Mochi Review, Pricing & Alternatives (2026)

Mochi is a flashcard app for people who want spaced repetition without clutter. It sits between Anki's depth and the simplicity of a notes app: cards are written in Markdown, notes and flashcards share one workspace, and the review screen stays minimal. Mochi says you can use it free forever with no sign-up, which appeals to learners who want to try a system before handing over an email address. It runs on Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android, and Mochi describes itself as local first, storing data on your device and syncing when you are online. Language learners, students and professionals keeping technical knowledge fresh are the main audience, along with Anki users who want a cleaner editor.

Cards in Mochi are Markdown documents, so they can hold headings, lists, code, LaTeX, images and audio. Mochi also works as a note-taking app: you write notes in the same workspace as your flashcards and link them both ways with references, so a vocabulary card can point to a grammar note and the note shows its backlinks. Templates speed up card creation, so you can design a card type once, such as a vocabulary card with word, meaning and example sentence, and reuse it. Pro adds dynamic fields. Tags, filters and saved views organize large collections, and reviews are scheduled with SM-2 or FSRS using two answer buttons, according to NextLang. Pro users can also publish decks for others.

Mochi's built-in services are where AI comes in. The app offers AI completion for generating or improving card content, dictionary lookups, translation, transcription and text to speech, plus image search for adding pictures to cards. These are metered monthly. According to Mochi's pricing page, the free plan includes 5,000 AI completion tokens, 20 dictionary lookups, 1,000 characters of translation, 500 seconds of transcription, 200 characters of text to speech and 20 image searches each month. Pro raises those to 500,000 tokens, 1,000 lookups, 100,000 characters of translation, 20,000 seconds of transcription, 200,000 characters of speech and 1,000 image searches. Limits reset monthly.

The free plan is generous for a single device. It includes unlimited offline cards and decks, import and export, and every desktop and mobile app. What it lacks is sync, so people studying on a phone and a laptop will want Pro. Pro is listed at $5 a month billed annually and adds sync across devices, 10 GB of storage for images and audio, published decks, dynamic fields, API keys for automating card creation and email support, along with the larger service allowances. For most individual learners, the total cost is low compared with study apps priced per month.

Mochi's strengths are a clean Markdown editor, a free tier with unlimited offline cards, apps on every major platform, templates for structured cards and a low Pro price. Its weaknesses are that sync needs Pro, the free AI and speech allowances are small, the community deck library is far smaller than Anki's and it has fewer add-ons. Anki is the free, open source standard with deep customization. RemNote combines notes and flashcards with an AI tutor. Quizlet offers quick shared study sets. Knowt turns notes into AI flashcards. Choose Mochi if you want linked Markdown notes and spaced repetition in one clean app.