Wikipanion⁺

After really liking and using this app for quite some time, I deleted it today in favor of the official app. The developer no longer maintains the app, so it no longer gets any new iOS features. It’s also apparent that Wikipedia made API changes that were not incorporated into this app and performance is suffering badly. I give three stars only for past history, it was once the best app for Wikipedia. Today, absolutely do not pay, even the small amount that plus costs, for this app.

Wikipanion+ takes too long, sometimes minutes to load to the last page read or the search page. Otherwise, it's my go-to encyclopedia.

The app needs a dark mode. it needs access to quick text sizing in the menu bar. it needs icloud bookmarks to be combined instead of separate in iphone, ipad, and mac folders. overall navigation should be more intuitive. i could go on and on. it doesnt’ really seem like the developer cares much about the app, or isn’t trying at all. its unfortunate because this could easily be the best Wikipedia app available. frustrating.

Is there an option to hide the queue side panel and view articles in full screen? The side panel causes formatting issues on some articles and makes them more difficult to read. Great app otherwise, but please add hide queue panel function for a 5-star review.

Ever want to look back at your Wikipedia history? In addition to being an excellent viewer, this app makes it easy to view your history organized by day, queue articles you want to read, and save articles offline that you want to keep in their present form. I always use this app in preference to the web interface. The only minor criticism I could make is that it cannot play or view some of the very obscure file formats on Wikipedia (3D molecule rotation files, ogg audio files, etc.). All in all, this is a great app, one of the few I use every day!

So this app is really good it’s just the fact that the download images function does not even work, it doesn’t even ask for access to photos so of course it wouldn’t work, fix this!

Smart invert doesn’t keep the side bar dark, so there’s no way to make the screen all dark for calm reading that I can find. It really needs dark mode. Otherwise, it’s not really worth leaving safari with its reader mode. Please add dark mode so my money will not have gone to waste!

Please update the app. The last update broke images where they now display on the left-hand margins. Please fix as soon as possible.