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.
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 device's 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/apps-ios-wikipedia
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.
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4.24 out of 5
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Have been using this app for a short amount of time and have realised this will be pivotal in my future education. Can’t wait to start writing independent papers on my viewpoints and ideas with the help of this service. Absolutely stunning, bringing information for all to see.
Swap accounts
4 stars are fare enough at the moment, the app deserves 5 when they do something about the ability to swap between your accounts, every app is did it long time ago
Take with a huge grain of salt.
Very often editors have no idea what they are talking about or spread misinformation for who knows what reasons they may have.
I was using and supporting Wiki for years believing in its mission, until I started finding loads of unverified, made up, or corrupted informations from my own field of study, correcting which is impossible as any edit made was always promptly reversed.
If looking for important information, I highly advise other professional sources. Acceptable only if treated as entertainment.
Perfect app for the best site on the internet
Works very well, much better display than the mobile browser version.
One thing I’d like is Today’s Featured Article iOS widget.
Glacially slow
This app seems to take longer to open every week. It used to be enjoyable; now it’s just frustrating
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Best app ever it like a mini internet it’s free with no adds full of facts. it has everting you could think off and gives tons of information. It has pictures audio recordings everything!!!!!!! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁☺️
Rarely works. Useless.
App rarely works. Keeps showing a message stating it’s not working.
I’ve actually deleted it from my phone and from time to time use the web page to see if I can get any information from it.
Server not found
Most times I try to search it tells me there’s not server found and I can’t get any results
Ok, but...
Nice layout, that's the only Good thing I have to say about this app. Runs really jittery on my iPad 4 and keeps crashing when offline so I can't read my saved pages. Only recommended if you have a realllllly new iPad, iPhone or iPod which is always connected to wifi, would prefer the web browser version (I hate to admit)!