The official Wikipedia app for iOS helps you explore the world’s largest free knowledge project — ad-free and free of charge, forever. With 60+ million articles in nearly 300 languages, your favorite encyclopedia is always at your fingertips.
Why you’ll love this app
Free, open, and ad-free
Wikipedia is written and verified by volunteers worldwide, supported by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation. No ads, no tracking — just knowledge you can trust.
Search smarter, discover more
Find the information you need without distraction. Search across 300 languages, explore trending and breaking news through a personalized feed.
Add knowledge to your Home Screen
Use widgets for quick access to trending articles, featured content, or the “Picture of the Day,” right from your Home Screen.
Read your way
Choose from light, sepia, dark, or pure black themes. Adjust text size and image dimming for comfortable reading anytime, anywhere.
Explore nearby places
Learn about landmarks and locations near you — or places you dream of visiting — through map-based article discovery.
Stay connected offline
Save articles to custom reading lists and access them offline — perfect for travel or learning without internet access.
Share and continue seamlessly
Share articles and images with friends, or use Handoff to keep reading across your Apple devices.
Get insights into your activity
See your own reading and contribution activity on Wikipedia with personalized insights that help you understand and celebrate how you use engage with Wikipedia.
Stay organized with tabs
Open multiple articles in tabs and switch between them with ease, just like in a browser. Compare topics, keep your place, and dive deeper without losing track.
Join the conversation
Read and reply to article discussion pages, and get notifications when discussions you follow are updated.
Contribute on the go
Manage your Watchlist to help keep Wikipedia accurate and up to date.
Additional Information
Feedback: In the app, go to Settings → Send app feedback.
Contribute to translations: https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:WikimediaMobile
Source code: https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-ios-wikipedia
Privacy Policy: https://m.wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy
Terms of Use: https://m.wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use
About the Wikimedia Foundation: https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Wikipedia has been answering our big and small questions since its introduction in 2001. With information in nearly 300 supported languages, you’ll be able to find facts in the lingo you like.
I love Wikipedia, but recently it has been very irritating to use
SpicyBolognaBazinga
I absolutely adore the Wikipedia app, it makes it a lot easier for me to just open the app and start reading whatever, it’s fun to read and view some pictures along the way… if only they loaded. Ive been using this app for quite a while, I think about a year now, everything was flawless and perfect, no complaints. But recently the app just started to collapse in a strange way. First it was that some images just refused to load on articles, but now it’s entire articles that don’t load, and even more images refuse to load. I don’t know if it’s just my phone that is old (iPhone 12 Pro Max), but, as of this week, whenever I try to open an article, most of the time it just won’t load and won’t let me in for like a good minute until I lose my interest. When I do load into an article, most of the images wouldn’t be loaded and won’t be loaded and spit out error messages instead. I was actually thinking of just uninstalling the app and using the website… but it felt so nice before these glitches began to occur. Please do something about this, I’m still holding hope for the Wikipedia app. Once it gets fixed, I’ll give it 5 stars, but until then I’ll have to leave it at that, sorry.
Other languages
Yuri_241876468
There used to be opportunity to read an article in other languages. Not anymore. Why? It was a nice feature. When I wrote this they’ve responded and said that there was still an icon to do so. My bad. Thank you!
Developer Response
Hi Yuri! You can still access other languages by tapping on the 'language' icon in the article toolbar. It is second from the left in LTR languages. Hope that this helps!
Best app in App Store
SerPisklov
It’s the most useful app ever! I’ve been using Wikipedia for about 10 years and I finally have downloaded it on my iPhone!!! Love it! Peace!
Minor updates and enhancements
Version 2026.08.11
The developer, Wikimedia Foundation, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based, for example, on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
