Anki add-on: Restart — restart or close Anki with a shortcut (by Ankicraft)

Ever crash-tested your patience waiting for Anki to reboot after a sync hiccup or a slow add-on reload? Alt-tabbing to find the icon, double-clicking, waiting for the splash screen... Quick Restart turns that whole dance into a single keystroke. Quick Restart gives Anki the instant restart it's missing. ⚡ 🔄 Restart Anki instantly with a customizable shortcut — no mouse, no hunting for icons ❌ Close Anki with its own separate shortcut, just as fast 🧠 Safe by design: your collection is saved and closed the normal way before restarting, backups included ⌨️ Fully remappable shortcuts , or turn either one off if you only need the other 🛡️ Built-in guard against setting both shortcuts to the same key combo 🌍 Interface translated into dozens of languages, following Anki's own language setting HOW TO USE Install the add-on and restart Anki once. Press Ctrl+R anytime to restart Anki, or Ctrl+W to close it. Open the config screen to change either shortcut or disable one of them. SETTINGS Go to Tools → Add-ons → Quick Restart → Config to change the shortcuts or enable/disable restart and close independently. COMPATIBILITY Tested on the latest Anki release on Windows; should work the same on macOS and Linux since it only uses standard Qt/Anki APIs, but hasn't been verified there yet. CHANGELOG v1.0.0 — 2026-07-14 — Initial release. Free forever, and open source (AGPLv3). If this add-on saves you time, you can support its development: 👍 Enjoying it? Rate this add-on — it takes 10 seconds and it's the best way to help more people find it. 🐛 Found a bug? Please don't use reviews for bug reports — leave a comment on this page instead, and I'll fix it.

GitHub repository: cortezmichael594-lgtm/anki-restart
Languages: Python