Anki to PDF: Print Your Anki Deck

Export the deck from Anki

In Anki desktop, choose File → Export (or the deck's gear menu → Export). Select Anki Deck Package (.apkg), pick the deck, and leave "include media" ticked if your cards have images. Save the file.

You can also open a .colpkg collection backup if you want everything at once, then choose which deck to print.

Open it here

Drop the file onto the box above. We read it in your browser, including the media inside, and show the notes as cards. Basic, reversed, and cloze notes are recognised. Notes with extra fields may need a quick check in the editor.

The deck is saved locally on your device, so you can print it again later or study it here.

Choose how it prints

Pick a paper size and between 1 and 16 cards per page. A few layouts are handy for Anki users in particular:

• Double-sided with mirrored backs, for classic paper flashcards.
• Side-by-side study sheet, a compact list of prompt and answer — good for a quick printed review before an exam.
• Fronts only, if you want to quiz yourself on paper and check answers in Anki.

Cloze cards print with the blank on the front and the completed sentence on the back. Long fields are auto-fitted so they don't get cut off.

Images are scaled to fit the card, and text in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Cyrillic scripts prints correctly without any font setup. Turn on numbering if you want to keep the printed stack in the same order as the deck.

What may not carry over

Anki card templates can contain custom HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. We print the field content cleanly but don't run custom template code, so heavily styled decks will look plainer on paper. Audio files can't be printed, of course. Your Anki review history isn't needed for printing and isn't used.

Example: printing a shared vocabulary deck

Say you've downloaded a Japanese vocabulary deck with the word, its reading, and the English meaning. Open the .apkg here and check a few cards in the editor: the word should be on the front, and the reading and meaning on the back. Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, and Cyrillic text all print correctly, so there's no font setup to do.

Choose double-sided, 8 or 10 cards per page, and turn on cut lines and numbering. Print a test sheet, check the backs line up (see how to print double-sided flashcards), then print the rest. You end up with a paper set you can carry around without a phone.

Study it here too

Click Save to my decks and the Anki deck becomes a normal deck in your browser. You can study it with spaced repetition (FSRS), Learn, Test, Match, or Spell, or export it again as CSV, Quizlet-importable text, or a new .apkg. Your Anki collection itself isn't changed — we only read the file you open.