Make your own picture books using images and words from Wikipedia
About this app
Make your own books Create your book, search for wiki pages, watch images and text flow onto your pages.
Learn with your kids Interested in biology? Want to build a book for you and your kids to learn more about it? Try creating a new book, add some pages by searching for Organism, Animal, Plant, and then Fungi, then watch your book come to life.
Share your creations Generate a PDF and email it to a friend, or print it for your own physical book.
Limitations This is still in the early stages of development. Some things which are on the roadmap: • Proper attribution for Wikipedia sources in resulting PDFs. • More intuitive swipe controls (e.g. for changing pages when reading, or for re-ordering pages in a book). • Select your favourite image(s) from a wiki page instead of being forced to use the one the app selected. • Sharing of books between Android devices to support remixing and improving others books (rather than just PDF export as we have now).
Donate via Liberapay or GitHub Sponsors to support further development.
Licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later, by Peter Serwylo.
What's New in v0.9.2
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- Bump target SDK to latest version.
Version history
Aug 21, 2024 · 20.1 MB · Android API 21–34 · code 12
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- Bump target SDK to latest version.
SHA-256 89b4e283c76e27453ee0cfcd0052bad2928ea41e674661690162fc85dbf03403
Jul 15, 2023 · 19.4 MB · Android API 21–33 · code 11
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- Bump target SDK to latest version.
SHA-256 316d4d6ac6d7269119dcabf5cbb68675eca355e2bbf37400d6cfa2152dadd75a
May 22, 2022 · 18.3 MB · Android API 21–31 · code 10
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- Baby lock!
- Prevent stray little fingers from accidentally closing the app or editing books while reading.
- Donate to support further development of Baby Book.
SHA-256 d899d2da38273c45715d8cb5de872fe3c36050f4949859b3f316530c04e122a0
Will it run on your device?
73%
- Runs on a broad range of modern Android versions.
- ABI coverage is focused on newer 64-bit devices.
Installation Guide
Open Settings on your Android device
Go to Security → Unknown sources (or Install unknown apps)
Enable "Allow from this source" for your browser or file manager
Open the downloaded APK file from your Downloads folder
Tap "Install" and wait for installation to complete
Launch the app from your home screen
Make sure to re-enable Unknown Sources restrictions after installation for security.
How to install this safely
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How to roll back to an earlier version
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SHA-256 Hash
89b4e283c76e27453ee0cfcd0052bad2928ea41e674661690162fc85dbf03403
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