Description
The best gets even better! Enhance Wikipedia with queue mode, designed for keeping track of entries you want to read in the future. Add entries to the queue easily while browsing, and optionally save them for faster visiting or offline browsing. Downloading entries for offline or accelerated reading happens in the background while you browse and read other pages, so you don't have to stop and wait for pages to be saved.
See the Wikipanion web site for more details about Plus features. Want to see why Wikipanion is the best? Download the free Wikipanion.
What's New in Version 1.5.5f
- Swedish localization
- Polish localization
- Fixes a glitch with the location bar that occurs occasionally
Customer Reviews
One of several good Wikipedia clients
There are several good Wikipedia clients, each having some feature that sets it apart. For me, the key feature of this one is Queue Mode, which allows you to click links in the current article and, rather than jumping to them immediately, save them for later followup. This is a brilliantly simple idea that fits perfectly with the way I've always wanted to use Wikipedia, but couldn't till now.
It's good and looks promising
Finally, bookmarks! LOL. Bout time.
Safari might be free, but it's clunky compared to this client.
It really delivers well the free content. Makes the iPhone feel like a research device/information tool specifically when running Wikipanion.
Plus the features make this worth the 5 dollars. The queue is perfect as a launchpad for future articles to be read so I don't have to remember or keep a separate list for those random paths.
I need folders in bookmarks.
I can't load bookmarks when an entry is loading slowly over E.
Icon looks sweet but makes me think dictionary.
There are some styling issues: text and elements overlap for some pages. Looking forward to updates.
Learning doesn't have to be boring. Knowledge is the spice of life. Hard to put a price on expanding my consciousness.
Plus and minus
Queued browsing and individual control over saved (cached) articles--independant of bookmarks--is why I spent the 5 bucks, why I use this Wikipedia reader the most, and why this app stands alone among the many. These features seem to work perfectly, or nearly so.
On the other hand, the UI needs tons of work. For example, the only access to bookmark-related controls and screens is via the button in the search textbox at the top of the page. This should really be accessible from the main menu bar at the bottom, perhaps by combining the contents and related links buttons and screens (see Wikiamo).
And even when you touch the app title bar to scroll to the top, and then the bookmark button, you still may have to back out of the bookmarks hierarchy to the top level just to access the add button. This is nearly a useability nightmare. Here is where more standard and more predictable UI design elements can bring huge improvements. As referenced above, the Wikiamo app seems to have gotten the basic UI elements right on (but lacks the huge features mentioned at the top).
Control over rotation and rotation itself are very iffy. I'm not even sure the rotation lock works at all; surely not as expected.
I would like to see three options for a Rotation or Orientation setting: 1. Auto, 2. Portrait, and 3. Landscape, with the 2nd and 3rd settings being locked. And I mean locked: right from the app launch. Also, smoother, more predictable rotation is needed when rotation is enabled. Here, Wikiamo does it well, but lacks any settings to control rotation.
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- $4.99
- Category: Reference
- Updated: Nov 12, 2009
- Current Version: 1.5.5f
- 1.5.5f (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
- 1.1 MB
- Languages: English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Singhalese, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian
- Seller: Robert Chin
- © 2009 Robert Chin
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later.
