AnkiMobile Flashcards

AnkiMobile Review: $24.99 for What Is Free Elsewhere

The Scheduling Is the Whole Product

After each card you rate the recall, and the buttons show what that choice costs: Again in one minute, Good in ten minutes, Easy in four days. Succeed repeatedly and the gap widens — one day, then four, then ten — on the stated principle of reviewing a card just before you would have forgotten it. Cards render exactly as they do on the computer: images, audio, cloze deletions where part of a sentence is blanked, and mathematical notation through LaTeX and MathJax. That fidelity matters, because a deck built on a desktop over two years must behave identically on a phone.

Statistics Tell You What You Have Committed To

The deck screen breaks a collection into new, young, mature and suspended cards with counts and percentages — 11,019 new against 9,522 mature in a 24,829-card deck — beside a calendar heat map of study days and a future-due chart projecting 1,546 reviews across the coming month. That forecast is the feature that separates spaced repetition from a flashcard app: it shows the workload your past enthusiasm has already scheduled. A tools overlay covers undo, custom study, filtering and cramming, card info, burying and suspending, reachable by tap or swipe.

The $24.99 Funds a Free Ecosystem

The developer states the reasoning outright in the listing: sales support development of both the computer and mobile versions, which is why it is priced like desktop software, and the description advises trying the free computer version before buying. Cloud synchronisation through AnkiWeb is optional — decks can be transferred by USB or AirDrop instead. The install is 48 MB, the smallest paid app in this catalogue, and the App Store average is 4.0 from 2,321 ratings, which is modest for a tool this widely relied upon and reflects how unforgiving the interface is on first contact.