Discover — Wikipedia in a Magazine
By Cooliris, Inc
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Description
"Explore Wikipedia in a new way" - Wall Street Journal
"Succeeds at bringing a magazine format to the Wikipedia experience" - BusinessWeek
"An amazing e-zine app" - MacObserver.com
Discover is a completely new way to explore Wikipedia, inviting you to sit back, relax, and expand your knowledge through a delightful experience that doesn't feel like you're reading an encyclopedia.
Launch Discover every day to enjoy a new cover showing featured content from Wikipedia. Read articles from the cover or search for the best articles related to your favorite topics. Articles are presented in elegant multi-pages layouts with large photos for the best reading experience.
Continue your exploration by looking at the best related articles selected by Discover, or by selecting any word and jump to the corresponding Wikipedia article or dictionary definition.
Discover can even be used without an Internet connection to revisit previously viewed covers or articles.
Available only for the English version of Wikipedia.
FEATURES
Read, explore, and search Wikipedia like a rich, glossy magazine.
✔ COVER OF THE DAY - Shake your iPad to generate a new random cover.
✔ ARTICLE TABLE OF CONTENTS - Pinch with 2 fingers within the article.
✔ SEARCH - Swipe down while in a cover or article.
✔ HISTORY - Swipe up while in a cover or article.
✔ WIKIPEDIA HYPERLINKS / DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS - Tap and hold any word or phrase in the article's body.
✔ OFFLINE ACCESS - Swipe up to read articles in History.
✔ RELATED ARTICLES - Turn iPad to landscape.
✔ ARTICLE MAPS & STATS - Swipe right to go to the first page of the article.
SETTINGS
Go to your iPad settings > Discover to:
✔ Clear history.
✔ Change font and font size.
✔ Change initial content shown on launch.
✔ Select between English and French Wikipedia (experimental)
HELP
On any cover, swipe right to go to the first page.
FEEDBACK
Please email us at discover@cooliris.com.
What's New in Version 1.2.3
✔ Fixed search, a key feature of the app.
iPad Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Search Fixed
Thanks for fixing search!
The Discover app is the best way to browse Wikipedia, hands down!
Search is Fixed
Discover has been a superb app that displays Wikipedia articles in a magazine-like layout. If you enjoy browsing through Wikipedia, then this app will add to your enjoyment when browsing on an iPad.
Of course, if your goal is to browse you need some method to find articles of interest, or in other words "Search" functionality. Somewhere around February 14, 2012, Search unexplicably stopped working. The February 28 update has fixed the problem, so download and enjoy Discover once again. My thanks to the developers for fixing this problem rapidly and for providing Discover for free!
Would get 5 stars, but ....
... until an update completely broke the search function and ruined the utility of the app. The fix was slow in arriving. Is the company serious enough supporting this app with a good coding process?
Excellent concept ... lacks attribution information and better sharing of content and references for more value as a research tool ...
It is what it is ... great for leisurely reading of Wikipedia content.
- Free
- Category: Lifestyle
- Updated: Feb 28, 2012
- Version: 1.2.3
- Size: 13.6 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Cooliris, Inc
- © 2012 Cooliris, Inc.
Requirements: Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 4.2 or later.
