Offline ZIM/Markdown reader for Linux, Windows, and handheld game consoles. Browse Wikipedia without internet — even on devices with just 1GB of RAM.
No browser engine, no webview. Zimlite renders ZIM articles directly with a native SDL2 renderer, so it stays fast and light on RAM-constrained handhelds with as little as 1GB of memory.
Kiwix apps embed a full web browser to render articles as web pages. Zimlite skips that entirely: it parses ZIM/HTML content straight into its own document model and draws it pixel-by-pixel, avoiding the memory and CPU cost of a browser engine.
Read Wikipedia and other Kiwix ZIM files offline. Full article tree browser with radix-tree navigation.
Renders Markdown and HTML files directly. Convert and read any web content offline.
Navigate with keyboard and mouse on desktop, or full controller input on handhelds — no touchscreen required.
Embedded Twemoji SVGs rendered via LunaSVG. Animated GIFs and inline SVG images.
Browse and download ZIM archives directly from the Kiwix Library catalog.
Light and dark themes. Adjustable font size for any screen.
Download a prebuilt release for Linux, Windows, or PortMaster — or build from source.
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