A complete guide to translating your Anki flashcard decks while preserving cloze deletions, images, audio, and formatting.
Anki is one of the most popular spaced repetition tools in the world, used by millions of students studying medicine, languages, law, and more. But most shared decks are only available in one language.
If you've found an excellent deck in English and want to study it in Spanish, German, Japanese, or any other language, you've probably discovered there's no built-in way to translate an entire deck at once. Manually translating hundreds or thousands of cards isn't realistic.
Polytext's Anki translator solves this by translating your entire deck using Google's Gemini AI, while keeping all the structure intact — cloze deletions, images, audio, and formatting.
Open Anki on your computer, click on the deck you want to translate, then go to File → Export. Choose "Anki Deck Package (.apkg)" as the format. Make sure "Include media" is checked if your cards have images or audio.
Go to polytext.site/anki and drag your .apkg file onto the upload area, or click to browse. The file will be uploaded and analyzed automatically.
Before paying anything, you can preview how 3 of your cards will look after translation. Choose your target language, and the preview will show you the translated output so you can check the quality.
If you're happy with the preview, pay via PayPal (starting at $0.99) and your full translated deck will be ready to download as an .apkg file. Import it directly into Anki — all your cards will be there.
One of the trickiest parts of translating Anki decks is handling cloze deletions. Polytext understands the {{c1::answer}} syntax and only translates the visible text content.
Your translated cards will work exactly the same way in Anki — same cloze numbers, same reveal behavior, just in your target language.
Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, Turkish, Polish, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Greek, Romanian, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Malay, and more.
Translation cost depends on how many cards are in your deck. Small decks (under 100 cards) typically cost $0.99. Larger decks with thousands of cards may cost a few dollars. You'll see the exact price before paying.
Every translation includes a free 3-card preview so you can check quality before committing.
Upload your .apkg file and see 3 cards translated free before paying.
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Everything you need to know about translating Anki decks
Yes. Polytext detects cloze deletion syntax and only translates the visible text content, leaving the cloze markup intact. Your translated cards will work exactly the same way in Anki.
Yes. All media files referenced in your cards are preserved in the translated deck. Image and audio references remain linked to the correct cards.
Polytext uses Google's Gemini AI for translation, which produces natural, context-aware translations. Use the free 3-card preview to judge quality for your specific content before paying.
You need an .apkg file (Anki Deck Package). Export it from Anki via File → Export, selecting "Anki Deck Package" as the format. Make sure to check "Include media" if your cards have images or audio.