Articles app for iPhone and iPad

4.4 ( 6464 ratings )

Reference Education
Developer: Sophia Teutschler

Free

Current version: 2.6.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 01 Apr 2010
App size: 17.52 Mb

Articles is a beautiful Wikipedia reader for your iPad, iPad mini, iPhone and iPod touch.

Just enter a search term and let Articles find the Wiki entry you are looking for. Use the integrated maps feature to learn about interesting places and historic events around your current location, or anywhere else in the world. Or simply shake your device and let Articles find an entry for you. Mark interesting entries you want to read in the future and search text in the currently open document.

- Apple Design Award 2010 Winner
- App of the Week in the United States, Germany, United Kingdom and many other countries
- Best Reference App at the 2010 and 2011 Best App Ever Awards
- OReilly App Smackdown: Best App for Wikipedia

"Wikipedia is free on the web, right? Why spend even a couple bucks to wrap it in an app. The answer is interface. You can do far more, far more easily, with a native app than you can do with a web page." –Rene Ritchie, iMore

"There are a bunch of dedicated Wikipedia iPhone apps, and there are several I like. But I like Articles best. It’s fast, it looks great (including the formatting of articles), and it has a very clever MobileSafari-inspired UI." –John Gruber, Daring Fireball

Tips & Tricks:
- Double-tap (and hold) on the article to display the Chapter Index control.
- Tap the status bar to scroll back to the search bar.
- Pinch the article view to increase or decrease the text size.
- Tap-and-hold a link to open an article in a new page.
- Tap and hold on text to copy and paste article content.
- Tap and hold on links and images to reveal more actions.

Additionally on iPhone and iPod touch:
- Tap and hold the Toolbar to start customizing all items.
- Pull down the article view to lock or unlock the current screen orientation.
- Shake your device to open a random article.

Pros and cons of Articles app for iPhone and iPad

Articles app good for

Sophia nous prouve encore une fois son grand talent. Je suis fan de son travail. Bravo encore une fois !

Awesome app - especially love that it lets you switch between different language versions of Wikipedia very smoothly.

Articles is an amazing application. Its so beautiful and functional. I could easily spend hours reading Wikipedia pages using this app. Keep up the awesome work, Sophia.

Ive had the iPhone version of this app since release, and as a recent iPad owner, Ive been using that one until Sophia announced the price drop today. A beautiful app and a great way to read Wikipedia. My one gripe is that its missing the section navigation from the iPhone version, so while its great for browsing, it can be tedious to find a specific piece of information in a long article.

I have been using Articles on first my iPod Touch and now on iPhone 4 since the day it was released (and I consider it the best Wikipedia app for iPhone/iPod). So of course as soon as I got an iPad, I had to get Articles for iPad as well. It is by far the most elegant Wikipedia app out there. The addition of table of contents (for each article) and language picker (to match iPhone/iPod version) makes it now perfect. If definitively deserves all FIVE stars!

Totally awesome. Use it all the time. You will not be disappointed. Nice formatting and easy to use.

Some bad moments

As many users have stated before, the app is useful but lacks the proper UI and feels like a relict of old times. Even peculiar so, the developers still advertise the app as a app design winner.

Use Mac mini page as a test, the last table is cut off on the right side in portrait mode even scrolling to the most, table has no lines, there is no setting option at all, no font and size change, please improve I will add more stars.

This Is not worth 4.99 it does not even show all the content from Wikipedia. Some photos are left out. It has errors when loading also. Save the money and download discover which is much better. Or better yet just use safari. I will say that the tabbed browsing is good but once again......browser can do that.

Articles crashed when the number of bookmarks became large. Developers solution? Reinstall and lose all my bookmarks (which took hours to enter). No thanks. Ill stick with Safari.

This is a well designed app (well except for the overly busy icon), but suffers from the same problems Wikipedia on the web suffers from, which is to say a very, very poor search capability. On the web, you can just use Google and add "wiki" to whatever you are searching for to get around the many failures of Wikipedias built-in search. Here there is no such option unfortunately. It does that thing that Wikipedia on the web does where it assumes your search terms are for a title of a page, even though no one in their right mind is ever searching for an exact page title. So often you waste a huge amount of time trying to guess the exact title of a page that *may* exist when you should be allowed to just enter some text and have the search engine figure out the closest match. In the app, there are actually buttons to select between searching for text and searching for page titles, but its not clear at all which of these is actually active at any given time (extremely bad graphics there). They also regularly just dont work. You can select either one and search for text, and *both* will return the "no page with that title" error, even though as you are typing you can see multiple pages coming up that actually *do* have the text you are looking for and even some with the title you are looking for.

LAZY IOS7 UPDATE CONSISTING OF ONE UGLY ICON. What a waste, I loved this app, one of the few apps allowed on my home screen, but now Im going to delete it and have to buy another one. What a mess. UPDATE: check out an app called Codex its a clean iOS7 Wikipedia reader. I have replaced Articles with it and it works great.

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