AnkiWeb addon 265971902
Adds a Tamagotchi-style dog to the Anki home screen that is fed, watered, clothed and kept alive by daily review goals, with configurable breeds and milestones.
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| Min Anki | Max Anki | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| 2.1.50 | 26.08+ | 2026-08-05 |
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Adds a pixel-art restaurant to Anki where reviews bring tipping guests, with a pomodoro timer, collectible pets, decorations, stats and a home-screen widget.
Displays an animated Tamagotchi-style pet in Anki that reacts to your review answers, tracking persistent happiness, hunger, health, and daily study streaks.
Rewards card reviews with tokens that can be spent to buy, name, rename, and sell pets, plus set and track daily collection goals.
Turns photos of your pet into an animated pixel-art companion that sits, wanders, naps and plays in its own strip above the answer buttons while you review.
Adds configurable weekly, monthly, yearly, and custom goal bars to Anki's home screen, tracking reviews, new cards, or study time by deck group, with streak badges, milestones, and behind-pace indicators.
Raises a virtual pet fed by study progress, with money-making upgrades, casino games, prestiges, achievements, cosmetics, events, a study timer, and Spanish/Mandarin support.
Dog Study Buddy — a tiny virtual dog that lives on your review streak.
A little Tamagotchi-style dog sits on your Anki home screen and depends entirely on your daily reviews:
💧 50 cards — fills the water bowl 🍗 100 cards — feeds your dog for the day (with a happy bark!) 🧥 500 cards — earns a cozy striped sweater 🎩 50 correct answers in a row — earns a knitted pompom hat
But be warned: miss a day of feeding and your dog becomes a ghost 👻, complete with a tombstone recording how many faithful days it lived. Feed the ghost to bring it back to life — or enable mercy mode in settings if mortality is too much during exam week.
Features: 11 breeds, each with its own default name — including Huckleberry Finn, a very good boy with the body of a dachshund and abnormally large upright ears — plus dachshund, golden retriever, corgi, shiba inu, husky, beagle, black lab, poodle, dalmatian, and pug. A mini dog cheers you on in the corner during reviews with live progress; milestone celebration popups; and a progress bar always pointing at your next goal. Days follow your Anki day-cutoff setting, so late-night sessions count correctly.
Everything is configurable under Tools → Dog Study Buddy Settings… — name, breed, all card goals, streak length, sounds, the mini dog, and whether your dog can die.
Found a bug or have a feature idea? Use the support page below.
A tiny virtual dog that lives on your Anki review streak.
A Tamagotchi-style dog sits on your Anki home screen and depends entirely on your daily reviews. Feed it, keep it hydrated, dress it up — and whatever you do, don't skip a day.
| Goal | Reward |
|---|---|
| 💧 50 cards | Water bowl filled |
| 🍗 100 cards | Dog is fed for the day (with a happy bark!) |
| 🧥 500 cards | A cozy striped sweater |
| 🎩 50 correct answers in a row | A knitted pompom hat |
Miss a day of feeding and your dog becomes a ghost, complete with a tombstone recording how many faithful days it lived. Feed the ghost (hit the food goal again) to bring it back to life. If mortality is too much during exam week, there's a mercy toggle in settings.
Eleven breeds, each with its own default name — including Huckleberry Finn himself: the length and height of a dachshund, the ears of a much larger dog. Modeled faithfully on a very good real one, and the default dog out of the box. Rumor has it that Huckleberry Finn, and only Huckleberry Finn, is hiding one more unlockable somewhere past the hat... 😎
From AnkiWeb: Tools → Add-ons → Get Add-ons, and paste the add-on code from the AnkiWeb listing.
From a release file: download dog_study_buddy.ankiaddon, then Tools → Add-ons → Install from file… and restart Anki.
Requires Anki 2.1.50 or newer.
All settings live in Tools → Dog Study Buddy Settings… (or the add-on config editor):
| Key | Default | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
dog_name |
per breed | Your dog's name |
breed |
huck |
One of the eleven breed keys |
water_goal |
50 | Cards/day to fill the water bowl |
food_goal |
100 | Cards/day to feed the dog (survival threshold) |
sweater_goal |
500 | Cards/day for the sweater |
hat_streak |
50 | Correct answers in a row for the hat |
death_enabled |
true | Whether the dog can become a ghost |
show_during_review |
true | Mini dog in the review corner |
bark_sound |
true | Bark when fed |
The add-on is a single __init__.py — dogs are parameterized inline SVG (no image assets), the bark is a synthesized WAV, and daily state lives in user_files/state.json (which survives add-on updates).
To build the distributable file:
cd dog_study_buddy && zip -r ../dog_study_buddy.ankiaddon __init__.py config.json config.md manifest.json sounds
Note for AnkiWeb: the zip must contain the files at its root (no top-level folder) and no __pycache__ folders.
The life-and-death logic (day rollovers, multi-day gaps, revival, milestone announcements) is covered by tests that run against a mocked aqt — see tests/test_lifecycle.py.
MIT — see LICENSE.