AnkiDecks AI

AI flashcard generator that turns PDFs, slides, YouTube videos and handwritten notes into Anki-ready decks.

Freemium· Free plan: 4 decks/month; Pro plan for larger files and unlimited decks (price on pricing page)Writing

Best for

Pick AnkiDecks AI if you're a med student, language learner or exam-prepper who lives in Anki and wants to skip hours of manual card authoring.

Skip if

Skip it if you need an API, on-prem deployment, transparency about the underlying model, or you're not already invested in the Anki ecosystem.

AnkiDecks AI is a study tool that automates the most tedious part of spaced-repetition learning: making the cards. Upload a PDF, PowerPoint, Word doc, EPUB, YouTube video, image, audio clip or handwritten page and the platform extracts key concepts, transcribes audio when needed, and emits Question-Answer, Cloze, Multiple Choice or Image Occlusion cards. Output can be exported as .apkg for Anki desktop/iOS/Android, or studied in-browser with an FSRS scheduler.

It's clearly aimed at med students, language learners and exam-heavy academic disciplines where deck-building is the bottleneck. The free plan caps users at 4 decks per month with no credit card required; a Pro tier lifts file-size limits and deck quotas (specific prices live behind the pricing page). Differentiators worth noting: 50+ language generation/translation, automatic YouTube transcription, and an image-occlusion mode that auto-detects labels in anatomy diagrams - a feature most generic flashcard generators don't ship.

There's no public API or open-source code, and the underlying LLM is not disclosed. For solo learners that's fine; for teams or LMS integrations it's a limitation. The .apkg export keeps you portable, which is the right call given the unknowns.

Editor's take

A focused, well-scoped tool that does one thing real Anki users actually want. The image-occlusion and YouTube-transcription paths are genuine time-savers for med and language learners. We'd like to see the model disclosed and an API offered, but the .apkg export keeps you portable enough to try it without risk.

— The AI Tool Bible editorial team

Pros

✅ Accepts a wide range of inputs: PDFs, slides, YouTube, audio, handwritten notes
✅ Generates four card formats including image occlusion for anatomy diagrams
✅ Exports native .apkg files so you keep your decks in Anki
✅ 50+ language support with cross-language translation
✅ Free tier with no credit card needed