I'm up to about 250 Kanji by grinding and using StickyStudy. This was before I even heard of RTK, which sounds compelling enough to try. I liked StickyStudy because I could easily add cards based on what I was studying at the moment, and easily add related words with the built-in dictionary

However, the instructions for reviewing RTK do not seem to be compatible with StickyStudy. It doesn't have a place to add a story to the card, and I'm not sure how Review Cards apply to it.

Would it make sense to switch to Anki at this stage before I get too much further?

"It doesn't have a place to add a story to the card" < For Anki, you can edit the number/name of the fields that are on the card, so technically you could create a "Story" field yourself. (Fields = Lines on the flashcard. Examples of field names = "Reading" (kana) and "Meaning" (English definition).)

I haven't ever used StickyStudy, though. It looks really, really useful with all those tool already in it! (I don't have a smartphone, though...) You can add audio to Anki flashcards, but I think it's easier and way less time-consuming to download a pre-made deck with audio already in it from AnkiWeb (https://ankiweb.net/).

Really though, I don't see why you can't start trying out Anki while still using StickyStudy for a certain amount of days before deciding if you want to drop either. It's best to test it and see for yourself, rather than listen to someone else's opinion on if it will work for how YOU want to study. Maybe you could even use StickyStudy for certain types of flashcard content, then Anki for other things (for example, you could make a deck with pictures from Manga panels in Anki if StickyStudy doesn't support images).

The deal with Anki is that it's not pretty or especially user friendly, but once you get the hang of it the amount of things you can do is pretty much unlimited. However, the getting used to it part may be a bit of a stumbling block for some.

If you're going to do RTK using this site's stories, and you don't already use Anki, it might be better to use the site's built in SRS. It's web based so works on any browser, doesn't require any complicated configuration, and is completely integrated with the site's other features.

The reason many people use Anki instead of the site's SRS is because they are -already- using Anki for their vocab decks and it's easier to use one SRS than two. It certainly makes sense in that case, but perhaps not in your case.

You can finish RTK with the SRS you started with, but if you consider the amazing time saving add ons for anki such as yomichan, subs2srs, Epwing2Anki etc, I think you'll find anki much much much more useful when you begin to study vocab and sentences. There are also a lot of great premade decks for anki too like the Tae Kim Close deck which will help you study grammar without the tedium of inputting sentences into your SRS. The speed you gain from this is crucial to that feeling of progress that will keep you motivated in beginner stages. If you waste time, you will burn out. And trust me imputing srntence/grammar/vocab cards is a lot harder than inputingg kanji cards. For that reason, you may want to switch to anki so that you have all your flashcards in one place in the future, but there is no great harm in continuing where you are for RTK as long as you have a plan for the future.

Well, I downloaded the Anki desktop app and bought the iOS app and find that it is quite a bit different than StickyStudy. Anki has a bit of a driving element to it on what you have to cover (a bare minimum and a max), whereas Sticky Study doesn't care.

Anki is more focused on the 20 or so Kanji that you pick for the day, whereas StickyStudy will keep adding more (perhaps this is configurable, I don't know). This makes it tough because it will add things you haven't seen even when the ones that you're working on are not nailed down yet.

So now I use Anki to focus on 22 kanji a day. When I reach the limit, I'll sometimes use StickyStudy Flash (which is a different app than StickyStudy Kanji) loaded with the Heisig deck, and use it as a tune up/refresher when I have time.

Will see how this works, but it seems to hold up for now.