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It is possible to access and edit [[Wikipedia]] on multiple types of devices, such as [[desktop computers]], [[tablet computer|tablet]]s and [[smartphone]]s, through several different methods, including [[#Older phones|options for older devices]], [[#Official mobile apps|modern apps for various platforms]] and [[#Offline access|options to view content while offline]]. This is intended for those who want to read and [[Wikipedia:Editing on mobile devices|edit on the go]]. As of September 2025, 63% of page views on English Wikipedia are from mobile devices.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wikistats - Statistics For Wikimedia Projects |url=https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/reading/total-page-views/normal%7Cbar%7C2-year%7Caccess~desktop*mobile-app*mobile-web%2B(agent)~user%7Cmonthly |access-date=2025-10-24 |website=stats.wikimedia.org |quote=Wikimedia page views for en.wikipedia.org in September 2025 where type is user (exclude bots/spiders): desktop 2.3 million, mobile web: 4.4 million, mobile app: 0.2 million.}}</ref>

A toggle switch between mobile and desktop view is available at the bottom of every page.

Official applications can be found at:
[[File:Download on the App Store RGB blk.svg|120px|link=https://apps.apple.com/app/wikipedia/id324715238?mt=8|alt=Download Wikipedia on the App Store (iOS)]]
[[File:Google Play Store badge EN.svg|120px|link=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia|alt=Get Wikipedia on Google Play (Android)]]
[[File:"Get it on F-droid" Badge.png|120px|link=https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.wikipedia/|alt=Get Wikipedia on F-Droid (Android)]]

== Official mobile version ==
[[File:Firefox for Android 145.0 screenshot.webp|thumb|Mobile Wikipedia on Firefox for Android]]
The mobile version of Wikipedia is located at '''https://en.m.wikipedia.org'''.

Users of supported mobile devices are automatically redirected to the official mobile version of Wikipedia (this can be overridden by clicking the desktop-view button at the bottom of the page, after which the device will no longer be automatically redirected to the mobile site).
* Supported: [[iOS]], [[Android (operating system)|Android]], [[Opera Mini]].
;Tablets
Tablets are served a [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/06/17/wikimedia-sites-get-a-new-look-on-tablets/ slightly modified version] of the mobile site, which makes use of the larger screen size to, e.g., show a table of contents and display all article sections open by default.

=== Interface options ===
{{See|Wikipedia:Editing on mobile devices|mw:Reading/Web/Advanced mobile contributions}}
This mobile version is available for all languages of Wikipedia. It is [[mw:Reading/Web/Mobile|actively developed]], supported and translated. It supports editing; visit any article and you'll see a pencil icon on every section. Anyone, including those who are not logged in, can use the mobile editor. You can also check your [[Wikipedia:Watchlist|watchlist]] on mobile, add/remove articles from it, and more. If you don't want to use the mobile version, you can find options at the bottom of every page to switch to the desktop version.

=== Older phones ===
====Legacy browsers====
Legacy mobile browsers that were fairly advanced during their time, such as NetFront (2.3), should be able to browse the Wikipedia Mobile version without too much effort. Depending on a phone's capabilities, it may be advisable to turn images and JavaScript off.

==== Opera Mini ====
[[File:Opera Mini using the new interface for Wikipedia mobile.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Wikipedia mobile on Opera Mini 5]]

Older featurephones' native browsers commonly have limited functionality and are outdated. If your phone is [[Java Platform, Micro Edition|Java ME]]-capable, you might consider installing [[Opera Mini]], a Java ME-based Internet browser for mobile phones. Some phones have Opera Mini built-in, and may only require setting the browser up for use. Opera Mini works by sending a request to Opera's servers, which return a compressed and stripped-down page to the phone. Depending on version, Opera Mini is often more functional and up-to-date than the native browser supplied with the phone. Opera Mini has a built-in Wikipedia search facility.
* '''[http://www.opera.com/mobile/mini Opera Mini website]''' &mdash; Various versions are on offer to match the capabilities of a particular phone.

== Official mobile apps ==
{{shortcut|H:MOBILEAPP}}
{{main|mw:Wikimedia Apps}}
{{See|List of Wikipedia mobile applications#Wikimedia Foundation}}

===Android===
{{shortcut|WP:ANDROID}}
{{main|mw:Wikimedia Apps/Android FAQ|l1=Wikimedia:Android Wikipedia app FAQ}}
{{Redirect|WP:ANDROID|the Android WikiProject|Wikipedia:WikiProject Android}}
The [[Android (operating system)|Android]] app allows editing articles directly from the app. It has limited capability to show categories and talk pages. It is also available on [[F-Droid]]. 

