Encyclopædia Britannica 4+

The Fact-Checked Encyclopedia

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc

    • 3.3 • 170 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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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.

What’s New

Version 2.1.4

- Enhancements to manage privacy preferences in GDPR governed territories.

Ratings and Reviews

3.3 out of 5
170 Ratings

170 Ratings

HWikle ,

Lazy App and Sloppy Linking

I’ll start by saying the content here is great, and it’s written in clear and concise language, which makes it very readable. However, it feels like not much care has been taken in designing the app or in linking articles.

The app itself is pretty bare bones and lacks many obvious QoL features. You can’t search favorited articles, even if you have hundreds, and you can’t add bookmarks in the middle of longer articles. For some inexplicable reason, saved and favorited articles are sorted in lexicographical rather than alphabetical order, such that all the articles with capitalized titles come before all of them with lowercase titles. I can live with that.

What’s most frustrating is the number of broken links I’ve encountered in the few days I’ve been using the app, and worse, incorrectly linked articles. For instance, a link in a section of the Computer Science article discussing Apple Inc. takes you to an article on the fruit, and one in the gender dysphoria article links to the article on grammatical gender. It feels like the whole thing has been slapped together.

Penguindancing ,

Great content, horrible app

5 stars for content, one star for the app. No dark mode and you can’t even select article text to look up things (??). The paged reading is extremely annoying especially the page flip animations which can’t be turned off. Given the long article lengths you should be able to bookmark specific sections of an article and the app should remember where you left off.

Pretty bad for something that costs 8 bucks a month.

Glentrs ,

The price of knowledge

Shame education and knowledge costs money. I understand there’s tons of work and upkeep and maintenance expenses yet, those free knowledge bases supply the usual information at a cost of being edited by omission, one sided views etc etc.
as a big fan of those old thick hardcover shelf books, of which as a child i would peruse daily through, online isn’t that great of a desire. As curiosity of statue’s and other art gets erased from a young minds view, the books no longer collected , unavailable and dismissed due to online ventures such as social media, games and chatting with strangers, encyclopedias give way to a choice, an hurried, short learning curve, dumbed down populace. The sharing and influence imbued among actual People, other then the criminal minds has long ago become a cloudy opaque afterthought. Best regards Britannica , thank you for the adventures around the world many decades ago.
Im still traveling in my imagination. For free.

App Privacy

The developer, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

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