Great flash card app but needs to be updated soon!

I love this program and use it for many things I need to learn and remember. Its got the easiest UI to work with and its quick and easy to enter and edit cards. It is my favorite program. But it hasnt been updated in quite a long time and other flash card programs have built-in features that I wish this program had. There are so many things I like about this program. The import/export, the merge of card decks, the editing interface, the menus and the way the whole thing works together is great. But my review is about how disappointed I am that the program hasnt been upgraded.

For instnce, you can include audio and images, but you cant directly integrate the audio and images in the card itself. The audio and vido display in a popup over the card. There is also no built-in formating capabilities, so you cant color text, make text bold, layout text around an image, or put text in two columns on the card. I am learning Italian and I wish there were a way to put an Italian verb on the font of the card and then put the conjugation on the back of the card in 2 columns, with the singular on the left column and the plural conjugation in the right column as they show in most text books. There is also no direct support for text to speech, so you cant install and use languages (voices) in the cards themselves. I can use the text-to-voice capabilities on my Mac and I have other text-to-voice tools that will let me hear vocabulary in Italian, but these are not integrated directly into iFlash as it is with some other flash card programs. So hearing words in Italian is clunky. Finally, you can only search one card deck at a time, whereas other card sets let you search across multiple card decks. I have written the developer a couple of times about upgrades, but have never heard back from the developer -- and there is nothing stated on the Website about any planned enhancements.

Laura007 about iFlash