Anki import
Import your Anki decks: keep your cards, change your app
Years of cards in Anki? Mindlet opens your .apkg decks and full collections, with images, sounds, note types and, if you want, all your progress.
- .apkg, .colpkg, .csv, .txt
- Progress carried over
- Free on iPhone and Android
Your history comes too Step by step
How do you import an Anki .apkg deck?
Four steps, one of them in Anki. How long the import takes depends on the deck's size; a very large one can take half an hour. Button names are the French labels you'll see in Mindlet.
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Export from Anki
In Anki, open File, then Export. Choose .apkg for a deck or .colpkg for your whole collection, keeping scheduling and media included.
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Open the import in Mindlet
In your library, choose “Importer un paquet Anki” (import an Anki deck). Drop the file onto the drop zone.
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Pick the destination
A new collection (your subdecks become sub-collections) or an existing one. Leave “Garder ma progression” (keep my progress) switched on.
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Tap “Importer”
Mindlet reads the file, creates the collections, notes and cards, brings over the history and media, then shows a report.
What carries over
Media, note types, cloze, LaTeX: what carries over
The aim is for your deck to study in Mindlet the way it did in Anki, from day one.
| In Anki | In Mindlet |
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| Decks and subdecks | A collection, with sub-collections for subdecks |
| Note types | Carried over, including Basic, Basic (and reversed card), Basic (type in the answer), Cloze and Image Occlusion |
| Images and sounds | Imported with the notes |
| LaTeX formulas | Shown from the deck's images, or rendered again from the formula text |
| Tags | Carried over |
| Study options | The deck's preset applies to the new collection |
| Due dates, history, suspended cards | Carried over with “keep my progress” |
| Filtered decks | Become filtered collections |
| Scripts in a card template | Not run: the report tells you which note types have them |
At the end, the report also lists anything that couldn't be imported (a missing or oversized media file, a malformed note) instead of hiding it.
Your progress
What about review history?
Yes. With “keep my progress”, each card arrives with its due date, its review history and its suspended state. Mindlet works out from that where your memory stands, card by card, and keeps scheduling without starting from scratch.
The report shows how many cards are due today and compares that with the count Anki would have shown. Re-importing an updated deck? With “Mettre à jour ce qui existe déjà” (update what already exists), newer notes replace older ones, and a card you've already reviewed in Mindlet keeps its progress.
- Due dates and review history carried over
- The same due count as in Anki
- Re-import without duplicates or lost progress
On mobile
Anki on iPhone without AnkiMobile
Mindlet is free on the App Store and Google Play, and your imported decks are there just as on the web. Notes imported from Anki don't count towards your plan's caps.
Cards from Anki keep the four answer buttons you know: “À revoir”, “Difficile”, “Correct”, “Facile” (again, hard, good, easy). You can switch back to three buttons in the settings. And on your phone you can review without a connection, up to twenty cards from a collection you've already opened: your answers sync when you're back online.
- Free on iPhone and Android
- Anki's four answer buttons
- Offline reviews in the mobile app
Scheduling
FSRS-6, the scheduler Anki power users choose
FSRS estimates, for each card, the probability that you'll remember it, and picks the review day accordingly (Ye, Su and Cao, KDD 2022, 4381-4390). In Mindlet, FSRS-6 is the only scheduler: 21 parameters, a 90% target retention by default, and parameters re-tuned every week from your own answers. Nothing to configure yourself.
After an import, the advanced tools you know from Anki appear in your menus: card browser, note types, tags, study options, filtered collections. They stay tucked away for anyone who doesn't need them.
Understand spaced repetition
And AI
Adding AI to existing decks
Your Anki cards stay yours: the AI doesn't rewrite them. It can help alongside, though. It suggests tags, drafts a note from a passage of your course (you approve it), and the Mindlet assistant answers your questions about a notion. You can also create a new collection from a PDF and review it with your decks.
The AI assistant
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I open an .apkg file without Anki?
Import it into Mindlet: open “Importer un paquet Anki” (import an Anki deck) from your library, drop the .apkg file and tap “Importer”. Cards, images, sounds and note types come over, and the deck can be reviewed on the web, iPhone or Android without installing Anki.
Is there a free AnkiMobile alternative on iPhone?
Mindlet is free on iPhone (iOS 15 and later) and imports .apkg decks with your progress. The free plan has caps on collections and cards, but notes imported from Anki don't count towards them. Paid plans raise those caps and the AI generation capacity; the features are the same. Note that the app's interface is in French.
Is my Anki review history imported?
Yes, if the “keep my progress” option is on (it is by default) and you export an .apkg or .colpkg deck with scheduling included. Due dates, review history and suspended cards come over as they are. A text file (.csv, .txt) carries no history.
Do shared community decks work?
Yes, a shared deck is still an .apkg file and imports the same way, with its media. One exception: if a card template contains a script, Mindlet doesn't run it, and the report tells you which note types are affected.
Can I export back to Anki?
Not today. Import works one way: Mindlet reads Anki decks but doesn't produce .apkg files. If you keep using Anki alongside, re-import an updated deck with the “update what already exists” option.
Can I import a CSV file or Quizlet cards?
A text file (.csv, .tsv or .txt, up to 50 MB) imports through the same screen, with a choice of column for each field. There's no dedicated Quizlet import: cards exported as text go through this route.
How long does an import take?
It depends on the size of the deck and its media; a very large deck can take half an hour. The screen tracks each step (reading the file, creating collections, notes, cards, review history, images and sounds), then shows the report.
Keep reading
Your next course, already in cards.
Drop a PDF, a link or a lecture recording. Mindlet does the preparation, you do the learning.
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