Guide
How to use
Everything the study screen responds to, on a phone or with a keyboard.
The study card
- Tap the card to flip between the question and the answer. Tap again to turn it back.
- Double tap to skip a card without grading it. There is also a Skip button.
- Swipe left for Forgot, right for Good. Swipe up for Easy and down for Hard from the edge zone (the thin strip at the bottom of the card by default; turn the outline on in Settings to see it).
- Drag up and down anywhere else on the card to scroll a long answer.
- Prefer buttons? The four grades sit under the card with the next interval on each one.
- A card you mark Forgot comes back once more at the end of the same session, so you re-test it before you stop. The diagnostic test does not repeat cards.
- Notes: the pencil button keeps a mnemonic or correction for that card; it saves as you type.
Keyboard
Space or Entershow the answer, press again to turn the card back
1 2 3 4grade Forgot / Hard / Good / Easy
← ↑ ↓ →grade the flipped card: left Forgot, up Easy, down Hard, right Good
U or Esc or Ctrl/⌘ Zundo the last grade; the card comes back
← → after any gradepress the opposite arrow on the next card to bring the previous card back
Sskip without grading
Arrows only grade a card that is already flipped, so on a fresh card they undo instead — turn the card over first and they grade it. Shortcuts pause while a dialog is open.
Rapid fire
Two-way recall: the same fact seen from the other side. Tap or press Space to flip, then grade it Forgot, Hard, Good or Easy (keys 1–4, or swipe left, down, right, up); Hard, Good and Easy count as known. S skips, U undoes. At the end you get the cards you missed, ready to review.
Where to start
- Today gives you the daily queue — new cards plus the ones due for review, already ordered.
- Syllabus browses all four papers; open a topic to study it, or build a custom mix by paper, topic, card type or past-year questions only.
- Mastery shows what is weak and what is exam-ready; pick topics there to practise them.
- Saved holds the cards you bookmarked.
Grades follow spaced repetition: each card comes back just before you would forget it.
Install it like an app
- iPhone / iPad: Safari → Share → Add to Home Screen.
- Mac: Safari → File → Add to Dock — no security prompt, and it works offline. The .dmg runs on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs; since it is not signed by Apple, open it the first time with right-click → Open (the read-me in the window explains it).
- Android: Chrome → menu → Install app.
- Windows: run the Pharmacards installer from the releases page.
Once installed it opens full screen and works offline; your progress stays on the device.
Make it yours
- Settings → Appearance: Day, Night or Auto, six colour themes, and your own colours. A custom accent sets its own hover, selected and button-text colours, and Settings warns you if text or card text falls below 4.5:1 against its background.
- Motion: follows your phone's Reduce Motion setting by default; you can force it on or off.
- Swipe: turn card swiping off, change which edge grades up/down, or show the zone outline.
- App icon: pick one of the designs in Settings (iPhone: add to Home Screen again to see it).