Wiki App Reviews

Works just as intended. Very flush navigation and ease of access to previously viewed articles.

We should be able to bookmark and since we have theses articles we might as well have folders

What I am *really* liking about Wiki Squared is the focus it gives me on Wikipedia. I have bookmarked the same sets of articles multiple times in multiple ways on my computer with the intention of using them as a reference. But Wikipedia is so vast, and the links take me far afield, and soon I'm lost with 30 tabs open, and I never really get to my research. Bookmarks are difficult and static. With Wiki Squared, I have an organized subset of Wikipedia on my iPad. The keywords allow me to group and access the pages easily. I especially like that the pages are automatically brought locally resident. It all works seamlessly. Access Wikipedia like normal, and every page you access is brought local to the device. Keywords are a great way to organize them. As you view each article, you can easily assign any or all of your existing keywords or create new keywords as the need arises. As you choose a keyword from the list, it moves to the assigned stack and disappears from the potential stack. Very clear. Tap, tap, tap, and you are organized. The article titles are shown in an index. One can view the index in alphabetical order or in chronological order. From the index one can use keywords to narrow and focus the search. As one crawls through Wikipedia, and the articles are brought local, you can use the page forward and page back icons to quickly navigate through your pages. No more long line of open tabs. Since the articles are local, they are never lost and you can easily navigate to them again. Articles that are of fleeting or no interest can be easily pruned off the top of the chronological history. For me, the "Keep track of where I go and save it all, and I'll clean it up later" works better than "Do I want to remember this article or not, and do I need to take an action before I lose it?" The latter is how I've always had to use Wikipedia before Wiki Squared, and it always left me with a lost hopeless feeling as I wandered the vastness of Wikipedia. I have long lists of dusty bookmarks on my computer that I may or may not be interested in viewing again. With Wiki Squared, the articles that remain after I do a little pruning are the ones I value, and they are easy to organize, find and view. The developer is active and responsive. I have had the opportunity to exchange emails with the developer, and I get the sense that this is a vibrant and growing application with a great future. Wiki Squared has revolutionized the way I use Wikipedia, and I highly recommend it. Randy

I have always liked Wikipedia. I was using my iPhone version of Wikipedia until I spotted this new iPad version. I gladly paid the $0.99 if nothing more but to support this great reference media. However, I do like the new version and highly recommend.

I like the closed browser interface. It would be nice if you could save and print the articles.

cannot tap in the in-text links. words capacity are shorter than original wikipedia. and no word sugestions for a word formed by series of words.

I love this app! So what if I have to look stuff up again, because it don't hurt my fingers to type in the search box again. I would like to see a way to increase the font size, however.

The main reason I got this application was because it seem to have a good index when I first got it. Now that they disables yesterday, I'm going to be looking for something somewhere else. Thanks, Scott Perry

I buy wiki2- Wikipedia reader for iPad so far is look great App that is why I give a 3 Stars for now. The only problem I have is I donor have any pictures show up in my IPad 2. Someone can tell me what I need to do to be able to see the Pictures? Sincerely, Thierry.

Like I said, not so great

No disappointments so far. It does everything I want it to.

Formats the information from Wikipedia better than accessing it via Safari.

In true Wikipedia style, very authoritative and complete in it's coverage on every subject i've investigated. Plus it allows You keep everything You look up at your fingertips.

For this to be considered a valid, and useful app, the index really needs to be fixed.

This is a great app. Wonderful for reading when there is no internet available (airports, car trips, mass transit). Like everything else it is a work in progress. I would gladly pay significantly more than $0.99 for a little added functionality. It is also still a little buggy (crashed twice in about 1 hour of use). I would like to store pages in related groups. It would be really nice to store pages in folders much like the iOS Mail application allows you to move mail to folders (yes, I realize that this might require a companion application on an OS-10 machine to create the folders). It would be nice to have a button that would allow me to email to a friend and the email would go out when an internet connection was made. It would also be nice if touch gestures were supported (eg: resize text with a pinch). But overall, if you like Wikipedia you will love this app.

There is not much surprise. it looks like you get exactly the same Wikipedia you can get online with the same pictures and everything. it s not perfect, like you can t enlarge the writing but you know , for one dollar you get an entire encyclopedia which you can look at whenever you don t have the Internet connection and I say this is good value for the money.

An ok app, but really doesn't offer much more than browsing with Safari. Its main advantage is caches articles. There are other Wikipedia browsers out there that do far more for the same price. Sorry.

This app is really amazing ..!!!

The app seems to work OK. However, there is an annoying message each time I open it that tells me the app crashed. No matter which of the three choices it gives, it still appears upon opening.

I love wikipedia, but sometimes I want to go back to articles I've read when I'm offline, on an airplane or otherwise disconnected. Wiki2 fills this gap nicely. However, It still needs a few more features: -Adjustable font size -Pre-fetch related articles -Heck, why not preload the top 1000 articles?

Do not buy! The developer has abandoned this app, it hasn't been updated for over a year and is now broken. Spend your money with a developer who still cares about their product.

Use this to research various items. Most items checked were very informative. Good way to find various answers to different subjects. Detail is good. Highly recommend

While I love being able to read articles offline, I would love to have an easier way to delete ones I don't want to save.

Nice, clean design. App is well thought out and delivers on it's promises. Kudos to the developers!

I use Wikipedia almost daily to expand my knowledge of non-professional information. I thought Wikki2 was the perfect delivery app until I discovered a major flaw in the recent update--the inability to close web links from entry references or external sources. After complaining twice in separate emails, I was about to give up on the apps when the creator emailed me, first, with a proposed solution (didn't work) followed by an apology and acknowledgment that it was a major snafu due to iOS5 that he would work hard and quickly to correct. That has been accomplished with the update and fix! Bravo! It has now earned a five star rating and a BIG thanks to the designer for coming through with a fix so quickly. Kudos!

I need a wiki app on my iPad. Please fix the crashes.

The issue with the "invisible paper" mentioned before was fixed by re-downloading the app at BananaGlue's direction. It's true I lost the links I had before but this was no big deal for me. So glad to have it working again! This is my absolute favorite app on the iPad! Useful research tool and makes everything look beautiful. Thanks!

Can't change font size and setting. Stores offline is very nice feature.

Nice and simple offline-reading, formats articles better then Safari. But I hope there will be more features soon.

Crashes constantly. Applied the update but still crashes.

Worst app I have ever used. Crashes constantly and the articles all disappear.

The worst app I have. No comparison between this and the real Wikipedia. Waste of time and money. Three searches of different topics brought up virtually nothing. What a disappointment.