Questions worth answering properly.

PDFs — including slides exported as a PDF — photographs of a page or a board, text you paste or type, and Anki packages (.apkg). A free import reads up to 50 pages of a PDF or 60,000 characters of pasted text; Pro reads up to 300 pages or 400,000 characters.

Yes, from the material rather than from a number you set. It reads the document and writes roughly as many Kards as there are ideas in the pages it can use, so a dense chapter produces more than a title slide. One import makes up to 50 Kards on Free and up to 150 on Pro, and it will produce fewer when the material does not support more.

Every answer you give is a signal. Kard Kulture keeps a measure of how well each Kard is holding for you, updates it each time, and sets the next interval from that — so a Kard you keep losing comes back quickly and one you know well goes further out each time it holds. The scheduler is FSRS, the modern spaced-repetition algorithm. You never have to think about it: there are two buttons, Not yet and Got it, and they mean what they say.

Yes. Once your Kards are on your device, studying them does not depend on the internet — reviews, scheduling, search and your whole library work with no connection. Making something new is different: generating Kards from a document, building a test and asking the Tutor all need one, because the work happens on our service.

On the web, the same is true of a tab you already have open. A browser still has to fetch the app itself, so reloading the page without a connection will not work.

Yes. Import an .apkg and the deck arrives with its cards, ready to study with the same scheduling as everything else. Anki imports are unlimited on both plans. Scheduling history does not come across — every card starts unseen here — and cards imported this way have no document behind them, so there is nothing for a citation to open.

Not necessarily, and it does not need to. Anki is a very good deck player with an enormous shared library. Kard Kulture is for the material that is specifically yours — this term, this lecturer, these slides — and for the parts around studying that a deck player does not do: making the Kards, checking them against the source, testing whether you can apply them, and finding what is wrong with a deck. Plenty of people will use both.

One of the three Study Styles you can ask for when you import. A Buzzword Kard is a recognition pair: the description on the front, the term it should bring to mind on the back, big enough to take in at a glance. They are for the material you have to place in a second rather than reason about — and they are still written from your source, not from a glossary.

It does not use up an allowance. An import counts only when it succeeds, so an unsupported file, a failure on our side, or a document we cannot turn into Kards worth studying all cost you nothing. If a document cannot be turned into Kards worth studying, you are told that rather than given a deck that is not worth having.

A Kard laid out in a structure built for the kind of thing it teaches rather than as a plain question and answer. Seven ship: Decision Path, Split Compare, Visual Map, Exam Coach, Professor Margin, Pocket Sheet, Minimal Recall. They are used where the material genuinely suits them, which is a minority of Kards — most stay Classic. Any Adaptive Kard can be shown as a Classic one whenever you would rather just see the question and the answer.

Studying brings a Kard back so you keep it. By the fourth time, part of what you are remembering is the card. Test me writes questions that put the same idea somewhere you have not seen it — a case, a consequence, a comparison — so you find out what you can use rather than what you can recognise. It is a check on your understanding, not a prediction of your exam result.

It starts from the Kard you are on. When that Kard came from a document you imported, the passage behind it goes with the question and the answer is grounded in it, with the lecture and page shown. When there is no document — a Kard you wrote, a Kard from an Anki deck, a starter deck — there is nothing to ground an explanation in, so the Tutor is not offered on that Kard at all. A button whose only possible answer is “there is no material for this” is worse than no button. Where it is offered, it says when your material does not answer the question instead of filling the gap.

The document is sent to our service and on to an AI provider, because reading it is the only way to make Kards from it. It is deleted automatically ten minutes after upload, and the job record behind it two hours after that. A copy stays on your own device so a Kard’s citation can open the page it came from, and that copy is never uploaded for backup or sync — not even when you have an account. The Privacy Policy lists every moment anything is sent, and what is sent.

It depends on what you change, and the editor tells you which before you save. Fixing a typo or rewording an answer leaves your schedule and history alone. Changing what the Kard actually tests makes it a different question, and it starts again — because carrying forward a record of remembering something you are no longer being asked would be a schedule built on a fiction.

Yes. The same product runs in a current browser — Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox — with your library stored by the browser on that device, and the same account, the same Kards and the same scheduling as the app. It is built for a keyboard and a wide window rather than being a phone screen stretched sideways.

No. Everything works without one: your library lives on your device and nowhere else, and nothing asks you to sign in. An account exists so your decks, your Kards and your review history follow you to another device, and so your plan stays yours when you replace a phone. Your imported documents stay on the device that imported them either way.

There is a free plan and it is a real one: unlimited studying, unlimited Kards and decks you write yourself, unlimited Anki imports, every Kard style, search and Deck Health, plus 2 documents turned into Kards. Pro raises the importing allowances and adds a few features. Plans has the detail.