Importing Cards

If you already have flashcards in a spreadsheet, an Anki deck, or another flashcards app, you can bring them in with Bulk Import. Bulk Import is a Premium feature.

This section covers file-based imports — bringing in many cards at once from a file. For quick capture of a single card from another app (Share Extension, Shortcuts, the Action Button, etc.), see Capturing Cards from Other Apps.

This page is still being written. The outline below shows what’s planned — the full content will land in an upcoming Help update.

This section will cover:

• What Bulk Import is — pick a file, preview, and import many cards into a deck at once.
• Supported formats
  • CSV — comma-separated values; column mapping for front, back, tags.
  • Tab-separated text — same idea, tab delimited.
  • Anki .apkg — Anki deck packages; what comes across and what doesn’t (e.g. note types, media).
  • Freshpack .freshpack — the app’s native package format.
  • Legacy .flashcards — older format from earlier versions of the app.
• The import flow — opening the importer, picking a file, previewing rows, mapping columns (for CSV), choosing a destination deck, confirming.
• Drag-and-drop import (Mac) — drag a supported file onto the app.
• What happens to existing cards — how imports interact with cards already in the destination deck (duplicates, ordering).
• Common gotchas — encoding issues, extra columns, multi-line cells, image references in CSVs.

Sub-pages (to be created as detail grows):

• csv.md — preparing a CSV for import, column mapping
• anki.md — what crosses over from Anki and what doesn’t
• freshpack.md — the Freshpack format