Kiwix
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Description
Kiwix is dedicated to providing offline access to educational content.
Kiwix makes knowledge available to people with no or limited Internet access.
Kiwix is an offline reader for content like Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, TED Talks, IFixit... and thousands of others.
Kiwix deals with highly compressed snapshots of Websites that each fit into a single (.zim) file. ZIM files are small enough that they can be stored on users’ mobile phones, computers or small, inexpensive WiFi Hotspot.
Kiwix then acts like a regular Web browser, except that it reads these local copies. People with no or limited internet access can enjoy the same browsing experience as being online.
The name “Kiwix” is a play on the word “Wiki” as it represented our initial goal of making Wikipedia accessible offline.
Kiwix is free and open-source.
Notice
Some menu items are not accessible, but it mostly works.
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Kiwix-desktop-2.4.1-wiktionary-search.png
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Kiwix-desktop-2.4.1-kiwix-server.png
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Kiwix-desktop-2.4.1-multitab-gutenberg.png
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Kiwix-desktop-2.4.1-library-med.png
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Kiwix-desktop-2.4.1-ted-bookmarks.png
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Kiwix-desktop-2.4.1-article-with-toc.png
Rating
Mobile Fit: 3Some parts of the app are not usable with touch input on small screens, even with scale-to-fit
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 2017-12-03.
The last known commit happened on 2025-03-31.
Please note: This information is not updated continuously. This particular listing was last updated on 2025-03-31
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Install as flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/org.kiwix.desktop.flatpakref
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Licensing and technical details
License: GPL-3.0-or-later Metadata: CC0-1.0
Frameworks: QtWidgets
Programming languages: JavaScript C++
Build system: qmake
AppStream Metadata URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kiwix/kiwix-desktop/master/resources/org.kiwix.desktop.appdata.xml