AnkiBrain (AnkiChatGPT) - GPT-5.6 with auto-cards and document analysis

AnkiWeb addon 1915225457

Generates AI topic explanations and Basic or Cloze cards from imported documents or text, chats about material, and supports many languages and custom models.
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577 (πŸ‘ 545 Β· πŸ‘Ž 32)
Updated
2026-09-28
Anki versions
26.08.1~
Description language
en

Maintenance

active

  • Last update or commit was 1 days before the snapshot (2026-09-30).
  • The repository has 11 test files.

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README

AnkiBrain

See AnkiBrain on AnkiWeb for more information.

Local Mode Installation (manual install)

Remarks

Linux

Please notice that this addon doesn't work when Anki is installed as a Flatpak. To resolve this, simply install Anki from the official website using the .deb package.

Installation steps

  1. Open terminal in the AnkiBrain addon root folder (you'll see a requirements.txt file)

  2. Install C++ build tools for your OS

    1. Windows
      1. Download: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
      2. Click "Desktop Development with C++" (do not skip this step)
      3. Install
    2. MacOS xcode-select --install
    3. Linux
     sudo apt install -y git build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev curl libncursesw5-dev xz-utils tk-dev libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev libffi-dev liblzma-dev

  3. Setup Python 3.9.13 virtual environment in the root addon directory

    1. Install pyenv for your operating system

      1. Windows, using powershell (original guide here)
      Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -Uri "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pyenv-win/pyenv-win/master/pyenv-win/install-pyenv-win.ps1" -OutFile "./install-pyenv-win.ps1"; &"./install-pyenv-win.ps1"
$env:Path = [System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable('Path', 'Machine')

      1. MacOS

        # Install homebrew
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

brew update
brew install pyenv
echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'command -v pyenv >/dev/null || export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.zshrc
exec "$SHELL"

      2. Linux

      curl https://pyenv.run | bash

echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'command -v pyenv >/dev/null || export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.profile
echo 'command -v pyenv >/dev/null || export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.profile
echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.profile

. ~/.bashrc
. ~/.profile

    2. pyenv install 3.9.13

    3. pyenv local 3.9.13

    4. python -m venv venv

  4. Activate Python virtual environment

    1. Windows: .\venv\Scripts\active
    2. MacOS/Linux: ./venv/bin/activate

  5. Install python dependencies

    1. pip install -r requirements.txt
    2. Should produce no errors

  6. Addon should be OK to run now