Wikipanion Plus 12+

This offers a few good advantages over a straight Google search: offline saving of entries, ability to target specific wikis, queuing up pages. I also like the presentation of an alternate index - very cool in the iPad, serviceable on the iPhone.

Single best advantage for me is presentation with good text wrapping. Wikipedia's mobile interface is awful, and viewing the desktop version of a page on a small screen gets uncomfortable too.

This is the best way to access Wikipedia on iPhone and iPad - hands down.

It is fast and responsive, and has good bookmarking and page queuing facilities.

Most importantly, it displays Wikipedia pages (including tables and charts) much more accurately and true to the original than other iOS apps I’ve tried, which sometimes just leave out page elements that they find difficult to render.

Wikipanion has, for me, been one of those rare findings - a beacon of hope - among the sea of novelty and mediocrity that make up the App Store.

The author does a great job of frequently supplying bug fixes, and ensuring that the experience of Wikipedia on iPhone remains unparalleled.

Admittedly, it took a little while to adjust to the queue system of Wikipanion Plus, but once I had adjusted, certainly appreciated the extra functionality, and was glad to have paid the extra couple of dollars.

If I could get a decent App for the OED and Roget's thesaurus in the Australian App Store, my life would be complete. Or at least in a literary sense; I am somewhat doubtful that it will address the other deficiencies of my life. Perhaps I just need to buy an iPad.