Import is free. All of it.
Not the cards free and the history paid. The entire import, history included, costs nothing and never will. Charging to keep your own study record would be charging you for your own work.
iPhone & iPad
Cardpace is a spaced repetition app for people who take studying seriously — and would rather not fight the software to do it.
One-time purchase. No subscription, no ads, no account.
Switching over
Import an .apkg or .colpkg file and your cards arrive with their scheduling intact — due dates, intervals, ease, lapses and the whole review log. A five-year-old deck stays five years old instead of starting from zero.
Not the cards free and the history paid. The entire import, history included, costs nothing and never will. Charging to keep your own study record would be charging you for your own work.
Old exports, new compressed ones, collection packages, media and all. Cardpace reads what Anki actually writes rather than one convenient subset of it.
CSV export is free, permanently. Pro exports full-fidelity packages other clients read. Leaving is always one tap away — which is the only honest way to ask you to stay.
What's different
The most common complaint about the serious flashcard apps is not that they are ugly. It is “I have to go to the computer to do this.” Cardpace has no computer to send you to.
Learning steps, relearning steps, leech thresholds, burying, new-card order, maximum interval, shared presets. The screen an experienced user opens first, on the device they carry.
deck:, tag:, is:due, prop:ivl>21, negation, OR, parentheses, saved searches, filtered decks. Type a query, edit the results in bulk.
FSRS predicts when you are about to forget each specific card rather than applying one curve to all of them. Classic SM-2 is there for imported decks that expect it.
Four buttons across the bottom of the screen, each showing the interval it will give you, each reachable with a thumb. The question stays visible when the answer appears.
Pricing
No subscription. No renewal. No ads, at any tier, ever. Family Sharing is on, so one purchase covers your household.
Pro unlocks iCloud sync, package export, cloze and type-answer authoring, audio, detailed statistics, the query language, filtered decks and the full widget family.
This list will not shrink in a later version. Apps in this category have a habit of quietly tightening the free tier after people have built their decks; that is a promise worth making in writing.
Privacy
There is no account to create and no analytics in the app. Your decks live on your device. Turn on iCloud sync and they go to your private iCloud storage, which we have no way to read.
Cardpace works completely offline. On a plane, on the metro, in a basement library — it behaves exactly the same.