DEAD END APP - ZERO STARS! – Wiki Offline — A Wikipedia Experience Review

My Current Review: A few years ago I reviewed this app and loved it (see Previous Review below). NOW I'm warning you to not waste your time on it - like I did for the last few days. Apple should not let Avocado collect money for this non-working app. Avocado should quit remove this app until it works reliably and stop charging money for the database until they speed up their server and resolve the database download issues. I'm an experienced Mac and iPad Pro user, so I know when something works and when it doesn't. When I let the app download the database, it sometimes downloaded a defective copy or slowed down to about 1 byte/second and (like others have said) claimed it would take 27 days to finish downloading. So next I spent several hours (per Avocado's email instructions) downloading the four database files to my iMac, then used iTunes (the instructions are minimal) to transfer the database files into my iPad and then ran Wiki Offline. Even tho the transferred files showed up appropriately in iTunes under the Wiki Offline app, the app itself didn't know they were there, so it continued to try downloading them again via wifi - with the same failed results I mentioned above. After about 8 hours of frustration with this app, I instead bought the minipedia app and it works just fine. My Previous Review: I travel a lot, often to where there is limited wifi and where I don't have a local SIMM card for cellular coverage. Now, in preparation for a two month trip to Africa, I want to be able to look up towns, animal preserves, etc. when I have no Internet connection. I've been testing this app for that purpose on my iPad and it seems to work wonderfully!
Review by Sierra Mac on Wiki Offline — A Wikipedia Experience.