Focus Progress — Customizable Overall and Deck Progress Bars

Focus Progress adds customizable progress bars to Anki so you can see how much study work remains in the decks you care about.

FEATURES

• Track your entire collection, one deck, a deck with its subdecks, or multiple selected decks. • Independently include or exclude New, Learning/Relearning, and Due Review cards. • Suspended and buried cards are excluded. • Show an overall progress bar plus a second bar for the deck you are reviewing. • Bars start full and red, then shrink and gradually change toward green as you complete cards. • Transparent backgrounds with adjustable overall size, transparency, colors, bar dimensions, and text. • Click either bar to open settings. • Drag either bar to move the pair. Your position is saved. • Deck names appear only when hovering over their respective bars and show only the immediate name, without the full parent path. • Choose whether to display completed/total counts, completion percentage, and remaining cards.

TRACK THE DECKS YOU WANT

For example, select “Cardio Exam 4” and enable “Include all subdecks” to track only that group. Start reviewing a specific subdeck to show its progress underneath.

The second bar follows the deck you started reviewing, including its subdecks. It uses the same card-type filters as the overall bar.

PROGRESS MODES

Fixed daily: Saves the starting workload across restarts until Anki’s next study day.

Fixed session: Keeps the starting workload until you close the profile or cross into the next study day.

Live workload: Updates as new eligible cards enter the workload.

Changing tracking settings or choosing “Reset baseline” starts a new workload.

HOW COUNTING WORKS

Bar length represents remaining work. The optional percentage represents completed progress.

Each card counts once, regardless of repeated answers. A card is complete when it has been studied since tracking began and has no more work scheduled before Anki’s next study day. Unfinished learning steps do not count as completed. Undo updates progress.

New cards include the entire selected backlog, even beyond Anki’s daily new-card limit. Totals can therefore differ from Anki’s review-screen counts.

Suspended, buried, deleted, or out-of-scope cards are excluded from displayed totals, including in fixed modes. Fixed daily tracking begins when the baseline is first captured; it does not reconstruct earlier work.

GETTING STARTED

Restart Anki after installation, then open: Tools → Focus Progress → Settings

You can also click either bar to open settings.

Default appearance: 200-pixel base width, 100% size, 25% transparency, and red-to-green coloring. Drag the bars to your preferred position.

COMPATIBILITY

Targets desktop Anki 2.1.55 and newer, with Qt5 or Qt6.

24 automated tests passed using Anki 2.1.55, 25.09.5, and 26.09.2 packages on macOS, including Qt5/Qt6 checks and older scheduler modes. The 2.1.55 tests used separately installed Python and Qt packages rather than its original desktop installer.

Windows and Linux are intended to be supported but have not been runtime-tested. Not every intervening Anki release has been tested. Versions before 2.1.55 and mobile Anki applications are not supported.

The add-on does not modify cards or scheduling. Daily progress snapshots are stored locally and do not sync between devices.