AnkiApp App Reviews

The app seems fine once you get the lay of the land. However, depending on non-universal iconography isn’t exactly user friendly. Perhaps labeling the navigational elements would make using this app more straightforward. Also, I don’t understand why you don’t land on the dashboard as the first screen when it isn’t really easy to get back to it. It’s not even in the burger menu. It’s like this appy has 2 different navigation designs that don’t really agree with one another.

I wish I had good things to say about this. It’s okay if you don’t mind wasting half and hour making your cards after which they are not saved, they disappear. I contacted AnkiApp support several times to report a severe memory leak and CPU usage spiking, got nothing back from them. It’s free software, so I guess not much man power goes into it. While it is useful and the direction the app is going is a good one, it’s definitely not there yet. Not by a really, really long shot. I just spent half an hour typing up and pasting images in a new deck, and the app became very slow, so I did what I usually do - restart the app. Turns out the app does not save the cards you create even though it says “card saved” at the top and you hit save 10s of times in between creating cards. I think that’s a debilitating oversight on the programmer’s part. It probably syncs the cards up after you exit the create card screen, or some silly alternative way, but the point is, it lost everything. When I started the app back up, the deck has 0 cards. Not a single one was saved. Not locally, not online. It’s just so disappointing. Either way, it’s an HTML app, so it’s not hard to develop or maintain, but for right now, I’m sorry, this is unusable for anything more than downloading ready-made cards and going through them.