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 โtycoonโ 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.


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.

Essential Decks: Trigger city disasters when you donโt finish them.
Essential Decks are an optional challenge mode.
- Mark important decks as Essential for extra accountability.
- If you donโt 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, harshโฆor 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 Ankiโs 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