Anki
Anki is a flashcard study app for macOS that helps you learn and retain information with spaced repetition and customizable review decks.
What is Anki?
Anki is a macOS education app for studying with digital flashcards and spaced-repetition review. It helps students, language learners, medical trainees, and other knowledge workers remember material over time by scheduling cards for review when they are most useful. Users can create their own decks, organize cards by topic, and study text, images, audio, video, and formatted scientific content. Anki also supports syncing study data with AnkiWeb, importing shared decks, and extending the desktop app with community add-ons. The Mac version is a native desktop application that is commonly used for long-term memorization, exam preparation, vocabulary practice, and structured self-study workflows.
Key features
- Create and study custom flashcard decks
- Schedule reviews with spaced repetition
- Add images, audio, video, and formatted study content to cards
- Sync decks and progress with AnkiWeb
- Import shared decks for ready-made study material
- Organize cards into separate decks and study topics
- Extend the desktop app with community add-ons
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
Anki is legitimate study software for creating and reviewing flashcards. Access to local files, media, and network syncing is normal for its purpose, especially when importing decks, adding attachments, or syncing with AnkiWeb. Removing the app can leave your study data unavailable until you reinstall or restore it, so back up your collection if it matters to you.
Recommendation: Keep Anki if you use it for studying or maintain flashcard decks on this Mac. Remove it only if you no longer use it and have already synced or backed up any decks and media you want to keep.
Common paths
/Applications/Anki.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/net.ankiweb.anki
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Anki2
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/net.ankiweb.anki.plist
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