This saves vertical space making landscape reading on an iPhone a better experience. You can save articles for later in Wonder.Īnother nice touch is that moving to landscape mode moves Wonder’s navigation controls from the bottom of the screen to the navigation bar at the top of the screen. You can navigate among articles you have viewed with the arrow buttons at the bottom of the screen, share a link via the iOS system share sheet, and access the table of contents for the article, which makes navigating longer articles fast.
#Qwiki ipad app update#
Wonder’s search results update as you type. The main screen has a search box at the top and a list of recent searches. Like Qwiki, Wonder has a simple, bare-bones interface. Wonder from Jonathan Thiry, which debuted today on the App Store, is cut from similar cloth as Qwiki. Instead of going down a rabbit hole in Safari, I can get the information I need without leaving my text editor. If I’m writing and need to look something up quickly, having it there in the menu bar is incredibly handy and helps keep me from getting distracted by the dozens of tabs I typically have open in Safari. But unlike some apps, Qwiki feels perfectly at home in the menu bar. I have too many menu bar apps and was initially hesitant to add another with Qwiki.
#Qwiki ipad app full#
The full OS X share sheet is available in Qwiki. Alternatively, you can search Qwiki with Alfred or any other similar app that supports URL schemes. Search results immediately start appearing as you type in the search box minimizing the amount you have to type to find what you want. Clicking the Qwiki icon displays a search box as well as a gear button, from which you can access preferences and quit Qwiki. Qwiki 1.1 by Christopher Hannah sits in the menu bar of your Mac. Both apps are fast, no-frills utilities that help you find and browse what you need, copy a link, and share it quickly. For those times, I’ve found two apps I like – Qwiki, a menu bar app for the Mac, and Wonder, an iOS app. Those are great approaches to Wikipedia, but often I use Wikipedia for quick research and just want to get in and out of Wikipedia quickly without being distracted from writing. Some, like Wikipedia’s own client that I reviewed earlier this year, are designed to optimize the reading and browsing experience, while others, like Curiosity, focus on location-based discovery. Today, that role seems to have been taken over by Wikipedia apps. It felt like there was a new Twitter client released every week.
There was a time, before Twitter implemented restrictive API limitations, when Twitter clients were a playground where app developers tried new ideas.
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