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Anki Add-ons
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Hey this is just a quick disclaimer. Before I want to use Anki for studying, I needed to upload a few things. These few these few things I couldn’t download apparently because ,e account was “too new for this activity” can you help me resolve this problem asap.

This is via website

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Anki web apload
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You’ll have to wait until your account is eligible to share add-ons.

For what it’s worth – it’s unlikely that your add-ons will be very valuable to users if you don’t have even a small amount of experience with Anki.

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Anki add on - account too young
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You don’t need to upload anything to use for personal studies. You can place your add-ons directly into the addon21 folder.

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Hey anki team, how long do I have to wait until I can or get approved to upload add-ons on Anki-web

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Please don’t put up a separate post asking basically the same question.

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There is a restriction preventing add-ons from being uploaded if the user’s account is too new. This restriction was recently added because malicious developers used AI to attack the server. I think they’re probably intentionally keeping it unclear, if the required number of days were known malicious developers could use that info to bypass the restrictions.

To be frank AnkiWeb add-ons have almost no promotional effect, according to my data typical add-ons only get tens to hundreds of downloads, many new developers get discouraged by this and abandon their projects. So distributing add-ons on SNS platforms like Discord or YouTube or reddit is more effective than using AnkiWeb, popular add-ons are recommended in the learning community. (in short useful add-ons will gain popularity even without being distributed on AnkiWeb.)

When developers want to distribute add-ons directly (e.g. beta version, or file size too large) one commonly used way is to create an .ankiaddon file and distribute it directly via GitHub.

Adding a manifest.json file makes it possible to distribute the add-on directly. e.g.

manifest.json

{
    "name": "My Addon name",
    "package": "MyAddonName"
}

Manual: Sharing outside AnkiWeb

Download the .ankiaddon file and open it with a double-click, or install it from the “Install from file” menu in the Anki add-ons management screen. (Please note that you cannot install the file by dragging and dropping it into Anki.)

The typical Anki card takes about 2 weeks to reach maturity and Anki is highly functional and already has many existing add-ons, so I recommend using your own add-on to learn until the cards mature or researching what features other similar add-ons have, add-ons become more useful for learning when used a lot for studying.

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Thanks for the info.

Look, I’ve got an iPad, I cannot download anki mobile due to school restrictions

Is it possible if I can sync anki (with uploaded add-ons) from a computer onto anki web (thats the only thing I can use) on my iPad

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Only decks data can be synced with the web browser version of AnkiWeb. e.g. deck data created on your laptop or AnkiMobile can be reviewed on AnkiWeb after syncing. (iOS users who can’t afford AnkiMobile often create cards on their laptops and review them using AnkiWeb in a browser, this is common practice with Anki.)

Basically add-ons only work on PC so you cannot use add-ons on mobile or the website(AnkiWeb).