Everything that makes Anki work, spaced repetition that beats forgetting, without the dated interface, manual decks, and steep setup. Calm, visual, and automatic.
Anki nails one thing, spaced repetition. But the dated interface, manual deck-building, and add-on hunting put learning behind a wall of setup. MindDory keeps the proven memory science and makes the rest effortless, visual, and genuinely pleasant to open every day.
| Feature | Anki | MindDory |
|---|---|---|
| Spaced repetition | Yes | Yes |
| Visual Word Map of your vocabulary | No | Yes |
| AI stories built from your own words | No | Yes |
| Auto-capture words from your AI chats | No | Yes |
| Setup & deck building | Manual, steep | Guided & automatic |
| Interface | Dated, complex | Calm "Paper & Ink" |
| Native iOS · Android · Web | Clunky web/mobile | Native everywhere |
| Price | Free (paid on iOS) | Free + $7.99 premium |
The Word Map turns your words into a living map: what you know, what is next, and how it all connects. Anki gives you lists; MindDory gives you a picture. MindDory also writes short AI stories using your own due words, so review feels like reading rather than flashcard grinding. And when you connect Claude, the words you meet while chatting are captured into MindDory automatically, with no manual deck-building.
Drop an .apkg deck into the importer and it becomes a MindDory Word Map. Import keeps your progress on mature cards, so years of cards will not hold you back from switching.
Anki is free on desktop, on the web through AnkiWeb, and on Android, where the app is called AnkiDroid. On iPhone and iPad the official app, AnkiMobile, is a one-time paid purchase. Your decks sync between them through an AnkiWeb account.
On a phone, Anki keeps the same model as on desktop: you build or download decks, and you tune the settings yourself. That is powerful, and it is also a lot to manage on a small screen.
MindDory is free to download on both Android and iPhone, and the same account works on the web. You can bring your Anki decks with you: import the .apkg file in the web app and your cards are on your phone too.
Yes. Drop your .apkg file into the importer in the web app at app.minddory.com and the deck becomes a MindDory Word Map. Import carries over the review schedule on mature cards, so years of study do not reset to zero. Import inside the iOS and Android apps arrives in the next release.
MindDory keeps what makes Anki effective, proven spaced repetition, and removes the friction. You get a calm, modern interface, a visual Word Map of your vocabulary, AI-generated stories built from your own words, and automatic word capture from your AI chats. No add-ons, no manual deck wrangling.
Yes. MindDory has a free tier you can use forever, and cloud backup and sync across devices are part of it. Premium ($7.99/month) opens the Word Map deep dive and raises the daily AI budget for stories and memory cues.
The Word Map is a visual map of your vocabulary: your known words, your learning frontier, and how words relate. It turns abstract progress into something you can actually see, which Anki has never offered.
Yes. You rate each word as Fail, Hard, or Easy and the interval follows: a word you failed comes back in an hour, a hard one in three days, one you knew in a week. Rate it Easy twice in a row and it leaves your review queue. MindDory sets the schedule for you instead of asking you to tune ease factors the way Anki does.
Yes. On Android, Anki is called AnkiDroid. It is free and open source, built by volunteers, and syncs with desktop Anki through a free AnkiWeb account. It has the same deep settings as desktop Anki, so the learning curve comes with it.
Yes. The official iPhone and iPad app is AnkiMobile. Unlike desktop Anki and AnkiDroid it is not free: it is a one-time paid purchase on the App Store. MindDory is free to download on iPhone and Android, with the same account and progress on the web.
MindDory runs natively on iOS, Android, and the web (app.minddory.com), with cloud sync, so your vocabulary follows you across every device.