AnkiWeb addon 334923313
Creates single-choice, multiple-choice, and sentence-builder note types with interactive self-checking templates, shuffled options, distractors, and optional generation from existing vocabulary, while leaving scheduling and ratings untouched.
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Creates and reviews single- and multiple-choice questions in Anki with an exam-style interface showing your selections, correct answers, color-coded feedback, and optional explanations.
Facilitates creating multiple-choice, text-cloze, image-cover, and mind-map notes, with drag-to-cloze or mask, one-click multiple-choice generation, auto-incrementing IDs, batch creation, and local LAN sync.
Builds sentences by arranging interactive word tiles instead of typing answers, with customizable card layout, optional answer check, and cross-platform Anki support.
Adds multiple-choice, single-choice, and Kprim question cards to Anki, reviewable across platforms, with configurable answer styling and automatic correctness highlighting.
Generates printable A4 and interactive Japanese crossword puzzles from Anki vocabulary in both directions, with customizable clues, previews, answer keys, history, and solved-note tagging.
Inserts randomized lists into notes for multiple-choice card types, requiring a custom note type and complementary add-on for proper setup.
Anki Interactive Cards (AIC) adds guided authoring tools and self-contained interactive card templates to Anki Desktop.
Create text or image choice cards, multiple-choice exercises, and sentence-building cards with word tiles, typing, or both. Cards provide immediate feedback, but only you choose Again, Hard, Good, or Easy.
AIC uses Anki's included Python/Qt runtime. The interactive HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are embedded in the note types, so created cards can sync to other Anki clients.
The AIC answer dialog prepares note fields; it does not create a separate Anki note itself.
The interface and newly created card templates use English by default.
To use German, open the add-on configuration and set:
{
"ui_language": "de"
}
Restart Anki, then choose Tools → Interactive Cards · Update templates. This explicit update applies the selected language to the AIC card templates that sync with your decks.
Set "ui_language" to "en" and repeat the template update to return to
English.
Review generated distractors carefully, especially where answers may be synonyms or ambiguous.
Interactive Cards · Update templates replaces existing AIC templates and may overwrite personal template customizations. A template backup is created first. Use a backup or disposable profile when updating.
Licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 or later (AGPL-3.0-or-later).
Source code, installation guidance, and issue reports are available through the Support Page.
Version: 1.2.1 Platform: Anki Desktop (Python/Qt 6 add-on for authoring; HTML and JavaScript cards for review) Interface language: English by default; German available through add-on configuration License: AGPL-3.0-or-later
Anki Interactive Cards (AIC) adds interactive note types to Anki. It uses Anki's normal scheduler, including FSRS: it never assigns ratings, rewrites learning progress, or calls a network service. Learners still choose Anki's native Again, Hard, Good, or Easy rating.
No Python, Node.js, or system packages are required beyond a compatible Anki Desktop installation. AIC uses only Anki's bundled Python/Qt runtime and the HTML/JavaScript embedded in its card templates.
anki-interactive-cards-1.2.1.ankiaddon.AIC · Single Choice, AIC · Multiple Choice, or
AIC · Sentence Builder. Click AIC · Answers in Anki's formatting bar,
define the answers, click Apply, then use Anki's normal Add button.The answer dialog does not create a card by itself. It validates and prepares the AIC fields; Anki creates or saves the note. When editing one existing AIC note in Anki's browser, applying the dialog writes the updated AIC fields to that note. If the toolbar button is missing, confirm that the add-on is enabled and restart Anki.
To use German card copy, open the add-on configuration in Anki, set
ui_language to "de", restart Anki, and choose Tools → Interactive Cards
· Update templates. The explicit update replaces AIC card templates so the
synced cards use the selected language. Set ui_language to "en" and repeat
the update to return to English. Note type names and stored field names never
change.
