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Wikipanion app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 8048 ratings )
Reference Education
Developer: Robert Chin
Free
Current version: 1.9.8, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 19 Aug 2008
App size: 6.96 Mb

Accessing 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 dont 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 iPhones 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.

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Pros and cons of Wikipanion app for iPhone and iPad

Wikipanion app good for

Its free, reliable and hey, it can be very useful when there isnt an internet connection to be found. Other than a few glitches, this app deserves the space needed to be stored on your iPod touch.
Consistently faster and more accurate results than wikipedias official app, with more robust features to boot.
Best wiki search app for its ease of use and searching in multiple languages.
This app is a must for wikipedia, the formatting is so much better then viewing on safari. It is also worth mentioning that this version is for most users just as functional as the paid version as the paid features are lacking to say the least.
This is an app I cant live without. I am a Wikipedia addict, and this app does exactly what I want, which is optimizing the content for the iPhone! And it is super fast. Perfect, and free!
This is a great way to search wikipedia I use it all the time.

Some bad moments

Why arent japanese articles supported? Why would a search in japanese lead to a page in english? Cant we have the entire web version of Wikipedia in an iPhone?
I loved this app until I updated it today. It no longer works. I suspect the changes made for iOS 5 are preventing it from working on iOS 4.
I use this app all the time and I love it. But it literally drives me crazy that the developers have decided that my history reading should end after a few days. My god, what a strange decision. Why am I not given an option the decide how far I wish my app to remember my history. I would be very happy to be able to track back to will, but instead and can go back a week. Thats it. Come on guys, please fix this so I can give 5 stars !!!
Pretty sure it offline ability when it first came out. $5 isnt worth it.
La gestione delle voci nei segnalibri o preferiti è davvero pessima, incomprensibile, insensata, interfaccia impossibile. iCloud è supportato ma complica ancora di più le cose. I segnalibri sono un fallimento. Inaccettabile per un a app a pagamento e costosa. Editing entries in your bookmarks and favorites is really terrible, incomprehensible, senseless, interface impossible. iCloud is supported but even more complicated things. Bookmarks are a failure. Unacceptable for an app to pey.
I love this because of its simple, uncluttered, and readable design. But it does have some issues, the biggest in my opinion that back/forward navigation will lose position in an article and return to the very top quite frequently. I now use the official Wikipedia app due to this.

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