AnkiMCP Grows Up: Anki Studio, Hosted Anki, and Remote Access
AnkiMCP started as one thing: a bridge that lets an AI create and review cards in your Anki. Today it becomes a workbench. This release goes after the pain points every Anki user knows — the ones we’ve all just learned to live with.
What’s new
“My AI can only reach Anki when I’m sitting at my computer.” The managed tunnel securely connects ChatGPT, claude.ai, or your phone to your Anki from anywhere → Remote vs local access
“Two thousand cards in, I have no idea what I actually know.” The Knowledge Roadmap turns your deck into a living map — what’s mastered, what’s decaying, what to learn next, synced from your real review history → Knowledge Roadmap
“Polishing a card with the AI in Anki is a dance: close the editor, let the AI edit, reopen, fix the styling in yet another window — and edits made while the editor is open just get ignored.” The Sandbox ends the dance: one shared live workbench where you and your AI edit the same draft at the same time — fields, HTML, CSS, JS, and an Anki-accurate preview side by side — and nothing touches your deck until you approve → Sandbox
“My card images and audio are scattered everywhere.” The Media Library stores them once, organized and editable in the browser, where your AI can find and reuse them → Media Library
“My laptop has to stay on for any of this to work.” Hosted Anki runs a real Anki on our cloud servers, reachable by your AI around the clock — laptop off → Hosted Anki
The Roadmap, Sandbox, and Media Library together form Anki Studio, and every account gets them — the free plan is enough to try everything. Hosted Anki is part of the Pro plan.
Where to start
New here? Get started — connecting an AI to your local Anki is free and always will be. Already connected? Open your dashboard and the Studio is waiting.
Disclaimer: “Anki” is a registered trademark of Ankitects Pty Ltd. AnkiMCP is an independent, community-built project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Ankitects. MCP is an open standard originated by Anthropic; AnkiMCP is likewise not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.