Swiftflip Premium gives you a starting point: name a topic, tell the wizard what to focus on and review the cards before they save.
How AI generation works in Swiftflip
Open the new-deck sheet and choose Create with AI. Give the deck a name that describes the topic. “French verbs in the past tense”, “Renaissance painters” or “C++ memory management” all work. A short conversational wizard asks what the cards should focus on and how many to make, works out the card style from the deck and shows each card as it arrives. Review Cards lists the batch. Save adds the cards you kept.
What you keep control over
You decide what ends up in the deck:
- name the deck before generation and rename it later
- choose the focus and the card count
- review and edit generated cards before they save
- regenerate or remove cards you do not want
- edit the front or back of any card after saving
- generate more cards when the deck needs wider coverage
Generated cards become part of your normal Swiftflip library. Spaced repetition, sync, export and Apple Watch practice all work the same way.
Add AI cards to an existing deck
You do not have to start a new deck to use AI. Open a deck you already have and choose Generate Cards. Review the new cards before they save, then they sit alongside the ones you wrote yourself. This is useful when you have built a deck of vocabulary by hand and want to extend it without retyping.
Give a deck its own AI Instructions
Each deck can carry its own AI Instructions, a Premium field for how generated cards in that deck should read. Ask for an example sentence on every back, a strict term-and-definition format or a plainer tone, and later generations into that deck follow it.
Cloud AI writes your cards
Cloud AI writes cards for Premium on iPhone, iPad and Mac. It generates on our servers, so it does not need an Apple Intelligence device. Swiftflip asks before the first request. If a request fails, retry it.
What Cloud AI sends
Cloud AI sends the topic, any instructions you wrote and the existing cards in that deck so new cards do not repeat them. It does not send images or audio. We forward that text to OpenAI to write the cards. OpenAI does not train on it and we do not store card content. Read the privacy policy for the full description.
Decks, cards and study progress continue to sync through your private iCloud. There is no separate Swiftflip account or hosted profile.
When AI is and is not a fit
AI generation is most useful for:
- starting a new topic where you do not know what to include
- expanding a deck of common vocabulary
- generating prompts for material you are about to study formally
It is less useful for personal coursework, niche research or anything where the source material is the point. For those, write the cards yourself or import them.
Get started
AI generation is a Premium feature. Cloud AI works on any supported iPhone or iPad and on Mac with macOS 27 or later. If you already have Premium, tap Create with AI for a new deck or Generate Cards inside an existing deck, then try a topic you want to learn.