Comparison

AnkiMobile Flashcards vs AlgoApp

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

AnkiMobile Flashcards

This flashcard app offers a powerful spaced repetition system for efficient learning and memorization. Sync your decks across all your devices, including desktop and web, for seamless study anywhere. Supports large collections, custom card creation, and detailed progress tracking.

Highlights
  • Spaced repetition scheduling (SM-2 and FSRS)
  • Free sync with AnkiWeb across devices
  • Support for large card collections (100,000+)
  • Offline study with local media storage
  • Flexible interface for efficient study
  • Detailed progress graphs and statistics
  • MathJax and LaTeX rendering
Features
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Your decks, wherever you go! AnkiMobile is the official Anki app for iPhone and iPad, the flashcard app that more than 15 million learners worldwide have loved and trusted for over 20 years, made by the team behind Anki and AnkiWeb. Your purchase directly supports the open-source project that keeps Anki desktop free for everyone. Sync is included at no extra cost: no subscription, no sync fees. What you get: - Free sync with AnkiWeb. Keep your decks and study progress in sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows, Linux, and the web. Add cards on your computer, study them on your phone. - The same SM-2 and FSRS scheduling as desktop Anki, so you review material right as you're about to forget it. - A flexible interface designed for smooth and efficient study. - Detailed graphs and statistics about your progress. - Support for large collections, including 100,000+ cards. - Offline study. Media (images and audio) is stored on your device. - Powerful search for building filtered decks, e.g. "tagged high priority, answered in the last ten days, and not containing these words". - MathJax equations and LaTeX rendering. - Apple Pencil support for adding hand-drawn images to cards. Good to know: AnkiMobile works alongside the desktop version of Anki. Some tasks might require the desktop version, and add-ons are not supported on mobile yet. Sync is optional. You can also import and export data over USB or AirDrop. Buy once and use AnkiMobile on all your devices with the same Apple ID. Family Sharing is also supported. Educational institutions can find bulk discounts information through Apple's Volume Purchase Program. Need help? The manual and support resources are at https://docs.ankiweb.net/ankimobile/support. If you have questions or want to report an issue, contact us through our support site.

About

AlgoApp

This powerful flashcard app aids language learners and students with AI-powered tools for creating and studying. It offers automatic translation, text-to-speech, PDF conversion to flashcards, and advanced spaced repetition algorithms. Study offline, sync across devices, and organize decks with ease.

Highlights
  • Automatic translation and text-to-speech for languages
  • AI-powered PDF and text-to-flashcard conversion
  • Offline study capabilities
  • Cross-device syncing
  • Advanced spaced repetition algorithm (FSRS)
  • Import Anki and CSV decks
  • Study Groups for collaboration
Features
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Learn languages, or study for school and tests, with the most powerful and user-friendly flashcard app. Millions of language-learners and students have studied over 2 billion flashcards with AlgoApp. Ranked #1 Education app in multiple countries world-wide. Featured in the New York Times. Designed by learning experts, including a published neuroscientist. Whether you're learning a language to live somewhere new or just for fun, need to get through med school, or just want to crush your tests, AlgoApp has already done it for over 5 million people. Why AlgoApp? FOR LANGUAGE LEARNERS • Automatic translation. Make vocab flashcards faster by typing words in the language you know, then AlgoApp translates to the language you're learning (or vice versa). Supports 120 languages including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, English, German, French, and more... • Speaks flashcards to you, in dozens of languages (automatic text-to-speech). Supports 39 languages including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, English, German, French, and more... • Automatically generates furigana annotations for kanji, or pinyin annotations for hanzi. FOR STUDENTS • Converts PDFs directly into flashcards using AI. Upload lecture slides and have a full deck of flashcards ready in seconds. • Prompt AI to make flashcards for you based on text and pictures. Turns handwritten notes and diagrams into flash cards for you. • Format your cards with colored text, bulleted lists, underlines, and more (no CSS needed). • Works offline, so you can study and make cards even when you don't have signal. • Syncs automatically with desktop, web app, and your other phones and tablets. So you can make cards on a computer with a full keyboard, then study on your phone. • Natively supports FSRS, the most-advanced spaced repetition algorithm. • Imports Anki decks (.apkg), AlgoApp (.xml) files, or spreadsheets (.csv). • Supports folders and subfolders, to keep your classes organized. • Notifications tell you when it's time to study (opt-in). • Share decks and study with your friends using Study Groups. • No ads. For the most-dedicated students, try AlgoApp Unlimited free for 7 days. Study as much as you want on all your devices. If you want to upgrade to AlgoApp Unlimited, you can either purchase "Unlimited: 1-Year" which is a 1-year auto-renewing subscription, or "Unlimited: Lifetime" which is a one-time purchase. • Unlimited grants you access to unlimited cross-platform multi-device sync, and more.. • If you choose "Unlimited: 1-Year", the subscription will automatically renew, unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to your Apple Account within 24-hours before the end of the current period (renewal or trial period). • You can manage your subscription and disable auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings after purchase. Terms of Service: https://www.algoapp.ai/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://www.algoapp.ai/privacy.html

