๐Ÿ™๏ธ Anki City Tycoon: Gamify your Learning!

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Gamifies Anki reviews by awarding coins for cards, including mobile reviews after syncing, to buy land, buildings, and monuments and grow a customizable city.
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Updated
2026-06-20
Anki versions
26.05~
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Python, JSON
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en

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  • Last update or commit: 2026-06-20 (134 days before the snapshot).

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Description

Anki City Tycoon: Gamify your Learning!

Anki City Tycoon is simple: do reviews, earn coins, buy land and buildings, and grow your city through both population and appeal.

Unlike many Anki โ€œtycoonโ€ add-ons, Anki City Tycoon does not force you to review only on desktop. Do your reviews anywhere - Anki desktop, AnkiMobile, or AnkiDroid - then sync back to desktop to claim your coins and update your city.

Example

Anki City Tycoon demo

What you can do

  • Earn coins from reviews
  • Review on mobile and get rewarded after syncing
  • Buy land plots
  • Place buildings
  • Upgrade buildings
  • Grow your population
  • Improve city appeal
  • Repair damaged buildings
  • Complete achievement tracks
  • Unlock and place monuments
  • Choose different visual themes
  • Export/import your city save

Review anywhere. Get rewarded anywhere.

Most Anki tycoon add-ons have a problem: they discourage you from doing cards on your phone, because your desktop add-on will not reward those reviews properly.

Anki City Tycoon is built differently.

Reviews done on AnkiMobile or AnkiDroid can still earn coins once you sync back to Anki desktop. Your progress is not wasted just because you studied away from your computer.

This also applies to Essential Decks. If the add-on thinks you may have completed your essential reviews on another device, it will ask you to sync before triggering a disaster. That means you can finish reviews on mobile at night without worrying that your desktop city will punish you the next morning before syncing.

Review rewards

By default:

  • Again: 0 coins
  • Hard: 1 coin
  • Good: 3 coins
  • Easy: 5 coins

You can change these values in the settings.

There are also deck reward multipliers if you want some decks to give more or fewer coins.

Coins earned popup

Essential Decks: Trigger city disasters when you donโ€™t finish them.

Essential Decks are an optional challenge mode.

  • Mark important decks as Essential for extra accountability.
  • If you donโ€™t finish your essential decks on a day, a disaster will unfold in your city.
  • The more cards you leave overdue, the more severe your damage and costly your cleanup.
  • Clean up nuclear waste and rubble before repairing buildings.

Too much?

Choose your punishment level: soft, standard, harshโ€ฆor turn it off completely for more peaceful city-building.

You can also enable vacation mode to take breaks scot-free.

The add-on does not punish Again answers. Essential Deck disasters are based on missed overdue review cards, not cards due today or new cards.

City appeal

Population measures how big your city is.

Appeal measures how nice your city is.

Appeal comes from things like buildings, upgrades, monuments, terrain, cleanup status, damage, and building placement. The appeal popup shows the exact score breakdown, including what is helping and hurting your city.

Your City, Your Way: Fully Customizable

Current themes:

  • Cozy Green
  • Night Metro
  • Sunny Plains
  • Desert Oasis

You can build a peaceful town, a dense metro, a desert settlement, or whatever layout keeps you motivated to review.

Reward your Progress

Anki City Tycoon includes achievement tracks for reviews, streaks, population, buildings, repairs, upgrades, land, coins, parks, restaurants, monuments, and more.

The goal is not to replace Ankiโ€™s scheduler. It just adds a city-building layer on top of your normal reviews.

Backups

The City Data settings include:

  • Export
  • Import
  • Restore Backup
  • Reset City

I recommend exporting your city occasionally, especially before trying major updates.

Notes

This add-on is for Anki desktop.

The city interface itself is desktop-only, but reviews done on AnkiMobile or AnkiDroid can still count after syncing back to desktop.

Questions, bugs, or feedback: ankiville@gmail.com