Hey everyone. Clayton here from the Refold podcast . Today, I’m writing about a fun new flashcard app called “ Deckademy ”. Deckademy is a spiritual successor to another flashcard program called Memrise, which has been taking more and more steps to move away from their crowdsourced and community content. Ordinarily we’d do a video interview for the Refold Podcast , but this time we’re swapping things up for a text interview.
I reached out to the developer behind Deckademy , who goes by the online handle “ohyzd”, after finding the app on Reddit, trying it, and actually liking it! I’m a big believer that there is more than one way to skin a cat, that is to say there are multiple flashcard or “spaced repetition” tools out there, beyond just Anki .
Deckademy has a lot of solid premade decks, originally hosted by maintainers on Memrise, but also decks that were built by contributors just for Deckademy. Deckademy has a lot of features I like, such as: