Founded more than 10 years ago by Emmanuel Engelhart and Renaud Gaudin, this project now provides a complete suite of software components to compress whole websites like Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, and Stack Exchange into content packages. These are then stored locally and can be read on almost any device.

Kiwix is a non-profit organisation and is based in Switzerland. Our software is open-source available for free. The work we do is partially provided by volunteers, partially funded by individual donations, and grants from foundations

You will need this to read zim files created after May 2018. Download and unpack anywhere on your hard drive or on a USB flash drive to use it. It’s a beta version -meaning not the final perfect, beautiful release we all are working on-, but it should do the job.

Requirements: Kiwix for Windows is a 64-bit application and supports Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or later. If your machine is older than 2006, you won’t be able to use it.