--- title: Anki Reviews meta\_title: 'Anki Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 34 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Anki works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.6 review\_count: 34 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Education url: https://www.g2.com/categories/education --- # Anki Reviews & Product Details Anki is a powerful, intelligent flashcard program designed to help users efficiently memorize and retain information. By focusing study time on challenging material and minimizing review of familiar content, Anki enhances learning outcomes across various subjects and disciplines. Key Features and Functionality: - Synchronization: The free AnkiWeb service allows users to sync their flashcards across multiple devices, ensuring seamless access to study materials anywhere. - Media Support: Anki supports the inclusion of audio, images, videos, and scientific markup in flashcards, catering to diverse learning preferences and complex content. - Customization: Users can easily modify flashcard layouts and adjust review schedules to suit individual learning needs and preferences. - Optimization: Capable of handling decks with over 100,000 cards, Anki ensures smooth performance even with extensive study materials. - Add-ons: A wide range of add-ons is available to extend Anki's functionality, allowing users to tailor the program to their specific requirements. Primary Value and User Benefits: Anki addresses the challenge of effective memorization by implementing spaced repetition algorithms, which schedule reviews at optimal intervals to reinforce learning and prevent forgetting. This method ensures that users spend more time on difficult material and less on what they already know, making the learning process more efficient and personalized. Whether for language acquisition, medical studies, or general knowledge enhancement, Anki provides a versatile and user-friendly platform to support long-term information retention. * * * Seller [Anki](https://www.g2.com/sellers/anki) Discussions [Anki Community](https://www.g2.com/products/anki/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/anki/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Kahoot!](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kahoot!") 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[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") AMBOSS ](https://www.g2.com/products/amboss/reviews) Show More ![Verified User in Hospital & Health Care](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Hospital & Health Care") UH Verified User in Hospital & Health Care Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/25/2018 "Great Study App!" 5/5 What do you like best about Anki? I love the special algorithm that spaces out your notecards based on your level of knowledge of that notecard. The spaced repetition is extremely key in helping you master whatever you are attempting to memorize and understand. I also enjoy how you are able to create different decks of cards and choose the number of days before the entire deck resets, etc. The ability to change the color and bold, underline, italicize is very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Anki? Wish the app had a more aesthetic appearance. It is a little bare bones right now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Anki solving and how is that benefiting you? Improving memorization and mastery of content quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Research](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Research") UR Verified User in Research Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/30/2018 "Most Convenient and Effective Memorization Tool " 5/5 What do you like best about Anki? Syncing between different devices allows me to memorize to memorize wherever I am - perfect for anytime that I have a few minutes to kill. Spaced Repetition learning was a new concept that has proven to be very effective. No alternative allows the flexibility or provides the effectiveness of Anki. Ability to use and design add-ons to the software is a large bonus that makes Anki a very complete product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Anki? Due to the number of features and user designed add ons, Anki is a bit intimidating at first and has a bit of a learning curve. However, Anki is 100% worth the time taken to learn for anyone needing a memorization tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Anki: Use the Anki forums and reddit to find add ons and master all the helpful features Anki has to offer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Anki solving and how is that benefiting you? In a field where a lot of background knowledge is required, I use Anki to solidify important details that I need to know and use it as an aid when learning new concepts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Hospitality](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Hospitality") UH Verified User in Hospitality Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/22/2018 "My experience of using Anki" 5/5 What do you like best about Anki? Came across the software through the book "Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner. Anki makes it very easy to create new cards, and you can create different types of cards. The most basic type is the traditional flash card. There's also a reverse card, where you're sometimes shown the front ("Chair") and sometimes the back ("Silla," Spanish for chair). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Anki? Anki is a mature product, but its interface can seem unintuitive at first. There is a learning curve to both the system and Anki, so if you're just starting out, you should probably find a ready-made pack of cards and use that for a while. You can then transition over to creating your own cards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Anki: If you enjoy learning new things (or have to, for school), Anki is an invaluable piece of software, well worth the time it takes to master and use on a daily basis. Anki plugs into a free service called AnkiWeb, which hosts many ready-made shared card decks. There are some users who carefully created extensive decks of cards for learning anything from anatomy to Japanese, and it is very easy to download these packs. Creating one from scratch seemed like a lot of work, until I realized the key was to do it incrementally, one new datum at a time, as I learn. Anki is a mature product, but its interface can seem unintuitive at first. There is a learning curve to both the system and Anki, so if you're just starting out, you should probably find a ready-made pack of cards and use that for a while. You can then transition over to creating your own cards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Anki solving and how is that benefiting you? I am learning a new language and have also introduced it many of my friends and co-workers. Trivia and language are the two most common uses, and flash cards are great at that. I first tried using Anki almost two years ago, when I decided to master the NATO phonetic alphabet (Alpha, Beta, Charlie, and so on). I used Anki's mobile companion, AnkiDroid, for most of my studying, and it was remarkably effective. Within a few short days I was able to spell out anything using the NATO alphabet, and I retained the knowledge for months. Recently, I came across something called the Janki Method, in which you use spaced repetition to learn anything, including computer programming, and not just limited sets of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Medical Practice](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Medical Practice") UM Verified User in Medical Practice Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/31/2018 "Essential tool for studying" 5/5 What do you like best about Anki? Easy to organize and put into categories, easy to review, ability to add tags. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Anki? Difficult to get equations or special characters into text. