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Daily limits and review availability

SRS Set Settings → Daily Limits controls how many cards enter a set's study-day workload. These limits are separate from account review credits and from the total size of your deck.

Controls and defaults

ControlDefaultWhat it controls
Maximum Reviews Per Day150Shared daily capacity for review admissions. New and suspended cards also use this capacity unless their Ignore review limit option is enabled.
New Cards Per Day15How many previously unstudied cards may be introduced.
Suspended Cards Per Day0How many suspended cards may be included. Zero excludes this category.
Ignore review limit for new cardsOffAllows new cards to use their own allowance after the shared review limit is reached.
Ignore review limit for suspended cardsOffAllows suspended cards to use their own allowance after the shared review limit is reached.
Custom SchedulingOffUses separate Monday–Sunday limits for the selected category.

Each numeric daily limit supports 0–9,999. Zero is a real zero allowance, not “unlimited.”

How the limits interact

The daily accounting is based on unique card admissions, using a card's first recorded answer in that study day to determine its category. Repeating an already admitted card is not another new-card admission. Consequently, the number of answer attempts in Statistics may exceed the number of unique cards admitted by the daily limits.

When both Ignore review limit options are off, new, suspended, and other review cards compete for the shared capacity. Card priorities help determine which eligible categories enter first.

For example, a set allowing 20 daily reviews and 10 new cards does not automatically guarantee 30 different cards. With Ignore review limit off, those new cards are part of the shared 20-card capacity.

Set a weekday schedule

  1. Open the set's gear button and choose Daily Limits.
  2. Enable Custom Scheduling under the category you want to vary.
  3. Enter its Monday–Sunday values. You can use a lower new-card allowance on busy days.
  4. Configure the other categories separately if needed.
  5. Tap Save Change.

The single daily value and the weekday values are stored separately. Turning Custom Scheduling off restores use of the single daily value; it does not erase the weekday grid.

Weekday selection follows the configured study day, not necessarily the calendar date visible just after midnight.

Review Ahead Limit and the study day

These are global controls in Settings → Review Settings. See Review settings for how to change and save them:

SettingDefaultRangeEffect
Review Ahead Limit20 minutes0–1,260 minutesIncludes eligible cards due soon within the review-ahead window.
Next Day Starts At04:0000:00–06:00Sets the local-time boundary for SRS daily limits and activity reporting across study modes.

Review-ahead is capped at the end of the current study day. It does not pull cards due at the next study-day reset into the current day.

With a 04:00 boundary, studying at 01:00 still belongs to the previous study day. Previously recorded answers keep their saved study-day assignment when you change the boundary. Mission and rewarded-ad resets are separate and use 00:00 UTC; changing Next Day Starts At does not move those resets.

Why the count is smaller than expected

Check these conditions in order:

  1. The deck is linked to the intended set.
  2. The card is due or within the allowed review-ahead window.
  3. The relevant daily and weekday allowances still have capacity.
  4. New or suspended cards are not being blocked by the shared review limit.
  5. The card is not Disabled. Suspended cards require their own allowance.

Remaining Today uses the same scheduling and limit rules as starting a review. It is different from a raw count of every card with an old due date and different from the Future Outlook chart's scheduled workload.

See Card availability, Display order, and Statistics.