The Ultimate Study Tool for Mac and iPhone

Mental Case is featured on Apple's Apps for Students page.

Mental Case is the ultimate study tool for Mac OS X and iPhone, combining traditional flashcards with the latest learning techniques. Use it to learn a language, memorize trivia, or study for an exam. Enter your information directly, or import it from online sources like The Flashcard Exchange. Mental Case automatically generates lessons for you, syncs them to your iPhone or iPod touch, and even tells you when to study.

Mental Case is also a drop box for useful information that you come across in the course of the day. With built-in screen and iSight capture, Mental Case can collect just about any piece of information from the real and virtual worlds, and will remind you about it when you next sit down to study.

You can enter text, drop in an image, take a screen shot, or snap a photo with your iSight. Your new mental note (ie flash card) is scheduled to appear in future lessons, beautifully-presented slide shows which make studying something to look forward to.

what the critics say...

“Mental Case provides a very nice balance of functionality, desktop and iPhone/iPod touch integration and ease-of-use that make it the leader of the pack in the flash card genre for Mac users.”

Sang Tang on TUAW (tuaw.com)

“Mental Case is an incredibly well conceived product that turns the iPhone into a truly powerful study it. The application is polished, easy-to-use, and as stable as any application I've seen. The sync functionality is flawless and I've yet to run into any problem on either the Mac side or the iPhone side.”

Daniel Cohen (whatsoniphone.com)

“Mental Case is a beautifully designed new commercial offering in the flashcard software world ... It offers excellent support for interval study, graded slideshows for both study on demand and interval study as well as convenient set management. ”

K. M. Lawson (foolsworkshop.com)

“I'm a HUGE flash card user for the very purpose that you seem to have built Mental Case ... I love it. Excellent concept and execution.”

Ethan Schoonover (kinkless.com)

“Flash cards are tedious to make, but Mental Case makes it quick and easy to create many cards. It is a great way to study and has many more options than old fashioned flash cards.”

Jack Amick (macapper.com)

uses for mental case

The things you can use Mental Case for are as diverse as knowledge itself. Use it to remember day-to-day things like phone numbers, birthdays, and recipes. Study mathematics or history for an exam at school or college. You can even use it for self-development: remind yourself what's important in life (like your family and friends) or motivate yourself to continue a personal project or stick to that diet.

We've come up with a list of uses to give you some ideas, but it's far from exhaustive. Anything that you would ever want to remember or be reminded of can be put into Mental Case.

Requires Mac OS X
10.4–10.6

Version 1.6.1 for $24.99

Students/Teachers $14.99

Other Discounts

features

mental notes

Mental notes are very similar to traditional flash cards. You can add a small amount of text and/or an image to each mental note, and optionally include a prompt or question.

repetitive learning

Mental notes get scheduled for future revision in a lesson. Mental Case uses an optimized algorithm to ensure that you get maximum memory retention for the time you spend studying.

sharing and syncing

You can export (or print) mental notes in order to transfer them to your iPod or iPhone, upload to the web, or share with others.

organize your notes

You can group your mental notes together in mental cases, which are like folders in the Finder. Drag-and-drop your notes from one case to another, or review an entire case in a slide show.

quick entry

Mental Case includes quick note entry, which allows you to create new notes at any time using hot keys or a global menu, whether you are working in Mental Case or not.

capture from screen or isight

Sometimes the information you want to put in your mental notes is already on your screen, or in a book. Don't bother typing it over, just use the built in screen capture facilities, or take a photo with your iSight.

themed slide shows

Lessons are presented in themed slide shows with attractive transitions, making learning less of a chore. You can choose the themes and transitions yourself.

preferences

Mental Case includes an advanced system of preferences for controlling how often notes are scheduled to appear in a lesson, and how long they are displayed in slide shows.

confused?

If you are still having trouble understanding what Mental Case is all about, and how it works in practice, you can take a look at our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page, ask a question in our Forums, or send an email and ask us directly.