* [[File:Google Play Store badge EN.svg|x38px|link=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia|alt=Get Wikipedia on Google Play (Android)]]
* [[File:"Get it on F-droid" Badge.png|x38px|link=https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.wikipedia/|alt=Get Wikipedia on F-Droid (Android)]]

An '''[[Commons:Commons:Mobile app|Android app]] for [[Wikimedia Commons]]''' is also [https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons community maintained] on [[GitHub]]. There is an '''Android app for [[Wiktionary]]''', although it is no longer supported and has not been updated since August 2013.

=== iOS ===
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{{main|mw:Wikimedia Apps/iOS FAQ|l1=Wikimedia:iOS Wikipedia app FAQ}}
The [[iOS]] app also provides a read and write version of Wikipedia, similar to the {{self-reference link|Help:Mobile access|mobile web version}}. It allows users to share an article via Facebook and other social websites. It also allows users to find [[geotagging|geotagged]] articles near their current location. It does not allow users to see categories, nor to see the normal desktop version.
* [[File:Download on the App Store RGB blk.svg|x40px|link=https://apps.apple.com/app/wikipedia/id324715238?mt=8|alt=Download on the App Store (iOS)]]

=== KaiOS ===
The official [[mediawikiwiki:Wikipedia for KaiOS|Wikipedia for KaiOS]] app provides a read-only version of Wikipedia. [[KaiOS]] is a web-based mobile operating system for modern smart feature phones. It is a successor of the discontinued Firefox OS and popular in many regions.
* [https://www.kaiostech.com/store/apps/?bundle_id=kaios.app.wikipedia Get it on KaiStore]

== Third-party applications ==
{{Further|List of Wikipedia mobile applications}}

=== iOS apps ===
Many [[iOS]] apps exist for browsing Wikipedia. Besides the mobile version of the site, the only app capable of editing Wikipedia is the official one.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name
! Price
! Open source
! Notes

|-
| [https://apps.apple.com/app/wikipanion/id288349436?mt=8 Wikipanion]
| {{sort|$0.00|{{free|Free}}}}
| {{No}}
|
|-
|[https://apps.apple.com/app/wikipanion-plus/id290613987?mt=8 Wikipanion Plus]
| {{nonfree|$4.99}}
| {{No}}
|
|-
|[https://apps.apple.com/app/minipedia-offline-wiki-wikipedia-reader/id473512078?mt=8 Minipedia – Offline Wiki]
| {{sort|$0.00|{{free|Free}}}}
| {{No}}
| Contains the 100,000 most read articles; multilanguage support: English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish
|-
|[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/miniwiki/id1448143759 MiniWiki]
| {{sort|$0.00|{{free|Free}}}}
|{{No}}
| Allows browsing Wikipedia on the [[Apple Watch]]
|}

===<span lang="ar" dir="rtl">Android</span> apps ===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name
! Open source
! Notes

|-
| [https://github.com/nsh07/WikiReader WikiReader]
| {{Yes}}
| 
|-
| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nebulium.wiki EveryWiki for Android]
| 
| Seems unavailable
|-
| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile Kiwix Offline viewer]
| {{Yes}}
| See details in offline section
|}

==Tags==
{{shortcut|WP:MOBILETAGS|WP:MOBILEEDITTAGS}}
{{Further|Special:Tags}}
{{See also|Wikipedia:Mobile communication bugs}}

The Wikimedia software adds [[Wikipedia:Tags|tags]] to certain edits in the history, when the edit is performed on a mobile device or using one of the mobile apps. Here are some of them (tags aimed at Talk page edits not included):