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Anki: Start broad and begin to narrow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Anki solving and how is that benefiting you? It is certainly helping to compile information, categorize it better, and makes it easier to find when needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite PS paramveer s. Resident Physician Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/9/2017 "repetition to memory" 5/5 What do you like best about Anki? 1. fast 2. available on windows, android, iOS(paid) 3. spaced repition helps to transfer facts from short term to long term memory 4. can put in images Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Anki? 1. app lacks good material design 2. app is tough to manage when multiple decks have been created 3. learning is not concept based but cramming based Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Anki: 1. definitely try it , at least once 2. beware, do not create multiple decks, app will get unstable 3. limit the text used to make flashcards 4. always follow anki wiki, very helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Anki solving and how is that benefiting you? 1. keeping easy to forget information handy in anki and revising them on day to day basis ensures i dont forget them 2. performing well on health care industry, new innovations i come across i can feed in anki. Anki helps me recall the facts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Madhu S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Madhu S.") MS Madhu S. Designer, Writer and More... Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/28/2017 "Anki - Become efficient at learning and memory " 5/5 What do you like best about Anki? Anki is a smart flash card system. It is primarily used by people to learn languages, but it can be used to memorize anything. Anki is based on the principle of ‘spaced repetition'. This is the theory that our memory is made up of two parts: Short term and long term. By default all new information goes into short term memory, which can only hold it for a few days. But if it is reviewed often enough, then it will enter the long term memory, where it will stay for life, provided it is occasionally reviewed. Anki uses a special calculation to test you on information just as your brain is about to forget it. By doing this, it allows information to move into your long-term memory. The result is that you don’t waste time learning information, as Anki only shows it to you when you are about to forget. But you also never run the risk of not reviewing information enough, which could cause it to be forgotten. Anki has a number of tools to help with memorizing information. 1) Multi-media: You can insert all sorts of media into your flash cards, including photos, sounds and videos. The brain responds much better to images, so this can help greatly with learning. 2) Multi-sided cards You can test yourself on your cards in normal order (e.g. Question, Answer) or reverse (Answer first to see if you can recall the question) It’s even possible to have more than two sides. For example, every word in Japanese can be written in 4 different ways (as the language has 4 different alphabets). So you may wish to have a five sided flash card that displays a word in all the different ways to help with learning the 4 different languages (The fifth side will have the word in English). 3) Text-to-speech Anki can automatically read out the contents of your flash cards using an add-in module. It will read it out in a variety of accents. This is very useful for learning languages as it helps to get the pronunciation correct. 4) Free web syncing You can sync your cards across multiple devices. The statistics of when the cards will be reviewed are also synced. This is very useful if you study in different environments. 5) Great support Anki has an excellent support system. There is both a support ticket service and user-to-user support. 6) Free All of this is available for free, except the iOS version. It is slightly pricy at $20+ but it helps to cover the cost of the free web syncing server. (You can of course use the free web version on iOS). 7) Excellent modules These help to enhance your cards and streamline the process of managing multiple cards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Anki? Anki can be a little complicated to understand. It doesn’t help that the interface for web, PC and Mac is horribly ugly (Only the Android app looks nice. The iOS app is just about okay). However, there are plenty of videos on Youtube that explain everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Anki: Don’t let the ugly app or initially complicated nature put you off. I originally went for another program, but I was later kicking myself as it doesn’t have the power that Anki offers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Anki solving and how is that benefiting you? I use Anki for a variety of business functions: • Learning sales pitches • Learning facts and statistics • Learning interesting information in books or the news. Knowing this information makes me more confident, as I don’t have to look it up or refer to notes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Kristyn V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kristyn V.") KV Kristyn V. Instructor, Kitten Training & Socialization Classes Higher Education Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/9/2017 "Anki Flashcard Tool" 4/5 What do you like best about Anki? Easy to make custom and interactive flashcards for studying. You can even add images or audio to the flashcards. This aids with studying things like language where pronunciation is important. You can also download pre-made decks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Anki? A way simply share the flashcards you make, maybe over social media, would be useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Anki solving and how is that benefiting you? You can import the flashcards you make to share with coworkers and then people can edit and change the cards as is helpful to them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Rukia Isabel Y.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rukia Isabel Y.") RY Rukia Isabel Y. Medical Student MD Candidate Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/24/2017 "Helpful for learning, not for cramming" 5/5 What do you like best about Anki? Helpful because I can organize so much material into the cards and it shows me what I’ve learned less and less so I can focus on the material I don’t know as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Anki? It can be very tedious to create. If you want the app you have to pay for it and to upload photos onto the flash cards. It’s good for teaching yourself something sporadically, but not as effective for cramming info. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Anki solving and how is that benefiting you? Mostly use it for educational purposes. Such as studying for difficult exams, such as my medical school entrance exam (MCAT). It is also very helpful when trying to prepare for the board exams if you use it a little every day for boards prep. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 10/25/2017 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") UH Verified User in Higher Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/24/2017 "Fantastic spaced learning flashcard software" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Anki? This software automatically creates scientifically based spaced repetition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Anki? Not the most user-friendly interface for a new operator Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Anki: Need to take time to read very long and sometimes confusing user-manual published online by creators. However, once the learning curve has been achieved, this software is absolutely worth it (and it is free). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Anki solving and how is that benefiting you? This software can be applied to almost all areas of academics or recreation, especially language learning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Pablo Estuardo A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Pablo Estuardo A.") PA Pablo Estuardo A. Lecturer International Affairs Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/1/2017 "Great software to develop your memory " 5/5 What do you like best about Anki? It uses the principle of "spaced - repetition" in order to learn any topic through flash cards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Anki? If you want to use the advanced features to customize your flashcards, it would be a little difficult to configure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Anki solving and how is that benefiting you? If facilitates the process to learn something new that requires memorization. It is a good tool for training. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Anki? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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