2026-04-24
Loss the new scroll!
It's great, but could be so much better! The new scroll is infuriating, often taking you past where you wanted to go. Wikipedia is about reading an article to me, not whizzing through madly.
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#54 in Top Free iPad Apps > Reference
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Description
Explore your world, find a quick fact, or dive down a Wikipedia rabbit hole with the official Wikipedia app for iOS. With more than 40 million articles across nearly 300 languages, your favorite free online encyclopedia is at your fingertips.
App features:
Night reading - Appearance controls let you read Wikipedia in comfort, with dark mode, text size control and image dimming to customize how you read.
Places - Find Wikipedia articles about places next door or across the globe, with a map and location based search experience. On a trip or your daily commute, with Places it’s easy to learn more about the world around you.
Explore feed - Discover the depths of Wikipedia through your explore feed, which surfaces Wikipedia articles and captivating freely-licensed photos. It includes a diverse array of interesting content, including:
- recommended articles based on what you’ve already read
- featured articles hand-picked by the Wikipedia community
- daily top read articles
- picture of the day
- events on this day in history
- random articles
- nearby landmarks
Find and search - Easily find what you’re looking for by searching within articles or using Spotlight. You can even search with your favorite emojis!
Quick access - Add Wikipedia to your device's Today screen to pick up exactly where you stopped reading your last article, or see the top-read articles and trends of the day.
Easy touch navigation, including 3D touch - Multi-touch gestures like swipe, tap, and 3D Touch features complete essential tasks more quickly and simply.
Save articles - Save articles for reading later, even when you’re offline. Search and sort Saved articles, and organize them into folders. Log in to sync your Reading Lists across the your mobile devices.
Multilingual support - Search for and read Wikipedia articles written in any Wikipedia-supported language — there are nearly 300!
Share - Easily share articles, images, and facts from Wikipedia on social media or by email. Or use Handoff to continue reading articles across your iOS devices.
Want to know more behind the scenes of the Wikipedia mobile app for iOS? Check out these resources:
To send feedback, from the app tap:
Settings Gear > Send app feedback
Contribute to our app localizations:
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:WikimediaMobile
Code at GitHub open source repository:
https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-ios-wikipedia
About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports and operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable organization funded mainly through donations. For more information, please visit our website: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home.
What's New in Version 8.1.3
Minor updates and enhancements
Seller
Name
Wikimedia Foundation
Information
Developer
Version
8.1.3
Size
257.6 MB
Game Center
No
VPP Device Licensing
Yes
Rating
Rated 9+ for the following:
Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
Compatibility
iOS 17.6 or later
Devices
iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone SE (3rd generation), iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 16e, iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPhone Air, iPhone 17e, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi + Cellular), iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (9th Generation), iPad (9th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (6th Generation), iPad mini (6th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (5th generation), iPad Air (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (10th generation), iPad (10th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi, iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (A16) Wi-Fi, iPad (A16) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (M5) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 11-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation)
Languages
English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chechen, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingua, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Northern Sami, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Oriya, Oromo, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Sindhi, Slovak, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish
App Store: Customer Ratings
Ratings & Reviews
4.3 of 5 (327 Ratings)
App Store: Customer Reviews
2026-04-03
Search function
You’ve taken the search function off the main page? I cannot imagine who would think that was a good idea.
2026-02-19
Good App but..,
The App itself works fine. Alas, the content it is serving Reeks Of Woke’ism.
2025-12-28
Very buggy
So much slower to browse than just accessing the Wikipedia website via Safari.
2025-12-13
Perfect
I just love how transparent Wikimedia is about its A/B testing, what they test and where they’re investing our donations.
In glad we’re not getting these silly release notes abuses “we’re always doing our best…blah…we’re the best out there for…blah…bug fixes and improvements…THE END” that so many others are doing now.
You can probably count those honestly transparent organisations on one hand.
2025-12-02
Excellent
In a world of “alternative facts,” AI slop and encyclopaedias owned by billionaires with vested interests (Grokipedia and Encyclopaedia Britannica), Wikipedia remains the standard for online encyclopaedias. Disclosure: I am a retired research scientist who has been a regular donor to Wikipedia for many years.
2025-10-16
Difficult to navigate
This app is not like the website. It’s not formatted like the website.
2025-03-09
Love Wikipedia, but…
Scrolling and navigation has become insufferable in a recent update. Scrolling is unreliable and not responsive and swiping back gestures don’t work well anymore. It was a great app and used it all the time. Now I prefer the web version.
2025-01-13
Superb
Fabulous app with just the right user-friendly straightforward settings, and the invaluable treasure of informed knowledge and freedom of expression at the core of Wikipedia et the once-promised Web of Things…
2024-09-21
If only it had this then 5 stars
Just add a filter for anything. One for kids, one for if you need very accurate information things like that.
