About
The Hands-free Anki Clicker lets you review Anki flashcards without touching your keyboard or mouse: hand gestures, face gestures, head movements, desk taps, pen clicks, and whistles become "show answer", "Again / Hard / Good / Easy", and "undo". It exists so people do not need to buy a clicker: your laptop's camera and mic are the remote.
How it works
- Hands: an on-device hand-tracking model finds your hand's joints and recognizes 11 poses (open hand, 1–4 fingers, thumbs up/down, OK, rock, call me, fist) plus open-hand swipes.
- Face and head: an on-device face model reads eyebrow, mouth, and blink signals plus head rotation for nods, shakes, tilts, and quick turns.
- Sounds: the mic listens for desk-tap onsets (classified by their sound: thud, knock, click) and for whistled notes, including slides up and down.
- Calibration: the built-in wizard learns your personal thresholds in about 30 seconds per input, because every face, hand, and room is different.
- Driving Anki: through the free AnkiConnect add-on on
127.0.0.1, the page shows answers and rates cards exactly as if you pressed the keys.
Every mapping is remappable: six presets cover common setups, or build your own. Everything is stored on your device only.
Honest limits
- Desktop only. It drives Anki desktop on this computer. The Anki phone apps do not run AnkiConnect.
- Detection can misfire. Gesture recognition is automatic and probabilistic. A gesture right after an action is ignored (cooldown), and Undo is always one tap or keypress away.
- Your camera light and the browser's mic indicator stay on while those inputs run; no web page can hide them. Both turn fully off when you hide the tab.
- Not made by Anki. This is an independent home tool, not affiliated with Anki or Ankitects.
- Accessibility framing: it is a convenience tool, not an assistive device and not a medical device. If you need reliable hands-free computer control, look at the platform's built-in switch access and voice control alongside this.
Learn more about Anki
- Anki (apps.ankiweb.net): the free spaced-repetition app this drives.
- AnkiConnect (AnkiWeb listing 2055492159): the free add-on that lets local pages talk to Anki.
- Anki Manual (docs.ankiweb.net): how spaced repetition and the Again/Hard/Good/Easy buttons work.
Links verified October 2026. This tool is not affiliated with any of them.