JapanThe best moment to be asked for a fact is just before it slips away. Smart Aleck keeps track of that moment for every card, so you don't have to.
From blank to by heart
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Make a deck
Birthdays, capitals, vocabulary, faces, or anything else. Every deck has its own fields: text, dates, numbers, choices and photos.
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Fill in the cards
Add them one at a time, paste a whole list, or start with all 195 countries, flags and capitals ready-made.
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Play quick rounds
Ten games ask in your deck's own words. Pick from four or type the answer. A round takes a couple of minutes.
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Watch it stick
Cards go from not started to learnt, and come back for review just before you'd forget them.
Ten games. Your words.
Every game asks in the language of your deck, so a Birthdays deck plays Name to Birthday and a World deck plays Pick the flag.
Recall
See one side of a card, remember the other. Any side.
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- Japan
- Asks
- Tokyo
Country to Capital
See the name, pick or type what goes with it.
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- Kenya
- Asks
- Nairobi
Capital to Country
The other way round, because knowing it one way isn't knowing it.
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- Lima
- Asks
- Peru
Pick the flag
See a card, pick its picture from four. Flags, faces, anything.
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- Brazil
- Asks
- One of four flags
Roundup
Name every card that shares something: a continent, a month.
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- Oceania
- Asks
- Every country in it
Line them up
Tap cards into order by date or number.
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- Mum, Sam, Priya
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- Earliest birthday first
What's next?
From a date, pick whose birthday or anniversary comes next.
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- From 1 July
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- Priya, 23 July
Turning what?
How old they'll be on their next birthday. Never guess again.
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- Sam, next birthday
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- Turning 37
Flip cards
Study at your own pace: flip, then say if you knew it.
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- ephemeral
- Asks
- Flip to check
Surprise me
A bit of everything, shuffled.
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- Anything
- Asks
- Good luck
Make your own
Choose what's shown and what's asked, and it's a game of yours.
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- Flag and Continent
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- Country
Asked again just before you'd forget
Every right answer pushes a card's next review further out. You spend your minutes on what's about to fade, not on what you already know.
- Right: the gap grows. 1, 3, 7, 21, 60, 120 days, then every 120.
- Wrong: it comes straight back, no hard feelings.
195 countries? Five at a time.
A learning path feeds you a small batch in the order you choose: by continent, by date, by number, or as you added them. Look the new ones over, then play.
Get a card right three times in a row and it's learnt. Then you're ready for the next batch.
- Not started
- Being learnt
- Learnt
Meet the mascot
This is Aleck.
A raised brow, a side-eye and a smirk. He's watching. No pressure.
Stuck? Take a hint.
He'll glance away while a clue or a memory trick jogs it loose.
Right!
Nobody is happier about it than he is.
Not quite.
He takes it hard. You'll see that card again very soon.
Five in a row.
Sunglasses on. He always knew you had it in you.
A perfect round.
Sparkles, confetti, the lot. Go again?
And it sweats the small stuff
A daily goal and a streak
20 cards a day by default. Meet it and your streak grows.
Memory tricks built in
“Egypt's pyramids need care: Care-o, Cairo.” One for every capital in the World pack.
Typing that forgives
Brasilia counts for Brasília, and a small typo won't cost you the round.
Paste a list, get a deck
Names and dates from a note or a spreadsheet become cards in one go.
Faces stay private
Photos are stored where only your account can open them.
Make your own games
Flag and Continent to Country? Pick what's shown and what's asked.
Home says what's next
Reviews due, cards in progress, or a new batch: the most pressing first.
On every screen
Phone, tablet or laptop, in light or dark. Your decks follow you.
No sign-up needed
Go on, play a round
Five capitals from the World pack. Miss one and you'll get its memory trick, the same way the app does it.
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What's the capital of Egypt?
Free for now.
Smart Aleck is going to be a paid app. While it's being built, every feature is free and there's no card to enter. Start today and what you learn is yours to keep.