The official Wikipedia app for iOS helps you explore the world’s largest free knowledge project — ad-free and free of charge, forever. With 60+ million articles in nearly 300 languages, your favorite encyclopedia is always at your fingertips.
Why you’ll love this app
Free, open, and ad-free
Wikipedia is written and verified by volunteers worldwide, supported by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation. No ads, no tracking — just knowledge you can trust.
Search smarter, discover more
Find the information you need without distraction. Search across 300 languages, explore trending and breaking news through a personalized feed.
Add knowledge to your Home Screen
Use widgets for quick access to trending articles, featured content, or the “Picture of the Day,” right from your Home Screen.
Read your way
Choose from light, sepia, dark, or pure black themes. Adjust text size and image dimming for comfortable reading anytime, anywhere.
Explore nearby places
Learn about landmarks and locations near you — or places you dream of visiting — through map-based article discovery.
Stay connected offline
Save articles to custom reading lists and access them offline — perfect for travel or learning without internet access.
Share and continue seamlessly
Share articles and images with friends, or use Handoff to keep reading across your Apple devices.
Get insights into your activity
See your own reading and contribution activity on Wikipedia with personalized insights that help you understand and celebrate how you use engage with Wikipedia.
Stay organized with tabs
Open multiple articles in tabs and switch between them with ease, just like in a browser. Compare topics, keep your place, and dive deeper without losing track.
Join the conversation
Read and reply to article discussion pages, and get notifications when discussions you follow are updated.
Contribute on the go
Manage your Watchlist to help keep Wikipedia accurate and up to date.
Additional Information
Feedback: In the app, go to Settings → Send app feedback.
Contribute to translations: https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:WikimediaMobile
Source code: https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-ios-wikipedia
Privacy Policy: https://m.wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy
Terms of Use: https://m.wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use
About the Wikimedia Foundation: https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Wikipedia has been answering our big and small questions since its introduction in 2001. What if you only speak Hawaiian? Mai hopohopo! Hauʻoli! (Don’t worry! Be happy!) With information in nearly 300 Wikipedia-supported languages, you’ll be able to find facts in the lingo you like.
Fantastic app with one major glitch
triple7marc
First of all, I love this app. It is very professionally made. The UI is clean and intuitive. Links work how you’d expect them to, it’s easy to search, navigate through pages and find words within articles. But there is one major glitch that makes me extremely frustrated - editing documents. For some reason the cursor is virtually unusable when editing documents. It jumps around and sometimes just gets stuck in place making it impossible to set it where you want to begin typing. There are other problems with it that I won’t get into but really the only flaw of this app id the editing UI. This app would be absolutely PERFECT if that is fixed.But if you don’t edit pages like I do, you’ll absolutely love this app! Think of all the FREE information you’re getting from this app. Truly mind-boggling the world that we live in.
Daily use thoughts on v7.7.0
Iverfam
Wikipedia is my favorite website. I open the app probably every half hour or so whenever I have free time, and I donate monthly. I’ve always enjoyed the user experience through the app, I’ve thought it has been really well made, but a couple changes in v7.7.0 recently prompted me to give some feedback.First thing, which has already been patched in the latest version, is how in version 7.7.0 I needed to select the search box after tapping the search icon to populate the field. I didn’t understand the change, as I don’t access my search history nearly as often as I search a new topic; maybe it was a bug, but I’m glad the change has been reverted.Second thing: I am no longer able to swipe back an article while scrolling- the screen has to come to a dead stop in order to do so. I can see how this would be the preference of some users, so I guess it’s not the end of the world, but for me it’s just another extra step to arrest the motion of the screen before I can navigate where I’d like.Finally, and this is only cosmetic, I have always appreciated the monochromatic look of the app and navigation bar. Now that the navigation bar items are blue, I realize how nice it was to have no color distractions on the screen while navigating. Again, for some people this might be a change for the better; either way it doesn’t break the experience, I think it’s mostly up to personal preference.Just thought I’d give some feedback on the new update, I always have and still do enjoy the app very much and quite often. Thank you guys for all the work you put in to maintain the app and site!
Excellent reading experience, but saved articles list has issues
BeegyFleeg
The reading experience on the mobile app is measurably better than on the website, with a more streamlined appearance and some small welcome additions such as dark themes and a side menu for the table of contents. However, the app occasionally sees some major and minor issues. Sometimes, when holding down on a hyperlink, a notification describing a JavaScript exception obscures the title and summary of the selected link, which is mildly irritating. More seriously, the saved articles screen occasionally has “ghost links,” where a saved article may appear multiple times and articles which have since been removed still show up. Clicking on either a duplicate or a removed article highlights the list item but does nothing else. Ghost links cannot be deleted by sliding right like ordinary links, and they appear arbitrarily with each opening of the reading list. Also, when reading articles offline, I like to save hyperlinks that I intend to read once I find an internet connection. However, I’m always disappointed to find that these saved articles do not download automatically once on WiFi. On one flight I’ll be reading an article and saving links, then I’ll rejoin WiFi, then I’ll board another flight only to find those saved links haven’t been downloaded yet! The Wikipedia app would be a perfect experience if not for these somewhat significant detractions. The saved articles list is one of the greatest advantages the mobile app has over the website—it would be nice if it functioned consistently well.
Reading history is available to all logged-out and logged-in users within Search.
Version 7.9.3
The developer, Wikimedia Foundation, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
