Reviews for Wikiwand - knowledge, with context
Wikiwand - knowledge, with context by Wikiwand
617 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18655778, 2 months agoUsed to be good, now just full of premium pop-ups, AI, and selling user data.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13885454, 2 months agoBring back the Pre-AI version... New version is garbage... Have opted for a different extension
- Rated 2 out of 5by blackrose, 2 months agoIt used to be good before they started shoving their premium AI tools down your throat. Better to just use Wikipedia at this point
- Rated 1 out of 5by Pierson Moore, 2 months agoThis extension has become unusable. I don't want to sign in to save my formatting settings, it takes 4 clicks to get rid of the stupid popup and then you also have to clear the AI popup. I really don't care if Wikiwand has AI in it or not but stop shoving it down our throats. set it off to the corner of the page and don't open the AI chat/summary until the user requests it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 6186021, 2 months agoI was deeply impressed by perfect German and "knowledge". My question was very specific. I was not able to find any information by myself (google, wiki, an so on). So I said to myself: let's ask Wikiwand. The rest you know. WOW.
I will recommend Wikiwand to all my friends. - Rated 1 out of 5by Mtro, 2 months agoUsed to be a very nice wikipedia skin. But like so many things, it's been turned into a business that adds all kind of things I don't want--especially AI. I'll just go back to regular wikipedia.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18641858, 2 months agoI loved Wikiwand for years but the AI stuff is just too much. I don't want AI to dumb down a Wikipedia article for me, I can read just fine thanks! The rest of your features are not worth the headache of popups begging me to use AI so I'll pay for more functionality. Uninstalling!
- Rated 1 out of 5by aszl, 2 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Fuseteam, 3 months agoPlease let me opt-out the ai slop, i do not want to log in for ai features and i'd to like say that **once**, not every time i visit wikipedia
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15046301, 3 months agoWere the new AI features worth losing thousands of users? Your job is to pretty up wikipedia, not nagging me every time to login and use AI features. Bye bye.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Cobra, 3 months agoUsed to be a great way of reading Wikipedia with much nicer visuals. I've used it for *years*. Now it has useless AI barf all over it and a bunch of things behind a paywall. Sorry, but I'm out. Modern for Wikipedia is a much nicer alternative.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18625533, 3 months agoUsed to be lightweight and unobtrusive. Bloated with unnecessary AI features now.
- Rated 5 out of 5by JaroMo, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Sebi, 3 months agoIt used to be a really great extension that made Wikipedia much nicer. And then a "genius" came up with the idea of integrating AI - and monetization at every turn. A great reading experience becomes a supermarket advertisement. Horrible. Everything ruined after so many years.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17871572, 3 months agoWhat a great addon it was! One of my essentials. 5/5 for like, years. You can **** off with this AI *** though. Not even gonna install it ever again, seeing if something has changed. You're done. 1/5, never recommending it to my friends, never trying it again. You've had one "job".... Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Also, Wiki has a dark mode now. This is all some of us needed. Thanks for ******* it up. - Rated 1 out of 5by PsCxLT, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by rodee55, 3 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by TroyDowling, 3 months agoIn all previous versions, Wikiwand was a really nice UI overhaul for Wikipedia. I essentially used it as a dark mode theme, with nicer typesetting. I enjoyed having a modern looking, easy to read, and distraction-free Wiki experience. That was my entire use case.
The recent update was a large overhaul to Wikiwand. So much so, that it doesn't feel right to even compare this version to the last. The newest update brought a whole lot of nonsense from "AI powered" popups, larger than half-the-screen coverup login prompts (an account for *what* purpose?), and visual distractions like the new AI chat and Q/A sections.
Ultimately, this new version departs completely from my use case and my taste, and its functionality is replaced by Dark Reader and Wikipedia's own modern theme.
Thanks for the happy years, Wikiwand. For your final trick, you can vanish from my extensions list. - Rated 4 out of 5by LiuWei, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18540784, 3 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Octavian, 4 months agoGreat idea. But please let us control the position and size of the newly added photo viewer. Customisation is part of Wikiwand "credo", so why not do that?
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18576897, 4 months agoI used to love the UI improvements that Wikiwand made to wikipedia, but now they have filled their website with an AI chatbot, ads, popups, content locked behind an account, and other useless features. I will no longer be using wikiwand.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Andrew Scheel, 4 months agoNew layout sucks big time!
This USED to be a good extension.