Study smarter.
Actually enjoy it.
Native flashcards for Mac and iPhone. Your Anki decks, your FSRS-5, and your privacy — no account, no compromise.
Free · No account · Works offline
Pharmacology · Cardiology
FSRS-5 retention target
The model schedules each card to fall near your chosen retention rate — 90% by default.
Pharmacology · Cardiology
Beta blockers
Which beta-blocker is preferred in patients with reactive airway disease?
Why Avorio
Anki's algorithm pedigree.
Designed for humans.
01 · Import
Your Anki decks, better experience
Import .apkg and .colpkg files with everything intact — ease factors, intervals, review history, media, tags. Anking, Dorian, Lightyear, and AMBOSS-tagged Step decks all open with state preserved.
You don't start over. You level up.
02 · Habit
Learning that feels like a game
Daily streaks with milestone bonuses. Gems you earn by studying and spend on streak freezes and power-ups. Three review modes — Speed Timer, Pomodoro, and Life Drain — so long sessions don't blur together.
Small wins compound into real habits.
03 · Intelligence
AI that stays on your machine
Free tier runs a local LLM via Ollama on Mac for explanations and chat — no cloud, no account, no API keys. Avorio Plus adds managed cloud AI (Claude, GPT) with keys held server-side; you never juggle credentials.
Private by design, not by policy.
04 · Architecture
Offline-first, native on every Apple device
Built in Rust with a SwiftUI front-end. Cards live in a local SQLite database, encrypted by macOS Data Protection / iOS file protection. Sync between your Mac and iPhone is optional, encrypted in transit, and never a requirement.
Your data. Your machine. Your terms.
Algorithm
FSRS-5,
explained without the paper.
A modern spaced-repetition algorithm that learns how your memory actually decays — and schedules cards to land near the retention rate you set.
SM-2
Fixed intervals.
Doubles based on a hand-tuned ease factor. Works, but doesn't adapt to how a card actually behaves for you.
FSRS-5
Curve-fitted to your reviews.
Trains a small forgetting-curve model from your own history, then schedules each card to hit your retention target — 90%, 95%, whatever your boards demand.
Outcome
Fewer reviews, same recall.
On a typical med-school deck, FSRS-5 cuts review load 20–30% versus SM-2 at the same retention. Avorio ships it on by default — no add-ons, no config files.
Meet Avorio
A small elephant
who notices.
A mood for every kind of session. No 11pm push notifications guilt-tripping you. He's there because reviewing 200 cards alone gets bleak — not because dopamine loops convert.
Free + private
Free.
Actually free.
Local-first by default. Cards live on your device, the core review never makes a network call, and accounts are optional. Cloud AI runs through Avorio's managed gateway — Plus subscribers get inference without ever holding an API key.
Account optional
Open the app, import a deck, start reviewing. Sign in only when you want sync across devices or cloud AI.
No personal analytics
Zero pixel tracking, zero crash reporters tied to you, zero behavioral analytics. We don't measure things we can't see.
Free core forever
Cards, decks, reviews, .apkg import, local AI on Mac — all free, no card limits. Avorio Plus only adds managed cloud AI.
Local SQLite
Your decks live in a database on your device, encrypted by macOS Data Protection / iOS file protection.
Avorio Plus
Bring your own brain.
We'll bring the cloud.
The free core runs a local LLM on your Mac — no account, no keys, no network call. Avorio Plus adds managed cloud AI through Avorio's gateway: frontier models for generating cards and explaining the hard stuff, with every API key held server-side. You subscribe; we handle the credentials.
Managed cloud AI — no API keys. You never sign up with Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google or paste a key. Keys live on our gateway; you just study.
Claude, GPT, and Gemini. Pick the model that fits the subject — fast and cheap for flashcards, flagship reasoning for STEM proofs and medical cases.
2M tokens a month, with rollover. Every tier includes 2 million tokens monthly; unused tokens roll over one month so a light week is never wasted.
The free core stays free. Cards, decks, reviews, .apkg import, and on-device AI never cost a thing. Plus only adds the cloud.
From $2.99/mo. Six tiers, 2M tokens each with one-month rollover. Cancel anytime.
Compare
Avorio vs. Anki
Same algorithm pedigree, very different experience.
| Feature | Avorio | Anki |
|---|---|---|
| Spaced repetition (SM-2 + FSRS-5) | ||
| Full Anki .apkg / .colpkg import with progress | ||
| Image occlusion + cloze deletion built-in | ||
| Designed for trackpad and touch | ||
| Streaks + gamification | ||
| Local AI (Ollama on Mac) | ||
| Native macOS + iOS app, single codebase | ||
| Works fully offline | ||
| No account required |
FAQ
The questions
every Anki user asks.
Yes. Avorio reads .apkg and .colpkg files directly — including ease factors, intervals, lapses, review history, media, tags, and custom note types. Anking, Dorian, Lightyear, AMBOSS-tagged Step decks all open with state intact.
Ready to actually
enjoy studying?
Download Avorio for Mac. Import your decks. Meet the elephant.
Download for MacFree · No account · Native for Mac and iPhone