Help
Welcome to Kiwix!
What do you need help with?
What is Kiwix?
Kiwix allows you to enjoy web content offline (without any access to internet). It's a software that was originally intended to make Wikipedia available offline, but it is potentially suitable for all HTML content.
Kiwix is a Free Software licensed under the GPL3 which means you can freely distribute and share it with other people.
FAQ
Here are answers to some common questions about Kiwix:
- Why is Kiwix not available for PPC Macs?
- Where can I find new content?
- Is it possible to update a ZIM file?
- How can I build a ZIM file by myself?
- And more questions ...
What is Library?
The Library is a place that you can organize your .ZIM files and see file details. You can load a specific .ZIM file or remove it from your library. You can also search for newly available .ZIM files and then download them in one click.
You will need the Library if you want to switch between your installed .ZIM file files. For instance, if you are using the English Wikipedia ZIM content and want to read an article of French Wikipedia, you should load the latter ZIM file from your Library.
Where to start from?
Kiwix is generally distributed and bundled with a content package. This package may be the content from Wikipedia, Ubuntu documentation or any other online content built for Kiwix.
You'll see the Help page (the current page) after launching Kiwix and at the program start-up unless you have installed a content package before. If you already have content packages you should see the content's default page.
Kiwix content packages, called ZIM files, do not belong to Kiwix. The ZIM file format was created by the OpenZIM project, while Kiwix focuses on the offline content of Wikipedia and you can see the more information about the ZIM files of Wikipedia in this page.
User guide
Kiwix is a user-friendly software. It works like the ordinary web-browsers and has similar functions.
You can navigate in pages, change the appearance of the program, save or print pages, copy-paste pages, or search for specific phrases in the text of a page. There are also many other functions.
Contact us!
- Give us feedback or ideas
- Report a bug or request a feature
- Email: contact (at) kiwix.org
- Jabber: kelson (at) kiwix.org
- IRC: #kiwix on irc.freenode.net join or use the web interface