2024-08-09
Misleading and false information
In the past few months the app has been filled with misleading and false information. Given this is an open source information centre, how can we possibly trust anything, now that you’ve allowed an insane amount of recent false edits on sensitive topics.
2024-08-03
Corrupted
The content in this app has been captured by radical ideologues. Unfortunately this app has become corrupted by false information.
2024-01-05
I have minor gripes.
When reading an article, headings are always expanded and can’t be collapsed. When I’m going down the rabbit hole, I can’t open many links in new tabs.
2023-11-13
Wikipedia blocking IP addresses, even when they do not have an account.
Due to very poor app design, it even does not allow people because this block is clearing blocks for hundreds of people, it should be specific to users by names, not hundreds of people because of the actions of a single person.
2023-10-05
Love it , but ….
I love this app and I love Wikipedia and all it stands for . I start with a suggestion: I wish you could bookmark pages you are reading so that when the app closes and you go back to your page , you can pick up right where you left off ! It would be incredibly useful for me personally , though I’d hope other share the sentiment .
The app also does not play videos that are attached to pages , they just stand frozen .
This one is small but when you delete articles from your bookmarks , sometimes it has a pictureless remnant of just the name that goes away with time but is still there . Just seems like a very minor glitch
2023-08-23
Saving Pages Confusing
Good app BUT using the bookmark to force offline storage of pages FAILS for many pages. The bookmark icon at the bottom of the screen does nothing for some pages. For other pages it “fills” indicating a bookmark has been saved AND the page is available offline. No help or relevant settings. Disappointing.
2023-08-19
3 out of 5
Good for some studys bad for some studys.
2023-08-05
Just having it installed is bad
The app STILL DOESN'T LET YOU ZOOM! After years and years of public complaints about it, a known running joke about how bad this is (there's even an XKCD comic), it's still a crippling problem that makes it irritating to use.
The app completely inappropriately displays only part of an article's main image making it confusing to see. The only purpose of Wikipedia is to access information and this app makes it worse.
It's an inferior experience to viewing the site. And that's really annoying because the site already shows how to display things right, this is pure incompetence of the app design.
Just having the app installed will hijack links you click on sometimes in your browser, and bring you into this bad experience, so it's not even harmless to have installed. I've given it a reality solid try, a few times over the last few years. It frustrates me to tears how bad it continues to be for no reason.
Wikipedia is one of the top few best things to ever exist. The mobile site makes it available to millions, even billions of people, changing the world. This app is step backwards, it's a real shame that the features it offers are so crippled by its interface.
2023-04-18
Excellent App
You can access WikiPedia on just about every platform- but often on mobile phone apps you lose functionality compared to a desktop. There is no loss of functionality that I can see, sure there are editing features that are lost, but aside from that from a user reading perspective the app faithfully upholds that experience.
2022-12-21
Wikipedia
Surely one day they close this terrible website down . Every time I accidentally click on there webpage it’s begging me for money . Get used to the fact no one uses your app .
2022-12-12
Good but
For some stupid reason It will not let me setup an account. It like to block my IP address for reason unknown.
2022-08-07
Best App I've ever downloaded
The explore tab has replaced social media for me - and I feel better for it. Thanks Wikipedia!
2022-06-20
My edit history
There is no easy way to find my edit/contributions
2022-06-19
Fantastic resource
I use Wikipedia all the time, every day. It is a incredibly important global cultural achievement. I happily donate periodically to try and help out with keeping it improving.
Just a teensy quibble: I find the “in popular culture“ paragraph at the end of entries about learned matters pretty brain-dead. I don’t want to know if some obscure Danish punk rock group had a single about Odysseus in 1979.
2022-04-11
No tabs, no search.
There’s no tabs, you can’t have more than one article open at once. Whenever I’m reading a Wikipedia article I’ll almost always open the embedded links in a background tab to read those related articles. You can’t do that with this app. It completely kills my workflow. Search (find on page) is also much easier in mobile Safari. When you’re mobile website is far superior to your native app - there’s a huge problem. 1 star. Avoid.
2021-10-19
An incredible App!
Thanks to all at the wiki media foundation for using our donations wisely
I’d love some more dopamine hitting features. Kinda a weird request I know. But even just a reading goal or something would be excellent.
Or a web that grows the more you read. Each link inside of an article you click on creates a node on a map. It’ll kinda give an overview of your learning journey and motivates you to grow this web of tree or whatever it is.
Whatever they decide to do I’m extremely excited for future updates! This thing runs like a stream in a storm. Thank you for making this app!
2021-08-22
Much improved.
$APPL Apple Corporation is horrible.
This comment isn’t related to Wikipedia (which is great).
Just a test to see if this review is removed.
iPhone, App Store, and Mac are ridiculous.