Screenshots

AnkiMobile Flashcards4 screens
AlgoApp4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: AlgoApp at Free against AnkiMobile Flashcards's $24.99. AlgoApp also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 weeks). AnkiMobile Flashcards's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and chart position (#1 vs unranked). On ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

AlgoApp is free to download; AnkiMobile Flashcards costs $24.99 up front. AlgoApp sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. AnkiMobile Flashcards asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

AlgoApp holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AlgoApp has 20K ratings behind it against 2.4K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of AnkiMobile Flashcards's written reviews are positive against 50% of AlgoApp's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AnkiMobile Flashcards ships an update every 6 weeks, AlgoApp every 4 days. Both last shipped on November 12, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
AnkiMobile Flashcards versus AlgoApp: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnkiMobile FlashcardsAlgoApp
Price$24.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (2.4K ratings)4.7 (20K ratings) — better
Positive reviews58.5% of reviews — better49.6% of reviews
Number of ratings2.4K20K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#1 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.215.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB51 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperAnki Software, LLCAlgoApp Inc

Customer experience

AnkiMobile Flashcards

All ratings2,375 ratings
Positive73.8%
Neutral5.1%
Negative21.1%
Written reviews1,589 reviews
Positive58.5%
Neutral12.9%
Negative28.6%

AlgoApp

All ratings20,074 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral2.3%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews945 reviews
Positive49.6%
Neutral10.9%
Negative39.5%

User reviews

AnkiMobile Flashcards

From 2.4K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💯 Excellent learning tool
  • 🤓 Powerful spaced repetition algorithm
  • 🌐 Seamless cross-device sync
  • 🎨 Customizable flashcards
  • 📚 Supports various media (text, images, audio, video)

Room to improve

  • 🤯 Steep learning curve
  • 🤖 Unintuitive interface
  • 🖼️ Issues with image syncing and display
  • 🔌 Syncing problems between devices
  • 🕰️ Slow performance and lag

AlgoApp

From 20K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Efficient flashcard creation and review
  • 🚀 Sleek and user-friendly interface
  • 💡 Useful AI-powered features
  • 🚀 Convenient cross-device syncing
  • 👍 Effective spaced repetition algorithm

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent glitches and bugs
  • 🔒 Lack of transparency around paid features
  • 🐛 Syncing and data loss issues
  • 🐛 Unreliable audio playback
  • 🐛 Confusing and unintuitive UI changes

Bugs and requests

AnkiMobile Flashcards

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Cards disappearing after updates
  • Inconsistent behavior when switching between apps
  • Inability to delete decks on mobile
  • Sync issues causing data loss
  • Compatibility problems with older iOS versions

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add dark mode option
  • Improve card browsing and management features
  • Integrate with Apple Pencil for better note-taking
  • Add support for more file formats (e.g., Opus audio)
  • Enhance mobile-specific features and UI
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  • Provide better onboarding and tutorials

AlgoApp

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Cards disappearing from decks
  • Inability to log in or sync across devices
  • Formatting issues when copying/pasting text
  • Inconsistent behavior when editing cards
  • Frequent app crashes and freezes

Requested features

6 requests
  • Ability to edit/customize downloaded decks
  • Option to review cards in creation order
  • Customizable daily study limits
  • Global search across all decks
  • Markdown support and rich text formatting
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  • Improved folder/deck organization tools

In-app purchases

None

AnkiMobile Flashcards

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

AlgoApp

Subscriptions3
  • Unlimited: 1-Month$9.991 Month
  • AnkiApp Unlimited$24.991 Year
  • Unlimited: 1-Year$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Unlimited: Lifetime$149.99

Questions

Is AnkiMobile Flashcards free?
AnkiMobile Flashcards costs $24.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is AlgoApp free?
AlgoApp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, AnkiMobile Flashcards or AlgoApp?
AlgoApp is rated higher. AnkiMobile Flashcards averages 4.0 out of 5 from 2.4K ratings, while AlgoApp averages 4.7 from 20K ratings.
Do AnkiMobile Flashcards or AlgoApp have ads?
Neither AnkiMobile Flashcards nor AlgoApp shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AnkiMobile Flashcards or AlgoApp?
AnkiMobile Flashcards ships an update every 6 weeks, and AlgoApp every 4 days. Most recently, AnkiMobile Flashcards was updated on November 12, 2026 and AlgoApp on November 12, 2026.

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