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.

Wish the app had a more aesthetic appearance. It is a little bare bones right now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Easy to organize and put into categories, easy to review, ability to add tags. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Difficult to get equations or special characters into text. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A way simply share the flashcards you make, maybe over social media, would be useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

This software automatically creates scientifically based spaced repetition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not the most user-friendly interface for a new operator Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It uses the principle of "spaced - repetition" in order to learn any topic through flash cards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.