You can install a browser eextension (i think name is kiwix only) which can load offline zim files. problem is that ux is very bad (you need to load a zim file each time, or manually change). on desktop, my answer was to manually unpack all zim files (using zimutils) and then arrange them in a controlled dir structure, then recompress them into a mountable file format, and separately, maintain a list of all files in side, and while using, i have something hand rolled to mount the archive, select suitable file, and open in browser - yes it is a lot of work, but i do kinda have a offline search engine now.
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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Huh... I wonder if I could instead just unpack the UBports application and use it on Mobian...
Why client when web work?
To have access when web does not work.
Web client works offline assuming your browser support PWA, cf https://pwa.kiwix.org/
Note also that kiwix-serve provides a local Web server so that also helps all machine on your local network, even while offline, to browser through that content.