[edjrage]

Am I the only one who finds Anki's UI/UX to be absolutely atrocious? I know it's petty, but it's literally the only reason that's always made me not use it for more than just a few days at a time.

Is anyone working on improving the UI? Or are there alternative "frontends" out there? Does anyone know how hard it would be do it? (I assume it might not be trivial since Anki has a plugin system, but I don't know to what extent they can modify the UI)

[knubie]

While not a "frontend" to Anki, I built Mochi[0] in part because I was also frustrated with Anki's UI/UX and it supports importing Anki decks to an extent.

It uses a similar scheduling algorithm to Anki, but it's based on simple markdown note cards, and has some features around that as well, such as bi-directional link references.

[0] https://mochi.cards/

[tpoacher]

In the words of the venerable late Steve Jobs: "You're using it wrong."

Personally I find the UI/UX to be exactly what I want it to be. What exactly do you not like about it?

[MeinBlutIstBlau]

I know it's not perfect, but imo it's design was more focused on additional functionality and it working fine.

It's by no means pretty and definitely has a learning curve. That's what makes it such a useful tool though. Otherwise you end up with duolingo...

[edylemond]

Some other alternatives already mentioned but there's also https://traverse.link/ for spaced repetition on connected notes

[moralsupply]

There's always Memrise https://www.memrise.com/ which does pretty much the same as Anki, with some interesting extra features

[bibelo]

Anki is just terrible, even to the point of losing data in my case.