---
title: "Wikipedia - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in South Africa | Apple App Store"
description: "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 "
---

# Wikipedia — South Africa
> The Free Encyclopedia

![Wikipedia App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/2e/d0/a4/2ed0a4e1-6bae-a4d6-eeea-dbb7b2b2bd2f/wikipedia-app-icon-0-1x_U007epad-0-0-0-1-0-0-sRGB-85-220-0.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [Wikimedia Foundation](https://apptail.io/developer/wikimedia-foundation-tAyb) (United States)
**Category:** Reference
**Rating:** 4.6/5 (52 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** org.wikimedia.wikipedia
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** South Africa
**Version:** 8.1.1 (released 2026-05-15)
**Original Release:** 2010-02-18
**Languages:** English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Central Khmer, Catalan, ck, Chechen, Czech, Danish, di, Dutch, Esperanto, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek (modern), Hausa, Hebrew (modern), Hindi, Hungarian, Croatian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingua, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kanuri, Korean, Kashmiri, Latvian, Lithuanian, lm, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, nq, Nepali, Northern Sami, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Oriya, Oromo, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Panjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Sardinian, Serbian, Chinese, Sindhi, Slovak, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, kc, Ukrainian, hs, Urdu, Uzbek, Venda, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/za/app/app/id324715238)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/wikipedia-Kl/south-africa](https://apptail.io/app/wikipedia-Kl/south-africa)

## Wikipedia Description
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:

 
Code at GitHub open source repository:

 
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: 

## Wikipedia Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource114/v4/b9/b3/66/b9b366de-2101-db1a-243c-a7578a0c727f/70c9da02-1a69-420b-8290-3d530a0e09e2_seven.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple124/v4/3b/d1/cc/3bd1cc91-be01-2aa1-992d-252933b98900/pr_source.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple124/v4/9b/91/22/9b912285-c0ff-c90e-e08b-682807ae1386/pr_source.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple124/v4/69/4d/e0/694de077-bd4a-6d8f-0017-7ba098c9c4e8/pr_source.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple124/v4/d7/60/e2/d760e2d2-d9fe-91ef-303c-497ddd2c5eeb/pr_source.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 6](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple124/v4/17/b9/b5/17b9b5ea-4998-e4d4-b006-255bf371b3aa/pr_source.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 7](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple124/v4/0f/03/7d/0f037d60-85ec-3a52-834d-31b16565eb73/pr_source.png/1242x2688.png)

## Wikipedia Rating Breakdown in South Africa
- 5 stars: 42 (81%)
- 4 stars: 5 (10%)
- 3 stars: 0 (0%)
- 2 stars: 2 (4%)
- 1 stars: 3 (6%)

## Wikipedia Reviews in South Africa

### *---- "It’s just not working 😔"
It’s just not working 😔
-- Sals108, 2023-08-05

### *---- "Biased platform not worth using"
Biased platform not worth using
-- PiersKure, 2023-04-02

### ***** "One of my top #10applications"
Rates in my list of best apps ever and I always have it handy for reference and reading 📖 … thank you Wiki … love your work ✅
-- blu2014, 2023-02-04

### ***** "Wiki"
My everything 🔥🏆
-- The TrapCodes, 2022-04-28

### ***** "Would you ever add a “feed” feature?"
The app is great for finding specific pages when searched for, but would you ever consider adding a “feed” feature which provides articles related to the user’s current searches? Possibly in a scroll-down fashion. 

This provides more directed content than the “Random article” feature, and the “On this day” feature.
-- rewsearle, 2021-03-30

### **--- "Application Will Not Open"
The app won't open, so you might want to check that.
-- rlesenyeho, 2020-05-12

### ***** "Wikipedia"
Excellent App, should be prescribed for all schools for the start of a school day for 30 minutes to see the fantastic world we live in!!
-- Leon Schenk, 2018-01-31

### ***** "Most marvellous rabbit-hole."
Once one dives into the Wikipedia rabbit-hole, and starts clicking on links, one is unlikely to emerge for a long time.

Kudos to everyone involved.
-- ChrisHadAHat, 2017-08-09

### ***** "Brilliant"
My favorite app.
-- Disadvantaged African, 2017-05-11

### *---- "No tabs"
Why does the iOS version of this app not have tabbed browsing?
-- BonjourAmie, 2017-04-22

### *---- "Crashing the whole time"
Again, the app is crashing. It is really irritating to have to delete and download it every 2-3 weeks. It means I have to start from the start every time!!! 
Why can't I save the pages I have and get it back when I have to re-download the app, since I am logged in when I save pages.
-- FredZ1408, 2017-04-13

### *---- "Crashing"
Please sort out version got a lot of saved links don't want to lose them if delete and reinstall
-- Adam_r_geld, 2016-12-30

### *---- "Takes forever to load a page"
Takes forever to load a page. Please fix
-- Nishol7285, 2016-03-15

### *---- "Weak search results"
Very often the search results are "no matches found" but when you search the same item in the www version of wikipedia then you get a bunch of results. I find the app meager at best.

