Zanki (Anking’s updated version) – Step 1 This deck has quickly become one of the most popular among which to choose. It was created by a medical student with the reddit username, u/ZankiStep1, and later expanded upon by many more medical students. Cards are customizable! When this deck is imported into the desktop program, cards will appear as the deck author has made them. If you'd like to customize what appears on the front and back of a card, you can do so by clicking the Edit button, and then clicking the Cards button. However many different but anki will need better if not really means a good app to the first. Treats cards is chrome spreadsheet to anki is its hard, especially useful if you started. Spaced repetition in chrome spreadsheet to ship is where all the use. Clicking in anki will help keep a subset of the browse screen. AnkiApp is Ripping Off Anki On Friday, Redditor u/farazyashar launched a discussion in the Anki subreddit about a potential lawsuit against AnkiApp (Admium). The main rationale behind it is a potential infringement on the name Anki and clear confusion between Anki and AnkiApp (Admium).
On Friday, Redditor u/farazyashar launched a discussion in the Anki subreddit about a potential lawsuit against AnkiApp (Admium). The main rationale behind it is a potential infringement on the name Anki and clear confusion between Anki and AnkiApp (Admium)
In fact, it seems like many AnkiApp (Admium) users had not been aware they are not using the original software and expressed outrage. It’s likely the confusion stemmed from the similar naming of the newer product, with a few Redditors insinuating malicious behavior on Admium’s part
In the following, we clarify any potential confusion and also share a little our own research we conducted into AnkiApp (Admium)
Let’s start with the most important part: how to differentiate between Anki and AnkiApp (Admium)
Anki is a flashcard tool incorporating a simple yet powerful spaced repetition algorithm at its backend. AnkiApp (Admium) is essentially the same tool copied but developed by a corporation called Admium, though many reviews point to major issues, such as regular crashes and data loss
Key differences include:
- Design: the original Anki has a very simplistic design. The newer AnkiApp (Admium) has a more elaborate design, though reading their reviews, it suffers from many glitches
- Open-source: the original Anki app is open source. AnkiApp (Admium) is not
- Integration with other apps: the original Anki has many integrations, such as the relatively new Pokamanki add-on or Polar. AnkiApp (Admium) has no integrations that we could find. It only allows you to mass import data from spreadsheets
- Community: the original Anki has a huge community, especially on Reddit. Our research found that the AnkiApp community indeed has its own Subreddit. As of January 31, 2020, that Subreddit had one user. Several Redditors did point out however, that they initially confused the Anki community with the AnkiApp (Admium) community
- Cost: both Anki and AnkiApp (Admium) are free on the Google Play Store and $24.99 on the Apple Store
Anki vs AnkiApp design
Medical School Anki Subreddit
Anki add-ons
Macbook pro shutdown problems. In summary, it can be confusing for a new user trying to differentiate between both apps. The good news is that the original Anki app appears first when googling and has a Wikipedia article about it under the Anki name
Since we found this topic interesting and confusing at the same time, we decided to dig deeper. Below you’ll find additional findings. It should be clarified from the get-go that there are multiple spaced repetition apps that are using the term Anki, as even specified in AnkiApp’s (Admium) FAQs.
Additional findings about AnkiApp (Admium)
When looking at AnkiApp’s (Admium) website, you notice that Chinese is referenced everywhere. Even on Admium’s website, all text is in English with a few Chinese snippets. It does make you wonder why…
Admium's website
Since data handling and privacy is a major concern (in particular in the open-source community), we decided to take acloser look here as well. When looking at AnkiApp’s (Admium) privacy policy, we immediately noticed a lack ofspecificity. For once, it is extremely short. Compare AnkiApp’s (Admium) privacy policy to Yelp’s for example. Secondly,AnkiApp (Admium) fails to clarify how and in which location (US, China, or elsewhere) personal information is beingstored.
It seems possible that AnkiApp (Admium) is a Chinese-owned company based on the original Anki platform, intended to takeadvantage of the confusion in naming. This conclusion is based on the confusion in names as well as Chinese being theonly other supported language used on AnkiApp (Admium). While AnkiApp (Admium) does claim that additional languagesupport is planned, this claim has been on the site since early 2014.
Reddit Anki Medical School
Finally, the AnkiApp’s Subreddit’s only user and moderator u/admium, only wrote three responses on Reddit, two of whichdirectly aim at getting Anki users to switch to AnkiApp which further supports the above conclusion.
Anki Med Reddit
We reached out to AnkiApp (Admium) by phone for clarification, however, did not receive a response. We will keep youposted if we learn anything new.