WebArchives

A web archives viewer Source

Description

A web archives viewer offering the ability to browse offline millions of articles from large community projects such as Wikipedia or Wikisource.

Features:

List recently opened web archives
List available local web archives
List of web archives available to download
Print a page
Night mode (Darkreader)
Zoom controls
Search in page
History
Bookmarks
Search a page
Keyboard shortcuts
Multi-windows
Multi-tabs
Random page
Sandboxed pages (Pages are isolated from the web)
Ask for confirmation when opening an external link
Handle the opening of zim files from external applications (Nautilus...)

Source

Notice

Only supports ZIM files, but works pretty great!

Project links:

Links to (pages with) screenshots:

Rating

Mobile Fit: 5

Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!

Project status: released

This project has been developed so far, that its authors felt confident enough to create a release.

The project repository was created on 2017-11-17.

The last known commit happened on 2025-03-17.
Please note: This information is not updated continuously. This particular listing was last updated on 2025-03-31

Packaging

Get it on Flathub!

Install as flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.birros.WebArchives.flatpakref

Build and install your own flatpak: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/birros/web-archives/master/build-aux/flatpak/com.github.birros.WebArchives.yml

If you're lucky*, you can install this app by just hitting this button:

Install

* You need to have an appstream:// handler, e.g., GNOME Software or KDE Discover, installed and the app needs to be available in a configured software repository, more details.

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Licensing and technical details

License: GPL-3.0-or-later Metadata: CC0-1.0

Frameworks: GTK3 libhandy

Programming languages: Vala

Build system: meson

AppStream Metadata URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/birros/web-archives/master/data/appdata/com.github.birros.WebArchives.appdata.xml.in