I built an iOS app (FareGate) where opening a distracting app costs 10 reviews from your
own deck — real cards, rendered faithfully, and the grades go back into your collection.
This post is about the desktop half, which lives in your Anki and is open source.
FareGate Bridge (AGPL, add-on code 29632925) pairs desktop Anki with the iPhone app:
- Your collection syncs to the phone through your own private cloud space; the phone
renders your actual notes and templates in the gate. - Reviews done at the gate come back as ordinary reviews through Anki’s own scheduler
API — Anki computes the resulting FSRS state, not us. Review history stays intact. - The bridge never edits your cards or media, and card content never appears in logs or
analytics. Source: the AnkiWeb listing links the full tarball, and it’s inspectable
before you run it.
Setup: Tools → Add-ons → Get Add-ons… → 29632925 → restart → Tools → FareGate: Pair
with phone. Tested with Anki 26.5.
The iPhone app has a free tier (one gated app, full sync, forever). I’m the developer —
happy to answer anything about how the bridge works, and bug reports are very welcome.
FareGate is independent — not affiliated with Ankitects, AnKing, or AnkiHub. Anki® is a
registered trademark of Ankitects Pty Ltd.