Articles for iPad
By Sophiestication Software
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Description
Articles lets you easily read and discover Wikipedia Articles on your iPad.
Just enter a search term and let Articles find the Wikipedia entry you are looking for. Use the integrated maps feature to learn about interesting places and historic events around your current location, or anywhere else in the world. Or simply shake your device and let Articles find an entry for you.
FEATURES
– Articles features a one-of-a-kind presentation of Wikipedia articles, perfectly optimized for your iPad
– A unique, chapter index control to skim through the whole article in an instant
– A Language Picker to switch between different Article translations
– A Table of Contents Sheet
– Find articles by title or content and select the Wikipedia language you are interested in
– Automatic spelling suggestions for your search text
– Use maps to learn more about nearby places
– Discover articles around the globe using maps
– "Surprise Me!" feature
– Tap on image previews to zoom in for more detail
– Rotate your device to see article photos in landscape and pinch to zoom in
– Easily share an article link by mail and copy photos to your Camera Roll or Pasteboard
– Pinch to increase and decrease the article text size
– Access recently viewed articles when offline
– Manage article bookmarks in folders and separate pages like in Safari
– Quickly lookup recently viewed articles by day
TIPS
– Double-tap (and hold) on the article to display the Chapter Index control
– Tap the status bar to scroll back to the search bar
– Pinch the article view to increase or decrease the text size
– Tap-and-hold a link to open an article in a new page
What's New in Version 1.5
– Updated graphics for the new Retina display
– Countless tweaks, bug fixes and performance optimizations
If you like Articles for iPad, please rate it in iTunes every time an update comes out. That helps us a lot, thanks!
iPad Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Waiting for 2.0
Sophiestication makes some of the best looking iOS apps.
Articles for iPad is indeed beautiful, especially with retina treatment, but marred by few major issues.
One. The developer is promising a bigger update, but the iPad version is lagging behind iPhone in features by over a year (e.g., find on pages, read later). I realize the developer is one woman shop and working very hard, but find on pages is rather important.
Two. Performance. Although the app feels fast in many regard, it is also excruciatingly slow in some area. Most notably, tapping a toolbar icon to switch to another opened tab takes a full second.
Three. Lack of synchronization between iPhone and iPad versions. Please use iCloud to sync bookmarks and other data.
Handy app
I use this app on a daily basis (iPhone and iPad). Tried all sorts of Wikipedia interfaces and this is the one I come back to.
DO NOT UPDATE (if you are NOT running iOS 5.1)
Version 2.0 was teased back in February '11 as coming soon and yet still no mention to date. The UI is great but the "Open in New Page" option is no longer working properly in version 1.3.3 (English). As such I can't recommend Articles, nice looking or not, until updates are provided to fix this broken app.
EDIT: Over one year later and still no version 2.0 as promised—furthermore, DO NOT UPDATE THIS APP to version 1.5 if you're not running iOS 5.1. I am not running the latest version and thus am now locked out of using this app. As a courtesy, developers typically warn the user in the RELEASE NOTES if their app will completely ignore all prior versions of the operating system (as most people would not check the requirements portion of the sidebar if they already own the app).
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- $4.99
- Category: Reference
- Updated: Apr 04, 2012
- Version: 1.5
- Size: 14.6 MB
- Languages: English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
- Seller: Sophia Teutschler
- © 2010-2012 Sophia Teutschler
Requirements: Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 5.1 or later.
