A lightweight Android app for reading Wikipedia articles distraction-free
Supports light mode, dark mode, Material You dynamic colors and 300+ Wikipedia languages
- Fast loading: The article text is loaded before anything else, so you can get to reading, quick.
- Feed: Read the article of the day, find trending articles and get up to speed on the news with the Wikipedia Feed
- Article image: View an image of the topic from its Wikipedia page. Click on it to enlarge it and view in full-screen
- Random article: Feeling lucky? Click the random article button to read a random article
- Choose your language: Choose from over 300 languages on Wikipedia
- Save articles: Download articles to your device for offline reading
- One-handed use: Use the floating action buttons at the bottom for a complete one-handed experience
- Immersive mode: Hide UI elements while scrolling and enjoy an immersive reading experience
- Lightweight: The app starts instantly, and works smoothly
- Material Design 3: Designed according to the latest Material Design 3 guidelines
- Smooth animations: Smooth and fluent animations
- Customizable colors: Choose from light/dark themes and customize the Material 3 color palette
- Customizable font size: Choose your own comfortable font size
- Data saver: Save your limited data plan by loading text only
- Math expressions: View properly rendered mathematical expressions for easily reading mathematical articles
This project is available on Hosted Weblate for translation.
You can contribute to this project even if you are not a developer by helping in translating this project into languages you know.
- F-Droid (recommended): WikiReader is available for download on the official F-Droid app store repository. Updates on F-Droid are generally a week late. To get faster updates, you can download WikiReader from the IzzyOnDroid repository
- Obtainium (recommended): You can add this GitHub repository on Obtainium to get updates directly from GitHub releases. This is the fastest way to install and update WikiReader.
- GitHub releases: Alternatively, you can manually download and install APKs from the Releases section of this repo (This method is not recommended, use Obtainium instead).
Tip
To verify the APK downloaded from Obtainium/GitHub, use the following signing certificate fingerprints:
SHA1: B1:4E:17:93:11:E8:DB:D5:35:EF:8D:E9:FB:8F:FF:08:F8:EC:65:08
SHA256: 07:BE:F3:05:81:BA:EE:8F:45:EC:93:E4:7E:E6:8E:F2:08:74:E5:0E:F5:70:9C:78:B2:EE:67:AC:86:BE:4C:3D
The SHA256 and MD5 hashes of the individual APK files are also available in the checksum.txt
file for each release.
You can support WikiReader's development through my GitHub Sponsors page or my BuyMeACoffee page:
- Wikimedia Foundation: For providing Wikipedia, the largest and most-read reference work in history, for free
- All the Wikipedia volunteers, contributors and donors
This app was made possible by the following libraries:
- Retrofit 2 - REST APIs
- OkHttp - Networking
- Coil - Loading images from the web
- MaterialKolor - For custom color themes
- ComposeCharts - For the view-count history graph in the feed
- Latex2Unicode - For converting math into Unicode text
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