Quick answer: Neurako does not import
.apkgfiles inside the app, and it cannot take a full AnKing deck in one pass. Export a slice from Anki Desktop, convert it in your browser with the free apkg-to-csv tool, then click Open in Neurako. Card text comes with you. Review history, images, audio, and native cloze do not.
If you're a medical student, there's a decent chance your study life revolves around the AnKing deck — the community-maintained ~35,000-card collection that has become the de facto standard for USMLE prep. That size is the first thing to be honest about.
Neurako's Free plan caps at 1,000 cards. Pro caps at 10,000. Open in Neurako hands off on the order of a few hundred cards (the URL fragment has a size limit). A full AnKing package will not fit. Keep AnKing in Anki as your source of truth, and only bring over a tag or subdeck you are actively studying.
For the general walkthrough, see Importing from Anki on Neurako Learn.
What actually transfers
Does transfer:
- Card fronts and backs as plain text (HTML is stripped)
- Tags on the notes, rolled up at the deck level (not AnKing's nested tag tree)
- Extra fields named Hint, Mnemonic, Example, or Explanation, when those names exist on the note type
Often needs cleanup, or may not come through cleanly:
- Cloze notes — Neurako is a front/back app, not a cloze engine. Some notes come through as plain text, sometimes with Anki's
{{c1::...}}syntax still visible; notes with only one field may be skipped - Custom AnKing note types — only the first two fields are used as front and back
- Multiple Anki cards generated from one note — conversion keeps one Neurako card per note
- Subdeck trees — collapsed into a single Neurako deck
Does not transfer:
- Images, audio, and other media in the package
- Anki review history, intervals, ease factors, and FSRS parameters — every imported card starts fresh on Neurako's FSRS scheduler
- Image occlusion, add-on behavior, custom templates, and CSS
- AnKing's nested tag hierarchy as a browseable tree
Step-by-step
1. Export a slice from Anki Desktop — not the whole collection.
- Select the subdeck or filtered deck you are actually studying this month.
- Go to File → Export.
- Format: Anki Deck Package (.apkg).
- Leave Include scheduling information unchecked. Neurako does not import Anki history either way.
- Media is not used on this path, so including it only makes a larger file to parse locally.
2. Convert in the browser.
- Open apkg-to-csv.
- Drop the
.apkgfile. The tool reads it on your device — the package is not uploaded to Neurako servers. - Preview a sample of fronts and backs.
3. Open in Neurako.
- Click Open in Neurako. If you are not signed in, you will be prompted to create an account; the cards are then saved as a new deck.
- If the button says the payload is too large, the slice is still too big. Export a smaller filtered deck and try again. Downloading CSV from the tool does not currently import into the Neurako app.
4. Clean up, then start fresh reviews.
- Spot-check cloze syntax, leftover field labels, and missing images (the text is there; the picture is not).
- Start a review session. FSRS schedules from this point forward. Treat the first week as calibration, not a continuation of your AnKing due dates.
What this means for AnKing users
Stay on Anki for the main AnKing deck. That is still the right home for a 35,000-card, media-heavy, cloze-first library with years of review history.
Use Neurako for capture. Lecture slides, whiteboards, and last-minute explanations are where Neurako's photo and audio card generation is actually stronger than maintaining extra Anki notes.
Do not expect a round trip. Neurako's web app does not currently export .apkg. Migration is one-way and lossy: text in, history and media out.
Native in-product .apkg import is planned. Until then, the tools.neurako.com path is the supported way to bring Anki card text into Neurako.
A note to AnKing users
The AnKing team has built something genuinely important for medical education. This converter is a way to reuse some of that card text in Neurako — it is not a replacement for AnKing, AnkiHub, or Anki's scheduler. Bring a slice you are actively studying, not the monster that made you a better student, and keep the original deck where it already works.
Sources
- AnKing: ankingmed.com
- Anki exporting: docs.ankiweb.net/exporting.html
- Neurako import guide: learn.neurako.com/docs/getting-started/importing-from-anki