[scottharveyco]

I use Anki almost every day (for language learning) and from a user interface it is a terrible piece of software. It is inconsistent and not at all intuitive, even simple tasks usually require looking up documentation or tutorials.

That being said it is still the best software out there that I've found for this type of thing. I hope something better comes along at some point.

[jliechti1]

If you want to try an alternative, look at Mnemosyne:

http://mnemosyne-proj.org/

I use this daily for my foreign language studies. It has less features than Anki, but the interface is pretty clean, intuitive to use, and has a powerful plugin system. Plus, the whole thing is open source, written in Python, and highly extensible.

[a3n]

Wow, I just installed mnemosyne, it looks so much simpler than Anki. I'll be giving it a run this weekend.

[mitchty]

Is there an iOS client perchance? I don't see anything listed specifically at the page.

[whyever]

You can run it on a server and use it over http. To my knowledge, there are only (unofficial) clients for Android.

[mitchty]

I found a few apps that appear to sync, but they don't work all that great.

Maybe I should build an app for ios as a side project.