Wikipedia app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 4464 ratings )
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Developer: Wikimedia Foundation
Free
Current version: iOS App 7.3.1, last update: 9 months ago
First release : 17 Aug 2009
App size: 54.26 Mb

Explore your world, find a quick fact, or dive down a Wikipedia rabbit hole with the official Wikipedia app for iOS. With more than 40 million articles across nearly 300 languages, your favorite free online encyclopedia is at your fingertips.

Learn more at our FAQ page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/iOS_FAQ

App features:

Night reading - Appearance controls let you read Wikipedia in comfort, with dark mode, text size control and image dimming to customize how you read.

Places - Find Wikipedia articles about places next door or across the globe, with a map and location based search experience. On a trip or your daily commute, with Places it’s easy to learn more about the world around you.

Explore feed - Discover the depths of Wikipedia through your explore feed, which surfaces Wikipedia articles and captivating freely-licensed photos. It includes a diverse array of interesting content, including:

- recommended articles based on what you’ve already read
- featured articles hand-picked by the Wikipedia community
- daily top read articles
- picture of the day
- events on this day in history
- random articles
- nearby landmarks

Find and search - Easily find what you’re looking for by searching within articles or using Spotlight. You can even search with your favorite emojis!

Quick access - Add Wikipedia to your devices Today screen to pick up exactly where you stopped reading your last article, or see the top-read articles and trends of the day.

Easy touch navigation, including 3D touch - Multi-touch gestures like swipe, tap, and 3D Touch features complete essential tasks more quickly and simply.

Save articles - Save articles for reading later, even when you’re offline. Search and sort Saved articles, and organize them into folders. Log in to sync your Reading Lists across the your mobile devices.

Multilingual support - Search for and read Wikipedia articles written in any Wikipedia-supported language — there are nearly 300!

Share - Easily share articles, images, and facts from Wikipedia on social media or by email. Or use Handoff to continue reading articles across your iOS devices.

Want to know more behind the scenes of the Wikipedia mobile app for iOS? Check out these resources:

To send feedback, from the app tap:
Settings Gear > Send app feedback

Contribute to our app localizations:
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:WikimediaMobile

Code at GitHub open source repository:
https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-ios

About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports and operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable organization funded mainly through donations. For more information, please visit our website: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home.

Pros and cons of Wikipedia app for iPhone and iPad

Wikipedia app good for

This version is great, can now select language at search time
Great idea, truly inspiring knowledge, mostly free from bias. Proud to be able to contribute.
Ive been using for years now and its a great app, just miss an option to save locally some pages.
Very clean and simple for use. Great navigation and display of the articles to read.
The app is great both for quick searches and long reads. It is also possible to switch from a language to another for a page or topic.
Having the option to customize font type and size, in the manner of other reading apps like instapaper, would be a welcome addition to an otherwise solid app.

Some bad moments

When scrolling down on the home page, its refreshing the page. Means I cant access to the todays page :-(
My iPhone prefered language is english but the app searches in French (second language on my phone) IDK if its related to IOS or if the fault lies with the app but it break the app.
I think Apple should be sued just because there is personal information about celebrities that are to be hacked or scammed.
Dumbed down interface and its trying to copy Facebook/Twitter with this Explore feed. At least the search function still works hence the two stars.
I really preferred the previous version. I recommend to leave users the choice to use the " non- mobile" version on iPads ... Thank you
New update constantly freezes and crashes when returning to the app after going back to the home screen, or after the phone goes to sleep. 1 star until its fixed.

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