AnkiMobile Flashcards App Reviews

Scroll down for short After using this app leading up to the days of my exam in conjunction with anki on my laptop, The only way I could be more frustrated is if it didnt work at all. It works, but you cant view all cards of the deck - even with custom study. The look is very sleek and pretty, but the mechanisms of this app are so mundane and if you want to do something useful, it tells you click here, but when you try to follow through the prompts to do something appearing very intuitive, sorry, cant do that. The app serves exclusive purposes that have no intuition to them. I feel like Im trying to get a bum coworker to do a simple task. Short version of my review: It helps minimally and fails its potential as a flash card replacement, instead being very niche.avoid it if you can and use the downloadable version of anki on your pc, itll save you 30 dollars that doesnt go towards its development anyway.

This app is worth $25, but only when it worked... Update this so it will work again... It doesnt even read the apkg files in my iTunes folder... Cant download any decks either... Useless....

Ive been using the app for a few months now and ive been able to study more than 1000 chinese characters just by using it on the bus - worth the money

Make your own flashcards or download from the online library. Add media. This program is amazing and is the tried and true way to learn a language, get through medical school, and crush an upcoming exam. Worth every penny.

This is the best app Ive ever worked. Im so happy that I can edit my cards directly through the app. Im waiting for slideshow!!

This is hands down the best app I ever bought. Incredibly stable, and has helped me immensely in academics and general acquisition of knowledge

I had been studying Japanese for more than a decade, thought I knew every product that could help and was always a bit of a flashcard skeptic, but finding Anki helped take my vocabulary acquisition to another level. A big thanks to the developer who has also been running an online server run only on donations until now as well. In addition to the algorithm working well the program has great Japanese and Chinese language support, automatically updating furigana and pinyin with the addins. Having the iPhone app has let me use my spare time waiting for the train or standing in a queue really effectively. Time is money after all and looked at from that perspective it has already saved me far more than it cost!

After using the desktop Anki with great pleasure for a year, I decided to splurge for the new AnkiMobile for my iPhone. I am going on a business trip tomorrow, and Im unhappy to report that Ive wasted two fruitless hours attempting to find out how to get shared libraries (Heisig kanji cards, etc.) from somewhere, anywhere, onto my iPhone in order to use this expensive, and at the moment useless, App. There is no support. The instructions are vague and unhelpful. They tell me, to get started, I need to put the shared decks I want to use on my AnkiOnline account. How? By exporting them from my hard drive after downloading them *from* Anki? Ive tried that--they show up in a list of shared decks, but not under my decks, hence the app cant see them to download. Exporting a single deck requires packaging it as a zip file and then uploading it via the AnkiOnline website--when it isnt even my deck. Im baffled. Im genuinely angry. This is not a free or cheap app. Ive had absolutely no trouble using Anki on the PC. Im not a novice PC or iPhone user. For this amount of money, I want to sync the App to my iphone, and be greeted with a list of shared decks to choose from--exactly as on the desktop client. With two hours wasted on this, I want my money back.

Great addition to Anki, Thanks Damien. Just one request from me: the ability to edit and create cards in the app. Cheers

I really love this app, and consider it well worth the money spent on it, especially considering how powerful the desktop software is, and how well the two work in tandem. It does seem like there should be an intuitive way to download shared decks to the Anki Mobile account from within the app, rather than having to go to the site externally. There is however a reoccuring bug that bothers me about once or twice a week: a question appears, to which I answer "good", and then the next question appears. After I answer that one, the first question (to which I answer "good") re-appears! Sometimes when it reappears, it just shows me the answer half. Occasionally, two different cards will alternate like this, and Ill just see those same two cards for the remaining ten or more cards I have left to study; this is definitely a bug, and Im sure others have seen this behavior. Im not sure if it is disrupting my statistics. The price of the app is more expensive than others, but a real bargain considering the effort and value it offers; I have easily spent more time using this app than any other Ive purchased (mostly to review Japanese kanji), sometimes a couple of hours a day. My favorite thing about the app is that I can use it almost anywhere, for thirty seconds or thirty minutes or whenever. With a bit of tuning, the app does exactly what I want without any troubles (except the bug I mentioned). If I get interrupted or have to step off the train, I can pick up exactly where I left off; the interface is snappy and quick. After using this app daily for several weeks, my retention scores for kanji have gone over 95%, and I couldnt imagine not having this app; it is easily my most used iPhone software. The documentation can be frustrating at first, and it really needs to be rewritten and simplified, as it seems other reviewers have had trouble. I remember it took me longer than it should to get set up; maybe I should write a tutorial?

