Alternatives to AnkiDroid

An open-source Android app for studying Anki spaced-repetition flashcards. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as AnkiDroid.

  • Anki

    Flashcards that schedule themselves, showing you a card just before you would have forgotten it.

    FreemiumOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinuxAndroidiOSWeb

    Anki is the upstream program with the same decks and scheduling, available on Windows, macOS, Linux, web and iOS, though the iOS app is a paid purchase.

  • Brainscape

    A flashcard app that uses confidence-based spaced repetition, on the web and mobile.

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

    Brainscape uses confidence-based spaced repetition with a large catalog of ready-made decks, but it is proprietary and cloud-based, with some features behind a paid upgrade.

  • Knowt

    A study app for flashcards, notes, quizzes and exam prep, with AI tools that summarize lectures.

    FreeProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

    Knowt offers free flashcards with AI tools that build study material from PDFs and lectures, but it is closed source and sends material to its servers.

  • Quizlet

    An online flashcard and study-set platform with practice games and tests built from your cards.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Quizlet turns study sets into flashcards, games and tests with a large shared library, but it is a hosted web service with some features behind payment.

  • Mnemosyne

    A free spaced-repetition flashcard program that schedules each card's review based on how well you remember it.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    Mnemosyne is a free open-source spaced-repetition program with a simpler interface, but it runs on desktop only and has fewer shared decks than Anki.

Also worth comparing

These listings name AnkiDroid as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • Parley

    A KDE vocabulary trainer that uses spaced-repetition flashcards to help you memorise foreign words.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsLinux

    AnkiDroid brings open-source spaced-repetition flashcards to Android under GPL-3.0, using Anki decks, but it is Android only and syncing needs a separate Anki sync service.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.