Readers

Kiwix, a full featured ZIM reader

WikiOnBoard, the perfect ZIM reader for Symbian

Kiwix for Android

Kiwix for XO

Reader softwares and hardware which support the ZIM file format.

Desktop

With user interface

• Kiwix, a software for Windows/OSX/Linux with a complete set of features.
• web-archives, an alternative ZIM reader for Gnu/Linux
• Kiwix JS Windows/Electron, a JavaScript ZIM reader for Electron/NWJS and UWP, based on Kiwix JS.
• KiWings, an alternative reader for macOS
• GoldenDict-ng, a generic dictionary software which also supports ZIM via libzim.

Without user interface / Console

• kiwix-serve, the HTTP server of the Kiwix project
  • Integration of kiwix-serve in Emacs
• ZIM tools A small set of command line tools to manipulate a ZIM file
• zimreader-java, a reader in java
• zimHttpServer.pl A pure Perl ZIM HTTP server. An improved version has been developed here and here. The latter works on big-endian architecture also.
• zimpy.py a pure Python ZIM reader
• ZIMply, another more recent Python ZIM reader
• An other reader in the Nim language (archive)
• Gozim A ZIM web-server written in Go.
• Go-zim A set of command line tools (and a web server) in Go.
• zim & ZIM.pm, command line interface (CLI), experimental Perl ZIM.pm module, web-server & RESTful endpoint for full-text search
• An ZIM to fs dump tool in Rust
• pyzim-tools, A small, very low level, implementation in python of zim reader.

Mobile

Android

• Kiwix for Android on Google Play and on F-Droid

iOS

• Kiwix for iOS on iTunes

PWA (also Windows 10 Mobile / UWP)

• Kiwix PWA - can be installed on Chrome (Android) and Safari (iOS)

• Kiwix JS Windows for Windows 10/11 Universal Windows Platform (including Mobile)

Jolla

• Zimpedia for Jolla phone and Jolla tablet.

Symbian

• unmaintained - WikiOnBoard (Source), a simple but efficient reader

Kiwix JS for browsers and Electron app

Javascript based Kiwix reader (development project):

• Firefox extension Kiwix JS
• Chrome extension Kiwix JS
• Edge extension Kiwix JS

Electron and NWJS apps (Linux, macOS, Windows):

• Kiwix Electron packages

Other

Ben NanoNote

• vido (gtk) for Ben NanoNote
• qvido (Qt) for Ben NanoNote

XO (OLPC)

• Kiwix, with almost all its feature has also a port for XO.

Offline, Illiterate

• MyCroft Artificial Intelligence
• Mozilla Deep Speech, to read an actual article
• Audio

Kobo eReader

• Kobo eReader: Common atributes

See also

• Libraries (binding and native implementations)
• Audio