🐱︎ Cat Study Buddy ᗢᘏᓗ

AnkiWeb addon 94808647

Displays a pixel-art cat on the deck browser that changes mood across five stages based on daily card count, with a mini review cat, customizable name, color, size and thresholds.
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5 (👍 5 · 👎 0)
Updated
2026-09-13
Anki versions
26.08~
License
MIT (from the GitHub repository)
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Languages
Python, JSON
Description language
en

Maintenance

active

  • Last update or commit: 2026-09-17 (45 days before the snapshot).
  • Commits in the last year: 7.
  • Issues: 0 open, 0 closed.
  • Pull requests: 0 open, 0 merged.

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Description

🐱︎ Cat Study Buddy ᗢᘏᓗ

Made by Icaro Kuchanovicz

A really simple, tiny pixel-art cat that lives on your Anki deck browser and reacts to how much you study, purely on today's card count. In my opinion just like the light motivation of Review Heatmap: no sounds, no popups, no rewards to manage, just a small sprite quietly nudging you to keep going.




How the mood of the cat works

  • Purely on today's card count, resetting every day
  • The mood is shown with a colored progress bar
  • Each mood has its own color and animations
  • Climbs through 5 stages: Empty, Sad, Neutral, Happy, Excited



Random action animations

  • Once Happy, the cat also plays extra idle actions like eating, napping in a box, or a bath:



During review sessions

  • A mini cat sits in the corner during review and reacts to your answers
  • Happy poses when you get a card right
  • Rougher poses when you hit Again
  • Can be turned off separately from the mood bar



Settings (Tools menu)

Fully customizable under Tools → 🐱︎ Cat Study Buddy ᗢᘏᓗ Settings…

  • Cat name
  • Fur color (4 variants, with an option to randomize on every startup)
  • The three mood thresholds
  • Cat size
  • Toggles for the mini review-cat and the mood bar
  • Reset-to-default on every numeric field

Settings dialog


(No ads, no tracking, no sound)

Full source, more screenshots, and license: github.com/icaroLK/anki-cat-study-buddy

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README

🐱︎ Cat Study Buddy ᗢᘏᓗ

By Icaro Kuchanovicz

A really simple, tiny pixel-art cat that lives on your Anki deck browser and reacts to how much you study, purely on today's card count. In my opinion just like the light motivation of Review Heatmap: no sounds, no popups, no rewards to manage, just a small sprite quietly nudging you to keep going.

Features

  • 5-stage mood ladder: Empty → Sad → Neutral → Happy → Excited, based purely on today's card count, resetting every day. Each mood has its own color and animation set (Empty even plays "sick"/"dead" poses).
  • Mood shown as a colored progress bar toward the next stage.
  • Mini cat during review: sits in the corner, idle between cards, with a happy pose when you get a card right and a rougher pose on Again.
  • Pick a name and color: classical (cream), orange, grey, or white, or let the color re-roll randomly every time Anki starts.
  • Adjustable sprite size and your own thresholds for each mood change.
  • Reset-to-default on every numeric setting.
  • A native settings dialog through "Tools → 🐱︎ Cat Study Buddy ᗢᘏᓗ Settings…" (no manual JSON editing needed)
  • No ads, no tracking, no sound.

Screenshots

Cat on the main screen - Sits quietly below your deck list:

Deck list with cat

Mood climbs through 5 stages based on today's card count - Empty, Sad, Neutral, Happy, Excited, each with its own color and animation set:

Sad Neutral
Sad Neutral
Happy Excited
Happy Excited

Random action animations - Once Happy, the cat also plays extra idle actions like eating, napping in a box, or a bath:

Cat eating

Mini cat during review - Idles between cards and reacts to your answer:

You can deactivate it if you want

Mini cat during review

Settings dialog:

Settings dialog

Installation

From AnkiWeb: Anki Shared Addons
Code: 94808647

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Configuration

Open Tools → Cat Study Buddy Settings… for a checkbox/dropdown UI, or edit the config directly via Tools → Add-ons → Config:

Option Default Description
pet_name Mochi Your cat's name.
pet_color classical One of classical (cream), orange, grey, white.
pet_color_random false Re-roll pet_color to a random one of the four every time Anki starts (and immediately when checked in settings).
mood_neutral_at 50 Cards/day where mood moves from Sad to Neutral.
mood_happy_at 100 Cards/day where mood moves from Neutral to Happy.
mood_excited_at 200 Cards/day where mood moves from Happy to Excited.
sprite_size 100 How big the cat renders, in pixels.
show_during_review true Show the mini cat in the corner during reviews.
show_mood_bar true Show the mood label, bar, and today's card count.

License

MIT - see LICENSE.

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