kiwings
A better alternative to Kiwix for macOS (by technusm1)
kiwix-apple
Kiwix for offline access on iOS and macOS (by kiwix)
| kiwings | kiwix-apple | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 6 | |
| 12 | 431 | |
| - | 3.0% | |
| 0.0 | 9.7 | |
| over 1 year ago | 4 days ago | |
| Swift | Swift | |
| MIT License | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
kiwings
Posts with mentions or reviews of kiwings.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-20.
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The Overflow Offline Project – Stack Overflow Blog
Nice to find Kiwix again. Shameless plug, I made my own Kiwix alternative for macOS: https://github.com/technusm1/kiwings
- KiWings - a lightweight Kiwix alternative for macOS (very beta version): try it and please report any bugs
kiwix-apple
Posts with mentions or reviews of kiwix-apple.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-20.
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Latest Wikipedia zim dump (97 GB) is available for download
No need to search, it's in the App Store. Or grab the source if you're so inclined: https://github.com/kiwix/apple
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Kiwix Apple developer is looking for iOS / macOS beta testers
See something, need something, thought of something? Open a ticket at https://github.com/kiwix/apple/issues
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Kiwix Crashing on Mac OSX when searching file
Yeah it's a known and recurring issue. https://github.com/kiwix/apple/issues
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Are kiwix and .zim files safe?
Every file you download from library.kiwix.org has a public SHA256 key so you can check it has not been tampered with. The source code is also entirely open so you can rummage through it and see if there's anything wrong with it.
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applescript support for desktop app?
This being said, there's a lone (and awesome!) volunteer working on that one so feel free to open tickets on https://github.com/kiwix/apple/issues (or support.kiwix.org if you just feel like he needs more chocolates)
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A curated list of Open Source example iOS apps developed in Swift
Kiwix Apple - iOS and macOS implementation of Kiwix.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kiwings and kiwix-apple you can also consider the following projects:
zeal - Offline documentation browser inspired by Dash
nixos - My NixOS Configurations