After the last update the lack of searchable content still persists. No point to this app might as well just huge the online version
-- TertiusSyfert, 2015-08-04

### ***** "Fresh"
Really loving it.
-- Dunxen, 2014-08-10

### ***** "Good app"
I like it very much, easy to use and gives accurate information.
-- Shehazard, 2014-07-31

### *---- "What a mess"
What a mess of an app. It doesn't support landscape, don't open this app on your ipad in landscape because it will lock the keyboard in this position, although everything else gets flipped to portrait. 

A lot of work still needed on this app.
-- Apep2012, 2012-12-30

### ***** "Great app!"
The app must've been updated because it works just fine. In fact I'm surprised at how good it is.
-- VoxPortent, 2012-08-28

### *---- "Useless updated version"
I updated some apps on my iPhone 4 and this was one if them.

It's useless- far too sensitive and I can't scroll to tue bottom of sections.

I want the previous version back!

Fix this!!
-- Smoseley2, 2012-04-07

### ***** "Great Mobile Application"
It has the ease of use and "lightness" needed for a mobile application, but you have access to all of Wikipedia. The world is literally sitting in your hands.
-- MickeyZA, 2010-01-11

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## Wikipedia Store Rankings
| Chart | Country | Category | Rank |
|-------|---------|----------|------|
| Top Free | Austria | Reference | #4 |
| Top Free | Japan | Reference | #5 |
| Top Free | Germany | Reference | #7 |
| Top Free | Ireland | Reference | #7 |
| Top Free | Switzerland | Reference | #7 |
| Top Free | Australia | Reference | #8 |
| Top Free | India | Reference | #8 |
| Top Free | Canada | Reference | #8 |
| Top Free | Israel | Reference | #9 |
| Top Free | France | Reference | #11 |
| Top Free | South Africa | Reference | #12 |
| Top Free | Romania | Reference | #12 |
| Top Free | United Arab Emirates | Reference | #12 |
| Top Free | United Kingdom | Reference | #12 |
| Top Free | United States | Reference | #14 |
| Top Free | Denmark | Reference | #15 |
| Top Free | Finland | Reference | #15 |
| Top Free | New Zealand | Reference | #15 |
| Top Free | Greece | Reference | #17 |
| Top Free | Hungary | Reference | #17 |
| Top Free | Sweden | Reference | #17 |
| Top Free | Pakistan | Reference | #18 |
| Top Free | Chile | Reference | #18 |
| Top Free | Poland | Reference | #19 |
| Top Free | Norway | Reference | #20 |
| Top Free | Netherlands | Reference | #20 |
| Top Free | Belgium | Reference | #21 |
| Top Free | Saudi Arabia | Reference | #22 |
| Top Free | Argentina | Reference | #24 |
| Top Free | Dominican Republic | Reference | #24 |
| Top Free | Czechia | Reference | #25 |
| Top Free | Ecuador | Reference | #27 |
| Top Free | Algeria | Reference | #27 |
| Top Free | Singapore | Reference | #27 |
| Top Free | Lebanon | Reference | #27 |
| Top Free | Hong Kong SAR China | Reference | #27 |
| Top Free | Mexico | Reference | #28 |
| Top Free | Nigeria | Reference | #30 |
| Top Free | Peru | Reference | #30 |
| Top Free | Portugal | Reference | #31 |
| Top Free | Colombia | Reference | #33 |
| Top Free | Italy | Reference | #33 |
| Top Free | Thailand | Reference | #33 |
| Top Free | Ukraine | Reference | #34 |
| Top Free | Brazil | Reference | #36 |
| Top Free | Türkiye | Reference | #37 |
| Top Free | South Korea | Reference | #38 |
| Top Free | Kazakhstan | Reference | #39 |
| Top Free | Kuwait | Reference | #40 |
| Top Free | Belarus | Reference | #41 |
| Top Free | Egypt | Reference | #43 |
| Top Free | Malaysia | Reference | #44 |
| Top Free | Philippines | Reference | #49 |
| Top Free | Vietnam | Reference | #50 |
| Top Free | Indonesia | Reference | #60 |
| Top Free | Taiwan | Reference | #63 |
| Top Free | Spain | Reference | #64 |
| Top Free | Russia | Reference | #72 |
| Top Free | Azerbaijan | Reference | #123 |
| Top Free | China | Reference | #125 |
| Top Free | Switzerland | Overall | #351 |
| Top Free | Austria | Overall | #380 |
| Top Free | Germany | Overall | #483 |

## Wikipedia Discovered Keywords
- ted
- fandom
- wikihow
- wikipedia
- minipedia
- offline wikipedia
- wikiexplorer for wikipedia
- encyclopedia

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## Wikipedia Available In
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- [Thailand](https://apptail.io/app/wikipedia-Kl/thailand)
- [Indonesia](https://apptail.io/app/wikipedia-Kl/indonesia)
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