AnkiDroid 2024 #wrapped
What an incredible year for AnkiDroid! Looking back at the release notes, a few of my personal highlights:
Features
- New Anki-based Backend is live and stable
- FSRS!! Implemented & quickly updated to 5.0
- Image Occlusion
- CSV Import
- Note Editor Multimedia improvements
- Improved ‘Voice playback’ UI
- Background Media Syncing
- New Previewer Design
- Improved Deck Selector
- Chromebook/Tablet Improvements
- More keyboard shortcuts
- Statistics, including the heatmap
- Instant Add Note Editor
- Anki-comaptible TTS
- More Widgets
- Deck Picker: Double-tap to quickly add notes
- Gamepads: Joystick/Trigger/Pedal support
- ‘Shake’ gesture
- Custom JavaScript Actions
2024 Statistics
Your backing is TRULY appreciated, THANK YOU!!! 
We contributed:
- ~1693 new commits produced by ~85 contributors
- 14 ‘big’ releases… with 2.20.1 to top it off
- 3 new SUCCESSFUL GSoC Contributors
If you have a GitHub account, give them a follow!
We gained:
- ~400,000 unique users (2.8 million to 3.2 million)
- ~500,000 devices (3.14 million to 3.65 million - apparently 20% of people are multi-device)
- ~40,000 more “daily active users” (people who open AnkiDroid at least once a day: 220k to 260k)
You studied:
- ??? We care about your privacy, and we don’t need to know. We’re proud to say that we don’t know what you’re using AnkiDroid for, or how much you’re using it. Feel free to let the team know in the comments
We gained MORE THAN:
- 2043 new backers on Open Collective
- We regularly hit the top of their charts in terms of backer growth. Thank you!
- 213 new translators on CrowdIn
- Come join us: Crowdin
… And a partridge in a pear tree! Hope you enjoyed it 
Data Note
Users/device statistics are from Google Play, and exclude people from other app stores
AnkiDroid 2.20.1
From the AnkiDroid team: hope y’all are enjoying your holidays! Small release with a few bugfixes
General releases should be rolling out once Google are done with their reviews, they’ll be available:
- Play Store (don’t forget to give us a rating!)
- F-Droid
- GitHub - Parallel Builds for Multiple Profiles
Changelog
Features
- Added ‘Copy Debug Information’ to some error messages
Fixes
- Fixed Shared Deck Downloads broken due to Android 15 changes
- Fixed Note Editor fields not being retained in some cicrumstances
Release Statistics:
- 11 changes from 3 contributors since 2.20.0
- Thank you to our 5,752 backers on Open Collective
- And our 2,185 translators
If you encounter any problems, please don’t hesitate to get in touch, either on this post, or Discord [#mobile-apps]. My Reddit DMs are working again if you have private queries, but working in public is preferred.
Thanks for using AnkiDroid,
David (on behalf of the AnkiDroid Open Source Team)
Full 2.20.1 Changelog
AnkiDroid 2.20.1 on GitHub (issues & pull requests)
AnkiDroid 2.20.1 code changes (for developers)
AnkiDroid 2.20 Changelog