or are not ready for. The app is a powerhouse. It comes with a learning curve because of the many options it offers, but it comes with great benefits along that curve. If you can teach a concept through flash cards, drill and practice activities or a card game, this app is worth looking into. It’s worth every penny if you are a teacher, and in the midst of Covid-19 it gives yet another way to engage students in learning, their app is free and you can see what and how they are doing with the app remotely. You can change what content is delivered and use data for progress reports... seriously? Yes.

I suppose if you are looking for pre selected lists this may be helpful. Or if the only words you need to study are basic K-2 This is the only way I can imagine the amount of positive reviews it has received. Trying to study for your spelling list at school or creat your own is a disaster of time suckage. In theory, to add words specific to you or your child, add a picture, add a description and have a test plus games would be amazing! In reality you will add words, pictures and boards just to find that they disappear. I have spent hours trying to create lists only to have them revert back to empty or the default (bizarre) picture. The app crashes every 15 min or so and locks up periodically. Trust me I have tried everything! Like I said, if it worked it would be great! Unfortunately the program is just not there. This goes for all Bitsboard apps, I have tried several in past years, upgraded to PRO several times to no avail. Don’t do what my family did, we wasted many hours and money. Tried again this week (2/2/20) to set up a board, spent at least 2 hrs, only to have the board disappear then reappear with half the words and back to the “default” pictures. Also on several games the audio does not work.

I'm a linguist using Bitsboard Pro to learn and document the language of a tribal people in Papua New Guinea. This app is brilliant and by far the most versatile digital tool my team uses. We are essentially creating our own "Rosetta Stone" for this language, daily recording audio samples and taking pictures in order to create "boards" with which we can practice our language skills and supplement our immersion in the culture. Each member of my team can create his own board and then AirDrop it to each other member as often as we need. This function saves us hours of data syncing and reconfiguration. These capabilities put us miles ahead of where the previous generation of linguists began. And more so, my own children are already able to utilize this tool for learning multiple languages simultaneously. My three year old can navigate to the "Photo Touch" game, choose the board created for him, and practice his basic nouns for as long as we'll allow him because the reward sound for choosing the correct picture makes it exciting. And since he's hearing audio, seeing the visual, and physically choosing the picture, he's engaged on multiple levels and learning quickly. I cannot rate this app a full five stars because it has been riddled with bugs. I understand that's simply the slow process of creating something like this, but I've lost weeks of work in a single moment when my classes synced backwards and deleted themselves, and the AirDrop function still fails more often than it works. It has been stressful relying so heavily on this app with all its imperfections, but its sheer capability and the versatility of its programming make it well worth the risk.