In the next week or two I’ll create a post showing you step by step how to buy the Anki Mobile App for iOS, install it, and sync it with your computer’s existing Anki flash card decks. Here’s some discussion of the $25 price tag which you might find interesting.įrom my point of view, I’m sure I’ll get at least a couple dozen extra hours of review time over the course of a year. I think the programmer who creates and maintains the mobile app explains the price well. What’s another $25 to enable me to study Anki flash cards whenever I want, computer or not? Seems worth it, especially when you consider how much we all pay for an iPhone, for cellular service, or language learning materials. This reply was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by Erik.I’ve been debating the question for a few days, since the $25 price for Anki Mobile Flashcards App is higher than most apps in the App Store, among a world of $1 apps.Ī relevant question is this: Is it worth paying $25 to have all my Anki flash card decks available on my iPhone and iPad, so I can study them even when I don’t have access to a computer? If it makes it easier to swallow, you can think of it more as a donation to the cause, one that Anki is certainly worthy of. I know I fully intend to buy the app once the new version is released, since I am already using Anki 2. The reason the iPhone app hasn’t seen any updates recently is because it is being completely rebuilt to work with Anki 2. If I’m ever run over by a bus, somebody else could take over development, and the content of your cards and your learning history is in an open format which makes it easy to move into a different learning system if you choose. The desktop application is open source, which is essential for ensuring you won’t get locked out in the future. For the price, you get not only the app, but a powerful desktop application, a free online synchronization service, and mobile clients for various platforms. However, AnkiMobile is not a standalone app, but part of an ecosystem, and the $17.50 Apple gives me on each sale goes towards the development of that whole ecosystem. Taken alone, AnkiMobile is expensive for an app. So I created this app to raise money for the Anki project, while also making something people wanted. Some kind people have donated to the project, but sadly donations are not enough to live on. What started as a hobby has grown into a full time job. For the last four and a half years, I have invested thousands of hours on making a robust, powerful cross platform desktop application freely available.
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