Nila and Anki: the same scheduling, without writing every card yourself

Both are built on the same research: retrieval practice and spaced repetition. Both can schedule with FSRS, the open algorithm that predicts when you are about to forget a card, with the settings Anki users know: desired retention, learning steps, daily limits, leech handling and presets shared between decks.

• It writes the cards. Upload slides, a PDF, a recording or a YouTube lecture and Nila writes cards from it, in formats beyond question and cloze: comparison tables, step-by-step pathways, mnemonics, multiple choice graded by confidence, and connection cards that join two ideas.
• Every card links to its source. Open the page of the PDF, or the moment in the recording, that a card was written from.
• Notes and a map, not just cards. Nila Learn turns a lecture into notes, a concept map and closed-book practice, and joins every lecture into one Atlas.
• Ask AI on any card. Ask why, get an answer from your own material, and add it to the card.

Import an Anki package (.apkg), including newer Anki packages. Nila keeps your deck tree, tags and media; note types it can’t read come in as basic cards. Your review history doesn’t come across, so imported cards start fresh. Decks can be exported from Nila as CSV, TSV or a Nila file, but not as an Anki package.

Be honest about what you need. Anki is free on the desktop and on Android, has native mobile apps, works offline, has a huge library of shared decks and add-ons, and can fit FSRS to your own review history. Nila is a web app, doesn’t work offline yet, and can’t fit FSRS to your history yet. If you already have a deck you love and you mainly need a scheduler, Anki is excellent. If what costs you hours is turning lectures into good cards, that is what Nila is for.