The one place Anki is not free is iPhone. On Mac, Windows, Linux, and Android, Anki costs nothing — but the official iOS app, AnkiMobile, is a paid, one-time purchase. If you study on your phone and do not want to pay for it, HopQuiz is a free Anki alternative for iPhone: spaced-repetition flashcards that run right in Safari, with no purchase and no account.
AnkiMobile is sold on the App Store, and the price is what funds Anki’s development — a fair deal, but a real barrier if you just want to review a few decks on the bus. The free route on iPhone is the AnkiWeb site in your browser, which works but was never designed for touch and feels clunky on a small screen.
HopQuiz is built to run in your iPhone browser. Open hopquiz.com in Safari and you can create decks, review with spaced repetition, and use flip, multiple-choice, type-the-answer, and cloze cards — all tuned for touch. There is no purchase, no trial, and no account required to start.
In Safari, tap the Share button and choose Add to Home Screen. HopQuiz then opens full-screen from its own icon, just like a native app — without going through the App Store or paying for a download.
Use HopQuiz as a guest and your decks live on your phone alone. Prefer your cards on your laptop too? Sign in with Google or Apple — free — and everything syncs across your devices automatically. Either way, spaced repetition is never behind a paywall.
Export a deck from Anki as text or CSV, then paste it into HopQuiz’s import to rebuild it as a HopQuiz deck you can study on your phone — no need to start your cards from scratch.
Anki’s own iPhone app, AnkiMobile, is paid. HopQuiz is a free alternative that runs in Safari on iPhone — no purchase and no account needed — and can be added to your home screen so it opens like an app.
No. HopQuiz runs in the browser. Open it in Safari and, if you like, use Add to Home Screen so it launches full-screen from its own icon — no App Store download required.
As a guest, your decks are saved in your browser on the device, so you can review the decks you have already opened without a connection. Signing in adds syncing across devices.
Yes — correct cards are pushed further out and missed cards stay due, so you review each card right as you are about to forget it, with no settings to configure.
Ready to try it? Open HopQuiz on your iPhone or browse the free decks — no purchase, no account. New to the method? Read spaced repetition, explained, or see the full Anki and Quizlet comparison.