Anki

November, 29th 2024 - 146 MB - Freeware

Latest Version

Anki 24.11 LATEST
Review by

Juan Garcia
Operating System

Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10 / Windows 11
User Rating

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Author / Product

Damien Elmes / External Link
Filename

anki-24.11-windows-qt6.exe

Anki is an education and reference application built from the ground up to provided help to students or anyone else who wishes to strengthen their long-term retention of facts. The core tactics that this app relies on are cards and decks – a set of questions and answers that users can create for themselves or download other people's collections of questions (decks).

Application showcases and manages how many cards are repeated, relying on user feedback to determine progress in their learning. Users are simply required to read questions, provide answers and mark each card as “Again”, “Good”, “Easy” or “Very Easy” which will help the app to determine how often it needs to bring this card up in the learning session to help users to maximize the user’s memory.

Learning a language
Studying for medical and law exams
Memorizing people's names and faces
Brushing up on geography
Mastering long poems
Even practicing guitar chords!

The user interface of Anki for Windows PC is very simple and intuitive, enabling anyone to easily manage their card decks or start building their own. The application tracks usage of all cards, and showcases a large list of statistics for each card and deck, including the date the card was created, how many times it was edited, the difficulty rating, the average time of user processing, how many times it was shown, tags, reviews and much more. During each practice session the app measures statistics for each deck, even managing to showcase the estimated time for the exercise’s end.

In addition to the learning part of the app, Anki also features the full card and deck editor that allows users to quickly create their own learning exercise. They can adjust everything, including text, titles, colors, font and style, and more. Studying sessions can also be customized by time length, by numbers of cards shown, and even with a useful limit of how many new cards are introducing every day.

Anki is a highly customizable education and reference application that can provide great service to anyone willing to learn. It is especially useful for learning new languages, with cards holding new words and phrases that need to be practiced daily. However, users need to be aware that this app UI is a bit old-school, it lacks offline Help or FAQ, and online video tutorials are focused only on the latest versions of the app, leaving highly capable older versions without official help references.

Anki is 100% FREE and is optimized for Windows 7, 8, and 10.

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What's new in this version:

- Add FSRS simulator to deck options
- Add forgetting curve to card info
- Let FSRS control short term schedule when no (re)learning steps are set. This is experimental.

Scheduling:
- Load balancing: within your fuzz range, Anki will now try to pick days that have fewer reviews waiting
- Easy days: you can now tell Anki to try avoid certain days of the week
- Decks can now be sorted by descending retrievability. Simulations have shown this is a better choice
- when you have a backlog, and this sort order is likely to become the default in the future

Stats/Graphs:
- Add true retention stats
- Estimated total knowledge by note, and daily load

Other Features:
- Add "open image" option to editor
- Add an option to show image from editor in folder
- Add card position column and always show position in card info
- Add option for toggling update checks
- Add revert to backup option to file menu
- Empty Cards can now be undone
- If deck options are modified, ask before closing
- Integrate AnkiHub Sign-in into the preferences screen
- Support {{type:nc:...}} to ignore combining characters

Other Changes:
- This is not a comprehensive list; a big thank you also to people who have contributed things like behind-the-scenes improvements, and fixes to regressions that occurred during development
- Allow maximizing the notetypes screen
- Apply fuzz to SM2 lapse interval and respect max ivl
- Do not show warning if Browser Appearance has no field references
- Do not strip quotation marks from deck/tag names
- Don't exclude suspended cards when updating all FSRS params
- Don't hide text when hiding I/O masks
- Don't ignore buried cards in future due graph
- Ensure profile name is treated in a case-insensitive manner
- Escape special search characters in preset name
- Exclude new cards from Future Due stats
- Fix .DS_Store file shown as an unused media file
- Fix 'NoneType object is not subscriptable' error
- Fix bug with “A 100 day interval will become X days.”
- Fix editor loses focus when toggling list if list item empty
- Fix editor losing focus when toggling list and copy selects wrong target deck for filtered decks
- Fix error when exporting from empty cards screen
- Fix field focus lost when pressing alt in the editor
- Fix FSRS progress sometime shows 0 reviews
- Fix FSRS progress update issues
- Fix graph averages
- Fix imports of decks with file paths using special URL characters
- Fix inconsistent retrievability calculations between normal/filtered decks and display/sorting
- Fix incorrect canvas bounds calculations in image occlusion
- Fix invalid preset search matching cards in filtered decks
- Fix minimum interval warning shown when FSRS is enabled
- Fix Mnemosyne importer choking on due dates >= 2038
- Fix reschedule not working on cards in filtered deck
- Fix setting tags column to first unmapped column in CSV importer
- Fix UI hanging when update check stalls
- Fix unused parent tags getting cleared
- Hide right click copy option in deck list
- Improve the accessibility of the Preferences dialog
- Include backlog cards in today in future due graph
- More closely match performance of Python FSRS optimizer
- Remove legacy import option
- Stop automatically adding Image Occlusion type in Add screen
- Truncate in the middle of a deck name in the browse screen, not the end