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XOWA

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

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Alerts

  • Discontinued

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Android
  • Android Tablet
  • Raspberry Pi
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Discontinued

The latest version (4.6.15.2101) was released in January 2021.

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Features

  1.  Works Offline
  2.  Dark Mode
  3.  Offline Reading

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Education & Reference, News & Books

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  •  40 Forks
  •  418 Open Issues
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about XOWA, and it has gotten 13 likes

XOWA was added to AlternativeTo by piotrex on and this page was last updated .

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Top Negative Comment
norz
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Tried to install and use XOWA, but I encountered so many errors that I gave up. Errors were related to the JVM, wiki downloads failing and not resuming, etc.

I decided to give a try to Kiwix, which proved to run very well.

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Hasn't been updated since 2020.

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What is XOWA?

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

Features:

  • Download a complete, recent copy of English Wikipedia.
  • Display 5.0+ million articles in full HTML formatting.
  • Show images within an article. Access 5.0+ million images using the offline image databases.
  • Set up over 800+ other wikis.
  • Update your wiki whenever you want, using Wikimedia's database backups.
  • Navigate between offline wikis. Click on "Look up this word in Wiktionary" and instantly view the page in Wiktionary.
  • Edit articles to remove vandalism or errors.
  • Install to a flash memory card for portability to other machines.
  • Run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Raspberry Pi, and Android
  • View the HTML for any wiki page
  • Search for any page by title using a Wikipedia-like Search box
  • Browse pages by alphabetical order using Special:AllPages
  • Find a word on a page.
  • Access a history of viewed pages
  • Bookmark your favorite pages.