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WikiReader

A lightweight Android app for reading Wikipedia articles distraction-free

Supports light mode, dark mode, Material You dynamic colors and 300+ Wikipedia languages

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Fast loading: The article text is loaded before anything else, so you can get to reading,

quick.

Feed: Read the article of the day, find trending articles and get up to speed on the news with

the Wikipedia Feed

Article image: View an image of the topic from its Wikipedia page. Click on it to enlarge it

and view in full-screen

Random article: Feeling lucky? Click the random article button to read a random article
Choose your language: Choose from over 300 languages on Wikipedia
Save articles: Download articles to your device for offline reading
One-handed use: Use the floating action buttons at the bottom for a complete one-handed

experience

Immersive mode: Hide UI elements while scrolling and enjoy an immersive reading experience
Lightweight: The app starts instantly, and works smoothly
Material 3 Expressive: Designed according to the latest Material 3 Expressive design

guidelines

Smooth animations: Smooth and fluent animations
Customizable colors: Choose from light/dark themes and customize the Material 3 color palette
Customizable font size: Choose your own comfortable font size
Data saver: Save your limited data plan by loading text only
Math expressions: View properly rendered mathematical expressions for easily reading

mathematical articles

This project is available on Hosted Weblate for translation.

You can contribute to this project even if you are not a developer by helping in translating this project into languages you know.

official F-Droid app store repository. Updates on F-Droid are generally a week late. To get faster updates, you can download WikiReader from the IzzyOnDroid repository

on Obtainium to get updates directly from GitHub releases. This is the fastest way to install and update WikiReader.

GitHub releases: Alternatively, you can manually download and install APKs from

the Releases section of this repo (This method is not recommended, use Obtainium instead).

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To verify the APK

downloaded from Obtainium/GitHub, use the following signing certificate fingerprints:

> SHA1: B1:4E:17:93:11:E8:DB:D5:35:EF:8D:E9:FB:8F:FF:08:F8:EC:65:08


> SHA256: 07:BE:F3:05:81:BA:EE:8F:45:EC:93:E4:7E:E6:8E:F2:08:74:E5:0E:F5:70:9C:78:B2:EE:67:AC:86:BE:4C:3D
>

The SHA256 and MD5 hashes of the individual APK files are also available in the checksum.txt

file for each release.

You can support WikiReader's development through my GitHub Sponsors page or my BuyMeACoffee page:

providing Wikipedia, the largest and most-read reference work in history, for free

This app was made possible by the following libraries:

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