Description
Experience Wikipedia flawlessly on your iPhone or iPod. With iWiki, accessing Wikipedia becomes quick and easy with a powerful set of features and perfectly optimized articles for reading on your mobile device.
FEATURES:
- Enjoy Wikipedia with a beautiful article layout engine perfectly optimized for your iPhone, both in portrait and landscape modes
- Keep a library of knowledge in your pocket with the ability to save articles for offline reading
- Easily navigate recently viewed articles with back/forward buttons without losing your scroll positions
- Discover content in over 30 languages with built-in links to other article translations
- Find the information you're after easily with quick and full-text searching, and the ability to search for text within articles
- Enjoy any image on Wikipedia using the built-in image viewer with image captions
- Get a quick overview of an article with the handy table of contents browser
- Double tap to read comfortably in full screen
- Customize the experience with your favorite fonts and settings, accessible within the Settings application
Note: List of available Wikipedia languages can be found at our web site.
If you like iWiki, please take a look at iWiki HD for your iPad.
What's New in Version 1.4.3
Improved compatibility with iOS 5
iPhone Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Used to be better
The current version has broken search, so I can't search for an article if I don't know the exact name. At that rate I may as well use Safari. Hit or miss. Other past versions have been better.
Works great
Thanks for fixing
Feature Requests
Update: After using iWiki for a few days, I really have to say this app DEFINITELY needs a new/better bookmarking feature because simply saving articles for offline viewing is just not good enough. The app also needs tabbed browsing. This would be the perfect Wikipedia app if it just had tabbed browsing and better bookmarking; bookmarking that lets us save articles to view online, one that lets us create folders, and one that lets us rename articles. Please, ADD A BOOKMARKING FEATURE! Also, the bug with article titles that have an "&" symbol in their name really needs to be fixed.
I want to like this app, I really do, especially considering I bought it to replace the previous Wikipedia app I was using, Wikibot, (stay AWAY from Wikibot. The developer will take your money and offer no support for that bug ridden app!) which developed a bug that made the app unusable and the developer still hasn't fixed it. However, the way this app bookmarks pages is simply stupid. It doesn't bookmark pages, it saves them for offline viewing, and at the moment it takes tapping a saved article two or three times to get it to load.
How about keeping the "save for offline" feature but adding a second feature for bookmarking as well? And let us edit the names of articles we save/bookmark.
I'd also like to see a tabbed browsing feature added to this app. Currently, only two other Wikipedia apps offer this feature, and one of them is the bugged Wikipedia app I talked about above. I know I'm not the only one who likes to read linked articles in the current article I'm reading and giving us tabbed browsing would be perfect. This is a $1.99 app, so tabbed browsing and better bookmarking certainly isn't asking for much.
Also, when an article with the "&" symbol loads, the title is all messed up. Try loading and saving an article with the "&" symbol in it and you'll see what I mean.
With a little work and some changes to this app I really could see it being a top competitor with other Wikipedia apps. I'd also consider using this app as my one and only Wikipedia app if the changes I mentioned above are implemented. Until then though, I'll be using Articles. Articles has everything a Wikipedia app needs and much more.
- $1.99
- Category: Reference
- Updated: Oct 15, 2011
- Version: 1.4.3
- Size: 0.9 MB
- Languages: English, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
- Seller: Nikolai Krill
- © 2011-2012 Comoki Software
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
