Screenshot of the version 0.9 (screencast)
Screenshot of the Kiwix internal library

Kiwix is an offline reader for web content which runs on Windows, Mac OSX, Android and GNU/Linux. It's especially thought to make Wikipedia available offline. This is done by reading the content of the project stored in a file format ZIM, a high compressed open format with additional meta-data.

  • Pure ZIM reader
  • case and diacritics insensitive full text search engine
  • Bookmarks & Notes
  • kiwix-serve: ZIM HTTP server
  • PDF/HTML export
  • Multilingual (User interface localised in more than 110 languages)
  • Search suggestions
  • Zim index capacity
  • Support for MacOSX / Linux / Windows
  • DVD/USB launcher for Windows (autorun)
  • Tabs
  • Integrated content manager/downloader
See also
  • Please be aware: in Kiwix version "0.9-beta5-win" changing the selected folder in "Preferences", the contents of that folder will be deleted if the selected folder contains files or data. Please do not use a personal folder, and make a new empty folder.