Wikipedia, made for reading

Read deeply.
Wander freely.

WikiReader is a quiet, beautiful way to read Wikipedia on your phone. Follow any link without losing your place, and keep every rabbit hole as a trail you can come back to.

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Free on iPhone, iPad and Android

Octopus → Ink → Tyrian purple → Byzantine Empire → Byzantine shipbuilding

You look up one thing. Two hours later, you know exactly how you got here.

The reader

A page made for long reading.

Articles are set in Literata, a typeface designed for reading on screens. Choose Paper, Night or Black, pick your text size and spacing, and let the page get out of the way.

Footnotes and citations open in place
Contents for every article
Every Wikipedia language edition

Link previews

Peek before you leap.

Tap a link and get a preview first. Read a few lines, save it for later, or follow it. Either way, you never lose your place in the article you were reading.

Reading trails

Every rabbit hole becomes a trail.

Each article remembers where you came from. Your wanderings turn into journeys with branches, so you can always find your way back.

Share a trail as a link, and a friend can follow your exact path, in the app or right in their browser. No app needed.

Focus

Read one word at a time.

Focus uses RSVP, short for rapid serial visual presentation. Normally your eyes jump across every line. In Focus they stay still, and the words come to you at 300, 500 or 700 words a minute.

You never lose the article. The section stays at the top, the article's images sit behind the words, and when a link flies by, one tap saves it to your trail.

Reading stats

Stats that feel good, without the guilt.

See your reading rhythm, where your curiosity went, the articles you keep circling, and your Focus speed. Every month you get a recap worth sharing.

No streaks. No guilt trips. Just a clear picture of what you've been reading.

Picked for you

Recommendations that tell you why.

Optional picks based on what you've read, each with the reason it was chosen. Accounts and sync are optional too, and one switch turns recommendations off.

And everything else a reader wants.

Highlights and notesMark what matters and find it again later.

Listen modeHave any article read aloud.

Every languageSwitch to any Wikipedia edition.

Foldables and tablets

At home on every screen.

WikiReader was built and tested on a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold. Unfold it and the layout opens up to fill the bigger screen. Fold it, and your article is waiting on the cover screen. It works on iPad too.