Wikilite Modern Wikipedia

WikiLite turns Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Wikiquote into a calm, focused reading experience. No ads, no tracking, no AI.
Just the encyclopedia, laid out the way long-form reading deserves.

You can choose serif or sans typography and adjust size, line height, and column width to match how you actually read. Five hand-crafted color palettes (Linen, Mist, Sage, Graphite, and Midnight) are one click or keyboard shortcut away. A persistent table of contents stays visible on the side and scrolls with the article without getting in the way. Hover any link to preview the article before clicking, or highlight any word for a quick Wiktionary definition without opening a new tab. Click any thumbnail to view it full-size in a lightbox.

Save articles for offline reading and they come back with images intact, even with your wifi off. Export any article cleanly to PDF or DOCX with one click. Search Wikipedia from the top of every article without leaving the page you're on. WikiLite also keeps a per-language history of your last 50 articles and supports keyboard shortcuts for switching themes, jumping to references, focusing search, and hiding the extension globally.

WikiLite never sends your reading data anywhere. It runs entirely in your browser, stores everything locally, and makes zero analytics, telemetry, or external requests beyond the Wikipedia APIs you'd normally use. The source is open and auditable.

It works on every Wikipedia language edition, Wiktionary, and Wikiquote. If something looks off on a particular page, WikiLite gracefully falls back to the native Wikipedia interface so you're never stuck on a broken page.