Name That Face: Learn Names
WADE SELLERS Education iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Name That Face: Learn Names is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by WADE SELLERS. Requires iOS 18.0. Updated October 1, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 3 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 1
- 2026 · v1.2
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About Name That Face: Learn Names
Meet 23 strangers on Monday. Greet every one of them by name on Friday. Somebody hands you a PDF — pages of headshots with names printed underneath. A new class, a new cast, a new team, a conference you're about to walk into. Wonderful people. Total strangers. Name That Face turns that PDF into a deck of flashcards. THE WHOLE WORKFLOW Import the PDF. That's it. In a couple of seconds, entirely on your phone, the app renders every page, finds every face, reads the name printed with it, and deals you a deck. No typing 23 names. No cropping 23 photos. It handles names printed below the photos, above them, or beside them, and it copes with small yearbook type. Then you check its work on one review screen — fix anything it misread, crop a photo if part of the printed name crept in, leave anyone out you don't need — and you're studying. THE GAME Face up. Say the name out loud like you mean it. Tap the card to check. Swipe right if you nailed it, left if you blanked. You start with three faces. Just three. Nobody learns a whole group at once, and the app doesn't pretend you can. When you're ready, tap Add Face and one more person is introduced by name, then quizzed a few cards later while the name is still warm. It notices what you don't know. A new face comes around often. Keep getting someone right and they earn their way down to rare. Blank on someone you "knew" and they quietly start coming around more again. You never manage any of this. The deck just pays attention. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE No account. No sign-in. No servers. No subscription. No analytics, no tracking, no ads. The face detection and the text reading both run on your device using Apple's own frameworks. If those headshots are your students, their photos never leave your iPhone — which is the point. TRY IT FIRST No PDF handy? The app comes with a deck of US Presidents, 45 faces, so you can play the game right now and finally learn which one is Chester A. Arthur. ALSO IN THERE • Add people one at a time with the camera or your photo library • Crop any portrait by tapping it; the original is always kept, so no crop is permanent • Reset your progress on a deck without losing the people • Works with large accessibility text sizes • iPhone, iOS 18 or later Built by one person, for the Monday morning when a room full of new faces walks in.
What’s new
Version 1.2 · Updated October 1, 2026
Fixes the Study button. In 1.1 the Study button did nothing — the flashcards never opened. That was my mistake and it is fixed. Study works again, and your decks and progress are exactly where you left them. Deck sharing has also been removed while I rework it. 1.1 let you share a deck with a 6-digit code, which meant a shared deck sat on a server for up to 30 days. That is not a trade I want to make with photos of other people's students, so it is gone and the app is back to doing everything on your iPhone and nothing anywhere else. If you shared a deck with a code, that code no longer works. Any deck already on your phone is untouched. Sharing will come back when it can work without handing the photos to a server.
App privacy
The developer, WADE SELLERS, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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