Features
Kiwix provides over a rich range of features to help you to get, appreciate and share the content of your wishes.
It would be long and boring to list them all, here are the most important one...
Portable
Kiwix is a portable application; you don't need to install in order to use it. You can copy the Kiwix directory and put it wherever you want: your hard disk, your USB flash drive or a DVD. If you want a better integration in your system, an additional installer is mostly provided.
Kiwix supports a wide range of systems and architectures. You can use it with all main desktop operating systems like Microsft Windows, Apple Mac OSX and GNU/Linux compatibles personal computers. On GNU/Linux, many distributions provide packages of Kiwix.
Kiwix is a really tiny and compatible software, you can install it on pretty old computers. You can also use it on less common devices like the Raspbperry Pi or plug computers.
Library
Kiwix has it own library which allows you to gather in one view all the content. Each content is listed with its meta data and you can easily open or remove it. Sorting, filtering and searching features help you to find quickly the content you want to find.
The library provides a practicable view over the online catalog, you can download a new content in one click. This is the easier and most secure way to complete your own local library with content coming from the Internet. At each start, Kiwix will check for new content and update online and notify you about new content available.
- bookmarks
- Notes
- HTML rendering
- Tabs
- Fully Localised, work with non-latin languages
- history
- zoom
- shortcuts
Search: find whatever you want in a few seconds
- find in page
- suggestion
- full text search
Open: because we want to keep you free
- open format
- bittorrent
- open source
- HTTP server
- Integrated
- Standalone
- use case
Last but not least...
- Desktop integration (icon, drag&drop)
- Console tools
- nice gadgets (revert video, random article, fullscreen)
See also