Readers



Reader softwares and hardware which support the ZIM file format.

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, a generic dict viewer which also support ZIM

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.

Android

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

iOS

 * Kiwix for iOS on iTunes

Windows 10 Mobile / UWP

 * Kiwix JS Windows for Windows 10 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
Javascript based Kiwix reader (development project):


 * Firefox extension Kiwix JS
 * Chrome extension Kiwix JS
 * Edge extension Kiwix JS

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