AnkiDecks
AI turns PDFs, videos, and notes into Anki decks
Tool details
AnkiDecks (official site anki-decks.com, with hyphens) is an AI card-making tool: upload PDFs, notes, audio/video, or YouTube links and the AI generates an Anki deck in about 1 minute. It is not an Anki client itself and only performs "material to deck" conversion; it is unrelated to the open-source Anki software (AnkiWeb/Desktop/Droid/Mobile), to the hyphen-less ankidecks.com (a deck marketplace), and to AnkiApp Inc. (ankiapp.com).
Core capabilities
- Multi-source input: PDF/Office/EPUB, images and handwriting (OCR), audio/video and YouTube links
- Four card types: Question-Answer, Cloze, multiple choice, Image Occlusion
- AI division of labor: text goes through an LLM, images/handwriting through OCR + vision models, and audio/video/YouTube through ASR transcription
- .apkg export: compatible with Anki Desktop/AnkiDroid/AnkiMobile; import into native Anki for review
- In-site FSRS review: built-in spaced repetition scheduling, so you can review without installing Anki
- Shared deck library: 100,000+ shared decks on the site, plus Quiz/Notes
Use cases Medical students, language and law learners, and exam candidates (Image Occlusion targets anatomy diagrams directly); suited to people who have lots of PDFs/recorded lectures/YouTube and are willing to check AI drafts, and not suited to those who do not want to use the Anki ecosystem or who need offline/enterprise compliance.
Unique advantages The strongest features are automatic Image Occlusion + YouTube/audio-video card generation + 50+ languages; unlike Ankify (one-time purchase) or NovaCards (an Anki add-on), it parasitizes the Anki ecosystem rather than fighting it.
Editorial assessment Reception is generally positive but the sample is limited: about 45 reviews and 4.5/5 on Trustpilot, and no G2/Capterra listings, so it is not appropriate to call it "highly praised" and not enough to say "complaints are concentrated". Negative reviews concern billing/refunds and AI hallucination; the free tier's 4 decks/month is usable, while paid tiers impose quotas everywhere. Overall 4/5.
Pricing
Freemium$7.99/month4 deck generations/month; documentation quota per the current official figure is 10 pages / 25,000 characters (legacy directory figure: 4 pages / 8,000 characters, listed side by side without conversion)
50 decks/month, 100 pages / 200,000 characters, AI image occlusion 100/month, AI review 500/month, video 20 minutes
Equivalent to $5/month (official figure; do not convert across currencies)
200 decks/month, 200 pages / 400,000 characters, AI image occlusion 1,000/month, AI review 2,000/month, video 60 minutes
Equivalent to $12/month (official figure; do not convert across currencies)
Additional notes
Billing runs through Stripe on monthly/annual subscriptions; the official site states that all charges are non-refundable (charges are final), and you can cancel at any time with access retained until the end of the current period. The free tier's documentation quota differs between the official site and legacy directories (current official site: 10 pages / 25,000 characters; legacy directories: 4 pages / 8,000 characters), recorded side by side without conversion. Official slogan: Save up to $96/year on annual billing. The official pricing page is /payment/pricing/ (/pricing/ returns 404).
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