What's New

This recent version fixes several bugs to enhance your reading experience.

App Description

The complete Encyclopaedia Britannica - the world’s most trusted knowledge source, enhanced for your iPhone and iPad.

“Especially for students, or anyone who values what Britannica has to offer, I found the new Britannica iPad app to be a pleasing, easy way to navigate through a large body of knowledge.”
- Walt Mossberg, All Things Digital

Features include:

*Search & Browse:
Over 100,000 articles – expertly written and thoroughly fact-checked – on everything from Astronomy to Zebras. Our contributors include more than a hundred Nobel laureates, five presidents of the United States, countless Pulitzer Prize winners, and many others of international renown.

*View:
Photographs, maps, charts, and graphs bring each topic to life.

*Test Your Knowledge with Quizzes:
Our app now features our popular quizzes testing your knowledge on history, pop-culture, literature, science, and more!

*Make Connections:
“LinkMap” lets you explore each article with a dynamic view of related topics.

*Personalize:
“My Britannica” keeps track of your favorite articles and more.

Free to download. Over 65,000 articles are available for free and users can get access to 100% of the content in an ad-free experience for a $14.99 annual subscription.

- Length of subscription: 1 Year
- Price of subscription: $14.99
- Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase
- Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period
- Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal
- Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase
- No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period
- Privacy Policy: https://corporate.britannica.com/privacy-policy/
- Terms of Use: https://corporate.britannica.com/termsofuse.html
- Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication.

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • January 11, 2013 Initial release
  • May 23, 2013 New version 1.3
  • September 19, 2013 New version 1.4
  • April 01, 2014 New version 1.5
  • January 09, 2016 New version 2.0
  • September 16, 2023 New version 2.1.1
  • November 15, 2023 New version 2.1.3

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