Free
The whole loop, free — one gated app, forever.
$0
forever
- One gated app
- Full sync
- Stats
- Share card
- Emergency pass
For Anki power users — AnKing, AnkiHub & language decks
Your real Anki reviews unlock your apps.
10 cards buys 15 minutes — reviews you weren't going to do, minted from the moments you reach for a feed.
Works through the FareGate bridge. Independent — not affiliated with Ankitects, AnKing, or AnkiHub.
Why turnstiles, not walls
“Another blocker? I've deleted three this year.”
Delay is easy to delete. Three apps in, the feed is still there.
A fare is different: the toll is your own studying, written back to your real collection.
The gate never argues and never lectures — it holds its price, and the price is worth paying.
Walls fall. Turnstiles hold.
How it works
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Try the demo deck first.
FareGate arrives with a starter deck — five real cards, no account, no setup. Sixty seconds and you've run the whole loop: gate, fare, open.
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Gate the apps that take your time.
Pick them in the system picker — FareGate never learns their names. Open one and the fare is due: 10 cards buys 15 minutes, reviewed right there.
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The bridge is the power-up.
Pair once with desktop Anki by entering a code. After that your grades sync back as ordinary Anki reviews whenever desktop Anki is open with the bridge — your AnKing deck and AnkiHub keep working as they do today.
Fidelity receipts
Faithful rendering is the whole product — your cards, not a flattened clone. So the renderer is measured against Anki itself, and the measurements are kept.
Renderer vs Anki, the record
- Card faces compared
- 1,038 of 1,038 match — 100%, measured on a 1,038-card USMLE-class corpus
- Corpus runs behind that number
- 88-face + 500-face, known-diffs ledger empty
- Full-deck stress sweep, 2,000 random cards
- 4,033 of 4,038 faces — 99.9% (acceptance bar: ≥99.5%)
The desktop bridge is AGPL open source — the add-on that runs inside your Anki is yours to read.
What FareGate sees
- Which apps you chose to gate
- as opaque tokens from the system picker — FareGate never learns the app’s name; the OS keeps it
- Your card content
- processed on your devices; with desktop sync on, it lives in your own private cloud space — never in analytics, logs, or error reports, never pooled
- What leaves your device at sign-in
- your Apple sign-in identity — the Apple subject identifier and your email address — plus your device's name and platform and the device identifiers FareGate assigns
- During pairing and sync
- the pairing code and the sync watermark — the bookmark that tracks what has already synced
- As you review
- review entries: your ratings and timestamps with opaque entry and card identifiers, never card content
- With desktop sync on
- your collection snapshot and its referenced media, stored in your own private space
- Subscription status
- via RevenueCat
- Product measurement
- privacy-conscious and free of card content, via TelemetryDeck
- Waitlist
- your email, if you submit it
- Rate limiting
- a token made from a salted hash of the connecting IP address, deleted within 24 hours
Never tracked
- Card content in analytics, logs, or error reports
- Pooling, sharing, or training on your cards
- Keystrokes as you review
Honest pricing
Pro Annual
Runs next to UWorld and AnkiHub on your board-prep shelf —
$34.99/year
about $2.92/month
Renews annually until canceled.
- Up to 50 gated apps
- Morning Gate
- Live Activity countdown
- Deep stats
7-day free trial, then $34.99/year.
Prefer month to month? $4.99/month, cancel anytime.
Why it costs money: the bridge, sync, and a full in-gate renderer and scheduler are ongoing work. The Free tier is a real product, forever — nothing free ever moves behind the paywall.
When a trial or subscription ends, FareGate quietly reverts to Free. No dunning, no reminders piling up — it just ends.
Who it's for
FareGate is built first for USMLE and med students already running AnKing decks through AnkiHub, doing 100–400 reviews a day on a morning routine. You already own the study stack — the pain is the phone, not the cards.
Who it's not for
If you want a gate with no pass — a jailer — we're not it. The pass always exists.
If you don't run Anki yet, FareGate has nothing to gate — cards are authored in desktop Anki.
Fair questions
Where do I make cards?
You don't make them here. Desktop Anki stays your editor — the mothership. FareGate is the turnstile: your cards stay desktop-authored, and the only thing it ever writes back is your grades — ordinary Anki reviews, through Anki's own review API.
How does it sync?
One pairing code, once. After that, reviews sync back when desktop Anki is open with the bridge installed. The gate itself is offline-first — reviews queue locally, so no spinner ever stands between you and your cards.
Another blocker app? I've tried five.
The others sell delay; the fare here is your own real studying — and the gate holds because the toll is worth paying, not just hard to dodge. We won't claim it's unbeatable; we claim it's worth beating less.
Why does it cost money when free tools exist?
Fair question. The money funds the bridge, sync, and upkeep of a full in-gate renderer and scheduler — the part nobody else built. The Free tier is a real product, forever, and nothing free ever moves behind the paywall.
What if I need my phone in an emergency?
The emergency pass always exists — press and hold, and you're through. It shows in your own week's stats, seen by you and judged by no one. A turnstile, never a cell.
Will it nag me?
No. Fare is paid forward, never owed — there's no debt display, no red badges, no guilt notifications. The menu-bar glyph never colors, never bounces.
Does it work with AnKing or AnkiHub?
Yes — that's the beachhead. FareGate never edits your cards or media — your grades come back as ordinary reviews through Anki's own API — Check-Media-safe, and built to complement AnkiHub, not compete with it. Your subscription, your deck, your protected cards stay exactly theirs. Standard Anki template filters render natively; unknown add-on filters pass through to the card's own HTML and JavaScript.
iPhone only?
iPhone first. A native Mac app — the same turnstile in your menu bar, the same keys as Anki — is in the works, to gate the desktop where the other half of the leak lives. One grammar, both machines, when it's ready.
Logistics
Is this the official Anki app?
No. FareGate is an independent app that works with your Anki collection. Anki is a registered trademark of Ankitects Pty Ltd; we're not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
What do I need to run it?
An iPhone on iOS 18 or later, paired once with desktop Anki on macOS or Windows. A native Mac gate app is in the works.
Get the desktop bridge
Download the desktop bridge. In desktop Anki, choose Tools → Add-ons → Install from File…, pick the downloaded file, then restart Anki. The bridge is open source under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL); download the source. An AnkiWeb listing is coming.
Is there an Android or AnkiDroid version?
Not yet. FareGate is iPhone-first; Android and AnkiDroid support isn't here. If that's you, get launch notes below and we'll tell you when it changes.
How do I cancel or get a refund?
Cancel anytime in your Apple subscription settings; the plan runs to the end of the period you paid for. Refunds are handled by Apple through the App Store.
Can I keep my cards if I leave?
Always. The desktop bridge is AGPL open source, and your reviews live in your own Anki collection. Canceling FareGate keeps everything there — nothing is locked in. A standalone collection stays on your device.
Does it work offline?
Yes. The gate is offline-first — your due cards are cached locally, so you can pay the fare with no connection. Syncing catches up when you're back online and desktop Anki is open with the bridge.