Can I move my Anki decks into Lanma?

Yes. Lanma imports .apkg and .colpkg packages and plain-text exports, and maps the fields to word, meaning and example.

Is Lanma's algorithm the same as Anki's?

It is the same family: an SM-2 style scheduler with honest self-grading, intervals that grow on success and reset on a miss, and six mastery levels derived from the interval. The full walkthrough is on the how-spaced-repetition-works page.

Why would I pay for Lanma when Anki is free?

Because the deck builds itself from what you watch, and because of the voice conversation. If you enjoy making cards and do not need speaking practice, Anki is the better tool.

Lanma vs Anki

Anki is the open-source flashcard program with a proven spaced-repetition scheduler and a large library of shared decks. Lanma is a phone app for people learning English (and 19 other languages) from the YouTube videos they watch: the transcript becomes vocabulary you keep, then a live AI voice conversation gets you saying it. Here is where they differ, and who each one is better for.

Anki is the reference for spaced repetition, and Lanma uses the same underlying idea: a word you are about to forget gets asked before you forget it, and the gap grows every time you remember.

The difference is where the cards come from. Anki gives you an empty deck and a very good scheduler; you type or import every card. Lanma builds the deck from a YouTube video you share, keeps only the words you did not know, and then adds the parts a flashcard cannot do: pronunciation audio, cloze quizzes, and a live voice conversation that uses the words.

Side by side

	Lanma	Anki
Where cards come from	Generated from a video transcript or article, then you keep the unknown words	Typed by hand or downloaded as a shared deck
Scheduler	Spaced repetition with six mastery levels; grade honestly and intervals grow	Configurable spaced repetition
Card design	One format: word, meaning, example sentence, audio	Fully customisable
Speaking	Live AI voice conversation that checks off the words as you say them	None
Import your Anki decks	Yes, .apkg, .colpkg and text exports	—
Platforms	iPhone and Android	Desktop, Android, iPhone (the iPhone app is paid)
Price	Free plan; Pro and Premium subscriptions	Free on desktop and Android; one-time purchase on iPhone

Who should pick which

Pick Anki if you want people who want total control over card design and scheduling and are happy to build decks by hand.

Pick Lanma if the words you want are in the videos you already watch, you want them to survive past next week, and you want to practise saying them out loud with someone who will correct you.

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