List of Wikipedia mobile applications
A number of organizations within the Wikimedia movement including the Wikimedia Foundation publish official mobile apps for using Wikipedia on mobile device operating systems. All are available for free via the appropriate app store. They can also be downloaded independently of any third party store, from the Wikimedia Foundation's releases website, which also keeps old and beta versions.
Independent developers have also released many unofficial apps for reading Wikipedia articles. Some apps load content from the Wikipedia site and process it; other apps use the MediaWiki API. Some only display Wikipedia content, usually omitting some features such as categories and talk pages. Some allow editing.
Official apps
Wikimedia Foundation
Wikipedia apps from the Wikimedia Foundation are called "Wikipedia".;Android
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Wikimedia Switzerland
, the Swiss chapter of the Wikimedia movement, has developed a number of offline apps based on Wikipedia content.Title | Description | Android | iOS | Windows | Other OS | Languages of content files by Kiwix | Website | Price | Open source |
Kiwix | Free program to download a whole Wikimedia project and read offline. | ; | , , , S60 3rd edition, feature pack 1 or later can show ZIM files via | ||||||
Medical Wikipedia | Wikipedia's Offline Medical Encyclopedia. Based on Kiwix and developed in collaboration with Wiki Project Med Foundation. | , , , , , , , , , | ; | only as content file in Kiwix or WikiOnBoard | |||||
Wikivoyage | Wikivoyage's Offline. Based on Kiwix and providing a world mobile offline travel guide. A exists too. | ; | only as content file in Kiwix or WikiOnBoard |
Unassociated apps
These apps were mainly developed to display articles and are often used on platforms for which an official Wikipedia app was not formerly available, such as Windows Phone. Typical features include searching for articles, bookmarks, sharing, or enlarging images.Title | Description | Android | iOS | Windows 10 / Windows Phone | Website / Other OS | Price | Open source |
Aard 2 | A free offline dictionary reader for Android and Desktop/Web. | ||||||
Articles | By Sophiestication Software. — Wikipedia reader for iPad, iPad mini, iPhone and iPod touch. | ||||||
Bing Wikipedia Browser | Bing Wikipedia Browser by Microsoft combines the content from Wikipedia with enhanced search, browse, and content recommendations based on the Bing Knowledge repository. | ||||||
Clickipedia | A game in which the player must, having been assigned a random article from which to start, get to another specific article by clicking links on the pages. | ||||||
Diderot | Nearest unphotographed Wikipedia articles; for Pebble Watch. | ||||||
EdgeWiki | A web app of wikipedia.org with a screen reader. Works on Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, and the Surface Hub. | $0.99 | |||||
GeoSearch for Wikipedia | By Yunhe Shi — Search and view geotagged Wikipedia articles from an visible map region. | ||||||
Inquire by Tamper | A context-aware Wikipedia reader that brings you the most interesting and relevant articles based on your location. | | $0.99 | ||||
Know Everything | Search by voice; for Pebble Watch. | ||||||
LearnDiscovery | By XDiscovery. — Displays and saves mindmaps of Wikipedia. Correlations between topics are organized to make sense of new information by visualizing the context about a topic. Bookmarks mindmaps instead of articles, and shares them as visual references. | $5.99 | |||||
Learni | Learn something new and interesting from Wikipedia. | ||||||
LoboWiki Reader for Wikipedia | All the links clicked are added to the reading queue, instead of being immediately opened to allow users to read articles in a distraction-free manner. | ||||||
Minipedia Offline Wikipedia | By Minipedia. — Access Wikipedia articles using iPod, iPhone or iPad without a network connection. | ||||||
MiniWiki | Browse Wikipedia on an Apple Watch, see articles for nearby locations, and download articles for offline reading. | ||||||
Mnemo's Library | An app that allows users to create, share, and review Wikipedia information and associated mnemonics/memory aids. | yes | yes | yes | |||
motî | Offline & multi-lingual dictionary app for language learners, taking data from the English Wiktionary. | ||||||
onePedia | A Wikipedia client which allows the viewing and editing of articles on Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, and the Surface Hub. | ||||||
Quiz King | A quiz app for playing quiz battles ! Challenge your friends and other WOKers in trivia build on questions from Wikipedia articles. | ||||||
V for Wikipedia | By Raureif GmbH. — Wikipedia app for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. | $4.99 | |||||
WikiBOT | Continuous learning chatbot capable to provide answers to a wide range of questions as world capitals, real time weather info and more. | ||||||
WikiCompass | WikiCompass gets nearby Wikipedia articles and lets you view them in augmented reality. | $0.99 | |||||
Wiki Encyclopedia Gold | By AppsUnlimited wiki. — A Wikipedia reader. Pro version costs $0.99 and claims to donate 30% of revenue to Wikimedia foundation. | ||||||
WikiFlip | An app that turns Wikipedia images into a quiz game. Flip a picture and take a trivia quiz question from World of Knowledge, the ecosystem of multiple choice questions. | ||||||
Wiki here | Shows nearby places from Wikipedia coordinate data on Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, and the Surface Hub. | ||||||
WikiLens | By Arash Pessian. — An augmented reality app that instantly links things around you to their Wikipedia article. | ||||||
WikiMaster | A game app that has over 330000 multiple choice questions on top of Wikipedia articles. | ||||||
Wikini for Wikipedia | A Wikipedia viewer with a reading list for Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile. | ||||||
WikiNodes | By Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement. | $1.99 | |||||
Wikio for Wikipedia | A Wikipedia viewer built for Windows 10. Works on Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, and the Surface Hub. | ||||||
Wikipanion | By Robert Chin — Easy, search, navigation and display of Wikipedia entries. Streamline your browsing with history grouped by visit date, and bookmarking for individual entries and sections within an entry. | ||||||
Wikipedia Nearby | Articles near current location; for Pebble Watch. | ||||||
Wikipedia Reader | By ManoRey — Wikipedia Reader is a Wikipedia article and image reader for Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Phone 8.1, Windows Phone 8. | ||||||
Wikipedia Viewer | A web app of m.wikipedia.org. Works on Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, HoloLens, and the Surface Hub. | $0.99 | |||||
Wikipebble | Search by voice or keyboard; for Pebble Watch. | ||||||
Wikiwand | Made to allow easier navigation and search than the website or the site's own app. | Currently invitation only | |||||
Wikiweb | Wikiweb is a Wikipedia reader for iPhone and iPad that visualizes the connections between articles. | $4.99 | |||||
Zimpedia | Offline reader for Wikipedia and other Wiki projects stored in a ZIM format. |
Related apps
A number of apps for Wikipedia's sister projects exist. These include the Wiki Loves Monuments app, written for a 2012 photo contest, as an aid for Wikiphotographers. It shows a map of nearby national heritage register items, indicating whether Wikipedia had a photo for the site, and enabling quick and easy photo uploads for camera phones. It is not integrated with the official article display app.There is for Wikimedia Commons which is . There is also an Android app for Wiktionary, although it is no longer supported and has not been updated since August 2013.