Kiwix

Kiwix Team

About this app

Access the world's knowledge offline with Kiwix! Download free educational content once and browse it anytime, anywhere - no internet connection needed.
Kiwix uses advanced compression technology to store vast amounts of content whilst taking minimal space on your device. Whether you're travelling, have limited internet access, or simply want to save on data costs, Kiwix puts reliable information at your fingertips.

Need help? Our team is available at [e-mail] should you need any clarifications or support.

Support us! Kiwix is a non-profit and displays no ads nor collects any data. Feel free to donate here: https://kiwix.org/en/get-involved/#donate

Ratings and reviews

Great when it works. Having offline access to some of the information you can download on here is useful for a multitude of situations. But many files are straight up incompatible with the app, near constant crashes when opening or switching between downloaded files, some don't open at all, and it could use filters to better search for files worth downloading. Ultimately a great idea, but it doesn't run well on my device at least (Google Pixel 6a). Would love to see some stability improvements.

Getting Kiwix to a usable point is time consuming and troublesome. I dug through the list and set it to download several wikis. The app seems to need to be in focus to download, downloads keep pausing, the app keeps crashing, and after three days in I finally only gotten one wiki - meanwhile it's constantly harassing new to rate the app. The app doesn't seem to take me to a list of wikis when I start it, it just dumps me into the first one I downloaded, and I have to dig into a menu to find the others. Not at all intuitive. Maybe it'll be different when I finally get a second wiki on here. It's an awesome premise! I can read and research when I'm in a dead zone, the internet is down or at camp. However, getting to that point drinking is a pain!

App pauses downloading every time it isnt the main app. There aren't app permissions carved out to download while in the background. This makes it horrible to download large files. EDIT: Re: Developer's change: I tried the download again, but it doesnt seem to have an accurate time remaining (it goes up as time goes on), the progress bar doesn't work, and I'm not getting a sense that I'm downloading anything...

What's new

* Added support for Android 15.
* Currently downloading ZIM files will be shown at the top in "Online" Library screen.
* Added navigation history restoring feature, which restores the previously visited pages for an opened ZIM file, when reopening the application so that users can continue reading the Book where they left off.
* Improved the opening of ZIM files from USB stick and external hard drive.
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