← RectoVerso

01 · Start here Revealing an answer On iPhone Duo, open the phone. On any other iPhone, slide the answer up. Stop as soon as you know it, then check the whole answer. Open your iPhone Duo, or slide the answer up on any iPhone. 02 Importing from Anki Open an Anki .apkg or .colpkg on your iPhone. The cards come with their pictures, sounds, schedule and review history. What comes across, and what doesn't. What comes across, and what doesn't. 03 Making cards from a text Paste notes, an article or a word list: Apple Intelligence drafts the cards on your iPhone, and every card waits for your check. What to do when the option says it's unavailable. On your iPhone, with Apple Intelligence. 04 Backing up your library RectoVerso backs up your library to your own iCloud Drive by itself, and offers the newest backup after a reinstall. Or make the file yourself and restore it anywhere. Automatic backups in your iCloud Drive, or one file you keep. 05 Moving to a new iPhone Quick Start and iPhone backups bring your library along. So does iCloud Drive: install RectoVerso on the new iPhone and it offers your newest backup. Or send a library backup across. Quick Start, an iPhone backup, iCloud Drive, or a library backup. 06 Exporting for Anki A deck or the whole library as an Anki .apkg, made on your iPhone, with its schedule and review history. Brought back, it's the same deck. A deck or the library, with its schedule and history. 07 Fragile cards Why a card is marked Fragile, where to find them, and the three ways out: Split into 2 cards, Rewrite, Leave it. Cards that keep revealing most of their answer. 08 Practice Study a deck outside the schedule, before an exam. Nothing a practice does is kept. Study a deck outside the schedule. 09 A deck from a web page Share a page from Safari to RectoVerso: it reads the page already open, so it downloads nothing. From Safari's share sheet. 10 Hearing an answer Listen plays a card's own recording, or reads its answer in the language you chose for its deck. A card's recording, or its answer read in its deck's language. 11 Reminders, widgets and Siri One reminder a day, only when something is due; two widgets, Due today and Cards to work on; and Siri and Shortcuts to start a review or make a deck. A reminder on days with something due, two widgets, and Siri.

Does RectoVerso sync between devices?

No: your cards stay on your iPhone, and RectoVerso has no account. Your library is backed up to your own iCloud Drive, and after a reinstall, on this iPhone or a new one, RectoVerso offers the newest backup (see Moving to a new iPhone). Two phones studied side by side don’t merge by themselves: a library backup’s Add its decks does that.

Do I still grade my answer?

No. You say whether you know it, and RectoVerso measures how much of the answer you revealed. Before the whole answer shows, the buttons are I don’t know and I know it (or I know the rest); once it shows, I didn’t know and I knew it. I know it and I know the rest are checked: the whole answer shows, and Next card lets the claim stand, or I was wrong takes it back.

The rating follows from that, never from a difficulty you choose. I know it with nothing revealed is Easy; a right answer with less than 60% revealed is Good, with 60% or more Hard; I don’t know, I didn’t know and I was wrong are Again. New and relearning cards use Good instead of Hard. What’s revealed can be letters, a formula’s terms or part of a picture. Choosing the rating from the reveal is our design, not yet tested in a study. Spaced repetition and FSRS: what’s known, and what’s ours.

What does "3 of 8 letters" mean for the schedule?

That you revealed three letters of an eight-letter answer before you answered. The schedule (FSRS-6) takes it as a right answer that needed some help: Good. I know it with nothing revealed counts as Easy; revealing 60% of the answer or more counts as Hard once a card is past its first steps. Three tests in four like that make the card fragile (see Fragile cards).

Which Anki decks work?

Decks exported as .apkg or .colpkg, by any version of Anki. Cards come with their pictures, sounds, schedule and history. That includes math, chemistry, code, Japanese with furigana, Chinese with tone colors, tables and image occlusion. After an import, RectoVerso lists what it skipped: drawings, answers that are only a sound, cards whose picture isn’t in the file (see Importing from Anki).

Is my text sent anywhere when I make cards from it?

No. Apple Intelligence writes the cards on your iPhone.

What if RectoVerso says it couldn't read my saved reviews?

The file is kept aside, never overwritten, and reviews from then on are saved as usual. A library backup includes the file set aside: send it to us and we’ll look.

Is exporting free?

Yes, always: backing up, restoring and exporting for Anki.

Why is there no Listen button?

The card has no recording, and its deck has no answer language: choose one in the deck’s ⋯ › Deck options › Answer language.

Which iPhones does RectoVerso run on?

Every iPhone on iOS 27.0 or later. On iPhone Duo you open the phone to reveal the answer; on any other iPhone you slide it up. The cards, the schedule and everything else are the same. Making cards from a text needs Apple Intelligence, which some iPhones can’t run: on those, New deck from a text… isn’t shown.

Can I take an answer back?

Yes. Undo, in the review, takes back one step at a time: an answer, an I was wrong, a flag, an edit, a bury or a suspend. Shaking the phone undoes too. Every answer is saved as it’s made, so closing the review loses nothing either.

Write to rectoverso@code-think.com. Say which iPhone and which version of RectoVerso (⋯ › Settings › About), and what happened. If a deck or a backup is involved, attach it: nothing is sent unless you send it.

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