Press kit

The Guide to Everything is an iPhone app that retells every subject on Wikipedia in the voice of a dry, slightly weary editor.

Status: coming to the App Store. This page will carry the link, and the release date, when there are any.

In a paragraph

The Guide to Everything takes any article of Wikipedia and retells it in the voice of a contributing editor: deadpan, British, and mildly aggrieved on the subject’s behalf. The facts are Wikipedia’s; the tone is not. Each entry says at its foot who wrote it, and where the author was a machine it says so. There is no account, no advertising and no tracking.

Facts

Platform: iPhone, iOS 18 or later.
Every entry is a retelling of a Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0), credited in the app, with the original text a setting away.
Dark mode, adjustable text size, and a few looks of its own.
Ask a question in search, and the answer is written in the first paragraph from the article’s own words.
Don’t Panic: emergency numbers by region, a press from dialling.
No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. A PIN-protected panel for parents.
Made by one person. Contact: theguide@samdyatt.com.

Please say

That the entries are retold from Wikipedia and credited to it, and that the app is not made or endorsed by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation.
That the retelling is written by a computer and that the app says so at the foot of each entry.