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[–] Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 67 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Anki (and AnkiDroid):

The gods of learning and studying with flashcards. You will never want another flashcard program, especially if you were still using Quizlet (so enshittified now...) because Anki uses SRS (spaced repetition system) which makes you review things right before your brain forgets it to reinforce the subject material.

Add-ons: Bread and butter of Anki, I use several to make beautiful automatic flashcards of reading material/videos/games when I study Japanese. There's an add-on for literally anything.

Cross platform: Free on desktop, cost $25 on iOS, and free on Android, although Ankidroid is an unofficial app. Still great though!

Cloud: Syncs your anki database across devices. If you don't use anki for a while, will delete from the cloud, but as long as you have your own local database intact, you can reupload again later.

Sharing Decks: If you don't feel like making your own decks, download ones that others shared for free.

Anki is used by language learners, college students, med students, etc. If you need to memorize it, use Anki.

[–] AshKaashh@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

lol did they really make it paid on ios

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It costs money to be an iOS developer

[–] AshKaashh@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I dont get, can you give more context

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

to publish ios apps you need to run xcode, last time I checked (admittedly it's been 7ish years) - and you need to build on mac hardware. none of which is cheap, especially for devs who don't see any additional revenue from their ios apps.

[–] TechLich@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They also force you to pay a 99USD yearly fee just for the privilege of being a developer.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

yep.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

They will literally ask for some money to get a developer account

https://developer.apple.com/support/compare-memberships/

$99 a year

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago

Serious companies pay their devs.

[–] SpaceCheeseWizard@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 days ago

IOS and any apple device is shockingly expensive to develop for.