That’s something that’s been nice about Anki. As long as I’ve got my laptop I can do reviews, even if I don’t have a connection or the internet is awful or costs money (flights, etc). It runs on everything too which has worked nicely on the Linux ultraportable I’ve dedicated to study purposes.

> - If it's free, like you say here, that it's free. I'm not entirely sure but no I don't think I will charge for this, unless I had expensive features users want as I'm out of pocket on this myself. Its namely something I'm hoping to learn from with marketing and foster a community around. I'm not sure where it will go as the moment its a passion project, with a wrapper such as auth that I plan to repurpose for profit in some way such as a second company or selling the code as a starter template.

- What languages does it work for? I can easily add support for others if there's requests so far these are what I added support for: Mandarin Spanish Hindi Arabic French Portuguese German Japanese Russian Italian Malay Persian Polish Greek Czech

- What's the process to start? 1. Add a word you wish to learn 2. It will generate 4 cards for that word with examples for you 3. Review the card based on your memory recall of "good" "okay" "bad" and you'll see the card based on spaced repetition more often until you have marked it as good enough times it will come up less frequently.

- Can it work in the opposite direction, e.g. to help students that speak Chinese pick up targeted English vocabulary based on what they're working on? I'm open to adding internationalization! But want to get the english app at a point I can justify the time commitment.

The bottom says: Ricotta developed by Affineur Ventures

Their website says:

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I give it a high likelyhood of enshittification, as soon as profitable

I'm currently working on adding first-class Mokuro integration for manga mode, bilingual user-provided or Whisper-generated captions for video, an HDMI-input mode with realtime lookups, and local/BYOK AI features. And once I add Yomichan dictionary support, I will be able to go multilingual too. I also have a beta available via the Discord that resolves some bugs that I'm trying to release very shortly.

I've added Anki integration and am working on WaniKani + JPDB sync. Hopefully more service integrations soon too. I like to have nice defaults but let users keep their flashcards wherever they like. Ricotta too if there were an API.

I could have it output the deck into Anki I like that idea. I wrote a script that did this from CSV but it didn't have audio so I moved to this making the first gen of this app - its open sourced here if you would like to repurpose it https://github.com/Amber-Williams/language-flashcard-app-gpt.... I could try and find my code I make to generate the Anki deck if anyones interested as well.

Custom cards is something I agree is a nice to have. If you have preferences please share I'll try to add them to future feature updates.

I tried the best I can to test specially Japanese and Chinese without speaking those languages myself.

the app uses real human content (audio and text) for the most part, so hopefully it comes natural enough. there is still some AI though

Anki uses this FSRS which is an open sourced algorithm https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki

But what you ask is not feasible, neither I nor OP have 700 millions of reviews to stack up against FSRS.

I have my own experience and a bunch of simulations, and if FSRS were better I would have switched to it.

The reason in my case btw is that FSRS is generic, mine is tailor made for languages - big difference.

>The AI coming up with words for you doesn't add a ton of value, most languages have standardized tests with good word lists that learners should already be using. Adding the issues others mentioned, I think this is feasible but needs agents taking additional steps to mimic what a real tutor would do and formulate a useful short lesson.

I plan to refine the content certainly. If you have examples I could use for a baseline to achieve what you want that would help me back test against I'll try to add that into the next release batch.

> If this could come up with Duolingo-esque lessons for different levels I might use it to supplement. I see the app to be used in tandem with a structured lesson rather than structured lessons in the app. Similar to an Anki study deck.

I had looked into lessons for the app on my 3rd iteration of this and went through a massive refactor for it all to be lesson based. In the end, it felt like AI slop so I kept it simple with vocab to start. In any case, I will refine the marketing copy to reflect that.

You're welcome to repurpose the code. It uses web text-speech api which I had a fair amount of beta feedback that the voices sounded robotic. So moved to a TTS model in the backend. This came with a load of heavy processing along with a translation model which crashed my app when I initially released it on r/languagelearning that had I had fun challenges to scale.

If its an app just for you, you can get away with more and greatly simplify the app.

I have a test account and demo video I'm working on. I'll shoot it over later this week when I have one or the other so you can check it out without commitment or data concerns.

Thanks for the feedback!

This one has a fair amount of security and wrappers around the latest update I plan to repurpose for profit so unfortunately this project is not. Though I'm happy to share how its built if you have questions.

> compatible with existing anki decks?

No its not currently. How would you like it to work with Anki?

here's a great article on the power of spaced repetition any anki lover will enjoy - https://gwern.net/spaced-repetition

Will add support for switching sides of the cards to the next release. My thought here is that once you have gotten the card correct _n_ times, you'll then will see the flipped english only side to reinforce memory recall. Albeit maybe this is better up to the user to change the mode.

I'm also playing around with another card type thats only voice and the user needs to type the answer.

> there were a bunch of translations that made me suspicious, especially translating Spanish future with English present.

There's an issue around single words vs the word in the examples. For example, "bill" in Spanish for the single card is "factura" when the examples are all using "cuenta". I'm working on improving this.

I'll run the output by a few native Spanish friends to ensure it's getting future tense correct.

Looking forward to seeing more advanced ML models in the browser as that's how this project started really.

What would you prefer over smiley faces? Something like "bad" "okay" "good"?

Give me a shout if you have any other things you'd like to see

Its something I plan to refine in my next release.

Thanks for the feedback!

The app will default to your dark/light mode preference. It can be set in settings additionally.

Will be looking into legal copy again after I stop having fun with other feature requests.