Wikipedia On Your iPhone With iWik and Kiwi
By James Falconer on Sunday, September 14th, 2008 at 9:08 PM PST In Apple, iPhone
Are you a fan of Wikipedia? If you use it a lot, you may want to check out a new iPhone app that optimizes your Wikipedia experience on the iPhone. It’s called iWik, and it works really well.
Basically the app optimizes your Wikipedia experience by displaying it in perfect format for your iPhone. The iWik servers change up the content to look perfect on the iPhone display. Key features of the app include a search feature, an activity tracker, landscape viewing option, page marking, a save page feature and a whole lot more.
This app is totally worthwhile if you find yourself digging for info on Wikipedia from time to time. Might as well have the info formatted in a clear, easy to view format.
iWik is only $0.99, so it is worthwhile if you think you’ll get the use out of it. You can check it out in the App Store. There is another similar app available now that I have not checked out yet. It’s called Kiwi. It looks really good as well… and is available for $2.99 in the App Store.
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or you could just use the free app Wikipanion. Works just as well.
Wikipanion is free. Why pay if you can get the same functionality for absolutely zero cost?
I am the developer of Kiwi. The big difference with Kiwi over the other Wikipedia apps is that it allows you to save pages for offline reading. It also allows you to mark your favorite pages and view your recent history. Hopes this helps.
Cheers,
Tim R.