Recall Rancher
Your Anki reviews power a farm. Answer a card, a minute passes on your
ranch — crops ripen, animals grow, and you build the place out while you study.
Play at https://www.recallrancher.com
Important: this add-on has changed
Anki Animal Ranch is now Recall Rancher, and the game has moved from a window
inside Anki to the web.
Existing players: your old farm does not carry over. Everyone starts fresh on
a new farm. Nothing from the old add-on is read or migrated. If that isn't what
you want, you can disable or delete this add-on and your Anki is untouched
either way.
The old game was a Qt window that could only run while Anki was open. The new one
runs in your browser, looks far better, and keeps growing whether Anki is open or
not — because your card count is what drives it.
Getting started
- Sign in at https://www.recallrancher.com with Google or an email link
- Name your ranch
- Copy the token it shows you
- In Anki: Tools → Recall Rancher: Connect device… and paste it
That's it. Answer a card and watch the clock move.
What this add-on does
It counts the cards you answer and sends the number to your farm. That is the
whole job.
It batches counts and delivers them in the background, retries when you're
offline, and never double-counts a batch. If your farm is unreachable your cards
are queued and delivered later — you lose nothing by studying on a plane.
What it sends: how many cards you answered, and when.
What it never sends: your decks, your cards, your answers, or how well you
did. It cannot read them and does not try. See
https://www.recallrancher.com/privacy
The game
- Draw pens and fields freely — any shape you like, not fixed plots
- Raise chickens, cows, pigs, goats, sheep and horses
- Grow wheat, corn and grass, which harvest themselves into storage
- Process raw goods into flour, bread, cheese, butter and cooked meals
- Sell at a market whose prices move with the season, or fill town orders
- Decorate with benches, ponds, fountains, scarecrows and more
- Visit other players' farms and pin the ones you like
Requirements
- Anki 2.1.50 or newer
- A free account at https://www.recallrancher.com