Articles App Reviews

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

App icon sooooo ugly

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

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.

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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.

Title says it.

Great way to explore wikipedia. Only thing keeping me from giving 5 stars is that when you scroll, the text seems to flicker slightly and it gets tiring on the eyes, and it often crashes when opening pictures.

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!

Its a really good app, but it could be a little snappier and multitasking for 4.2 would be great! Otherwise, its always a pleasure to make my research with Articles!

The only thing that is missing is an offline mode…

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.

Any chance you can add a night reading mode?

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

The best Wikipedia app by far. Its fast and buttery smooth, stable as far as I can tell, intuitive, it caches the "Read Later" list for offline viewing, and it looks and feels as though it were designed by Apple. Very good. It could use two features, each of which reduces its rating in my mind by one star. First and most important, font. You get a serif font and thats it. I like the simplicity and the absence of settings, but it installs a panel in the Settings app just for version and acknowledgments. Not everyone likes serif fonts and, as it really is a matter of opinion and taste, an option to change fonts (or even just switch to Helvetica!) would be appreciated. Id also like to see syncing of bookmarks, history, reading list, etc., from iPhone to iPad through iCloud. Wikibot has it and, when it works, its glorious. If you dont care about either of these, please consider my rating to be 5 stars and buy this app immediately.

Having several crashes with the latest update. When adding a bookmark to the bookmark folder,the app crashed several times. This used to be a 5* app, but the last update takes it down to a 3* iPad HD . iOS 6.1.3