Export your deck

Your cards are yours. You can export any deck as often as you like, in whichever format the next tool needs - every format is free.

From the deck page, choose Export to see the formats. You can also right-click a deck in My Library and choose Export Deck, or export many decks at once (see Export from your library).

Spreadsheet (Excel, CSV, TSV)

One row per card, ready for Excel, Numbers, Google Sheets or any other tool.

• Excel (.xlsx) keeps every value as text, so a word like "007" or "=" is never turned into a number or a formula.
• CSV - comma is the most widely supported format.
• CSV - semicolon suits spreadsheets set to a locale where the comma is the decimal separator.
• TSV - tab is the safest choice when your cards contain commas.

Source and target are always included. You can also choose to add language codes, custom fields, pinyin (on Chinese decks), a link to each card's pronunciation audio, the created and last updated dates (in ISO 8601 format), and the card ID - handy for matching rows when you keep another tool in sync.

CSV and TSV files are saved as UTF-8 with a byte order mark, so accents and non-Latin scripts open correctly in Excel. A CSV exported from Yalango can be imported straight back into any deck - the header row picks the right columns for you.

Anki (.apkg)

An .apkg file you can open in Anki or AnkiDroid.

• The target goes on the front of the card and the source on the back.
• Custom fields and pinyin are shown under the answer, labelled with their names.
• Every note is tagged yalango.
• If you export the same deck again later and import it into Anki, the notes already there are updated instead of duplicated. Files exported before October 2026 did not have this, so the first re-import of an older export adds the cards once more.

Keep my review progress

Tick Keep my review progress to carry what you have studied in Yalango over to Anki:

• Words you have studied arrive as review cards with an interval that matches your Yalango review step, and their next review date.
• Words you imported from Anki and haven't studied in Yalango since keep their original Anki interval, ease and review counts.
• Paused words arrive suspended.
• Everything you haven't studied yet arrives as new cards.

Yalango keeps right and wrong answers rather than Anki's four buttons, so your full review history isn't recreated in Anki - only where each card stands today.

Copy as text (Quizlet, Memrise and more)

Plain "term, definition" text that you can paste into Quizlet's import box, Memrise, Knowt and most other flashcard apps. Choose which side is the term, and whether terms are separated from definitions by a tab or a comma and cards by a new line or a semicolon. Then copy it to the clipboard or download it as a .txt file.

These apps expect every card on one line, so a line break or separator inside a card is replaced by a space. The export tells you how many cards this affected - choose Tab to keep commas intact.

JSON

One structured file for scripts, AI assistants and other apps. It looks like this:

{
  "format": "yalango.deck",
  "version": 1,
  "exported_at": "2026-10-16T12:00:00.000Z",
  "source_url": "https://yalango.com/decks/123",
  "deck": {
    "id": 123,
    "name": "Kitchen words",
    "description": "",
    "target_language": "es",
    "source_language": "en",
    "privacy": "private",
    "created_at": "2026-01-02T09:00:00.000Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-10-01T18:30:00.000Z"
  },
  "custom_fields": [{ "id": "a1b2", "name": "Example" }],
  "cards": [
    {
      "id": "cardDocumentId",
      "target": "la cuchara",
      "source": "the spoon",
      "target_language": "es",
      "source_language": "en",
      "custom_fields": { "a1b2": "Pásame la cuchara." },
      "pinyin": null,
      "audio_url": "https://...",
      "created_at": "2026-01-02T09:00:00.000Z",
      "updated_at": "2026-01-02T09:00:00.000Z"
    }
  ]
}

Language codes are the same ones Yalango uses everywhere, and dates are ISO 8601 in UTC. If you want to keep a script in sync with your decks rather than download files, the Yalango API gives you the same data.

PDF glossary list

A printable two-column glossary - source word on one side, target word on the other - using your deck's language names as headers. Useful as a quick reference sheet.

PDF quiz

A printable test version of your deck. Each row randomly hides either the source or the target word (around half of each), so you can fold the page, quiz yourself, or hand it to a study partner.

Exporting someone else's public deck

When you're signed in, you can export any public deck, not just your own - look for Export on the deck's page. The export contains the deck's public cards. If you'd rather keep studying it in Yalango, save it to your library instead.

What isn't exported

Audio files themselves aren't packed into the export - the spreadsheet and JSON formats include a link to each card's audio instead. For a complete backup of everything in your account, including study history, use Download all your data.