* advanced mobile edit – edit made by user with advanced mode 
* android app edit – edits made from mobile app for android
* app-ai-assist – edits from the mobile apps that were machine assisted
* app-description-add – short descriptions added from the mobile apps
* app-description-change – short descriptions modified from the mobile apps
* app-full-source – edit made from article full source editor in the mobile apps
* app-image-add-infobox – image added to the infobox from the mobile apps
* app-image-add-top – image added to the top of the article from the mobile apps
* app-image-caption-add – image captions added from the mobile apps
* app-image-tag-add – image tags added from the mobile apps
* app-rollback – rollback actions made from the mobile apps
* app-section-source – edit made from article section source editor in the mobile apps
* app-select-source – edit made from selecting an article word in the mobile apps
* app-suggestededit – edits made with the suggested edits feature in the mobile apps
* app-undo – undo actions made from the mobile apps
* ios app edit -	edits made from mobile app for ios
* mobile app edit – edits made from mobile apps
* mobile edit – for edits made from a mobile device
* mobile web edit – edit made from mobile website

==Desktop access<span class="anchor" id="Desktop version access"></span>==
The desktop version of English Wikipedia is located at '''{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org}}'''

If a browser is installed for general use, it can be used to access the general Wikipedia site, also for editing, depending on limitations of the browser. A toggle switch between mobile and desktop view is available at the bottom of every page. [[Help:User style|User styles]] and [[Help:Preferences|preferences]] can be adapted to customize and optimize user interfaces for mobile devices. For example, [[Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups|navigation popups]] may or may not be convenient on mobile devices.

===Metro-style===
{{see also|List of Wikipedia mobile applications}}
[[Metro-style app]]s provides a read-only version of Wikipedia, similar to the mobile web version. The app when used in [[Windows RT]] is incapable of showing [[GIF|moving pictures]].

* '''[https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/application-management/apps-in-windows-10 Index of Windows 10 apps]'''

== Media ==
Media can be controlled with the keyboard. {{Keypress|F}} toggles fullscreen, {{Keypress|m}} toggles mute and both {{Keypress|k}} and {{Keypress|Space}} toggle between playing and pausing the media.

The following mobile browsers can play video and audio files on Wikipedia (browsers not listed here are not supported at all):<ref>[[mw:Extension:TimedMediaHandler/ogv.js]]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://caniuse.com/?search=webm|title="webm" &#124; Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc|website=caniuse.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://caniuse.com/?search=ogg|title="ogg" &#124; Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc|website=caniuse.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://knowledge.kaltura.com/help/kaltura-player-supported-browsers-devices|title=Kaltura Player Supported Browsers / Devices &#124; Kaltura Knowledge Center|website=knowledge.kaltura.com}}</ref>
{|class=wikitable
!Browser
!Audio
!Video / WebM
|-
| [[File:Safari-icon-1024.png|24px]] Safari 6.1-11
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|-
| [[File:Safari-icon-1024.png|24px]] Safari 12-17.3
|{{yes}}
|{{partial}}<ref group="media-notes" name="safari">Video playback is only supported with Javascript decoding, which can be a bit slow. Unfortunately Apple did not support native hardware based decoding of VP8 and/or VP9, the video codecs which [[MediaWiki]] software uses and supports.</ref>
|-
| [[File:Safari-icon-1024.png|24px]] Safari 17.4+
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|-
|[[File:Internet Explorer 10+11 logo.svg|24px]] IE 9-11 (Windows 7/8/8.1/10)
|{{yes}}
|{{partial|Installable}}
|-
| [[File:Internet Explorer 10+11 logo.svg|24px]] IE 10/11 (Windows RT)
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|-
| [[File:Microsoft Edge logo.svg|24px]] Edge (Windows 10 PC/Tablet)
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|-
| [[File:Microsoft Edge logo.svg|24px]] Edge (Windows 10 Mobile)
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|-
| [[File:Opera browser logo 2013.png|24px]] Opera mini (all versions)
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|-
| [[File:Samsung Internet logo.svg|24px]] Android browser 4.4
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|-
| [[File:Samsung Internet logo.svg|24px]] Android browser 5.6+
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|-
|[[File:Opera browser logo 2013.png|24px]] Opera mobile 15
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|-
|[[File:Opera browser logo 2013.png|24px]] Opera mobile 62
|{{yes}}
|{{partial}}
|-
|[[File:Chrome-512.png|24px]] Chrome for Android 89+
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|-
|[[File:Firefox logo, 2019.svg|24px]] Firefox for Android 86+
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|-
| UC Browser for Android 12+
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|-
| [[File:Samsung Internet logo.svg|24px]] Samsung Internet 5+
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|}
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=== Audio ===
A computer-generated audio ([[speech synthesis]]) version of all Wikipedia articles is provided by the Pediaphon service. It is usable on- and off-line with common [[MP3]] players, [[Personal digital assistant|PDA]]s, and with every phone via voice call. Pediaphon can be used as a [[location-based service]].
* '''[http://www.pediaphon.org/~bischoff/radiopedia/index_en.html Pediaphon]'''

== E-readers ==

[[Amazon Kindle]]s have access to Wikipedia content via the Kindle software's built-in web browser. All content is shown in black-and-white (all colored images and graphs are converted); this is a limitation of the Kindle's display hardware.  Animation support is also poor, and some rendering bugs exist, such as a tendency for random portions of reference lists to become invisible.

