Import
Import your Anki deck
If you have been grinding a Japanese deck for two years, a new app that opens on これはペンです is insulting. Export your deck, pick it in Wakatta, and the words you already know arrive already known — so the app stops teaching them and starts showing you the ones you don't.
We read your deck and discard it: the file isn't stored.
Tick the groups — the count moves the way it moves in the app. Words you haven't started is off unless you ask for it.
You choose what comes over
Wakatta reads your deck and sorts it into three groups, using the interval each card had earned. 21 days or more between reviews counts as a word you know. Less than that, and it is a word you are still learning. Cards you had never seen are new.
The first two come over by default, because that is the point: those are the words the app should stop drilling you on. The third is left out unless you tick it, since a pile of words you have never studied is a decision, not an import.
What carries over, and what doesn't
Each note gives up its word, its reading and its meaning. The interval becomes how well the app thinks you know it: 21 days or more reads as known, 90 days or more as mastered. The card's own due date comes too, so a word due next March is still due next March instead of restarting from zero.
What does not come over: Anki's ease factor, and your review history. Those do not map onto a different scheduler honestly, so they are not faked. Media, tags, deck names and note types are ignored as well — what is imported is words, not your Anki setup.
If you mine sentences, cloze cards behave the way you would want: the word inside the cloze becomes the entry, and the sentence around it is kept as its context, so the line you took it from is still there when you open the word. A note that is only a sentence, with nothing marked, is skipped rather than saved as a word that isn't one.
Your queue picks up where you left it
Because the due dates are real, a deck you had fallen behind on arrives behind. That is the honest outcome, and better than the alternative: if everything landed with a clean slate, the app would be telling you that you are up to date when you are not.
Changed your mind? Undo removes exactly the words that came from Anki and leaves everything you saved in Wakatta alone. The imported ones keep an Anki badge and have their own filter, so you can always see which words came from where.
What this is not
It is worth being blunt, because people arrive expecting an integration:
- It is not a sync. It is a file you export and pick, once, in one direction. Reviewing a word in one app does nothing in the other.
- There is no export back to Anki, and no AnkiConnect or AnkiWeb connection.
- It reads .apkg only — the file Anki writes when you export a deck. Not CSV, not a text file, not a Quizlet or jpdb export.
- Field detection is a best guess at which part of a note is the word. Notes it cannot read are skipped and counted, not invented.
Where to find it
On iPhone and Android, in your vocabulary list — the ＋ in the corner, or the banner offering it if the list is empty — and in your account screen. Export the deck from Anki on your computer, get the .apkg onto your phone, and pick it. A free account is all it takes; there is nothing to pay for here.
Full guide: what happens to a word once it's in your list
Bring the words you already earned
Free to start. iOS and Android.
