Study Tools - AnkiMobile Manual

Study Tools

The tools screen will open when you tap on the gear/cog icon in the study screen.

On the top right, there are buttons that will adjust the text size on your cards.

The "Frequent Actions" section contains some commonly used actions. You can rearrange the actions there or remove actions by holding your finger on a button for a second or so.

Below the "Frequent Actions" section is a list of all available actions in AnkiMobile. You can add these actions to the "Frequent Actions" section by long-pressing on them.

Actions

The following actions can be run from the tools screen, or by assigning them to a tap, swipe, or the top bar in the preferences.

Add Opens a new window to add cards to the deck.

Answer "Again" When the answer screen is shown, choose the red button, indicating you wish to review the card again soon. This is useful when you forgot a card or wish to review it more frequently.

Answer "Hard" When the answer screen is shown and there are four buttons, choose the second button from the left, indicating you found the card hard to remember.

Answer "Good" When the answer screen is shown, choose the green button. This is the button you should end up using the most.

Answer "Easy" When the answer screen is shown, choose the button on the right, indicating you found the card too easy to remember and would like a much longer delay.

Auto Advance Allows you to automatically reveal the answer, and automatically rate or bury cards. You can customize the behaviour in the deck's study options.

Bottom Bar Hides or shows the bottom bar, where the answer buttons and card counts are shown.

Browse Opens the card browser, where you can search for and modify cards.

Bury Card Hides the current card from review. It will be shown again the next day, or when you manually unbury cards.

Bury Note Hides the current note from review. It will be shown again the next day, or when you manually unbury cards.

Card Info Shows information about the current card.

Card Template Allows you to edit the card template, changing which fields are shown on the front and back of the card, and the card styling.

Current Audio +5s Jump forward 5 seconds in the currently playing audio.

Current Audio -5s Jump backward 5 seconds in the currently playing audio.

Custom Study Allows you to study outside of the normal schedule. Please see the documentation of the computer version for more information on custom study presets.

Deck Statistics Shows graphs and statistics about your deck or collection.

Decks Returns to the deck list.

Delete Note Deletes the currently shown note and all of its cards. If you’re not studying in multiple directions, this will just delete a single card.

Edit Edits the current card.

Empty Removes all cards from the current filtered deck.

Filter/Cram Allows you to create a temporary deck based on search criteria such as "tag:hard". Please see the documentation of the computer version for more information on filtered decks.

Flag 1 - 4 Sets or clears the card’s flag. Flagging cards allows you to find them easily in the browse screen later.

Mark Adds a tag called "Marked" to the current note, so it can be easily found in a search.

Mark & Bury Marks the card, then buries it.

Mark & Suspend Marks the card, then suspends it.

Night Mode Switch the interface between light and dark mode, if you don't want to use the system setting.

Off Don’t do anything. Useful if you want to disable certain swipes, tap zones and so on. Not shown in the tools screen.

Pause Audio Temporarily stops or restarts the currently playing audio file.

Rebuild When in a filtered or custom study deck, rerun the search to fetch any cards that may newly match the criteria.

Record Voice Allows you to create a temporary recording of your voice, to compare it to audio that you have on your card.

Replay Audio Replay the card’s audio. You can customize whether the audio in the question is replayed while the answer is shown in the computer Anki.

Reset Card Turn the current card back into a new card.

Scratchpad Show or hide the writing pad, allowing you to practice writing characters during review. Anki will remember the on/off state for each card type. You can tap once on the undo button to undo a stroke, or hold on it for a second to clear all strokes. On devices that support pressure sensitivity (iPhone 6S, iPad w/ Apple Pencil), the stroke width will depend on how hard you press.

Scratchpad Size Alters the size of the scratchpad window.

Scroll Up Scroll Down When card content is larger than one screen, scrolls up or down. Useful when using a gamepad without an analog control stick.

Set Due Date Make the card a review card if it is not already one, and make it due in the number of days you specify. If you choose 0 days, the card will be ready to review immediately.

Show Answer Reveals the answer when a card’s question is shown.

Study Options Show the study options screen.

Suspend Card Prevent current card from being shown during review until you unsuspend it via the search action.

Suspend Note Prevent all cards of current note from being shown during review until you unsuspend them via the search action.

Top bar Show or hide the bar at the top of the screen.

Tools Show the tools screen.

Unbury Deck Makes any buried cards in the current deck ready for review again.

Undo Undoes the last review.

User Action 1-8

From 2.0.88+. An advanced feature that allows you to trigger JavaScript in the review screen. Please note we can not provide any assistance with using this feature, as it uses JavaScript.

Some shared decks provide keyboard shortcuts to perform actions like revealing a hint, or revealing the next cloze deletion. If that action is available as a public function, you can tell AnkiMobile to call it when a user action is triggered. This makes it possible to trigger the action with your gamepad instead.

To define a user action, you must know the function the card template provides. If you know it provides a revealNext() function for example, you can tell AnkiMobile to call it with the following code:

var userJs1 = revealNext;

The author of the shared deck or template may be able to tell you if a function is available.

Please note that standard Anki templates do not provide any actions - this feature is only useful for triggering actions you have written yourself, and ones that certain shared decks/templates provide.

Study Options

The study options can be accessed from the tools screen. Almost all the options available in the computer version can also be adjusted in AnkiMobile. For a description of what everything does, please see the computer documentation. While some of the options have different wording, the behaviour is the same as the computer version.