indite/ɪnˈdaɪt/ · verbto compose; to set down in writing.
What you can indite, you know. The rest is a hunch.
NDITE is a flashcard app that asks you to write the answer instead of flipping the card. Your brain treats writing and tapping differently — and only one of them builds long-term memory.
No sign-up. Works on your phone, tablet, and computer. Want build updates by email?
Three steps. The app teaches the same ones with an illustrated guide inside.
Name it, choose write mode, add cards front and back — Enter adds the next. Or bring an Anki .apkg with its history intact. Every deck shows a ring for how much you've learned and a bar for what's new, learning, and mature.
See the prompt, write the answer with a finger, stylus, or mouse. When you pause, the ink turns green — you've committed. Double-tap to reveal the real answer.
Again, Hard, Good, or Easy. The time under each button is exactly when that card comes back — FSRS v6 works it out from your history. Honest grades mean fewer, better-timed reviews.
Three independent lines of cognitive science research point to the same conclusion. Tapping "show answer" is not the same as remembering. Writing is.
A 256-channel EEG study at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology showed that writing — with a pen or a stylus — produces theta and alpha brain coherence across regions tied to memory formation. Typing produces almost none of it.
Van der Weel & Van der Meer, Frontiers in Psychology, 2024Researchers used transcranial magnetic stimulation to temporarily disable the primary motor cortex of people learning foreign vocabulary. Translation slowed down — but only for words they had learned by writing or gesture. The motor cortex literally stores part of the memory.
Mathias et al., Journal of Neuroscience, 2021When you flip a flashcard and see the answer, your brain recognizes a fragment and convinces you that you knew the whole thing. You didn't. Writing forces you to produce every character, every conjugation, every spelling — and exposes the gaps before they become exam-day disasters.
Swain's Output Hypothesis, 1985–presentA peek at the write-mode review flow. You see the prompt, you write the answer, then you check yourself against the real answer.
No flipping straight to the answer. You commit it to the page first — then you see if you actually had it.
There are good flashcard apps out there. We use what they got right and fix what they got wrong.
| NDITE | Anki | Quizlet | RemNote | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Write-mode review | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Modern algorithm (FSRS v6) | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| First-class Anki import | ✓ | ✓ | limited | limited |
| Frictionless multi-device sync | ✓ | brittle | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free tier with no card limit | ✓ | ✓ | limited | limited |
| Built this decade | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ |
The beta is free and runs on everything with a browser. Install it once and it behaves like a native app: its own icon, full screen, works offline. Your decks stay on your device.
Open ndite.com/app in Safari → Share → Add to Home Screen.
Apple Pencil works on iPad.
Open ndite.com/app in Chrome → Install app (or ⋮ → Add to Home screen).
S-Pen and styluses work.
Safari: File → Add to Dock. Chrome or Edge: the Install icon in the address bar.
Opens in its own window, like any app.
Chrome or Edge: the Install icon in the address bar.
Pinned to Start; runs offline.
Native downloads for Mac and Windows, plus App Store and Play Store versions, come after the beta — same app, wrapped. Accounts and sync between devices are next on the list; until then, Settings → Export backup moves your decks anywhere.
We're building for two groups first. If you're in one of them, NDITE is going to feel like it was designed around your problem — because it was.
Typing a word on a keyboard is not the same skill as producing it from memory by hand. NDITE makes you write the answer first, so you practice recall the way exams and real conversations actually demand it.
If you study anatomy, pharmacology, or biochemistry, recognition isn't enough. NDITE makes you write the drug name, the mechanism, the enzyme — exactly like you'll have to on test day.
Most of what people ask us, answered. If your question isn't here, email hello@ndite.com.
Three differences. First, NDITE has a write-mode review where you produce the answer with a stylus or finger before you grade yourself, instead of flipping straight to the answer. Second, NDITE is built on a modern stack with a clean UI rather than Anki's fifteen-year-old hybrid Python and Qt interface. Third, NDITE imports your existing Anki decks so switching costs nothing. NDITE uses the same FSRS v6 scheduling algorithm as modern Anki, so the underlying scheduling efficiency is comparable.
Because speaking and writing leave different traces in the brain. A 2021 transcranial magnetic stimulation study (Mathias et al., Journal of Neuroscience) showed the primary motor cortex causally stores foreign vocabulary learned through writing and gesture — disabling it slowed recall specifically for those words. A 256-channel EEG study at NTNU found handwriting produces theta and alpha coherence across memory-formation regions that speaking does not. Saying it aloud is better than silent self-grading, but it activates a shallower trace than forming every character by hand.
Yes. NDITE has a first-class .apkg importer that preserves your decks, notes, cards, media, and scheduling state, converting Anki's SM-2 state into FSRS state. We treat Anki migration as a hard adoption requirement, not an afterthought. AnKing decks are specifically tested for compatibility, and suspended cards stay suspended on import so your review queue doesn't explode on day one.
No. NDITE supports finger input on any touch device and mouse or trackpad on desktop. A stylus on a tablet is the best experience, but it is not required.
All Latin-script languages at launch: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and so on. Japanese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Korean, Arabic, and Cyrillic scripts ship in a later version, with stroke-order grading for kanji and hanzi on that roadmap.
Closed alpha begins in 2026, public beta later in 2026, and full public launch with a paid tier after that. Waitlist members get priority access to each phase, including a Lifetime tier offer for the first 1,000 paid users.
There is a genuinely useful free tier: unlimited decks, unlimited cards, write-mode and tap-mode review, FSRS scheduling, multi-device sync, and Anki import. A paid Pro tier adds power features at $9.99 per month or $79 per year, with a Lifetime tier ($249 one-time) for the first 1,000 paid users.
Web app on any modern browser and native iOS and Android apps. Reviews stay in sync across every device, so you can author on a laptop and review on a tablet without losing your place.
The FSRS scheduling implementation work will be contributed back to the open-source FSRS project. The NDITE application itself is closed source — this funds development and a sustainable free tier. We are committed to data portability: your decks export cleanly anytime.
Your decks and review history are yours. We don't sell data and we don't run advertising. We use first-party analytics. In the MVP, your handwriting never leaves your device — write-mode is self-checked, so there is no recognition server processing your ink.
Join the waitlist. Monthly build updates, first access to alpha and beta, and a shot at the Lifetime tier offer for our first 1,000 paid users.