V for Wikipedia
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reference | $4.99 | Raureif GmbH | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
# Why you’ll enjoy Viki:
NEARBY PLACES: Discover interesting Wikipedia articles about the area around your location. Or explore any other spot in the world. It’s fun with Viki’s unique map visualization.
SEARCH RESULTS: Viki is powered by Wikipedia’s full-text search. Matches are displayed as rich article previews, tweaked for both legibility and high information density.
READING INTERFACE: We’re passionate about great typography! So it’s only natural that Viki’s layout is designed to make reading Wikipedia articles pleasant and efficient.
BOOKMARKS & HISTORY: Add bookmarks to the list of your favorite articles—with one tap. Viki also keeps track of your searches and articles and puts them in the History list automatically.
# Wikipedia On Your Apple Watch
NEARBY PLACES: Quickly find articles about points of interest around you
VOICE SEARCH: Easily find anything on Wikipedia using your voice
HANDOFF: Swipe up on the lock screen to continue reading on your iPhone
BOOKMARKING: To read later, just force-touch and transmit a bookmark to your iPhone
# More Features
SMART LAYOUT: Viki uses a combination of advanced layout optimizations to analyze and reformat every article for ideal readability and great looks.
NATIVE iOS EXPERIENCE: For some Wikipedia Apps, iOS is just another platform but for Viki, it’s the beloved one and only platform! You’ll feel right at home.
BEAUTIFUL TYPE: Carefully crafted typography and high-quality typefaces in twelve different styles create a world-class Wikipedia reading experience.
MULTILINGUAL: Switch effortlessly between languages—if you read more than one. Or check out an article’s title in all available languages. We promise, it’s fun!
# Even More Features
– Efficient images load right before you view them, saving time and bandwidth
– Large tables are shrunk proportionally to fit on screen
– Table of contents panel for quick navigation
– Wikipedia editing in Safari — just tap the share icon
– Slide Over and Split View support on iPad
– 3D Touch action menu on the app icon
– Open articles in Viki from Safari’s share menu
– Search in Viki from any other app via the text-selection context menu
– Dynamic Type respects your device’s font size settings
– VLC integration to play Wikipedia’s esoteric media file formats
– Natural image zoom with swipe-to-dismiss
– Syntax highlighting for source code examples in articles
– Sophisticated sharing that you’ll actually want to use
– Support for portrait and landscape orientations
– Supports VoiceOver
Whether you’re exploring the city with an Apple Watch or being productive on an iPad Pro—Viki looks and feels great. At any size.
You knew you loved Wikipedia.
You didn’t know it could feel this good on iOS.
Reviews
Best, but..
Pathinterpreter
Best wiki app with great visuals and table of contents menu; however: 1) No offline access, and 2) its missing more work in the bookmark sections where it should allow to create folders and lists to organize data.
Was hesitant... now happy!
Jessie (bookishwife)
I exhaustively read reviews before purchasing. I rarely pay for apps, but I was excited about this one. Turns out it's just as good as I'd hoped!
The perfect wiki app
colinmford
I love the location search. I like to use it in places I’ve never been to find all the hidden treasures! ?
My app to save all the things Wikipedia
what what 82
The features and simple, well-designed, and exactly what you’d want for Wikipedia. I rarely use the location feature, but it is neat and I think could be useful for travel and spontaneous discovery. The 2 things I’ve wanted after using this apps for years (found through DF sponsorship). 1. Mac version of app, so I no longer need to airdrop to iOS device to save an interesting looking article 2. Category feature. I have a lot of bookmarks at this point, but being able to categorize them, esp via tags, would really help me for recall/finding certain entries.
a more refined Wikipedia
souperbrick
This app makes me feel like the captain from WALL-E as he was learning about earth
Still not there
The Datamancer
It's still frustrating that I have to dig out my 6 year old Android tablet to get a version of Wikipedia with tabs. I bought this hoping that maybe they were supported but not mentioned in the reviews. It's still a good app. The typology is nice, but on an iPad in landscape mode the small image scaling and flow seem to work better in the official app. I'm still going to keep it primarily because I love the responsiveness of the developer and I'm happy to support any non-subscription apps.
If Apple create a Wikipedia app it would be this one!
A.Kinng
Beautiful design and perfect support. This app is always in my iPhone and it’s excellent for searching popular facts. It worth every penny.
