A number of organizations within the Wikimedia movement including the

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. All are available via the appropriate

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), KaiOS App Directory. They can also be downloaded independently of any third-party store from the Wikimedia Foundation's releases website, which also keeps old and beta versions.

Official apps

Wikimedia Foundation

Wikipedia apps from the Wikimedia Foundation are called "Wikipedia".

Android

The Android app allows editing articles directly from the app. It is available on Play Store, Galaxy Store,

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, Cafe Bazaar,

, and GetJar.

iOS

The

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app also provides a read and write version of Wikipedia, similar to the . It allows users to share an article via Facebook and other social websites. It also allows users to find geotagged articles near their current location. It does not allow users to see categories or see the normal desktop version.

Windows

The Metro-style app provides a read-only version of Wikipedia, similar to the mobile web version. The app when used in Windows RT is incapable of showing moving pictures.

KaiOS

The KaiOS app was released in April 2024.

Kiwix

Kiwix has developed a number of offline apps based on Wikipedia content.

Unassociated apps

These apps were mainly developed to display articles and are often used on platforms for which an official Wikipedia app was not formerly available, such as

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. Typical features include searching for articles, bookmarks, sharing, or enlarging

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Related apps

A number of apps for Wikipedia's sister projects exist. These include the Wiki Loves Monuments app, written for a 2012 photo contest, as an aid for Wikiphotographers. It shows a map of nearby national heritage register items, indicating whether Wikipedia had a photo for the site, and enabling quick and easy photo uploads for camera phones. It is not integrated with the official article display app. A

Wikivoyage Wikivoyage is a free web-based travel guide for travel destinations and travel topics written by volunteer authors. It is a sister project of Wikipedia and supported and hosted by the same non-profit Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). Wikivoyage has ...

app serves as a pocket travel guide. There is an Android app for

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page. There is also an Android app for

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, although it is no longer supported and has not been updated since August 2013.

References

External links

* Wikimedia Apps - Project page for the official Wikipedia mobile apps on the

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