Kiwix Alternatives for Android

There are many alternatives to Kiwix for Android if you are looking for a replacement. The best Android alternative is Wikipedia, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Kiwix and nine of them are available for Android so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Android alternatives to Kiwix are WikiReader, XOWA, Aard Dictionary and Wikimed.

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  1. Wikipedia icon
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    Free content, multilingual online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers through a model of open collaboration, using a wiki-based editing system.

    66 Wikipedia alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Samsung Galaxy Store
    • F-Droid
    • Kindle Fire
    • MediaWiki
     
  2. WikiReader icon
     13 likes

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

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  3. XOWA icon
     13 likes

    XOWA is the free, open-source application that lets you download Wikipedia to your computer. Access all of Wikipedia offline -- without an internet connection!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Raspberry Pi
     
  4. Aard Dictionary icon
     21 likes

    Dictionary and offline Wikipedia reader.

    "Aard Dictionary is a free, fast, easy to use word lookup program that

    looks up words fast even with huge dictionaries like English Wikipedia looks up words in multiple dictionaries in multiple languages without switching .

    30 Aard Dictionary alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Aard Dictionary vs Kiwix Comments
    Pilo-servusMariae
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    Use the format slob, and is very very very fast in android.

    • Aard Dictionary is Free and Open SourceKiwix is also Free and Open Source
  5. Wikimed icon
     6 likes

    With 75,000+ medical articles, WikiMed is the largest and most comprehensive collection of health-related articles available in English for offline use.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  6. Fastwiki icon
     2 likes

    Fastwiki is an Offline wikipedia software, support Linux, windows, and Android 2.1+ system, its feature is very fast search and fuzzy search, and provide convert tool that can convert all language wiki dump file by yourself on Linux platform and Windows platform.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
     
  7. WikiDroyd icon
     2 likes

    Wikipedia is probably the single largest, most comprehensive and simply best information resource out there on the Internet - a really great resource.many people though would like to have access to this giant resource when they're not plugged into the Internet.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  8. OSS-Dict icon
     1 like

    OSS-Dict is an offline dictionary reader. It is fork of Aard 2 with new Material design and updated features

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  9.  3 likes

    WikiExplorer is the most advanced Wikipedia reader app for Android devices, it presents Wikipedia articles in a clean and elegant interface, for your best reading experience.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
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