Open your deck in Anki
Anki is the app where you study your cards, with their audio, on a computer or a phone. Choose your device and follow the four steps.
Anki on Windows
Anki is free on a computer.
Minimum: Windows 10 (1809+) x64 / Windows 11 ARM64
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Install Anki
Download it from its official page and open the .msi file.
Choose Windows 10+ (x64) or Windows 11 (ARM). Which one? Windows shows it under Settings > System > About > System type.
The first time you open it, Anki asks for the language of its menus: pick yours.
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Download your deck
It's one leg of the sample, with its audio: a way to try Anki before you buy.
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Open it in Anki
Double-click the file. Anki opens its import options: leave them as they are and click Import.
Won't it open? In Anki's deck list, click Import File and choose the file.
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Study
Click your deck and Study Now. Look at the card, click Show Answer and say how it went.
The answers: Again, Hard, Good or Easy.
Each day brings 20 new cards; the rest come on the following days.
Anki on a Mac
Anki is free on a computer.
Minimum: macOS 13+
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Install Anki
Download it from its official page, open the .dmg file and drag Anki to Applications.
Choose Apple Silicon or Intel. Which one? In the Apple menu, “About This Mac”: if it says “Chip”, it's Apple Silicon; if it says “Processor”, Intel.
The first time, macOS asks whether you want to open it, and Anki asks for the language of its menus.
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Download your deck
It's one leg of the sample, with its audio: a way to try Anki before you buy.
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Open it in Anki
Double-click the file. Anki opens its import options: leave them as they are and click Import.
Won't it open? In Anki's deck list, click Import File and choose the file.
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Study
Click your deck and Study Now. Look at the card, click Show Answer and say how it went.
The answers: Again, Hard, Good or Easy.
Each day brings 20 new cards; the rest come on the following days.
Anki on Linux
Anki is free on a computer.
Minimum: x86_64: glibc 2.35+ / aarch64: glibc 2.39+
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Install Anki
Download it from its official page and, in a terminal:
- On Debian or Ubuntu, what it needs first:
sudo apt install libxcb-xinerama0 libxcb-cursor0 libnss3 libxcb-icccm4 libxcb-keysyms1 - Unpack the file (you need zstd):
tar xaf anki-26.09.3-linux-x86_64.tar.zst - Go into the folder it created and install:
sudo ./install.sh - And open it:
anki
Run the commands in the folder you downloaded it to. If your computer is aarch64, change x86_64 to aarch64.
The first time you open it, Anki asks for the language of its menus: pick yours.
- On Debian or Ubuntu, what it needs first:
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Download your deck
It's one leg of the sample, with its audio: a way to try Anki before you buy.
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Open it in Anki
In Anki's deck list, click Import File and choose the file.
In the import options, leave everything as it is and click Import.
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Study
Click your deck and Study Now. Look at the card, click Show Answer and say how it went.
The answers: Again, Hard, Good or Easy.
Each day brings 20 new cards; the rest come on the following days.
AnkiDroid on Android
AnkiDroid is the official Anki app for Android, by AnkiDroid Open Source Team. It's free.
AnkiApp (now AlgoApp) and Anki Pro (now Noji) are not Anki.
Minimum: Android 7.0+
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Download your deck
It's one leg of the sample, with its audio: a way to try Anki before you buy.
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Open it in Anki
Open the file you just downloaded. AnkiDroid asks whether to add it to the collection: tap Add and then Import.
Won't it open? In AnkiDroid: menu ⋮, Import, Deck package (.apkg), and choose the file.
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Study
Tap your deck and you start. Tap Show answer and say how it went.
Each day brings 20 new cards; the rest come on the following days.
AnkiMobile on iPhone or iPad
AnkiMobile is the official Anki app for iPhone and iPad, by Anki Software, LLC. You pay once: for example, $24.99 in the US or €29.99 in the eurozone.
Don't want to pay? Once you buy, you can also study your cards, with their audio, in the browser, as in the sample. On Android and on a computer, Anki is free.
AnkiApp (now AlgoApp) and Anki Pro (now Noji) are not Anki.
Minimum: iOS / iPadOS 15.2+
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Install AnkiMobile
Install AnkiMobile Flashcards from the App Store.
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Download your deck
It's one leg of the sample, with its audio: a way to try Anki before you buy.
From another app the file may not reach Anki; from Safari it does.
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Open it in Anki
In Safari, tap the blue downloads arrow, then the downloads list and the file. If it asks what to open it with, choose Anki.
AnkiMobile doesn't import from inside the app: you open the file from Safari or from Files.
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Study
Open your deck and tap the card to see the answer. Then tap how it went.
Each day brings 20 new cards; the rest come on the following days.
All set?
You're set if Anki's deck list shows your deck by name and, inside it, one deck per leg.
Open a card and play its audio: if it sounds, you're done.
Using it on your computer and your phone
With a free AnkiWeb account, what you study on one goes to the other.
- Create your AnkiWeb account.
- On the computer, with the deck already imported, click Sync. If it asks, choose Upload, which uploads your collection.
- Wait until the audio finishes too: it travels separately and takes longer.
- On the phone, sync with the same account and choose Download, which downloads the collection.
- Wait for the audio again: until it arrives, the cards may not play.
Download replaces whatever is on that device. On a freshly installed phone, that's exactly what you want.
You can't import the deck on AnkiWeb in the browser. Without an account it works too: import the file on each device.
If something doesn't work
The file won't open
- On iPhone or iPad: download it with Safari, not from another app.
- On Android: in AnkiDroid, menu ⋮, Import, Deck package (.apkg).
- On a computer: Import File, in the deck list.
There's no sound
If you synced through AnkiWeb, wait until the audio sync finishes. And check that your phone isn't on silent.
I imported it twice
No problem: Anki recognises the cards and doesn't duplicate them.
I only see 20 cards
Anki shows 20 new ones a day and the rest come on the following days. With a big deck, that's normal.
I installed another app with “Anki” in its name
The official ones are Anki on a computer, AnkiDroid Flashcards by AnkiDroid Open Source Team and AnkiMobile Flashcards by Anki Software, LLC.
AnkiApp (now AlgoApp) and Anki Pro (now Noji) are not Anki.
I don't want to install anything
Once you buy, you can also study your cards, with their audio, in the browser, as in the sample.
Checked on October 31, 2026, with Anki 26.09.3, AnkiDroid 2.25.3 and AnkiMobile 25.09.