Wiki Offline — A Wikipedia Experience 9+

Avocado Hills, Inc.

    • 2.3 • 3 Ratings
    • $29.99
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

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Wiki Offline delivers the premium reading experience for the entire corpus of human knowledge. This premiere service is the result of collaboration with over 1000 users just like you. Join the myriad of scientists, teachers, frequent flyers, vacationers, parents, and knowledge lovers whose lives have been improved by Wiki Offline.

Upon launching the app, you will be prompted to download Wikipedia onto your device. EVERY article will be available for you with no internet connection required. It has been meticulously compressed (English is under 3GB) while maintaining all of the data in every single article. (Note that pictures and tables are not included, but can be downloaded from within the app). This download is fully resumable and hosted on high speed servers located around the world.

Wikipedia databases are offered in several different languages: English, Chinese, Italian, Arabic, Czech, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Norwegian, Turkish, Thai, Polish, French, Hungarian, Farsi, Japanese, Hebrew, Korean, Swedish, Danish, and Slovak.

ADDITIONAL DATABASES & UPDATES

Out of the box, each user can download one language database. To accommodate users who have requested multiple databases and the ability to update the database periodically, we have utilized the new Lion In-App Purchase mechanism. Note that this requires OSX Lion 10.7+

For a nominal fee to support bandwidth costs, users can elect to subscribe (via in-app purchase) to additional databases. This one-time purchase per language allows the user to download this additional language on all of their computers that run the app, and gives them the ability to download future updates to this additional purchased language.

TESTIMONIALS
- "I've used all of the other competitors and Wiki Offline is by far the best! It's faster, prettier and works better." -- Carl, Principal
- "This app settles arguments for me (I usually win)" -- Arrie, Businessman
- "Wiki Offline on an iPad is the closest thing yet to a real Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! You have to admit that being able to hold that much knowledge in your hands is amazing." -- John, Software Engineer
- "I can't be the only one who feels like this app should have cost a lot more!. To have it so brilliantly designed with such a touch of elegance makes all the difference in the world. Way to go avocado hills. I love you guys." -- Jean, teacher in Haiti

FEATURES
- No internet connection required (after initial download)
- Real-time search and article loading
- Image gallery
- Supports embedded images and tables in articles
- In-page search
- Full screen viewing for best reading experience
- Bookmarks, full page history, and Table of Contents
- Automatic page redirects
- Customize font and theme

What’s New

Version 1.74

- Fixes for in-article search
- Fixes for in-article navigation

From 1.73:

- Fixes for scrolling
- Fixes for new Wikipedia article format
- Fixes for table of contents

Ratings and Reviews

2.3 out of 5
3 Ratings

3 Ratings

Georgetter ,

georgette

crashes in 10.7.5
Response from Avocado Hills below

I've seen someone else's crash report from 10.7.5. Let me be straight with you: the crash report shows that this version of Wiki Offline is not compatible with OSX 10.7.5.

It seems like this is a small issue, but I don't even have access to a machine on OSX 10.7.5, so I'll never be able to test a fix. And with 10.9 out now, it doesn't even make sense to.

Please accept my apologies for the inconvenience. Your two best options are:

1) Request a refund from iTunes. No big deal, no hurt feelings.
2) If you are planning to upgrade soon, Wiki Offline will always be there for you....

In the meantime, I'll have to issue an update with a minimum version of 10.8.

Prasatecko ,

Does not work at all

does not work at all for me, it hangs on reading the data in the begining till I had to force quit the app.

Carlos M Cordero ,

Invaluable tool

I have many interests and a curious mind so enclyclopaedias have always been important to me. When wikipedia came along it put a huge smile on my face.
But of course, being a creative and a business person I am always in the move, and many many times I find myself un-plugged from the net.
Along came Wiki Offline. I hold wikipedia on my hard drive. All the wikipedia databases that I want. And it is fantastically practical.
Internet went down due to severe router failure (this happened to me this week and it was out for 36 ours)? No worries.
Not able to connect to public wifi? No worries.
Left 3G/4G dongle/stick at home? No worries.
It is all in your hard drive.
Can't be bothered opening a brewer and typing the link to Wikipedia (even if it is only the first 2 letters and Enter)? One click and it opens on your desktop. :) Bliss!
Worried about how much info you can have in exchange for storage space? In my case, I have all of the English database (every article in English) in just 3Gb of hard drive space.
Convenient. Reliable. Easy to update.
Deciding to get this app is a no brainer. You will get used to it and love it.

App Privacy

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