The [http://wiki-as-ebook.sourceforge.net/ Wiki-as-Ebook] project provides massive encyclopaedias for E-Book-readers created from a large set of Wikipedia articles (commercial; 2013). Colored images are converted to grayscale.

==Offline access ==
{{see also|meta:Offline Projects|Wikipedia:Database download}}
[[File:Kiwix on Android Tablet.png|thumb|Kiwix on an Android-powered tablet]]
Offline access to English Wikipedia can be done in many ways.

'''[[Kiwix]]''' ([https://kiwix.org/ official website]) uses the [[ZIM (file format)|openZIM]] format to view Wikipedia offline. Apps are available on [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile Google Play], [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kiwix/id997079563?mt=8 Apple's iOS App Store], and many others. As well as the complete English Wikipedia, it is possible to download other content such as [[Medical Wikipedia]] and [[PhET]] simulations.
;Or
Try one of the other external applications listed below which allow you to download a copy of Wikipedia's database and then view, search, and browse it offline.
* [[XOWA]]: ([[Wikipedia:Database download#XOWA|instructions]])
* aarddict: ([[Wikipedia:Database download#Aard Dictionary|instructions]])
* BzReader (for Windows): ([[Wikipedia:Database download#BzReader and MzReader (for Windows)|instructions]])
* WikiTaxi (for Windows): ([[Wikipedia:Database download#WikiTaxi (for Windows)|instructions]])

;Database dumps
The Wikipedia database can be downloaded [[Wikipedia:Database download|here]], but you will need to set up a [[web server]], [[PHP]], [[MySQL]] and our wiki software, [[mw:|MediaWiki]], to make use of it. English Wikipedia dumps in SQL and XML: {{URL|//dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/}}, [https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22enwiki%22%20AND%20subject%3A%22data%20dumps%22%20AND%20collection%3A%22wikimediadownloads%22 Internet Archive], [[m:Data_dump_torrents#English_Wikipedia|BitTorrents]].

==Engineering and support ==
The mobile version is based on the [[mw:Extension:MobileFrontend|MobileFrontend extension]] of the MediaWiki software, and maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation's [[mw:Reading/Web/Team|Reading Web]] team.

Learn more about:
* The [[mw:Reading/Web/Projects|projects we are currently working on]]
**[[mw:Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions| Advanced mobile contributions]]
* Our software [[mw:Reading/Component responsibility|component responsibilities]]
* The [[mw:Reading/Web/Mobile|mobile web interface]]

Support:
* [mailto:mobile-feedback-l@lists.wikimedia.org Email], [https://twitter.com/WikimediaMobile X (formerly Twitter)], [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l Mobile-l mailing list], [[Wikipedia:IRC|IRC]]: {{irc|wikimedia-mobile}}
* [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=MobileFrontend Report a new bug] or view the [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1157/query/open/ list of known bugs]

== See also ==
{{Help desk}}
{{portal|Help}}
{{portal|Contents}}
{{Commonscat|Wikipedia on PDAs and mobile phones}}
{{MediaWiki|Extension:MobileApp}}
*[[Wikipedia:Editing on mobile devices]] (essay)
*[[User:Cullen328/Smartphone editing]] (User essay)
*[[Wikipedia:Spoken articles]]
*[[Help:Printing]]
*[[Help:Import]]
*[[Help:Downloading pages]]
*[[Help:Cascading Style Sheets]]
*[[Wikipedia:Open proxies]]
*[[Wikipedia:Dyslexic readers]]
*[[Help:Multilingual support for Android]]
*[[Help:Options to hide an image]]
*[[Template:If mobile]] – template that differentiates content based on whether the viewer is using a mobile device
*[[Template:Navbox visibility]] – details about how [[WP:NAVBOX|Navboxes]] are [[Template:Navbox visibility|not shown]] on the mobile app

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