For an update from 1.1.0, create a backup first. Existing note data is
preserved; Distractors is added as needed. To apply the new sentence-builder
templates to existing note types, choose Tools → Interactive Cards · Update
templates. This deliberately replaces the affected HTML/CSS templates, after
creating a JSON backup in user_files/template_backups/; it does not change
field content or scheduling data. Reopen Add after an update so Anki reloads
the editor view.
| Type | Example | Interaction |
|---|---|---|
| Single Choice / text | das Haus → la casa / il libro / … |
Select one answer and receive immediate feedback. |
| Single Choice / images | la casa → four images |
Select a locally stored image. |
| Multiple Choice | “Which terms are nouns?” | Select any number of answers and submit the complete set. |
| Sentence Builder | Ich bin zu Hause → sono a casa |
Arrange word tiles, type an answer, or use both modes. |
Answer choices and sentence tokens are shuffled when a card is shown. Sentence
alternatives are supported. Case and terminal ., !, and ? are ignored;
accents and spelling remain significant.
Use AIC · Sentence Builder, enter the prompt, open AIC · Answers, then
enter the target sentence. Add one wrong word tile per line under Wrong word
tiles and select Word tiles and typing or Word tiles only. The tiles
are shuffled; learners need not use every tile. A distractor must not have the
same text as a required correct token, otherwise the card cannot distinguish
them. Existing sentence-builder notes without distractors continue to work.
The ordinary editor keeps Prompt, Explanation, Prompt Image, and
Audio visible. Technical fields such as Options, Correct, Media References, Answer, Tokens, Alternatives, Mode, Distractors, UID,
and Source ID remain stored but are collapsed by default. Use AIC ·
Technical only for diagnosis or intentional low-level editing.
The separate Card Workshop is an alternative authoring UI. It can create a card manually or generate selection cards from existing vocabulary notes. For a generation run, select the source note type, source deck, question and answer fields, optional image/audio fields, target deck, card type, and number of distractors. The source notes are never changed. Generated cards have a source ID; a later run skips them by default or can update their content without resetting scheduling. A run is limited to 5,000 source notes. Review suggested distractors, because the simple text-length/word-count heuristic does not prove semantic suitability.
Images selected in AIC are copied into Anki's media collection, never stored as
absolute local paths. Audio can be imported with Choose audio… or referred
to as [sound:file.mp3] if it already exists in Anki's media directory.
The add-on itself runs only on Anki Desktop. Cards created with it can sync to other clients because their templates live in the note types. Complex cards are best created and edited on Desktop. JavaScript card behaviour is not guaranteed by every current or future Anki client, so test the card types, distractors, and answer display on the learner's target devices before a broad rollout.
AIC has no cloud service, telemetry, or runtime third-party dependency. It does not alter FSRS, scheduling, lapses, or card ratings. An answer judged correct by the template does not automatically select Good. Import only decks from sources you trust: Anki card templates can contain JavaScript, which is a general Anki trust boundary rather than a special AIC permission.
templates/aic-foundation/AIC Foundation.apkg is a version-pinned base for an
agent that builds a complete .apkg without using Anki's editor. It contains
the three AIC note types with their embedded templates, CSS, and JavaScript.
It also deliberately contains three notes tagged aic-foundation::seed, so
Anki exports the note types. A deck builder must import it into a temporary
collection, create its requested notes, remove all seed notes and the empty
AIC Foundation deck, then export the learner-facing deck without review
history. See the shared Anki deck-creation agent guide for the field contract.
After changing templates, run:
just build-foundation
just verify-foundation
just test # 19 Python unit tests
python3 -m pip install playwright==1.64.1
just test-browser # requires that package and /usr/bin/chromium
just check # unit tests, syntax checks, and archive validation
just build
Playwright is a development-only test dependency. It is not required by the installed add-on and is not included in the release archive.
The release archive has __init__.py and manifest.json at its root and
includes only runtime files, the full LICENSE, and the user_files marker.
It excludes Git metadata, tests, caches, and user-created backups. Before
sharing a release, install it into a backed-up test profile, restart Anki, and
author and review one card of each type.
Further implementation and release details are in docs/README.md.
Licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 or later (AGPL-3.0-or-later). The complete license text is in LICENSE.