Hi everyone,

I really like Mochi’s clean interface and stability, and I’m starting to depend on it for serious exam study. At the same time, updates feel quite infrequent, so I’m a bit worried about the long‑term future of the app.

Could someone from the team (or the community) share:

• Whether Mochi is actively maintained right now
• What the long‑term vision / roadmap roughly looks like
• Who the founder is and how involved they are today

I’d love to keep investing (staying subscribed) in Mochi for the next several years, so any reassurance or info about future stability would really help.

Hey @Subarnab Sadhukhan‭,

Great question. I'm Matt, the founder / creator and main developer on Mochi. I started working on Mochi almost 7 years ago now, and I have no intention of stopping. At this point Mochi is profitable and self sustainable. For what it's worth I also don't see Mochi getting acquired any time soon.

You may have noticed fewer updates recently, and while that may be true, there is a simple explanation. I have been focusing 95% of my efforts over the past month or so on the new website relaunch. The project started out as a simple redesign but turned into a complete overhaul including completing rewriting the documentation, adding tutorials, etc.

As far as the long-term road map, I'll share my thoughts on that here. First of all I don't really publish a long-term roadmap anymore because my priorities tend to change more frequently.

As far as near-to-mid-term road map, I am planning to focus on the following areas:

• Improving "accessibility" / usability, especially for non-technical users. This includes things like writing more detailed documentation and tutorials, but also changes to the interface, especially with regards to templating. This is undoubtedly Mochi's most powerful feature, but I'm afraid it is not well understood by most non-technical users, so I want to work on making that more accessible and intuitive.
• Stability and performance. This will always be a priority, but in particular I am still not happy with performance on mobile. In particular start up and sync times are too long in my opinion.
• Better editing experience. I think there is still a lot of room for improvement here with the markdown editing experience, for example live previewing and things like that.

As far as long-term goals, those mostly center around more "multiplayer" experiences. For example:

• Building a portal where users can publish and share decks / cards / templates.
• Collaboration and multi-user workspaces. I think workspaces would be a great addition to Mochi with granular control over permissions.

And lastly, if it wasn't obvious already I am still very much involved in Mochi today.

@Subarnab Sadhukhan

I totally share your thoughts. I heavily used Mochi to prepare for my promotion over the past 3 months and it succeeded in delivering what I needed. And as Joseph pointed out, your data is still yours. It's local, and you can export it to CSV or Markdown. I'm a big believer of the Plain Text movement, and for that I've been using Obsidian for the past 2 years. But this ability to export to plain text is making me seriously consider a total migration to Mochi.

As for being actively maintained, I just filed a bug about slow search. The incredible developer followed up immediately (like, within 1 day) and started working on the fix! Similarly, a few weeks back someone raised an issue regarding their experience on the new Mac OS version (Taho), which was again solved within a few days. Lastly, I requested a shortcut for a very niche part of the app (Add to review queue from Cram mode), which was added within a week. So yea, it's actively being maintained, even after 7 years of its initial launch.

Can't really comment on the above, but you can export decks as CSV now which can then be imported into Anki. Even if Mochi does go under (imo, v likely), then progress and decks won't be lost, so you may as well use it