Wikiwand is a reading layer for Wikipedia with an AI assistant that works only from Wikipedia content. Users ask questions about the article they are reading and receive answers built from that article and the pages it links to, with links back to the sources. It generates timelines with every event tied to its section, and Top Questions that answer what a topic actually raises. A cross-language feature compares how different Wikipedia editions frame the same event and checks claims against credible reporting. The free tier lets anyone try the AI, Pro costs $4 per month billed annually at $48, and Researcher costs $10 per month billed at $120 a year. Everything stays tied to Wikipedia as the underlying source, so readers can verify any answer by following the link.
Students, researchers and curious readers are the natural audience, along with anyone who reads Wikipedia in several languages and wants to see where editions disagree. Pro adds 1,000 monthly AI credits, every theme and no ads, while Researcher adds a stronger AI model, 5,000 credits and five times more fact-checking. Frequent editors and fact-checkers can also use the fact-checking tools to confirm claims quickly.
Examples include asking a follow-up about Bruce Lee or the Yangtze without leaving the article, scanning a timeline of Rome or a topic such as 20th-century Western painting, and reading how Hebrew, Arabic, Russian or Chinese editions describe the same event. Readers also customize the layout with ten themes, serif or sans fonts, adjustable width and text size, keyboard navigation, bookmarks and side panels. A Chrome extension keeps the modern interface on Wikipedia pages.
