These apps and websites are Anki knockoffs in China.
They said they are open-source but rarely update their repositories:
They also removed all commit history from Anki’s main branch.
Some Chinese users downloaded the wrong app and paid a lot.
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Are you suggesting we add those to the FAQ (Anki knockoffs - Anki FAQs)?
I guess Chinese users won’t read it. But if you can add those to the FAQ, I can update the Chinese translation.
If they didn’t directly use the name Anki in their app, wouldn’t they be fine? Basically Anki is open source and they permit the free use of the code by license, in other words Anki permits competitors to use Anki’s code to develop their learning apps.
So the cause of the copycat problems is that the names are nearly identical, if they did not use the name Anki from the start it seems to me there is nothing wrong with it, they’re just competing learning apps.
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