2021-07-06
Politically left leaning, hard to trust
There is a bias towards the left side of politics which makes this app hard to trust. It is a real shame.
2021-07-02
Why is your site soooooo bad
I accidentally got autocorrected and I got unable to edit so it was accident and I didn’t mean to like I will rate app betters f I is unblocked.
2021-06-22
Biased information
They just show you the information (propaganda) they want you to see. They will provide you with defamatory information about people or organizations that don’t support them or the businesses that sponsor Wikipedia.
2021-05-13
I love it
It would be amazing if it offered a option to download all articles or even an option to auto download all articles that you have read or read in the future.
2021-02-16
Dark mode removes black text
When I use this app at night time the dark mode in the app seems to align with dark mode on the iPad so all I see is a lot of black with blue words (hyperlinks) dotted randomly around the page. I have to go into my settings each night to turn off dark mode so I can read the article
2020-12-31
Financial support
I have been asked on number of occasions to provide donations to Wikipedia and I did but I am told it is a scam as Wiki has not asked the other users- is it a scam?
2020-11-29
Disinformation
Nasty establishment disinformation vendor. Does more damage than good.
2020-10-22
Excellent app
Very easy to use and professional
2020-09-19
Widgets
Great app. I have encountered a bug and a suggestion for the new widgets.
1. The ‘Top Reads’ widget changes to Chinese randomly. Is there a way to turn this off???
2. A ‘Wiki News’ widget would be more useful to me than the novelty of the photo of the day widget.
2020-09-15
tabs!!
would be better if there was a tab feature similar to Chrome as I love reading different articles without keeping track.
2020-08-06
Unresponsive Save button
The Save to List button becomes unresponsive sometimes for some particular contents
2020-07-05
Crash crash crash.
Keeps crashing when I click on anything linking to another article.
2020-06-27
Latest update constantly crashes.
I donate! Please fix.
Cheers,
Todd
2020-05-20
An excellent resource in an excellent app
Wikipedia is a trusted source of knowledge about nearly everything there is to know. The app is seamless and well-designed, making exploring new articles and learning new things an enjoyable experience.
2020-04-26
Fake or wrong information Most of them
Never rely and think that information provided is correct, most of the Information almost all is incorrect and fake
2020-01-29
Love it
Wikipedia is the best, support it
2020-01-02
Fantastic app, enter to cycle search + gestures would be nice
Fantastic app, just two things:
1. SEARCHING PAGES is annoying. In Safari (on my iPad) if I ctrl + f a phrase, I can press enter on my type cover to cycle through the results. I can't do that in this app. It's a lot slower to press a button on the screen to cycle, idk why but it doesn't seem to register as quickly as a button press.
2. I wish navigation was easier. If the nav bar (back button + home W button) was on the bottom, or if I could use gestures to navigate backwards and forwards (like in Apollo for Reddit), that would be nice.
I'm on a 12" iPad with the native Apple keyboard cover.
2019-12-29
Left leaning
Wikipedia is fine if you have a leftist view of the world.
Users need to be aware of this.
2019-12-25
Is this app free
For a free app the amount of donation pop ups keep increasing, why not charge for the app and website. A free service is free.
2019-10-10
A awesome tool
It’s been a great tool for all forms of knowledge and answers and is very worth while supporting it.
Knowledge is a good thing in life, Wikipedia is great place to learn this.
2019-10-05
Moonface
Font size is small. Its not easy to read. It would be good to be able to adjust the font, it is possible but doesn't make much difference. My eyesight is bad. I am not legally blind, but its not easy to see small size pront.
2019-09-12
Needs one more feature
The app needs the same ability to sort lists as you like that is available on PC.
2019-06-15
Japanese Spitz photo.
So many complaints about your photo of a JS on your site. Your editor who placed it, needs to look at the hundreds of other photos of Spitz. Out of all the photos, he/she picks one that the worst on the planet. Absolutely no idea.
2019-04-14
Amazing information source
Wikipedia is a very accurate source of information with knowledge on any topic that is easy to understand. One of my favourite apps as a student.
2018-06-10
Easy and non intrusive
Easy to navigate and search. Even though they are needing money we are Mt swamped with intrusive requests for money
2018-05-07
Improvement
I am missing a random article button
2018-02-21
Great App
It is very easy to use and read. Excellent. I love Wikipedia.
2017-10-25
David Abramczyk
I wish this app was around when i was at school ! I would have been an A+ student !
2017-08-08
Legends
Thank you so much for creating the dark theme, very much appreciated.
2017-08-08
Great App - it's now 5 stars
Thanks for the free app and the encyclopedia.
The latest version of the Wikipedia app fixes some things that were long-awaited and now it's great. New sepia and dark modes are great for night reading. The new Places tab is great. Both map and list views are excellent. Great job.