- Free
- Category: Reference
- First released: August 20, 2008
- Versions: 10 archived
- Installable: 8 of 10
- Availability: Still on the App Store ↗
- Seller: Robert Chin
- com.laya.osiris.wikipanion
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iOS 2.0 or later.
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Report an issueAccessing Wikipedia has never been faster and easier than with Wikipanion, designed for easy, search, navigation and display of Wikipedia entries. Streamline your browsing with history grouped by visit date, and bookmarking that not only bookmarks individual entries, but individual sections within an entry. Featuring intelligent features such as: - Table of contents browser that knows where you are in the page - Multiple search methods including Smart completion with entry preview, Google searching and a full text Wikipedia search - Dual language searching and language switching (hiding languages you don't care about) - Bookmark, including bookmarking individual sections of pages - History, grouped by last visit date - Full in-page searching - Wiktionary dictionary term looking without leaving the current page - Table based category browsing - iCloud syncing - Image saving to the Photo library - Ogg vorbis audio playback for dictionary pronunciations and other audio content available on Wikipedia - Contextual knowledge for sending links to specific sections in a Wikipedia entry - Easily turn on automatic focusing of the search field on launch
Tip: To scroll to the top of a Wikipedia entry, hit the title bar at the top of the iPhone's screen (this works in Safari too). Second tip: Click into the search bar to cancel a page load request.
See the Wikipanion web site for more details about all of the available features.
Wikipanion is advertisement free.
Bundle Size Over Time
Chart History
Ratings Over Time
sampled from 11 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 24, 2010 | 1.5.5f | — | 43,251 | Free |
| March 23, 2011 | 1.6.5f | — | 55,589 | Free |
| January 4, 2012 | — | — | 55,925 | Free |
| May 2, 2013 | — | — | 56,041 | Free |
| February 7, 2015 | 1.8.80 | ★ 3.5 | 55,992 | Free |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 25Home/random page actions either don't work or crash the app. This is the primary differentiating feature from the official Wikipedia app.
I used to love this app but it hasn’t been supported in years and it’s much slower than just using the web version of wikipedia or other apps.
I’ve had an iPhone since they first came out and have had this app since the app store’s beginning. This will always be my most used app. It’s Wikipedia at your fingertips, always works, and does what it says it’s going to do.
I noticed when I send a link from the app to a text MMS or iMessage recipient(s) or group, the text I add as a caption or info does not show up. Only the link is sent and it looks random in my text feed. Just a quirk I wish could be fixed.
Good wiktionary support. Enough said
Extremely slow. Cannot handle how to display charts at all. Constantly begging for money. Extremely biased. Use Grokipedia if you want more objectivity and facts.
Used to be a great app but now it takes literally 5 minutes just to search for something. You can type something and click the link and the app will just sit there and freeze until it feels like loading.
Love it, used it forever. Looking for a dark mode alternative.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.