Exporting a deck

You can download any deck of yours as a file, to send it to someone, keep a copy, or take your cards to another app. Depending on what you want it for, you pick one of three formats.

The three formats

The Export deck button opens a menu with the three options. The difference is in how much each one carries.

Format	What it carries	What it's for
Complete deck (.medkit)	Everything: the six card types, the subdecks, the images, and the audio.	Sharing a deck exactly as it is with another Medkit user.
Text only (.json)	Front/Back, Multiple choice, and Hidden words, grouped by deck. No images or audio.	Reviewing or cleaning up the cards with an AI and importing them back, or keeping a backup.
Text only (.csv)	Front and back as plain text. No images or audio.	Taking the cards to Anki, Quizlet, or another flashcard app.

How to export

There are two places, and both do the same thing:

Go to View cards for your deck and tap Export deck.
Or open the deck's menu (the three dots) in your deck list, go into Clone and export and pick the format in there.

Exporting takes the deck and all its subdecks, so it's enough to pick the topmost one and they all travel.

You can only export decks of your own (or ones you already cloned to your account). On someone else's public deck the button doesn't appear: clone it first, then export it.

Complete deck (.medkit)

The .medkit is Medkit's own format and the only one that carries everything: the six card types, the subdecks with their order, the images, the audio, and even the edits you made to an image (the crop, the arrows, and the texts), which whoever imports it can keep editing.

It's a self-contained file: the images and the audio travel inside. The imported deck keeps working even if you later delete yours or change its images.

To use it, the other person uploads it on the import screen and Medkit creates a new, private deck with everything inside. The step by step is in Importing cards.

Building the .medkit of a large deck takes a while, because Medkit has to download every file and put them inside. It runs in the background and you can keep using the app: the progress is in the ring around your profile picture and the detail is under Processes, inside that menu. When it's ready it downloads on its own. Closing or reloading the tab before it finishes cuts it off.

Only Medkit understands the .medkit: no other flashcard app can open it. If your plan is to take the cards to another app, use the .csv.

Text only (.json and .csv)

Both text formats export the same cards: Front/Back, Multiple choice, and Hidden words. Image-based cards (Rectangular zones, Painted zones, and Numbered tags) don't come along, because without the image they mean nothing: for those there's the .medkit. For the same reason a Front/Back card whose front or back is only an image doesn't come along either, so a deck that mixes text sides and image sides leaves the latter out.

The .json uses the same format Medkit's importer accepts, so it closes the round trip: you export, review or deduplicate the cards by hand or with the help of an AI, and import them back without losing any of them. If the deck had subdecks, the cards come out grouped by deck, with the name written once above each group, and that structure gets rebuilt on import. The ones with an image side stayed out of the file, so they don't come back this way.

The .csv is a simple two-column spreadsheet (front and back) that almost any flashcard app imports. Flattening to two columns loses something: multiple choice becomes the question with its options on one side and the correct answer on the other, and hidden words become fill in the blank.

If a deck has no text cards at all (for example, it's all images), Medkit tells you instead of downloading an empty file. And if only some stayed out (an image side, for example), the file still downloads and Medkit tells you how many cards didn't make it in.

What doesn't travel

Exporting shares content, not your progress. No format carries:

Your study history or your review dates. Whoever imports the deck starts from scratch, with every card as new.
Any cards you have in the trash.
Your personal marks. Cards you marked for review or hid travel like any other: what doesn't travel is the mark.

The imported deck is born private: whoever receives it decides later whether to make it public.

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