AnkiWeb addon 1753038642
Locks the Again button—and optionally Hard, Good, and Easy—plus their keyboard shortcuts until all answer-side audio finishes playing, with configurable audio fields.
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| Min Anki | Max Anki | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| 2.1.22 | 25.02+ | 2026-02-19 |
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Locks Anki until a chosen study goal—reviews, correct answers, timer, or finishing a deck—is met, using passwords or blind locks, with strict-mode enforcement, progress HUD, and local stats.
Combines adaptive answer-reveal delays, progressive word reveal, timed Blitz sessions with time-left estimates, Pomodoro breaks, focus lock, music and profiles.
Adds instant sounds for correct answers, confetti celebrations at deck and session completion, card status badges, colorful answer buttons, custom milestone sounds, and a settings panel with live previews.
Maps standard gamepad buttons to Anki actions like flipping, answering, undo, and browser, plus custom keyboard shortcuts for card-template interactions.
Adds automatic text-to-speech playback and assigns TTS tags to selected fields per note type, without editing templates, supporting batch processing and language-specific voices.
Adds a Pomodoro timer, offline multi-track soundscape mixer, and smart card-audio ducking directly to the review screen, plus guided break and breathing exercises.
Train yourself to actually hear every card before rating it.
If you study a language (or anything with audio), you've probably caught yourself hitting Again or Good the instant you recognize a card — before the pronunciation, pitch accent, or full sentence has even finished playing. Over thousands of reviews, that habit quietly eats away at your listening ability and weakens long-term recall.
This add-on fixes it at the source: rating buttons stay locked until all answer-side audio has played to the end. No clicking past it, no shortcut-key escape hatch. You hear the whole thing, every time.
I built this for Japanese study, where catching the full sentence — intonation, particles, the bit at the end you keep missing — matters as much as recognizing the word. It works just as well for any language deck, or any card where audio is the point.
What it does
<audio> tags (e.g. {{Word Audio}}, {{Sentence Audio}}) — every clip must finish1, 2, 3, 4, or Space won't sneak you pastConfiguration
Word Audio, Sentence Audio)Why it works: Anki rewards speed, and your brain will happily optimize for "click fast, move on." This add-on removes that shortcut and forces the rep to include the part you actually came for — the sound. After a couple of weeks, listening through becomes automatic and your retention on audio cards noticeably improves.
Requires Anki 2.1.22+ with the V3 scheduler.
An Anki 2.1 add-on that disables the Again (and optionally other answer keys) until all answer audio has finished playing — so you actually listen to word and sentence audio instead of skipping it.
<audio> (e.g. {{Word Audio}}, {{Sentence Audio}}).1753038642Tools → Add-ons → select Disable Again Until Audio → Config.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Block these answer keys until audio ends | Check Again (ease 1), Hard (2), Good (3), Easy (4). At least one must be checked. Use this if your “fail” key isn’t 1, or to block multiple keys. |
| Audio field names | One field per line (e.g. Word Audio, Sentence Audio). Only cards with at least one of these fields filled get the blocking behavior. Leave empty to apply to all cards with answer audio. |
| Apply to all cards | When checked, the field list is ignored and the add-on applies to any card with answer-side audio. |
<audio> on the card has finished.gui_hooks.webview_did_receive_js_message and av_player).MIT. See LICENSE.
Issues and pull requests are welcome. If you’re fixing a bug or adding a feature, please open an issue first so we can align.