I was deeply disappointed by this expensive and unwieldy app. If I could give it zero stars I would. In order to access the library and use the media functions, you will need to spend hours reading the (crap) manual and downloading third party software. I use desktop anki regularly and I feel that this mobile version is just a hacked solution to spin some money. Damien Elmes, you should be ashamed of this app. I want my money back

Its true there are a few features Id have liked from the desktop version, like browsing, all the model and some deck management, downloading of additional public decks etc; instead, you have to do all of that with the desktop version and then sync from online. (EDIT: actually syncing from iTunes works too, which is definitely the most convenient way to import decks with media.) In addition, entering new cards continuously could be smoother, as currently you get kicked out to the menu after every new card. But it doesnt really matter, because this is still Anki, and for reviewing it works great and is much more convenient than the desktop version. Cards with URLs embedded in them work fantastically. Embedded media is great. The SRS formula is intact. Worth every yen.

Does not have all the advanced functions of the PC version but it has everything I need - reviewing, undoing, reviewing early, syncs over the USB or over the cellphone when Im not at my PC. I do my advanced deck editing and fact entry on the PC and use the iphone version for daily reviewing. It is great for this. Minor quibble for reviewing Japanese kanji is that the the question font is very tiny compared to the answer font which is HUGE. The iphone app has a setting to adjust the overall font size so I could make the question card big enough; the answer card font then becomes more enormous which isnt a problem if the answer is simply one chinese character plus a few smaller notes. I dont know if this is an issue just with using kanji characters. Also, I wish you could change the font. The native Japanese font on Anki (or iphone?) shows a few characters with slightly unusual strokes. Again, this is a minor issue. The iphone app is MUCH better than accessing the anki website with a Windows mobile phone. The iphone itself is very vivid and beautiful so it is a pleasure to look at the very large kanji characters on the answer card. In summary, the iphone app does not have all the functions of the PC app but it is close enough for review purposes. I havent tried to enter facts on the iphone version.

Honestly the best thing ive ever spent money on. Thanks a million bro:)

This software will make me stay with iphone for a long time. It is not easy to set up, it is not very cheap BUT the very good support of the developer and the whole power of the software in conjunction with the free desktop version and the free cloud possibilities really worth the investment. I am learning chinese language at a speed I would have not expected with the help of that great app and that is priceless

Hands down anki is the best app for studying. It takes a while to set up and get used to it but the results are well worth the effort.

I use this app everyday at school (I teach in a Japanese school). The last couple upgrades have added a lot of much need functionality that make it worth the purchase price. I do have to agree that the AnkiMobile specific documentation is not the best I have had to sift though. This is the reason I only gave this 4 stars. So if you have trouble using your brain, using trial and error, or cant use google worth a damn to search for answers then this might not be for you.

This is a good application, but a I need a feature to browse all cards list as well as "card browser" of windows client application. Only "Search" action is not enough to browse all cards.

Dont spend the money on the iPad app. Wish Id not; interface is shockingly complex, and there is NOTHING you can do without the desktop version too. The web version likewise a shocker. Great idea. Horrid interface.

Comments that the learning curve is kind of steep are not unfounded, but this really has become one of my most-used apps. Read the descriptions carefully and be prepared to fiddle around with the interface for a day or two until you master it. This is not one of those apps that you can completely understand how to use in 3 minutes (at least I couldnt). I can say without reservation that the investment in time (and the rather high price) has been more than worth it for me. If you are on the fence about purchasing this, Id say go for it.