Wiki Offline — A Wikipedia Experience 9+

Avocado Hills, Inc.

    • 1.6 • 5 Ratings
    • $22.99
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

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Wiki Offline delivers the premium reading experience for the entire corpus of human knowledge. This premiere service is the result of collaboration with over 1000 users just like you. Join the myriad of scientists, teachers, frequent flyers, vacationers, parents, and knowledge lovers whose lives have been improved by Wiki Offline.

Upon launching the app, you will be prompted to download Wikipedia onto your device. EVERY article will be available for you with no internet connection required. It has been meticulously compressed (English is under 3GB) while maintaining all of the data in every single article. (Note that pictures and tables are not included, but can be downloaded from within the app). This download is fully resumable and hosted on high speed servers located around the world.

Wikipedia databases are offered in several different languages: English, Chinese, Italian, Arabic, Czech, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Norwegian, Turkish, Thai, Polish, French, Hungarian, Farsi, Japanese, Hebrew, Korean, Swedish, Danish, and Slovak.

ADDITIONAL DATABASES & UPDATES

Out of the box, each user can download one language database. To accommodate users who have requested multiple databases and the ability to update the database periodically, we have utilized the new Lion In-App Purchase mechanism. Note that this requires OSX Lion 10.7+

For a nominal fee to support bandwidth costs, users can elect to subscribe (via in-app purchase) to additional databases. This one-time purchase per language allows the user to download this additional language on all of their computers that run the app, and gives them the ability to download future updates to this additional purchased language.

TESTIMONIALS
- "I've used all of the other competitors and Wiki Offline is by far the best! It's faster, prettier and works better." -- Carl, Principal
- "This app settles arguments for me (I usually win)" -- Arrie, Businessman
- "Wiki Offline on an iPad is the closest thing yet to a real Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! You have to admit that being able to hold that much knowledge in your hands is amazing." -- John, Software Engineer
- "I can't be the only one who feels like this app should have cost a lot more!. To have it so brilliantly designed with such a touch of elegance makes all the difference in the world. Way to go avocado hills. I love you guys." -- Jean, teacher in Haiti

FEATURES
- No internet connection required (after initial download)
- Real-time search and article loading
- Image gallery
- Supports embedded images and tables in articles
- In-page search
- Full screen viewing for best reading experience
- Bookmarks, full page history, and Table of Contents
- Automatic page redirects
- Customize font and theme

What’s New

Version 1.74

- Fixes for in-article search
- Fixes for in-article navigation

From 1.73:

- Fixes for scrolling
- Fixes for new Wikipedia article format
- Fixes for table of contents

Ratings and Reviews

1.6 out of 5
5 Ratings

5 Ratings

Prasatecko ,

Good, but needs some fixing

I like the app - responsive and holds all data in one spot. However, I came across several disappointments:

- I had problem installing the primary language (English) and other languages cannot be installed at all (appparently it’s being worked on)
- the offline version is not a complete mirror of Wikipedia, with some resources - primarily images and some metadata - missing. It’s understandable due to enormous size of this data but I believe it should have been communicated, rather than saying that “no internet connectin is required”. I consider this misleading as this data will be downloaded upon request when the article is opened and internet connection is active. I would like to have the option to download full wiki including images.
- the approach for in-app purchases for aditional databases is not clearly explained.

Update: it also appears that the database updates are too infrequent, so the (offline copy) does not have many new articles that reflect current events, movies, etc. Only existing articles are updated when online, but new ones are not created.

Update 2: after perhaps half a year, the program is still not fixed and cannot install secondary languages. The applicaton does not work as described

Fluro61 ,

Useless, and no support

My installation looks nothing like the images, especially the side bar. I don’t know if that is related to the fact that I cannot get it to embed images. Have read the FAQ and I do not have the settings or menus it refers to.

Contacted the support about this, but none has been forthcoming.

What a waste of money

Doc Rippedoff ,

Ethon

Doesn’t work, is a complete waste of money. Which I want back.
As an Apple software writer I know whats good and what isn’t.

App Privacy

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