An Anki card generator
that hands you the file.
Paste the text, read the cards, import them into your collection.
No account, two decks a day, and the file is a plain tab separated .txt.
Open any question to see the line it came from. Paste 40 characters or more to start.
What comes out, and how it lands in your collection.
The output of this Anki card generator is a text file, not a deck locked inside somebody's website. Front and back are separated by a tab, one card per line, which is exactly what Anki's own importer expects. There is nothing proprietary about it and nothing in it expires.
- Paste your source material above with the tool set to flashcards.
- Read what comes back. Every card shows the line it was built from, so a card that misread your notes gives itself away immediately.
- Click the Anki export. You get a .txt with front and back separated by a tab.
- In Anki: File, Import, choose the file, note type Basic, separator Tab, field one to Front, field two to Back.
- Import. Anki's duplicate check flags anything already sitting in your collection.
Where this generator stops
We schedule nothing. The scheduler is the entire point of Anki and building a worse one inside a web page would help no one. We also do not ship an .apkg yet, do not write cloze deletions, do not handle image occlusion or audio, and have no add on. What is left is the boring middle step: turning a wall of prose into candidate cards, each with the sentence that produced it attached.
It generates
- Flashcards from up to 10,000 characters of pasted text
- Front and back pairs with the source sentence attached
- A tab separated .txt for File then Import
- A CSV, if you would rather clean it up in a spreadsheet
- Two decks a day, signed out, no watermark
It does not generate
- .apkg packages, at least not yet
- Cloze deletions
- Image occlusion or audio cards
- Intervals, ease factors or any scheduling
- Anything that syncs with AnkiWeb
A quiet corner of the search results
Sites with almost no domain authority hold positions three and five for this keyword, which usually means nobody is working very hard on it. anki-decks.com sells prebuilt decks. 2anki converts Notion pages. Ankify and NovaCards do a generation job close to ours, both behind a signup.
None of that makes them bad tools. The reason we thought this page was worth building is narrower: a generator that asks a heavy Anki user to create an account before showing them a single card has misread who it is talking to. These are people who chose a desktop program with a manual over an app with a mascot. Give them the file.
Import questions, answered
How do I import the file into Anki?
File, then Import, then pick the .txt. Set the note type to Basic, the field separator to Tab, and map field one to Front and field two to Back. Anki previews the rows before it commits them, so a wrong mapping is easy to catch.
Is it an .apkg deck?
No. It is a tab separated text file, which Anki imports natively. A packaged .apkg is on the list. We would rather ship the version that works than put an extension on something that does not.
Do I need an account?
No. Two generations a day from this browser, no email. The cards are written in front of you and the file downloads from the page.
Can it read a PDF or a YouTube link?
Not yet. It reads text you paste. For a video, open the transcript panel on YouTube, select all, copy, and paste that here instead.
Are the cards any good?
They are as good as the text you paste, and you should read them before importing. Each card shows the sentence it came from, which makes a wrong one obvious in a second. In a spaced repetition system, the bad card you never notice is the expensive one.
Related
Or start from the QuizPaste home page, where the same tool takes any text you paste.
QuizPaste is not affiliated with Anki or AnkiWeb. Anki is open source software by Damien Elmes; we name it only to describe the file format our export is compatible with.