Wikibot — A Wikipedia Articles Reader Screenshots

Description

Featured in App Store Rewind 2011

Wikibot makes reading Wikipedia articles a joy. Whether you want to learn more about the places around you, entertain yourself with random articles, or research your favorite TV show, Wikibot has you covered! With a beautifully crafted interface, customizable display options, and killer features like tabbed browsing, language switching, a read-later queue and offline caching, you'll simply love it! Apple loves it so much that they named it Reference App of the Year in 2011.

PAY ONCE, GET TWO APPS
Wikibot is a UNIVERSAL app that includes both the iPhone and iPad version. Other apps make you pay twice but with Wikibot, you get two for the price of one!

iCLOUD SYNCING
Wikibot now uses iCloud to automatically sync your history and favorites between your iPhone, iPad, and iPod using the new iCloud (iOS5+). It can even sync to Wikibot for OSX (v1.52+)! Now you can literally have all of your favorite articles wherever you are!

TABBED BROWSING
Just like in mobile safari, you can have multiple articles open at the same time. Switching between tabs is fast and you can even open links in new tabs by pressing and holding on a link.

PERSONALIZATION
The display is customizable to give you the best reading experience. You can easily change the font size, the font type, the margins, the color scheme, and even the brightness of the articles.

MULTI-LANGUAGE SUPPORT:
Easily search Wikipedia in 36 different languages. Effortlessly jump from the English version of an article to the German version, or any other combination!

FULL TEXT SEARCH
Not sure which article to search for? No problem! You can now search Wikipedia articles by article title, or by the full text!

IN-ARTICLE SEARCH
To activate the in-page search bar, click the action button (looks like an arrow). Works on both iPhone and iPad!

VISUAL HISTORY
Wikibot provides a beautiful visual history of the pages that you have browsed. An image from each page is displayed, with the title below it. What an engaging experience!

BOOKMARKS AND FOLDERS
Save your favorite articles as bookmarks. Create folders and neatly arrange your bookmarks.

READ-IT-LATER QUEUE
Sometimes you're reading an article and find great links that you want to read, but you don't to interrupt your current article. What do you do? Simply press and hold on the link to add it to your Read-It-Later queue. The article will be downloaded in the background for immediate access when you're ready.

GALLERY MODE
Tap any image to enter gallery mode and see a larger version of the image and its caption. Swipe left and right to browse the different images in an article.

FULL SCREEN MODE
Need more space to read articles? Double-tap an article to enter full screen mode!

SHARE VIA TWITTER / FACEBOOK
Let your friends know what you've been reading!

OFFLINE CACHING
Articles and images are cached for offline use until you delete them. Enjoy Wikipedia while you're on the plane, on a train, or in a submarine!

FULLY OFFLINE VERSION
If you need offline access to the complete Wikipedia corpus on your iOS device or Mac, please search for "Wiki Offline" on the App Store, also by Avocado Hills.

DONATION TO WIKIPEDIA
Avocado Hills is proud to support the Wikimedia foundation. A portion of our proceeds is donated each year.

What's New in Version 1.60

RETINA GRAPHICS
✪ Optimized for the new iPad! Wikipedia has never looked better.

iCLOUD SYNCING
✪ Read Later now syncs across your iPhone, iPod, iPad and Mac (Wikibot for OSX sold separately). Bookmarks and history were synced in the previous release.

FASTER
✪ Faster startup
✪ Faster article loading

FULL SCREEN MODE FOR IPAD
✪ By popular request, you can now double tap to enter full screen mode on the iPad

EVEN LARGER FONTS
✪ Makes reading super easy, even on a big iPad

FIXES
✪ Layout fixes for the new iPad
✪ Issue where single italic characters would not appear in equations and text
✪ Solves problem where keyboard disappears while user is entering in a search query
✪ Better experience searching within the page
✪ Rotation lock has been reset for those having trouble
✪ Fix to German Wikipedia disambiguation pages
✪ Fixes problem browsing photos in the iPad version
✪ Fixes problems bookmarking on iPad version
✪ Now works with proxy internet connections

OTHER
✪ Now opens all external links in mobile Safari
✪ Numerous stability improvements

TELL THREE FRIENDS
Please tell three friends about Wikibot to help support continued development .

FOLLOW US ON TWITTER
@avocadohills
@evanmr

Customer Reviews

Flawless (5 stars)
This update has owned me. Fullscreen reading mode and larger fonts. That plus the previous update adding a Night mode of white text on black background, and a brightness adjuster? AND the app has multiple pages, table contents and History? I would give it 10 stars if I could. Thank, developers, for listening!

(5 stars)
i liked

Very useful application (5 stars)
After several years using Wikipanion+, I've switched to Wikibot. It's a great app, with great features, and only a few drawbacks. Worth the cost and space.

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