AnkiWeb addon 1866406123
Applies native macOS Liquid Glass material behind Anki's deck list, overview, toolbar, and reviewer, with configurable tints, plus an automatic frosted fallback on older macOS versions.
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| Min Anki | Max Anki | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| 2.1.1 | + | 2026-09-10 |
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Adds a customizable semi-transparent liquid-glass background that smoothly resizes between question and answer, with blur, animation settings, and automatic dark-text readability conversion.
Customizes Anki's reviewer with 40 color themes, 89 card styles, 62 fonts, and 10 transitions, all switchable live via a floating toolbar during review.
Adjusts font size independently for the native UI, deck browser, card content, and editor through a validated config, applying changes immediately on Anki 26.08+.
Gives Anki's deck browser and overview pages a modern material design look with preset and custom themes, per-deck icons and backgrounds, enhanced statistics, and colorful reviewer buttons.
Transforms Anki's interface into a polished minimalist design with light and dark modes, restyling the deck browser, reviewer, overview screens, and native menus.
Restyles the entire Anki interface with four switchable themes covering the deck list, reviewer, browser, editor, statistics, dialogs, and menus while leaving your note types untouched.
AnkiGlass brings Apple's Liquid Glass material to Anki on macOS — a real AppKit NSGlassEffectView behind the deck list, deck overview, and reviewer, with frosted toolbar and bottom-bar controls and a theme-aware tint that reads consistently in light and dark mode.
Unlike a CSS-only "glass look", this uses the genuine system material, so it refracts and blurs your desktop and other windows behind Anki.
Requirements
Configuration — Tools → Add-ons → AnkiGlass → Config: choose which screens get glass, whether the card area itself is glass, and the tint colour for light and dark mode. A runtime on/off toggle lives under Tools → AnkiGlass.
Notes
Source, issues, and updates: https://github.com/AIbrahimv2/AnkiGlass
Native macOS Liquid Glass for Anki. AnkiGlass
gives Anki's main window a real AppKit NSGlassEffectView — the macOS 26
"Tahoe" glass material — behind the deck list, deck overview, and reviewer,
with frosted toolbar and bottom-bar controls and a theme-aware tint.
macOS only. Best on macOS 26 (Tahoe) for true Liquid Glass; older macOS gets a vibrancy (frosted) fallback. On Windows and Linux the add-on does nothing.
./build.sh and double-click dist/anki-glass.ankiaddon,
or in Anki use Tools → Add-ons → Install from file.Restart Anki after installing.
Tools → Add-ons → AnkiGlass → Config. See src/config.md for
each option. In short: choose which screens get glass, whether the card area
itself is glass, and the tint colour for light and dark mode. A runtime toggle
lives under Tools → AnkiGlass.
Anki's UI is Qt/Chromium web views, not native AppKit controls, so AnkiGlass does not replace the widget engine. Instead it:
NSWindow transparent and requests an alpha surface format so
Chromium clears its transparent regions cleanly (no ghosting).NSGlassEffectView in a borderless child window pinned behind
the main window. The main window is never re-parented, so Qt keeps ownership
of its own view and mouse hover (e.g. AMBOSS pop-ups) keeps working.It talks to the Objective-C runtime through ctypes (see objc_bridge.py) —
the same technique Anki itself uses for its bundled macOS helper — because Anki
does not ship PyObjC.
glass_card set to false.src/. Symlink or copy it into your Anki add-ons folder as
anki_glass to test, then restart Anki../build.sh packages src/ into dist/anki-glass.ankiaddon.