🐱🐈Study Cat – a kitten that studies with you (coins, shop, room & outfits) 🐈

Study Cat gives you a little kitten that lives on your deck list and studies with you. Every card you review earns coins, and you spend them on outfits and furniture for your cat's room.

How it works

• Pick your kitten: orange tabby, grey tabby, cream, black, tuxedo or calico. It always stays a kitten.
• Earn 1 coin for every card you study, no matter which button you press. Honest answers never cost you anything. A card that comes back later the same day doesn't count twice.
• Bonus coins for reaching your daily goal, finishing all due cards, every month of your streak (+200) and every 1,000 cards (+200).
• Cards you study on your phone count too, as soon as you sync.

The room

• Your cat's room sits above your decks. Furnish it with a cat bed, cat tree, bookshelf, window seat, plants, rugs and toys.
• The cat actually uses the furniture: it naps in the cat bed, sits on the cat tree or the window seat, peeks out of the cardboard box.
• Nine backgrounds: cozy room, library, café, rainy autumn window, craft room, magic tower, Halloween night, fireplace & snow and a starry night you can only earn.
• Plushies for your cat to cuddle: teddy, bunny, fish, mouse, frog, duck and more. When it naps in the cat bed, the plush naps with it.
• Click the cat to pet it. It greets you depending on the time of day and has something to say now and then.
• One paw button opens everything: shop, wardrobe, room, feeding, achievements and settings.

Outfits
54 things to wear: collars, scarves, glasses, headphones, a strawberry hat and much more. For law students there's a little gown, a tie, half-moon glasses and a laurel wreath.

Themes

• Magic school
• Autumn
• Halloween
• Christmas

Trophy case
Some things can't be bought at all, you earn them by studying.

While you study
A mini cat sits in the corner of the review screen and reacts to your answers: "oops" for Again, thinking for Hard, happy for Good, excited for Easy. Every now and then it cheers you on, it comforts you after a few misses in a row, and when you reach your daily goal there's confetti! You can turn it off in the settings.

Gentle care
Your cat gets hungry and you can feed it for a few coins. Every meal while it's hungry counts towards bronze, silver and gold fish trophies (250, 500 and 1,000 meals), which stand on a little shelf on the wall. It never gets sick or sad if you take a break – at worst it falls asleep.

Streak freezes
Buy streak freezes in the shop. If you miss a day, one is used automatically and your streak is saved. You can stock up to 14, e.g. for a holiday.

Good to know

• Your progress is saved in your collection, so it syncs between computers via AnkiWeb.
• Coins count from the day you pick your cat, so the shop stays fun even with a big review history. An existing streak still counts.
• No internet access, no tracking. All drawings are original and built into the add-on.
• Open everything with the paw button in the room or via Tools → Study Cat. Settings: daily goal, mini cat on/off, room size (small, medium, large), room above/below the decks or hidden, streak and stats (calendar on the wall or a bar above the room).

Questions or ideas?
Found a bug, have a question or an idea for a new outfit? Write a comment or message me on Instagram: @bastelhaft.

Thanks
A big thank you to Icaro Kuchanovicz, creator of Cat Study Buddy. That adorable little pixel cat was the inspiration for this add-on. Study Cat is a separate add-on with its own code and drawings, so if you love having a tiny cat keep you company while you study, go check out the original too!

UPDATE 27.10.2026, Version 1.7

• Arrange your room yourself: drag furniture and decorations in the Room tab and move them forward or back.
• New streak calendar on the wall, or show your stats in a bar above the room.
• Works with Onigiri: the room fills its widget, and "Room size" sets the widget size.