AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
Summary
Google Play is no longer permitting AnkiDroid to include Open Collective donation links, potentially affecting the app's funding.
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ankidroid/Anki-Android
Source: https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android
AnkiDroid
A semi-official port of the open source Anki spaced repetition flashcard system to Android. Memorize anything with AnkiDroid!

Features
- Night mode
- Whiteboard
- Progress widget
- Detailed statistics
- Syncing with AnkiWeb
- Write answers (optional)
- Text-to-speech integration
- More than 10,000 premade decks
- Spaced repetition (AI-optimized FSRS algorithm)
- Supported contents: text, images, sounds, MathJax
- Add cards by intent from other applications like dictionaries
Install
Signing certificate fingerprint to verify the APK:
SHA-256: 2071534f0f4b5e54ae952dd275d70da6e3459ee69909d2ab1b4843c4c5b21a45
SHA-1: f24e06a3657b190a12671100402df32d7b9b3d36
Wiki
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Help
Check the user manual and the wiki for usage instructions. See the help page for how to submit a bug report or contact a project member, etc.
Contribute
You can contribute to AnkiDroid by beta testing, translating, or submitting code. See the contribution wiki page for more info.
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Credits
Code Contributors
Thanks to these awesome code contributors who keep this project going
Sponsors
Backers
A big thank you to each of our backers 🙏
Your generous donations mean the world to us, and we can't express our gratitude enough. Your support fuels our mission and helps us make a real difference
Translators
Thanks to our 1400 translators, for allowing us to be available, partially or totally, in 99 languages as of July 2022.
License
- GPL-3.0 License
- AGPL-3.0 License for some part of the back-end
- LGPL-3.0 License for the AnkiDroid API
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